5-25-77 Blu-ray Review: A Long Time Ago in a Town Far, Far Away
By Steve Geise |
For sci-fi starved ‘70s youth, the arrival of Star Wars was a watershed moment forever etched in our collective memories. ...
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Blood & Diamonds Blu-ray Review: Dull & Boring
By Mat Brewster |
Our man Guido (Claudio Cassinelli) can't catch a break. Someone snitches on him and his partner Marco (Carmelo Reale) during ...
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The Night of the Iguana Blu-ray Review: A Long Night’s Journey into the Soul
By Mat Brewster |
They say Tennessee Williams was none too pleased with John Huston's adaptation of his play The Night of the Iguana. ...
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Alma’s Rainbow Blu-ray Review: A Reason Why Diverse Storytelling Is Essential
By Davy |
I have seen so many films about the coming-of age experience and the complications of being young in an increasingly ...
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Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Blu-ray Review: Maybe If She Were a Little Taller This Would Be Good
By Mat Brewster |
The 1950s were an incredibly fertile period for science fiction at the cinema. The invention of the atomic bomb and ...
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Entre Nous Blu-ray Review: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Diane Kurys borrowed from her own family history to craft this story about two women finding their way in ...
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Hold Me Tight Blu-ray Review: An Engrossing Multi-character Piece
By Davy |
When I first saw Vicky Krieps in Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, really holding her own against the likes of ...
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Contraband (1980) Blu-ray Review: Explosively Violent Crime Action
By Kent Conrad |
Contraband comes in like a cool stylish Italian crime thriller and goes out like a Lucio Fulci gore fest. Being ...
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Three Thousand Years of Longing Blu-ray Review: George Miller’s Genie
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director George Miller enables his whimsical side in between Mad Max movies in this modern riff on the Aladdin myth. ...
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The Nun and the Devil Blu-ray Review: Which Mother Will Prove Superior?
By Kent Conrad |
Despite the title, the Devil does not make a physical appearance in the Italian The Nun and The Devil (1973). ...
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Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman Collection Blu-ray Review: Essential Viewing
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, documentaries (more than anything in film) have the power to move, enrage, ...
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Make Way for Tomorrow Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Children Just Don’t Understand
By Gordon S. Miller |
Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said, “Hell is other people.” That’s hard to disagree with, especially after seeing the way the ...
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The Kindred (1987) Blu-ray Review: Practical Effects, Impractical Storytelling
By Kent Conrad |
The difference between bad practical effects and bad CG is that bad practical still look like effort. Bad CG looks ...
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Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm Blu-ray Review: Reunited, and It Feels So Good
By Gordon S. Miller |
Fifteen years after Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever, the 11th season of the series, concluded, Aqua Teen Hunger Force is ...
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Stargirl: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: A Wonderful Continuation of the Series
By Gordon S. Miller |
The second season of Stargirl is subtitled “Summer School,” which Courtney (Brec Bassinger) has to enroll in because she is ...
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 40th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: An All-time Classic
By Davy |
What else can one say about E.T., the unfortunately fictional but lovable alien, who whisked his way into our hearts ...
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Lost Highway Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Neo-noir with a Twist
By Gordon S. Miller |
The opening credits of Lost Highway are a POV from a car racing down a darkened highway, its headlights the ...
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Blu-ray Review: ’80s Friendly Alien Invasion
By Kent Conrad |
E.T. is Jaws inverted. They both involve invasions of small communities by an alien entity. In one, the invasion disrupts ...
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Private Desert Blu-ray Review: Troubled Characters Seek Their Oasis
By Steve Geise |
Daniel is in a rut. As a disgraced macho cop with anger management issues, he spends his days in Brazil ...
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Beast (2022) Blu-ray Review: A Fun, Albeit Familiar, Adventure
By Gordon S. Miller |
Baltasar Kormákur's Beast and his visual effects team present thrills in this conventional man-versus-animal story set among the South African ...
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Satan’s Little Helper Blu-ray Review: Ripe for Discovery
By Davy |
As a fan of horror flicks, I like many of them (even the lowest tier ones), and celebrated cult director ...
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The Bat Blu-ray Review: Has a Certain Campy Charm
By Davy |
I do like good murder mysteries, but only if they're done well. They have to have solid scripts, well-written characters ...
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The Count Yorga Collection Blu-ray Review: Vampire Wreaks Havoc in California! Read All About It!
By Joe Garcia III |
From Arrow Video comes Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) and The Return of Count Yorga (1972), cult classics and drive-in delights, ...
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The Flash (2014): The Complete Eighth Season Blu-ray Review: Starting to Wear Thin
By Mat Brewster |
The Arrowverse is dead. Well, almost. What began with a single show, Arrow in 2012, quickly grew and grew until ...
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Blind Fury (1989) Blu-ray Review: ’80s Action Meets Japan Pulp
By Kent Conrad |
Eighties action was more fun. The special effects were often primitive. The martial arts was less fluid, the camera work ...
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Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons Blu-ray Review: The Super Odd Couple Unites for the First Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons is a standalone film in the DC Animated Movie franchise. The titular ...
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Carmen (2022) Blu-ray Review: Welcome to Malta
By Steve Geise |
When a lifelong servant of the church finds herself out on the street, she’s faced with an uncertain future that ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Blu-ray Review: Fredric March Is Quite Wonderful in the Dual Role
By Mat Brewster |
When I asked to review this film, Cinema Sentries publisher Gordon S. Miller, remembering that I had just reviewed the ...
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Tropic Thunder Director’s Cut (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Comedy Pedigree That Guarantees Laughter
By Rons Reviews |
Starring co-writer and director Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., and Tom Cruise in a rare comedic role, Tropic ...
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Happy Birthday to Me (1981) Blu-ray Review: Canuxploitation Slasher Slog
By Kent Conrad |
Post Halloween, the slasher was the go-to low budget money maker. The formula is so simple (young people, bloody death, ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema X Blu-ray Review: In This Corner…Tony Curtis
By Mat Brewster |
Boxing. The sweet science. Gladiators of the ring. Raging war in a small square. Two men bashing their brains out ...
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Bullet Train Blu-ray Review: Snakes on a Train
By Steve Geise |
Stuntman-turned-director David Leitch (Deadpool 2) helms this crime caper featuring a colorful collection of scheming assassins gathered on a bullet ...
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands Blu-ray: The Saga Continues
By Gordon S. Miller |
Adventure Time ran on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2018. It presented the adventures of a human boy named Finn ...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Story to Watch Unfold
By Rons Reviews |
Most of us have movies that we watched repeatedly as children. I recall my sister and I watching Island of ...
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I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing Blu-ray Review: A Prime Example of the Immediacy and Importance of Films by Women
By Davy |
As a constant daydreamer who also happens to be a member of the queer/LGBTQ community, I totally related to Patricia ...
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Eyes of Laura Mars (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Artful Trash
By Mat Brewster |
There has been a lot of Internet chatter over the last couple of years about the death of eroticism in ...
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Going Places Blu-ray Review: Traveling Nowhere, Reaching Enlightenment
By Steve Geise |
The title of this 1974 French film is somewhat ironic, considering the rudderless path of its twenty-something drifter characters. Co-written ...
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Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror Blu-ray Review
By Mat Brewster |
Creaky old castles up on a hill. Dark stormy nights. Strange noises. Beautiful maidens in flowing white gowns. Repressed desires. ...
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Mark of the Vampire Blu-ray Review: A Horror Film Until It Isn’t
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire (1935) is a remake of his silent film London After Midnight (1927), which ...
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Mayor of Kingstown: Season One Blu-ray Review: Deserving of a Recall Election
By David Wangberg |
There was a time when Taylor Sheridan was the hot, up-and-coming filmmaker whose work I consistently sought. The first Sicario ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IX Blu-ray Review: A Trio of Amateur Sleuths
By Mat Brewster |
I've been waist-deep in horror movies for the last couple of weeks, it being October and all, but I'm already ...
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Siege (1983) Blu-ray Review: One Very Tense and Mostly Unpredictable Action Thriller
By Davy |
Being a gay man myself, I am still terrified to live a world where most people continue to deny the ...
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DC League of Super-Pets Blu-ray Review: Sit and Stay for This One
By David Wangberg |
Usually known for being much darker and more adult than its cinematic competitor Marvel, DC films will, on the very ...
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The Chocolate War Blu-ray Review: Aims a Rather Sharp Eye on the Weird Rituals of Toxic Male Youth
By Davy |
I've always liked actor-director Keith Gordon. I feel that he remains a very underrated and unique figure of film. He ...
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A Fugitive from the Past Blu-ray Review: An Epic from the Past Finally Reaches USA
By Steve Geise |
Director Tomu Uchida’s sprawling 1965 crime drama has finally arrived on home video for the first time outside of Japan. ...
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The House of the Lost on the Cape Blu-ray Review: House of Lost Time
By Steve Geise |
Two girls and their elder move into a remote country home and set about cleaning it up for their residence. ...
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ELVIS (2022) Blu-ray Review: That Film’s All Right
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Baz Luhrmann tells the story of Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks, who makes an odd, slightly distracting vocal choice) ...
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South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
It’s hard to imagine the trials and tribulations that must have befallen Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to reach the South Pole ...
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Rain 90th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: Luminous Joan Crawford Drives the Clouds Away
By Steve Geise |
When a massive monsoon wallops the tiny South Pacific location of Pago Pago, it traps an assortment of colorful travelers ...
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Le Corbeau Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Poison Pen French Noir
By Kent Conrad |
France has always been one of the centers of cinema in the world. After all, the Lumiere brothers rivaled Edison ...
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