The Boy and the Heron 4K UHD Review: Out of Retirement, Miyazaki Makes One of His Best Films
By Mat Brewster |
After releasing The Wind Rises in 2013, acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from filmmaking. He was too ...
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A Quiet Place: Day One Blu-ray Review: A Successful Prequel
By Lorna Miller |
Spooky movie season is upon on us and a viewing of A Quiet Place: Day One fits perfectly into my ...
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The Threat Blu-ray Review: Battle of Wits Royale
By Steve Geise |
When two hardened death row inmates escape from prison, they come up with a fiendish kidnapping plot to get rich ...
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Two Taoist Tales Blu-ray Review: Wild Supernatural Hong Kong Action
By Kent Conrad |
Two Taoist Tales collects a pair of wildly ridiculous movies that involve monsters, demons, spells, and copious kung fu. It's ...
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Conflict (1945) Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Classic
By Mat Brewster |
Humphrey Bogart. Sydney Greenstreet. Warner Brothers circa 1945. Car crashes. Romance. The perfect murder. The psychology of guilt. Everything about ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Horror Classic
By Mat Brewster |
Fifty years ago this week, Tobe Hooper unleashed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the all-time greatest horror movies ...
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Touch (2024) Blu-ray Review: The Search for Past Love
By David Wangberg |
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has recently been toying with several projects involving people against nature. Whether it’s The Deep, Everest, ...
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Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Smells Like Teen Spirit
By Steve Geise |
Three decades after writer/director Gregg Araki shook up the indie film world with his trilogy of teen films starring James ...
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Watchmen Chapter 1 Blu-ray Review: Checking the Time on the Doomsday Clock
By Greg Hammond |
The twelve-issue Watchmen (1986 - 1987) comics series was written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Brandon Vietti ...
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Tattooed Life Blu-ray Review: Suzuki’s Never Conventional Yakuza Tales
By Kent Conrad |
In the first act, there's a murder, a betrayal, and two brothers go on the run. The last act features ...
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Surf Nazis Must Die Blu-ray Review: As Silly As It Sounds
By Joe Garcia III |
What happens when you take Mad Max and A Clockwork Orange and throw them into one of those large 1980s ...
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A Man on His Knees Blu-ray Review: You’ll Stand Up and Applaud
By Mat Brewster |
Running a small business is hard. The cost of materials constantly goes up while the demand that you keep your ...
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Clockwatchers Blu-ray Review: An Unsettlingly Honest Film
By Davy |
I've never held a job in my entire life, but I'm kind of glad I've never had a job in ...
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England Is Mine Blu-ray Review: The Story of a Young Man With a Shyness That Is Criminal and Vulgar
By Joe Garcia III |
England Is Mine (2017), directed and co-written by Mark Gill, is the story of one Steven Patrick Morrissey, who would ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX Blu-ray Review: A Couple of Terrific Alan Ladd Vehicles (and a Not-So-Great Film Without Him)
By Mat Brewster |
Alan Ladd will probably always be remembered for his award-winning performance in Shane, one of the greatest westerns ever made. ...
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Totem Blu-ray Review: A Lyrical Celebration of Life Amidst Impending Tragedy
By Davy |
We've all gone through death, guilt, grief, and acceptance, the things that life unfortunately brings to us all. There have ...
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A World Without Thieves Blu-ray Review: Larceny on the Chinese Express
By Steve Geise |
Andy Lau is the main attraction in this 2004 Chinese action drama, but its well-crafted plot is the true champion. ...
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Boulevard Nights Blu-ray Review: Let’s Take a Trip Down Whittier Blvd.
By Joe Garcia III |
Danny De La Paz and Richrd Yniguez star as the brothers Avila, young men on two different paths in Boulevard ...
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Viva La Muerte! Blu-ray Review: A Hypnotically Demented Ride
By Davy |
Once in a while, a film comes along and completely leaves me flabbergasted. In the case of Spanish filmmaker Fernando ...
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My Love Affair with Marriage Blu-ray Review: Animation, Songs, and Science
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Signe Baumane spent over seven years creating this whimsical animated feature film about a young woman’s struggles with romantic ...
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Fail Safe Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: It’s the End of the World as They Know It (and No One Feels Fine)
By Gordon S. Miller |
In January 1964, filmgoers could see a Cold War story about the frantic negotiations between the United States and the ...
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The Alaskans: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with the Golden Dream
By Steve Geise |
It’s common knowledge that Roger Moore rose to fame as the star of the British TV series The Saint before ...
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Dark Night of the Scarecrows 1 & 2 Blu-ray Review: A Decent Set for Diehard Fans
By Davy |
Ever since I first saw Frank DeFelitta's 1981 made-for-TV horror/suspense cult classic Dark Night of a Scarecrow, I never forgot ...
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Hanna-Barbera Double Feature: Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost / Scooby-Doo! and the Alien Invaders Blu-ray Review
By Shawn Bourdo |
The Warner Archive Collection has released a Hanna-Barbera Double Feature bringing together two Scooby-Doo! movies to Blu-ray for the first ...
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The Boy and the Heron Blu-ray Review: The Return of the King (of Animation)
By Gordon S. Miller |
Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, his first feature film in 10 years since announcing his retirement after The Wind ...
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The Watchers (2024) Blu-ray Review: Weak Plot but Strong Direction from Ishana Night Shyamalan
By Greg Hammond |
The Watchers marks the directorial debut of Ishana Night Shyamalan, the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan, who produced. The movie ...
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Knuckles Blu-ray Review: Strong TV Show Bolsters Sonic Universe
By Greg Hammond |
Knuckles is a limited TV series consisting of six total episodes following the story of Knuckles the Echidna (voiced by ...
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Prison Walls: Abashiri Prison I-III Blu-ray Review: Yakuza Behind Bars
By Kent Conrad |
Like courtroom dramas and police procedurals, prison stories have the convenience of ready-made conflict. Prisoners versus guards. Gangs versus gangs. ...
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A Queen’s Ransom Blu-ray Review: James Bond and The One-Armed Swordsman Can’t Save This Stinker
By Mat Brewster |
In May of 1975, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phillip became the first reigning English monarchs to visit ...
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Black Mask Blu-ray Review: Ridiculous Fun
By Mat Brewster |
Black Mask begins with Jet Li being surrounded by a couple of dozen soldiers with heavy firepower. He's asked to ...
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A Man Called Tiger Blu-ray Review: The Action Is Well Made and Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
Bruce Lee and director Lo Wei worked together on two films, The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972). ...
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Empire of the Ants Special Edition Blu-ray Review: Beware of Them Man-made Monsters!
By Joe Garcia III |
From producer Samuel Z Arkoff and director Bert I. Gordon, who brought you the cult classic The Food of the ...
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Doubt (2008) Blu-ray Review: A Masterclass of Acting
By Davy |
Sometimes in life there are things that make you question everything you thought you knew, and that will cause serious ...
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Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza Blu-ray Review: Romance and Bloodshed in 18th Century Japan
By Mat Brewster |
My expectations going into Tokijiro: The Lonely Yakuza were that it was going to be a fairly typical lone warrior-type ...
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Door-to-Door Maniac Blu-ray Review: Come for Johnny Cash, Stay for the Devil
By Mat Brewster |
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash, and I'm here to kill you". That is not the way the famed country and western ...
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The Food of the Gods (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Goofy Cult Classic with a Message
By Davy |
Bert I. Gordon (1922-2023) was kind of a wunderkind, creating sci-fi and B-horror movies with often low-budgets. He was also ...
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Man on the Moon Blu-ray Review: Jim Carrey Brings Andy Kaufman to Life
By Gordon S. Miller |
After working together on The People vs Larry Flynt, director Milos Forman reteamed with screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski ...
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The Apartment (1996) Blu-ray Review: No, Not the Billy Wilder One
By Steve Geise |
Despite sharing a title with an all-time Hollywood classic, this 1996 French production has no other similarities to the Jack ...
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Blu-ray Review: Captures the Film’s Visual and Auditory Thrills
By Gordon S. Miller |
As stated in my review of the movie, “Director George Miller makes an epic return to the Wasteland for Furiosa: ...
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Observe and Report Blu-ray Review: Two Jokes and Ray Liotta
By Greg Hammond |
Written and directed by Jody Hill, Observe and Report concerns itself with the security detail at the Forest Ridge Mall ...
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Navajo Joe (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Works with the Other Sergio on This Unique Spaghetti Western
By Joe Garcia III |
Sergio (no, the other one) Corbucci directs and Burt Reynolds stars in Navajo Joe (1966), a violent Spaghetti Western that ...
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Squirm (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: The Best Southern Gothic, Killer-Worm Flick Ever Made
By Davy |
The 1970s just might be the greatest decade for horror movies. There were so many types of horror back then: ...
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Bless Their Little Hearts Blu-ray Review: A Testament to the Importance of Socially Conscious Filmmaking
By Davy |
As an incredibly loyal film lover, I'm always looking for that great cinematic discovery; something that represents a crucial step ...
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Warehouse 13: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: All of the Artifacts in One Place
By Steve Geise |
Version 1.0.0 A decade after the conclusion of its five-season broadcast run, Warehouse 13 has finally been compiled into one ...
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True Detective: Night Country Blu-ray Review: Frozen Over
By David Wangberg |
When True Detective first premiered in 2014, it was unlike anything that had been on television at the time. Two ...
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Eighteen Years in Prison Blu-ray Review: Life After the War
By Kent Conrad |
One of the most effective themes of the recent Godzilla Minus One, which was the most successful Japanese language film ...
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The Seduction (1982) Blu-ray Review: Better Than the Razzie Awards Would Have One Think
By Joe Garcia III |
The Seduction, written and directed by David Schmoeller, stars Morgan Fairchild as a popular news anchor and Andrew Stevens as ...
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Risky Business Criterion Collection Review: Introducing Tom Cruise and Guido the Killer Pimp
By Greg Hammond |
Written and directed by Paul Brickman, 1983’s Risky Business turned Tom Cruise into a superstar. And it isn’t just dancing ...
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Tchao Pantin Blu-ray Review: Funny Name, Fantastic Film
By Mat Brewster |
Tchao Pantin (or So Long, Stooge as it is sometimes called) doesn't do anything fresh or original within the noir ...
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The Linguini Incident (Director’s Cut) Blu-ray Review: The Bowie Film That Almost Got Away
By Steve Geise |
Once upon a time, David Bowie played a romantic lead in a U.S. feature film that received virtually no theatrical ...
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