Doom Patrol: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: Seriously Weird
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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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) Blu-ray Review: Same Gore, Less Story
By Kent Conrad |
It's strange that so many horror movies spawn enormous franchises when the surprise and the unknown are central to the ...
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Hellraiser (1987) Blu-ray Review: Clive Barker’s Semi-professional Debut
By Kent Conrad |
Roger Ebert hated Hellraiser when it came out, giving it half a star. He starts with the money quote Stephen King gave ...
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In the Aftermath Blu-ray Review: An Odd Mishmash of Live Action and Animation
By Mat Brewster |
In The Path to Aftermath, an extra included in Arrow Video's new release of In The Aftermath, producer Tom Dugan explains that in ...
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Un Coeur En Hiver Blu-ray Review: A Man Without Feelings
By Mat Brewster |
In movies and on television, a sociopath - someone who doesn't have real feelings or emotions - is usually depicted ...
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Dogtooth Blu-ray Review: Takes the Theme of Bad Parenting to an All-time High
By Davy |
Acclaimed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has become one of the most idiosyncratic directors working today. With such unclassifibly original films ...
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Anna 4K Ultra HD Review: La Femme Anna
By Steve Geise |
A tough, beautiful woman faces seemingly impossible odds as she battles her way to freedom. Can you name that Luc ...
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The Major and the Minor Blu-ray Review: Wild Comedy from Billy Wilder
By Elizabeth Periale |
Susan Applegate (Ginger Rogers) has had it up to here with New York City, with fighting off men making passes ...
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Hussy Blu-ray Review: You’ll Wonder If You Haven’t Seen It Before
By Mat Brewster |
If there was a template for the movie genre where a nice boy falls for a hooker and complications ensue ...
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This Magnificent Cake! Blu-ray Review: This Magnificent Movie!
By David Wangberg |
At just 44 minutes, This Magnificent Cake! zooms by, but it also leaves the viewer speechless. An exploration of 1800s Belgian history ...
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Who Saw Her Die? Blu-ray Review: Bond Does Giallo
By Mat Brewster |
Poor old George Lazenby. When Sean Connery quit the James Bond gig (for the first, but not last time) after You ...
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Supergirl: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Review: Too Much Preaching
By Mat Brewster |
Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Cinema Sentries with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The ...
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The Chairman Blu-ray Review: Mr. Peck Goes to China
By Mat Brewster |
For their third and final collaboration director J. Lee Thompson and Gregory Peck made The Chairman, a spy thriller about an ...
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Echo in the Canyon Blu-ray Review: You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears
By Gordon S. Miller |
The “canyon” in question is Laurel Canyon, located in the Hollywood Hills of Southern California. With Jakob Dylan as host, ...
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The Quiller Memorandum Blu-ray Review: Next Time Make It a Mission Statement
By Mat Brewster |
With the success of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962 there was a mad rush of spy films ...
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Supernatural: The Complete Fourteenth Season Blu-ray Review: An Emotional Season with the Show’s Most Shocking Cliffhanger
By Todd Karella |
Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Cinema Sentries with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The ...
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True Believer (1989) Blu-ray Review: Blisteringly Performed Courtroom Drama
By Kent Conrad |
True Believer has been released on Blu-ray in one of Mill Creek's Retro VHS Look packages. While it's the same dimensions ...
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The Case of Hana & Alice Blu-ray Review: An Animated Slice of Life
By Mat Brewster |
In 2004 Japanese director Shunji Iwai made Hana & Alice, a live-action movie about two high school students who both fall ...
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John Carpenter’s Vampires Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Put a Stake in It
By Mat Brewster |
An armored van pulls up to a dilapidated house. A group of scruffy-looking men and a priest get out. The ...
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Reap the Wild Wind Blu-ray Review: An Antebellum Epic of Thrilling Adventure and Questionable Romance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Thelma Strabel's story that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind is an Antebellum epic filled ...
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The Snake Pit Blu-ray Review: One of the First and Best Motion Pictures to Bring Mental Illness to Life
By Davy |
The topic of mental illness today is still a really prickly issue that may people refuse to discuss with others. ...
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The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Gentle Ozu Comedy
By Kent Conrad |
The first thing to get used to in an Ozu film is the camera perspective. He never (or at least ...
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The Koker Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Rise of Abbas Kiarostami
By Steve Geise |
This series of Iranian films is a trilogy in only the loosest sense, as they don't share overlapping casts or ...
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The Lavender Hill Mob / The Man in the White Suit Blu-rays Review: An Alec Guinness Two-Fer
By Mat Brewster |
This weekend I caught a Fathom events screening of Lawrence of Arabia. That is a movie made for the big screen ...
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Akio Jissoji: The Buddhist Trilogy Blu-ray Review: New Wave Filmmaking, Naked Ladies
By Kent Conrad |
It's difficult to put a modern film-fan in the mind of a viewer from the past, because of the nature ...
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Alps Blu-ray Review: Weird, Wild, and Confusing
By Mat Brewster |
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos often makes movies about insular groups of people who live in absurdist worlds that create and ...
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Mystery Mansion Review
By Shawn Bourdo |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Cinema Sentries with a free copy of the Blu-ray giftset reviewed in this Blog Post. ...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets Blu-ray Review: An Influential Cinema Landmark
By Davy |
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I prefer British comedy over American comedy. The ...
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Arrow: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray Review: Nothing Can Keep Down the Green Arrow and His Team
By Todd Karella |
Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Cinema Sentries with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The ...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Blu-ray Review: Long Live the King
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which takes its name (minus the exclamation point) from the re-edited American ...
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The Flash (2014): The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Review: Slow It Down, Flash!
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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Poms Blu-ray Review: Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah
By David Wangberg |
Based on the trailers alone, Zara Hayes' Poms could easily be dismissed as something that we've seen numerous times and won't try ...
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Roxanne (1987) Blu-ray Review: Big Nose, Bigger Laughs
By David Wangberg |
Fred Schepisi's Roxanne is a film that, at first glance, may seem too contrived and too formulaic to differentiate itself from the ...
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Alice, Sweet Alice Blu-ray Review: Has Surprisingly Aged Very Well
By Davy |
When it comes to horror cinema, I think 1970s horror stands at the top for me. Everyone, even those who ...
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Avengers: Endgame Blu-ray Review: Part of the Journey Is the End
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, which currently stands at 23 movies (now known as “The Infinity Saga”) is the biggest film ...
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The Reflecting Skin Blu-ray Review: A Brutally Surreal Coming-of-Age Gem
By Davy |
When it comes to youth, the rites of passage are always paved with dark uncertainty and a cerebral outlook on ...
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UglyDolls Sing-Along Edition Blu-ray Review: A Kids Movie, Through and Through
By Mark Buckingham |
There are two kinds of movies for children, as I see it. First, there are ones with subtlety and nuance ...
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What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
What We Left Behind, a riff on the title of the series finale "What You Leave Behind," finds Deep Space Nine showrunner ...
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The BRD Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Fassbinder at His Best
By Mat Brewster |
When World War II ended, Germany was due a reckoning. As a nation, they had to come to terms not ...
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The Leopard Man (1943) Blu-ray Review: Subtle, Underrated ’40s Chiller
By Kent Conrad |
Based on Cornell Woolrich's dark novel, Black Alibi, The Leopard Man was the first property Val Lewton wanted to develop when he became ...
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Attack of the Robots (1966) Blu-ray Review: Eddie Constantine Lays His Cards on the Table
By Luigi Bastardo |
Crafted in the wake of Jean-Luc Godard's immortal Alphaville ‒ a deadpan French New Wave satire of contemporary espionage and sci-fi films ...
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Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 Blu-ray Review: The Rise and Fall of a Franchise
By Gordon S. Miller |
Back before superheroes were all the rage at the box office, Tim Burton and his creative team brought Batman to ...
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Universal Horror Collection, Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: Atwill Employment, Mostly
By Luigi Bastardo |
The phrase "classic Universal horror" is most likely to get a vintage monster movie enthusiast to talk nerd shop about ...
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Missing Link Blu-ray Review: Missing Story, Finding Artistry
By Steve Geise |
Missing Link is the latest film from the animation wizards at Laika, the tiny U.S. studio responsible for gems including Kubo and ...
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The Doors: The Final Cut 4K Ultra HD Review: Break on Through
By Steve Geise |
Although the movie is named after the band, it's really all about the rise and fall of Jim Morrison. The ...
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The Milky Way (1969) Blu-ray Review: Surrealistic Satire
By Mat Brewster |
h About an hour into Luis Bunuel's surrealistic drama The Milky Way, two men, a Jesuit and a Jansenist, argue over ...
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Death in the Garden Blu-ray Review: Well Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
After befriending Salvador Dali and finding success in the surrealist movement with films like Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or, Luis Buñuel was ...
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Hellboy (2019) Blu-ray Review: Will Certainly Find Its Audience over Time
By Chad Derdowski |
I was tempted to start this review by talking about how the filmmakers had an uphill climb when rebooting Hellboy, as ...
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Space: 1999: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Ahead of Its Time in More Ways Than One
By Rons Reviews |
It was September 13th, 1999, when an explosion of nuclear waste blew the moon out of orbit and sent the ...
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Shazam! (2019) Blu-ray Review: DC Makes a Marvelous Movie
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although it's the seventh movie in Warner Brothers' DC Extended Universe series, David F. Sandberg's Shazam! comes across like it ...
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