Eagles of the Republic Blu-ray Review: The Folly of State-Controlled Media
By Steve Geise |
When Egypt’s biggest movie star gets an offer to star in a state-funded biopic about the current president, he has ...
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La Tête Contre les Murs Blu-ray Review: The First Film from a French Master
By Mat Brewster |
George Franju cut his teeth making political documentaries. One was a blood soaked look inside a slaughterhouse. Two others were ...
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Unearthly Stranger Blu-ray Review: Strange, But Entirely Earthbound
By Steve Geise |
This 1963 British sci-fi film ratchets up tension by keeping alien threats completely hidden, with the increasingly stressed characters racing ...
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Inspector Maigret Collection Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Closes Three Cases
By Steve Geise |
French film titan Jean Gabin starred as Inspector Maigret in three films, which have all been collected in this new ...
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The Gay Divorcee Blu-ray Review: Astaire and Rogers. Together Again for the First Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, The Gay Divorcee is the second of the ten movies Fred Astaire and ...
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Brit Noir Collection II Blu-ray Review: A Jack Hawkins Triple Feature
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly five years ago, I reviewed a DVD collection of British noir films. I was not particularly enthused by it. ...
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Solo (1970) Blu-ray Review: A Character-driven Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
A group of rich, elderly men are having a sex party with a bunch of underage girls. Suddenly, there is ...
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White Zombie (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Fun, Spooky Relic
By Gordon S. Miller |
Victor Halperin's White Zombie is a pre-Code horror film, credited as the first full-length zombie movie. While some characters make ...
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Waves of Lust Blu-ray Review: A Tsunami of Female Nudity
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a younger man, I loved low-budget horror films and exploitation flicks. There was something so exciting about ...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao Blu-ray Review: Cabinet of Curiosities
By Steve Geise |
Tony Randall got the opportunity to show vast range in this 1965 fantasy fable, playing seven distinct characters in such ...
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Scream 7 4K UHD Review: Neve Campbell Steals the Show
By Davy |
Scream 7, directed by the original film's screenwriter Kevin Williamson, has Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) living a new life far ...
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Sirat Blu-ray Review: The Journey Is the Destination
By Steve Geise |
A desperate elderly father shows up at a remote rave in the Moroccan wilderness in the hopes of locating his ...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet Blu-ray Review: Character Study of a Loser
By Mat Brewster |
Kiyoshi Koike (Tsunehiko Wasabe) is a schmuck. A big time loser. He used to be a chef, but now he ...
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Million Dollar Legs (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code International Farce
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally developed by co-screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz for the Marx Brothers, who passed on it, Edward Cline's Million Dollar Legs ...
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The Late Show (1977) Blu-ray Review: Soft-boiled
By Rock London |
The 1970s had better private-eye movies. But The Late Show (1977; Dir. Robert Benton) may be the sweetest. The setup ...
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Vertigo for a Killer Blu-ray Review: A Dizzying Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
A car pulls up near a metro stop on the streets of Paris. A hitman screws a silencer onto his ...
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Brit Noir Collection I Blu-ray Review: London Calling
By Steve Geise |
Kino Lorber launches a fun new series with this debut release of three rarely seen noir films. While the stories ...
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula Blu-ray Review: Fun Halloween Fare on a Low Budget
By Joe Garcia III |
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula released sometime in 1966, is a low-budget horror/western directed by B Movie veteran William Beaudine ...
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Birds of Prey (1968) Blu-ray Review: A Terrific (and Talkative) Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
For years and years now, I've been writing down all the movies I watch. I used to just do it ...
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Twinless Blu-ray Review: A Refreshingly Dark Comedy
By Davy |
We've all done crazy things for connection, love, and understanding. That is just one of the pieces of the puzzle ...
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The Garden of Eden (1928) Blu-ray Review: Frothy Silent Romantic Comedy
By Kent Conrad |
It's hard to know when a cliche starts. The scene that makes us roll our eyes with familiarity today might ...
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Africa Screams Blu-ray Review: Abbott and Costello on Safari…and Colorized
By Joe Garcia III |
Africa Screams (1949) is a comedy/adventure film that stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as they bumble into and through ...
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The Himalayan Blu-ray Review: Lost in the Clouds
By Steve Geise |
This 1976 martial arts actioner was produced by Golden Harvest, not Shaw Brothers, and the difference is noticeable in its ...
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Follow Me Quietly Blu-ray Review: Surprisingly Thrilling
By Mat Brewster |
Follow Me Quietly is a tightly packaged, low-budget film noir that is surprisingly thrilling. The story is co-credited to Anthony ...
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Once Upon a Time (2017) Blu-ray Review: Fractured Fairy Tale
By Steve Geise |
Director Zhao Xiaoding’s lavish adaptation of a best-selling fantasy novel was released in 2017, but its eye-popping visuals appear brand ...
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Monogram Matinee Volume 3 Blu-ray Review: Two Western Yarns with Johnny Mack Brown
By Joe Garcia III |
Version 1.0.0 The latest from the Warner Archives Monogram Matinee series is a pair of B westerns featuring Johnny Mack ...
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Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: Another Fine Collection
By Gordon S. Miller |
From Kit Parker Films comes Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations Volume 2, a two-disc set that contains nine of ...
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Nickelodeon Blu-ray Review: Bogdanovich’s Tribute to Early Silent Cinema
By Joe Garcia III |
Peter Bogdanovich’s Nickelodeon (1976) takes us from the early days of the dingy storefront nickelodeons which showed very short, single-reeled ...
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (40th Anniversary) Blu-ray Review: 142 Mexican Whooping Llamas Can’t Be Wrong
By Greg Hammond |
Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a surreal British sketch-comedy show aired on BBC1 for four series starting in 1969 and ending ...
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Blue Thunder: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The B-Team
By Steve Geise |
Twenty years after its DVD release, this 1984 TV series has finally made its way to Blu-ray. The short-lived adaptation ...
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The Angry River Blu-ray Review: This Release Will Make You Happy
By Mat Brewster |
The Shaw Brothers became the dominant studio in Hong Kong in the late 1960s through much of the 1970s. They ...
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International House Blu-ray Review: Quick Witted and Funny
By Joe Garcia III |
International House (1933) is a pre-Code comedy featuring an ensemble cast that keeps the laughs thick as the plot runs ...
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Night World (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Little Gem of a Movie Available at Long Last
By Joe Garcia III |
Night World, directed by Hobart Henley, is a compact look at a single night's happenings that will alter many lives. ...
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Kill Me Again Blu-ray Review: A Neo-Noir in the Classic Tradition
By Mat Brewster |
You ever noticed how almost all private detectives in books, movies, and TV are down and out? Rarely are they ...
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Terror Train Blu-ray Review: Halloween on a Train
By Davy |
After the massive success of John Carpenter's game changing 1978 classic slasher Halloween, everyone tried to replicate its magic, but ...
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House of Cards (1968) Blu-ray Review: One Fascist Battle After Another
By Steve Geise |
When I was growing up in the 1970s, I’d frequently stumble across cheap paperbacks in bookstores from a long-running action ...
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Talk Radio Blu-ray Review: An Incredibly Tense Thriller
By Davy |
Sometimes the most unlikable characters are the most charismatic and you just can't ignore them, no matter how much you ...
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Soul to Soul Blu-ray Review: Powerful from Start to Finish
By Joe Garcia III |
Soul to Soul (1971), directed by Denis Sanders (Elvis: That’s the Way It Is), is a concert movie/documentary filmed that ...
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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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