The Challenge Blu-ray Review: Accept This Challenge
By Steve Geise |
Before you write this film off as a typical low-budget ‘80s actioner, take a closer look at the credits. Star ...
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Alien Outlaw Blu-ray Review: Happily Senseless Sci-fi Western
By Kent Conrad |
There's an aspect of a movie like Alien Outlaw (1986) that is review-proof. It's not trying to be "good", in ...
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Black Sabbath Blu-ray Review: A Touch of Bava in the Night
By Joe Keaton |
Yet another Halloween is upon us, and what better way to prep than listening to old Black Sabbath records and ...
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The Dark Power Blu-ray Review: A Solid Creature Feature
By Greg Hammond |
In The Dark Power, several young coeds who have yet to learn that, in the winter time, clothes will help ...
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Meg 2: The Trench Blu-ray Review: Works Best When It Repeats What Worked Before
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based (loosely) on The Trench, the second novel in Steve Alten's Meg book series, Meg 2: The Trench is a ...
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Rock Around the Clock Blu-ray Review: It’s Squares-Ville, Man
By Joe Garcia III |
Rock Around the Clock (1956) features Bill Haley and the Comets riding the success of their seat-ripping, riot-inducing song that ...
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Cujo Blu-ray Review: A Straightforward Thriller with Modest Chills
By Davy |
When you talk about the greatest Stephen King adaptations, your mind usually drifts to Carrie (1976), Salem's Lot (1979), The ...
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Lorna the Exorcist Blu-ray Review: One of Jess Franco’s More Well-regarded Films
By Mat Brewster |
Fairly regularly, the film discourse on Twitter and other social media apps turns to sex in cinema. There is a ...
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The Edge of the World Blu-ray Review: Director Michael Powell’s First Masterpiece
By Davy |
Even before he partnered with Emeric Pressburger and made some of the most ravishing British films, the legendary Michael Powell ...
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The Iron-Fisted Monk Blu-ray Review: Disjointed Drama, Fantastic Kung Fu
By Mat Brewster |
It makes sense that kung fu movies would eventually add in comedic elements. There is an inherent silliness to grown ...
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EO Blu-ray Review: The Secret Life of Donkeys
By Steve Geise |
EO is a happy circus donkey, content to travel with his raggedy troupe to rural outposts in Europe. He’s motivated ...
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Before Night Falls Blu-ray Review: Expresses the Overall Importance of Artists and Their Art
By Davy |
Sometimes, it's not always easy to embrace the cinematic biopic. There are the usual liberties and inaccuracies to be found ...
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Mackintosh and T.J. Blu-ray Review: Roy Rogers Rides into the Sunset One Final Time
By Joe Garcia III |
Legendary singing cowboy Roy Rogers makes his final feature film appearance in Mackintosh and T.J. (1975). A good, clean, western ...
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No Bears Blu-ray Review: A Powerful Work About the Passion for Filmmaking
By Davy |
I'm not familiar with Jafar Panahi's cinema, but from what I've heard from other film lovers and critics is that ...
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Strays (2023) Blu-ray Review: The Incredibly Crude Journey
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the annals of cinema, the raunchy R-rated comedy predominantly featured the profane and sexual antics of 20-something, white men, ...
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Poker Face: Season One Blu-ray Review: An Extremely Clever TV Series
By Lorna Miller |
I am a crime junkie and it is rare that something comes along in this genre that is new and ...
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Chariots of the Gods Blu-ray Review: Before Ancient Aliens…
By Joe Garcia III |
Before Ancient Aliens there was Chariots of the Gods (1970) by Erich Von Daniken. VCI Entertainment proudly presents the 50th ...
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RWBY Volume 9 Blu-ray Review: Beware the Jabberwocky
By Greg Hammond |
RWBY Volume 9 continues the story of Team RWBY (pronounced Ruby), who are made up of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, ...
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Night of the Demons 2 Blu-ray Review: Angela Comes Back, Better
By Kent Conrad |
Night of the Demons 2 is a direct-to-video sequel to Night of the Demons, released six years later. It's cheaper, ...
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Crime and Punishment (2002) Blu-ray Review: Too Much Punishment
By Greg Hammond |
Crispin Glover plays Roskolnikov in Menahem Golan’s adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. Roskolnikov has recently published a ...
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New York Stories Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Trio from Three Great Directors
By Gordon S. Miller |
To quote the concluding narration from the Naked City (1958-1963) TV series, “There are eight million stories in the naked ...
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After Dark, My Sweet Blu-ray Review: A Strong Film Noir from Director James Foley
By Greg Hammond |
Based on the novel by Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, stars Jason Patric (in an early outing meant to ...
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La Bamba Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Soars Far Above Other Hollywood Biopics
By Joe Garcia III |
La Bamba (1987) is the story of Richard Valenzuela, known better as Ritchie Valens, a name associated with a song ...
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School of Rock 20th Anniversary Blu-ray Steelbook Review: It Still Rocks
By David Wangberg |
Richard Linklater’s School of Rock was released 20 years ago and is still proof that a family film doesn’t have ...
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Nil by Mouth Blu-ray Review: A Strong, Gripping Example of British Cinema
By Davy |
The British kitchen sink and social realist dramas of the 1950s and 60s were emotional and draining, but they don't ...
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American Pop Blu-ray Review: Try, Try, and Try Again
By Steve Geise |
Ralph Bakshi’s animated voyage through 20th century popular music has finally arrived on Blu-ray. While music is an integral part ...
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Three Days of the Condor Blu-ray Review: The Book Reader Who Stayed Out in the Cold
By Joe Keaton |
As far as paranoid ‘70s thrillers go, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor—about Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a hip ...
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The Wild Party Blu-ray Review: A Wild Night Is Calling
By Joe Garcia III |
Gather ‘round, people, and you shall hear the grim tale of one named Jolly. With a comeback in tow, a ...
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Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B Blu-ray Review: A Filmmaker of Incredible Vision and Prescience
By Davy |
As an extreme film buff, I always appreciate and seek out filmmakers and films that challenge the usual and obviously ...
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Little Women (1933) Blu-ray Review: Sentimental but Sweet
By Mat Brewster |
In college, I did work study for the university dinner theater. It was a great job, and I had loads ...
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Spinout Blu-ray Review: Hey, Elvis! You Gotta Win This Race!
By Joe Garcia III |
Elvis Presley leads a small rock ‘n’ roll band, likes racing fast cars, and gets into all kinds of trouble ...
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The Prodigal Son Blu-ray Review: Sammo Hung Meets Wing Chun
By Steve Geise |
Continuing their series of Sammo Hung Blu-ray releases, Arrow Video’s latest entry is this 1981 gem. Sammo directs and co-stars ...
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Wichita Blu-ray Review: Wyatt Earp’s Origin Story
By Mat Brewster |
How many movies and TV shows have been made about Wyatt Earp? Or been influenced by his reputation? They say ...
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Gay Purr-ee Blu-ray Review: Judy Garland Gets Animated
By Steve Geise |
By the 1960s, Judy Garland was in decline, no longer a potent or reliable force at the box office and ...
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The Big Knife Blu-ray Review: Stabbing Old Hollywood
By Mat Brewster |
Hollywood loves making movies about Hollywood. Usually, they are fawning tales about the magic of the movies, or about how ...
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Malone Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Shows Off a Particular Set of Skills in a Generic Actioner
By Gordon S. Miller |
Burt Reynolds is Malone. But in 1987 that didn't mean as much as it did back in the '70s when ...
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Foolish Wives Blu-ray Review: The First Million Dollar Picture
By Kent Conrad |
Erich von Stroheim, the director of Foolish Wives, was well known for his aristocratic and military background. He was a ...
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Borsalino Blu-ray Review: A (Not Quite) Epic French Gangster Flick
By Mat Brewster |
Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo were two of the biggest and greatest film stars in France. They were both great ...
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Liar’s Moon Blu-ray Review: A Teenage Soap Opera with a Great Soundtrack
By Joe Garcia III |
Rich girl, poor boy. Good kids tangled in a web of deceit spun long ago by their parents. It’s Romeo ...
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Hardcore Blu-ray Review: A Solid and Nervy Depiction
By Davy |
The 1970s was a legendary and often gritty time for filmmaking. There were obviously the films of Martin Scorsese, William ...
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The Flash (2023) Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Go Home Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Andy Muschietti's The Flash (2023) is the 13th installment of the DCEU. The franchise gets an amusing but disjointed, multiverse ...
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A Taste of Blood (2020) Blu-ray Review: These Vampires Aren’t Sexy but the Soundtrack Is
By Joe Garcia III |
A modern-day family in the Argentina countryside faces its bloody past in A.K. Tolstoy's A Taste of Blood (2020) brought ...
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The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review: Give My Regards to the Warner Archive Team
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, is a melodramatic story focusing ...
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A Moment of Romance Blu-ray Review: HK Stockholm Syndrome
By Steve Geise |
When a bank heist goes awry, getaway driver Wah (Andy Lau) grabs the closest civilian as a hostage as he ...
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Mutant Blast Blu-ray Review: A Witty, Weird, Gorific Blast
By Joe Garcia III |
Troma Entertainment (The Toxic Avenger) brings Portuguese director Fernando Alle's odd, gory, silly yet witty, funny, and brilliant sci-fi/horror Mutant ...
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Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Superstar Italian actor Franco Nero headlines three separate projects by director Damiano Damiani with a unifying spotlight on the mafia ...
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Strangers in the House Blu-ray Review: French Masters of Mystery
By Mat Brewster |
In a large, shambling, mostly empty mansion, a loud noise clangs upstairs. It is loud enough to awaken Hector Loursat ...
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Is Paris Burning? Blu-ray Review: Night of 100 Stars
By Steve Geise |
Not to be confused with Paris Is Burning, this 1966 WWII drama boasts a seemingly unbelievable roster of stars reenacting ...
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Feels Like We’re Witnessing Real Life
By Davy |
Ever since legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasjuiro Ozu died in 1963, there has been an array of cinematic stories he left ...
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The Fastest Gun Alive Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Frank D. Gilroy's teleplay The Last Notch, Russell Rouse's The Fastest Gun Alive is a compelling western that ...
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