The Bride Wore Black and Mississippi Mermaid Blu-rays Review: Truffaut Does Hitchcock
By Mat Brewster |
For much of his career, Alfred Hitchcock was not taken seriously by the critical establishment. His films were hugely successful, ...
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Chicago: Limited Edition Blu-ray SteelBook Review: Rob Marshall Gives Audiences the Old Razzle Dazzle
By Lorna Miller |
Musical theater is something that I have always enjoyed. It is often difficult to translate a spectacular and engaging play ...
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That Man Bolt Blu-ray Review: That Man Hammer
By Steve Geise |
At first glance, this movie seems to bear all the hallmarks of a blaxploitation classic: its prime 1973 release date, ...
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Legion of Super-Heroes Blu-ray Review: A Fun Superhero Adventure Geared Towards a Younger Audience
By Gordon S. Miller |
Listed as part of the Tomorrowverse line of animated DC movies, Legion of Super-Heroes has the feel of a pilot ...
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White Woman (1933) Blu-ray Review: Certainly Watchable but Not Much More Than That
By Mat Brewster |
In the early 1930s, Paramount Pictures made a name for itself by making films with beautiful women in exotic settings. ...
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Men at Work Blu-ray Review: Put Away the Vegemite. It’s Not the Band from a Land Down Under
By Joe Garcia III |
From writer-director Emilio Estevez comes Men at Work (1990), a misguided way to get him and his brother Charlie Sheen ...
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Violent Night Blu-ray Review: Can’t Say They Didn’t Warn You
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Tommy Wirkola's Violent Night opens with Santa (David Harbour) having grown disillusioned with his job, bringing to mind Rankin/Bass' ...
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Bones and All Blu-ray Review: A Heartbreaking and Accomplished Tale of Young Love
By Davy |
There are some films that only come once in a lifetime; films that seem to come from an otherworldly stratosphere; ...
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Wondrous Story about a Wondrous Storyteller by a Wondrous Filmmaker
By Gordon S. Miller |
Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen has the distinction of being the sixth Gilliam-directed title (#1166) released by ...
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Blu-ray Review: A Look at How Things Look
By Davy |
The male gaze in film has been problematic since the silent age. Sometimes directors (mostly male) unintentionally objectify women on ...
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Invaders from Mars (1953) Blu-ray Review: A Standout in the ’50s Sci-fi Genre
By Gordon S. Miller |
William Cameron Menzies's penultimate movie as director, Invaders from Mars (1953), tells the story of an alien invasion seen through ...
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Black Adam Blu-ray Review: Legend, Vengeance, and the Kahndaqian Way
By Gordon S. Miller |
Black Adam is the 11th film in the DC Extended Universe franchise.The character first appeared in rival Fawcett Comics' Marvel ...
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El Vampiro Negro (1953) Blu-ray Review: An Argentinian “M”
By Kent Conrad |
Film noir as a genre is rather over-subscribed. It existed for a relatively brief period in the ‘40s and ‘50s ...
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Cinema’s First Nasty Women Blu-ray Set Review: Thoughtfully Highlights Unknown Performers from Different Walks of Life
By Davy |
When Donald Trump called opponent Hilary Clinton a "nasty woman" at a 2016 televised debate, the term came back to ...
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Twilight (1998) Blu-ray Review: Mystery and Noir Fans Should Enjoy It
By Gordon S. Miller |
After adapting Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool (1994), starring Paul Newman, its screenwriter/director Robert Benton teamed with Russo to write the ...
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Halloween Ends Blu-ray Review: Rights Many of the Wrongs Committed by Halloween Kills
By Davy |
2018's Halloween was basic but effective because it erased the bad taste left by many of the original franchise's questionable ...
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Nobody’s Fool Blu-ray Review: At the Center of the Film’s Charm Is Paul Newman’s Performance
By Mat Brewster |
It takes a lot of confidence to make a movie in which nothing really happens. It does help to have ...
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The Girl on a Motorcycle Blu-ray Review: Spins Its Stylish Wheels
By Steve Geise |
This 1968 UK/France co-production boasts star turns from Alain Delon and Marianne Faithfull in their prime, automatically making it an ...
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Maigret (1960): Season 1 Blu-ray Review: Scores Big for Solid Entertainment Value
By Mat Brewster |
Maigret, the French detective created by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, is one of my all-time fictional detectives. Second only, perhaps, ...
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Cooley High Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Coming-of-Age Gem Authentically Told from a Black Perspective
By Davy |
Usually, when you think of Black-oriented films from the 1970s, you mind automatically gears toward the Blaxploitation genre, which usually ...
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South Park: Post Covid Blu-ray Review: An Entertaining Mix of Goofy and Serious
By Gordon S. Miller |
The South Park: Post Covid Blu-ray presents two extended episodes that debuted on Paramount+ in the Fall of 2021: “Post ...
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The Woman King Blu-ray Review: Delivers a Mighty Roar
By David Wangberg |
When the majority of PG-13-rated action films being released today have a Marvel or DC label attached to them, one ...
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Walk Proud Blu-ray Review: A Gang Epic, It’s Not. Cult Classic? Maybe…
By Joe Garcia III |
From its tagline “He was tough enough for the streets…was he tough enough to leave them?” Walk Proud (1979) starring ...
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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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