Bend of the River Blu-ray Review: One of the Great Westerns of the 1950s
By Mat Brewster |
The old, wild west was a great place for new beginnings. One could leave the city behind and hunt for ...
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The Second Twin Blu-ray Review: Hossein Drifts Through a Wan Whodunit
By Steve Geise |
The U.S. title of Christian-Jaque’s 1966 crime drama promises a mysterious twist involving a twin, but it’s a total misdirection. ...
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Mean Streets Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Scorsese, Keitel, De Niro, Perfection
By Greg Hammond |
At the heart of Martin Scorsese’s second independent, and breakout, film, Mean Streets, are two young men who have been ...
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Death of a Gunfighter Blu-ray Review: A Gem of a Western from 1969
By Joe Garcia III |
Death of a Gunfighter directed by Robert Totten, finished by Don Seigel, and credited to “Alan Smithee” is a great ...
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Romancing in Thin Air Blu-ray Review: Rarefied Air of Hong Kong Talent
By Steve Geise |
Veteran Hong Kong director Johnnie To is most known in the West for his taut action dramas, such as Election, ...
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Hold That Ghost 4K UHD Review: Plenty of Laughs and Suspense
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hold That Ghost is the third film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and their third released in 1941. The ...
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Stone Cold (1991) 4K UHD Review: Glorious Last Gasp of ’80s Action
By Kent Conrad |
Stone Cold is so committed to its action-movie stupidity, I think it deserves a place in the So Bad It's ...
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Tih-Minh Blu-ray Review: International Intrigue on the French Riviera
By Steve Geise |
This classic French espionage serial was first released in theaters in 1919, billed as “a cinematic novel in 12 episodes”. ...
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Die My Love 4K UHD Review: Kids Make You Crazy
By Mat Brewster |
My wife was in labor for a good 24 hours before the doctors told us it would be better to ...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: “Mein Führer, I can walk!”
By Greg Hammond |
Stanley Kubrick directed and produced Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a political ...
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Gambling Ship (1933) Blu-ray Review: Gangster Grant Sinks Ship
By Kent Conrad |
Ace Corbin (Cary Grant), recently acquitted for murder, is sick of being a gangster. He goes out west for a ...
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This Is the Night (1932) Blu-ray Review: Cary Grant’s Assured Debut
By Kent Conrad |
A pre-Code movie is what we call films made without the censorious auspice of the Hayes code, which came about ...
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The House of Seven Corpses 4K UHD Review: The House of Nothing Happening
By Kent Conrad |
There are many variations on genre movies, but there is a basic split of creators working in genre that is ...
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So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious… Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with Heart
By Mat Brewster |
If you spend any time in the movie corners of social media, you will inevitably get involved in a conversation ...
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Loopy De Loop: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Smarter Than the Average French-Canadian Wolf
By Gordon S. Miller |
Loopy de Loop (voiced by Daws Butler) is a kindly, French Canadian wolf who suffers trying to do good deeds ...
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The Phantom (1996) 4K UHD Review: Goofball Pulp Antics
By Kent Conrad |
The essence of pulp entertainment is, usually, propulsive momentum. There's not a lot of time to evaluate the sense of ...
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Confessions of a Police Captain Blu-ray Review: Crime and Corruption in an Italian City
By Mat Brewster |
I've now watched quite a few films made during Italy's so-called Years of Lead, which lasted from the late 1960s ...
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Lurker Blu-ray Review: Greatness Lurking Beneath the Vapid Surface
By Steve Geise |
At first glance, writer/director Alex Russell’s debut feature film doesn’t appear very compelling, riffing on the relationship between celebrity fame ...
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Trouble in Paradise Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: No Trouble at All
By Greg Hammond |
Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise (1932) was adapted by Grover Jones from the play The Honest ...
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Agitator Blu-ray Review: Violence, Loyalty, and Betrayal
By Kent Conrad |
De-romanticizing yakuza is one of the major genres of yakuza movies. It's ironic that the word "yakuza" comes from a ...
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Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset Blu-ray Review: Politically Charged Thrillers
By Mat Brewster |
Yves Boisset was a French director who cut his teeth as an assistant on films by Jean-Pierre Melville, René Clément, ...
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Resident Alien: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Cozy Sci-Fi
By Steve Geise |
After four seasons and 44 episodes, Syfy’s recent hit series is now collected in this new Blu-ray box set. The ...
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Silent Classic
By Mat Brewster |
When I was presented with the chance to review The Thief of Bagdad I jumped at the chance, but I ...
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We Bury the Dead Blu-ray Review: Not Your Father’s Zombie Movie
By Mat Brewster |
We Bury the Dead doesn't do anything particularly original with the zombie movie. I don't think there is a single ...
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Tarzan and His Mate Blu-ray Review: Lions and Rhinos and Crocodiles! Oh My!
By Gordon S. Miller |
Tarzan and His Mate (1934), the sequel to Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), provides the same jungle action (and resulting ...
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Cobra Kai: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Cobra Kai Never Dies
By Steve Geise |
Johnny Lawrence is stuck in the past. In the wake of his humiliating loss to newbie Daniel LaRusso in the ...
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A Man and a Woman Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Chic Romantic Masterpiece
By Davy |
There is so much allure in French cinema. The stories may sometimes be simple, but filmmakers like Varda, Godard, Truffaut, ...
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It All Came True Blu-ray Review: Ann Sheridan Shines
By Mat Brewster |
In the original poster for It All Came True, Ann Sheridan receives top billing. It was the same in the ...
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Tea and Sympathy Blu-ray Review: A Study in Masculinity
By Mat Brewster |
Vincent Minnelli's 1956 weeper Tea and Sympathy had the difficult task of adapting the stage play of the same name ...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner Blu-ray Review: A Film That Never Overstays Its Welcome
By Davy |
Everyone at some point has had a guest who won't leave, and there's a reason why the phrase "wear out ...
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Peter Sellers Early Classics Blu-ray Review: Dawning of an Inimitable Talent
By Steve Geise |
Before he was a household name around the world, Peter Sellers honed his acting talent in a string of British ...
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The Dancing Hawk Blu-ray Review: Polish Cinema Gets Weird
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly every review of The Dancing Hawk will tell you that the narrative of the film is fairly straightforward and ...
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Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Games Cartoon Animals Play
By Gordon S. Miller |
Interesting that this collection is titled Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, as that is the name of the Hanna-Barbera program block that ...
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A Bridge Too Far 4K UHD Review: An Hour Too Long
By Mat Brewster |
Operation Market Garden was a hugely ambitious military mission conceived by Field Marshal Montgomery as a means for the Allied ...
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Jack Benny Comedy Classics: Artists and Models/Man About Town Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Jack Benny’s comedy career flourished in his long-running radio and TV show, but he also found time to be a ...
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Once a Thief 4K UHD Review: Action-packed Comedy
By Mat Brewster |
John Woo is the auteur of cool. He crystallized the heroic bloodshed genre into something Hollywood is still emulating today. ...
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Maigret Sees Red Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Plays Maigret One Last Time
By Mat Brewster |
Between 1931 and 1972, Belgian author Georges Simenon wrote some 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring his famed Parisian ...
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Scott Joplin Blu-ray Review: Rags to Riches to Rags
By Steve Geise |
The famous American ragtime composer was at the peak of his popularity at the time of this 1977 biopic movie, ...
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A Bucket of Blood / The Little Shop of Horrors Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Twice the Fun
By Greg Hammond |
Both A Bucket of Blood and The Little Shop of Horrors were produced and directed by Roger Corman and written ...
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Hercules and the Captive Women Blu-ray Review: Mistitled but Fun
By Joe Garcia III |
Hercules and the Captive Women is an Italian sword-and-sandals adventure starring Reg Park as the titular strong man. This escapade ...
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Merrily We Roll Along Blu-ray Review: Auld Lang Syne
By Steve Geise |
Stephen Sondheim’s failed 1981 musical was redeemed as a Tony-winning Broadway revival success in 2023, largely due to the massive ...
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The Black Raven Blu-ray Review: Murder Mystery on the Canadian Border
By Joe Garcia III |
The Black Raven (1943) directed by Sam Newfield is an old, dark house murder mystery that stars George Zucco, Wanda ...
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Trifole Blu-ray Review: Swing and a Miss
By Steve Geise |
Gabriele Fabbro’s earnest family drama transports viewers to Italy’s pastoral Piedmont region as a young English woman attempts to reconnect ...
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Cinderella in Concert Blu-ray Review: A Rockin’ Good Time
By Joe Garcia III |
Cinderella in Concert captures the band at their rocking best in 1991 during the Heartbreak Station Tour before personal and ...
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection Blu-ray Review: Geared More for the Serious Animation Collector
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection features 25 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive, from The ...
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Unleashed Edition) Blu-ray Review: The Toys Are Out of the Box
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pizzeria, Blumhouse and ...
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The New Fred and Barney Show: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Bedrock Faultlines
By Steve Geise |
Almost 20 years after their groundbreaking prime-time series triumph, the Flintstones gang attempted to recapture the magic in this revival ...
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Mogambo Blu-ray Review: Clark Gable Goes Back to Africa
By Mat Brewster |
Some 21 years after Red Dust (1932) premiered, MGM remade the film (which itself had been an adaptation of a ...
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Stranger on the Third Floor Blu-ray Review: The First Film Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Stranger on the Third Floor is often cited as the first true film noir. With that and the fact that ...
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Song Sung Blue (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Lack of Depth Is Frustrating
By Rons Reviews |
Chronicling the lives and careers of the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning and Thunder, Song Sung Blue, based on the ...
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