Brute Force & The Naked City Criterion Collection Blu-ray Reviews: A Jules Dassin Double Feature
By Mat Brewster |
There are over 1,000 movies in the Criterion Collection, these are two of them. Jules Dassin has five films thus ...
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We Bare Bears: The Movie DVD Review: A Satisfying Send-Off
By David Wangberg |
Warner Bros Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the DVD reviewed in this Blog Post. The ...
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A Stranger Among Us Blu-ray Review: A Shiksa Cop Out of Water
By Elizabeth Periale |
A Stranger Among Us is a strange film. At times a crime thriller, a romance, a fish-out-of-water story, and a golden-toned ...
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The Balcony Blu-ray Review: Cinematic Satire, I Guess
By Mat Brewster |
The Balcony (1963) is a cinematic adaptation of the French play by the same name from writer Jean Genet. It almost ...
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Breezy Blu-ray Review: Like Sunday Morning
By Mat Brewster |
An old, cynical man meets a young woman and is changed by her zeal for life. It is a tale ...
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The Sign of the Cross Blu-ray Review: Saints and Debauchery in a Pre-Code Epic
By Mat Brewster |
Claudette Colbert naked in a bath filled donkey's milk. Well, topless at least. And the milk was powdered cow's milk ...
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Blu-ray Review: Slick ’90s Horror Anthology
By Kent Conrad |
The anthology movie seems like it is always going out of style, and yet it seems to crop up again ...
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Cry Freedom Blu-ray Review: A Fight for Justice
By Mat Brewster |
As our culture continues to shift towards something like equality, it is difficult sometimes to watch and critique older films ...
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There’s Always Tomorrow Blu-ray Review: A Nuanced Portrayal of a Man Grown Bored with His Life
By Mat Brewster |
Twelve years after making the perfect film noir, Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwcyk starred in another movie about a married ...
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The Flash (2014): The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray Review: The Stakes Have Gotten Higher but the Fun Has Gotten Smaller
By Mat Brewster |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Mat Brewster with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The opinions ...
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Toni Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Influential French Drama
By Mat Brewster |
In 1934, acclaimed French director Jean Renoir left the studio in Paris and headed for the countryside in the south ...
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Town Bloody Hall Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Verbal Battle of the Sexes
By Davy |
Documentaries, more than any other category of film, successfully (or sometimes unsuccessfully) captures reality at its most uncomfortable means. Whatever ...
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Tender Mercies Blu-ray Review: A Gentle, Beautiful Film
By Mat Brewster |
Two men brawl over a bottle of whiskey in a run-down old motel room. One man falls, or is possibly ...
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The King of Staten Island Blu-ray Review: Judd Apatow Has Made His Most Realized Work
By Davy |
There have been so many coming-of-age movies about young people growing up, dealing with the pressures of life, love, family ...
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Angela Winkler Is Sensational
By Davy |
In today's uncivilized world where humanity comes second (or dead last) to politics and where the police take the law ...
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All I Desire Blu-ray Review: Can Barbara Stanwyck Go Home Again?
By Elizabeth Periale |
Kino Lorber's KL Studio Classics has released All I Desire, from 1953, a romantic melodrama featuring Barbara Stanwyck, from the producer/director ...
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Life Is a Long Quiet River Blu-ray Review: It Could Use a Few Noisy Rapids
By Mat Brewster |
A nurse, Josette (Catherine Heigel), is in love with Doctor Mavial (Daniel Gélin), whom she works for. He continues to ...
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Raid on Rommel Blu-ray Review: Raids Other Films for Ideas
By Mat Brewster |
As an American of 40 some odd years of age, I'm ashamed to admit I don't know that much about ...
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Batwoman: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: The Arrowverse Finally Goes to Gotham
By Mat Brewster |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this article. The opinions ...
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Backlash (1956) Blu-ray Review: Searching for Gold and Daddy
By Mat Brewster |
A woman rides up to a man digging in the dirt in what appears to be an abandoned camp out ...
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Bloodstone Blu-ray Review: Indiana Jones and the B-Movie Knock-Off
By Mat Brewster |
Arrow Video continues to release HD versions of the film of Greek director/writer/producer Nico Mastorakis, and I am here for ...
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The Eagle and the Hawk Blu-ray Review: World War I Was Hell
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last few months, I've watched three World War I films (All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, and ...
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Sukiyaki Western Django Blu-ray Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Quentin
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Takashi Miike rose to international fame around the turn of the century with a string of audacious cult classic ...
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Hiroshima Blu-ray Review: Unrelenting Terror
By Mat Brewster |
The sky is a pale blue. Big, white clouds float by. It looks peaceful. It won't for long. This is ...
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Lucky Grandma Blu-ray Review: Don’t Mess with Grandma
By Elizabeth Periale |
After her husband's death and an auspicious fortune-telling reading, chain-smoking, cranky Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin - Joy Luck Club, Casino Royale) ...
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Black Rainbow Blu-ray Review: A Spiritual Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
What happens when your fake medium act turns real? When you've been pretending to see visions of dead people in ...
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Old Boyfriends Blu-ray Review: Girl Trip
By Elizabeth Periale |
Diane Cruise (Talia Shire) is a psychiatrist who doesn't seem to have any sense of herself in Old Boyfriends (1979), presented with ...
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The Quest (1986) Blu-ray Review: Sit This Adventure Out
By Mat Brewster |
Fresh off the enormous success of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Henry Thomas, the fresh-faced star of that film must have been offered ...
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Zombie for Sale Blu-ray Review: A New Take on an Old Genre
By Mat Brewster |
One would think the zombie movie would be completely played out by now. There have been countless films about the ...
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Ride Your Wave Blu-ray Review: Touching Romance Becomes Ghost Story
By Kent Conrad |
For the first half hour of Ride Your Wave, it seems like Masaaki Yuasa was tackling something he'd only ever flirted ...
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Audie Murphy Collection Blu-ray Review: War Hero Becomes a Movie Star
By Mat Brewster |
Towards the end of the tenth and final episode of Band of Brothers, HBO's acclaimed miniseries that follows Easy Company from ...
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Wonder Woman: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Warner Bros. Brings Us Exactly What We Need
By Rons Reviews |
In 1975, America found itself in strange times. The president had resigned, we had experienced an energy crisis, and Archie ...
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Tony Curtis Collection Blu-ray Review: Charming
By Mat Brewster |
Reason #473 that I love boutique labels such a Kino Lorber: they allow us to dig into various genres and ...
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Carole Lombard Collection I Blu-ray Review: An Early Glimpse of the Queen of Screwball Comedy
By Elizabeth Periale |
Kino Lorber Studio Classics have released a Blu-ray collection of three pre-Code films featuring Golden Age of Hollywood star Carole ...
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Blu-ray Review: A Suspenseful Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is an exciting, action-packed film that goes beyond being just a sequel to 2011's Captain ...
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Dream Demon Blu-ray Review: Newly-Unearthed ’80s Horror Fantasy
By Kent Conrad |
An obscure British release from 1988 that never made it to the states theatrically, Dream Demon's major problem is that it ...
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Blu-ray Review: W.C. Fields’ Last Star Turn Delivers Laughs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is W.C, Fields last outing as the star of a film. He also ...
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Taste of Cherry Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Not to Everyone’s Taste
By Steve Geise |
Abbas Kiarostami's understated film won the prestigious Palme d'Or Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, leading to its initial ...
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The World in His Arms Blu-ray Review: Swashbuckling Gregory Peck
By Mat Brewster |
Last week I watched three films that are part of Kino Lorber's ongoing Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema collection. After ...
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Marriage Story Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Emotionally Brutal and Full of Life
By Davy |
I'm not an expert on marriage, but seeing many films about it, I guess I can at least say that ...
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The Mad Fox Blu-ray Review: Kabuki-styled Cinematic Fantasia
By Kent Conrad |
Tomu Uchida is not one of the big names of Japanese cinema in the West, even though he had been ...
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Murder by Decree (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Fogbound
By Joe Keaton |
Murder by Decree is one of the better Sherlock Holmes movies. Directed by Bob Clark, it features an all-star cast. Christopher ...
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This Island Earth Blu-ray Review: Highly Recommended for the Sci-fi Film Buff
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Raymond F. Jones's 1952 novel of the same name, which appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories as a trilogy of novelettes: ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV Blu-ray Review: Too Much Melodrama, Not Enough Noir
By Mat Brewster |
For Part IV of their Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series Kino Lorber Studio Classics is releasing three films from ...
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America as Seen by a Frenchman Blu-ray Review: A Fascinating Snapshot in Time
By Mat Brewster |
I've been lucky enough to have done a bit of traveling in my life. I've lived in France, Belgium, and ...
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Blood Tide Blu-ray Review: Fun and Monsters in the Greek Sun
By Mat Brewster |
Can I consider myself a fan of a filmmaker after hating one of his films, liking another one, and kind-of ...
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Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of Shinya Tsukamoto Blu-ray Box Set Review
By Steve Geise |
If you've seen one Tsukamoto film, you definitely haven't seen them all, as evidenced by this amazing new box set ...
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Inferno of Torture Blu-ray Review: Torsos, Tattoos, and Torture
By Kent Conrad |
Inferno of Torture is the third of Teruo Ishii's ero-guro (erotic grotesque) films that have recently been released by Arrow Video. Orgies ...
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The Flesh and the Fiends Blu-ray Review: Selling Corpses in Scotland
By Mat Brewster |
For centuries the science of anatomy lagged behind other fields of study due to cultural norms and religious beliefs concerning ...
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Urban Cowboy Blu-ray Review: The Devil Should Have Gone Down to Texas Instead
By Joe Keaton |
Urban Cowboy (1980) is one of those faddish films that has aged poorly. John Travolta plays Bud Davis, a country boy ...
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