Swingers Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles
By Gordon S. Miller |
Actor Jon Favreau had great success heeding the axiom“write what you know” with his screenplay for Swingers, a movie that ...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss Blu-ray Review: A Yakuza’s Life
By Mat Brewster |
There are eight million stories in Japan and this is one of them. Kinji Fukasaku's 1969 film Japan Organized Crime ...
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Didi Blu-ray Review: Ode to the Mostly Good Old Days
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sean Wang’s narrative feature debut treads the same perilous ground as Mid90s, Eighth Grade, and Thirteen with one notable ...
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Bill & Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy Review: “Sorry. They Melvined Me.”
By Greg Hammond |
Shout! Studios has released Bill & Ted’s Triumphant Trilogy (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray), including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, ...
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Shotgun Stories Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Father Are Visited Upon the Children
By Gordon S. Miller |
Writer/director Jeff Nichols delivers a powerful feature-film debut with Shotgun Stories, a compelling tragic story about an extended-family feud that ...
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Dogra Magra Blu-ray Review: Matsumoto’s Swan Song
By Steve Geise |
When a young man wakes up in an insane asylum with no memory of his past or his name, he ...
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Journey into Fear (1943) Blu-ray Review: A Briskly Paced, Espionage Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based upon Eric Ambler's 1940 novel of the same name, Journey into Fear (1943) is a Mercury Production directed by ...
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Kingdom of the Spiders Blu-ray Review: A Notable Entry in the Eco-Horror Genre
By Gordon S. Miller |
During the eco-horror boom of the '70s, which saw movies like Empire of the Ants and The Food of the ...
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Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories Blu-ray Box Set Review: Broodingly Atmospheric Revenge Stories
By Greg Hammond |
Radiance Films has released a boxed set titled Daiei Gothic - Japanese Ghost Stories. The set includes three ghost stories ...
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Goodbye & Amen Blu-ray Review: Part Spy Thriller, Part Hostage Drama, Wholly Excellent
By Mat Brewster |
Goodbye & Amen is a strange little film that twists a couple of genres together, not always successfully, but it ...
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Super Friends: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Justice League Cartoons Assemble
By Gordon S. Miller |
Super Friends was Hanna-Barbera's animated adaptation of Justice League of America, a superhero team that frequently featured DC Comics' Big ...
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Allonsanfan Blu-ray Review: The Revolution Is a Bit Dull, Actually
By Mat Brewster |
After the downfall of Napoleon, Europe had to pick up the pieces and redraw the lines between countries. For quite ...
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The Sting of Death (1990) Blu-ray Review: Love, Lies, and Madness
By Kent Conrad |
The man has cheated on his wife. This is not in dispute. It has hurt her to her core. She ...
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About Dry Grasses Blu-ray Review: Burns Like a Brush Fire
By Steve Geise |
Samet is stuck in a rut. Consigned to a teaching job at a rural middle school in the Turkish hinterlands, ...
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A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Bedroom Farce
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, Woody Allen's 11th film as writer/director is A Midsummer Night's Sex ...
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Pursued (1947) Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Families Are Visited Upon the Children
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Raoul Walsh, Pursued (1947) has the trappings of a western, but at its core, it is a family ...
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Hanna-Barbera’s Superstars 10 Blu-ray Review: A Good Collection for Young Cartoon-Watchers
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 collects 10 made-for-TV animated films that aired on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, a syndicated program that ...
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Broken Oath Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Lady Snowblood
By Mat Brewster |
Japanese author Kazuo Koike created and wrote the story for a manga called Lady Snowblood, about an orphan who grows ...
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 Blu-ray Review: DNotS 2 Is a DNR: Do Not Rewatch
By Joe Garcia III |
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is brought to you by J.D. Feigelson, who wrote the original Dark Night of ...
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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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