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High Life (2019) Blu-ray Review: Out of This World

By David Wangberg | Jul 13, 2019

If 2001: A Space Odyssey had more of a horror aspect and were to get slapped with an R rating, it might ...

Pretenders with Friends Blu-ray Review: A Hits-Heavy, Star-Studded Concert

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 12, 2019

Decades Rock Live! was a VH1 Classic television series that gathered bands and guests to play a concert at Trump Taj ...

Earthquake (1974) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 9, 2019

Producer/director Mark Robson's Earthquake was a star-studded disaster movie that the '70s was known for. Unfortunately, the famous folks go to waste ...

The Illusionist (2006) Blu-ray Review: Full of Tricks and Treats

By David Wangberg | Jul 5, 2019

There was a time in which both Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and Neil Burger's The Illusionist played at the theater at which I worked. ...

Dances with Wolves Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable, Albeit Unsurprising, Western

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 2, 2019

Thanks to Shout Factory, the theatrical cut of Dances with Wolves finally made its debut on Blu-ray as part of a three-disc ...

Matinee (1993) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Joe Dante’s Love Letter to B-movies

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 1, 2019

Matinee opens with Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman), a William Castle-type producer in a trailer for Mant, a movie about a ...

Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart Blu-ray Review: One Story Cut Twice

By Mat Brewster | Jun 28, 2019

Throughout the 1940s, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a series of films that are considered some of the greatest ...

Universal Horror Collection, Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: Bela Lugosi Versus Boris Karloff

By Mat Brewster | Jun 26, 2019

The year 1931 saw the release of both Dracula and Frankenstein. Both became absolute classics of the horror genre, cornerstones for the long-lasting ...

Swing Time Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Fine Film

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 25, 2019

Swing Time is the sixth of ten films that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in together. It has great songs ...

Double Face Blu-ray Review: Could Have Used a Face Lift

By Mat Brewster | Jun 24, 2019

I am officially on the record (more than once as anyone who has actually followed my writing in these pages ...

Frankenstein Created Woman (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Hammer Created a Gothic Tale of Revenge

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 22, 2019

Frankenstein Created Woman is the fourth film in Hammer Films Frankenstein series and has been released on Blu-ray by Scream Factory. Instead of ...

Night of the Creeps Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Blood, Guts, and Laughs

By Mat Brewster | Jun 21, 2019

It is fascinating to me when artists incorporate the culture of their formative years into their current work. Think about ...

Mississippi Burning Blu-ray Review: How Can We Sleep When Our State Is Burning

By Mat Brewster | Jun 20, 2019

I gotta tell you, dear reader, that I wasn't real excited sitting down to watch this new Kino Lorber Blu-ray ...

The Girl Most Likely To… Blu-ray Review: Very Dark, Very Funny

By Elizabeth Periale | Jun 19, 2019

They sure knew how to make TV-movies back in the day. In The Girl Most Likely To… Stockard Channing (Grease, Six Degrees ...

She-Devils on Wheels Blu-ray Review: I Just Don’t Get It

By Rons Reviews | Jun 18, 2019

So, when She-Devils on Wheels came across my desk for a potential review, I will admit that the title had me somewhat ...

Killing Eve: Season Two Blu-ray Review: Missing Phoebe Waller-Bridge

By Mat Brewster | Jun 17, 2019

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the new It Girl. Not because she is attractive and trendy (though she is both) but because ...

Yakuza Law Blu-ray Review: Gory Fun Yakuza Anthology

By Kent Conrad | Jun 17, 2019

Yakuza Law is not even in the top-five craziest movies made by Teruo Ishii, and in it, a man rips out ...

The Silent Partner Blu-ray Review: An Underseen Gem

By Mat Brewster | Jun 16, 2019

An average, ordinary, unambitious bank teller who lives alone, works on chess problems by himself, and collects tropical fish discovers ...

Us Blu-ray Review: A Stunning Second Effort by Jordan Peele

By Davy | Jun 16, 2019

When comedy icon and new horror master Jordan Peele made his 2017 smash, Get Out, he created a new type of ...

Thirst (2009) Blu-ray Review: A Wicked Love Story

By Davy | Jun 15, 2019

After the Twilight franchise nearly ruined the vampire film with its sour and teeny-bopper mix of staleness, Coldplay, and glitter, filmmakers set ...

The Thing from Another World Blu-ray Review: A Classic of the Sci-fi Genre

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 14, 2019

Based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella “Who Goes There?” The Thing from Another World (1951) tells the story of those at ...

Sinatra in Palm Springs: The Place He Called Home Blu-ray Review: A Look at the Love Affair Between the Singer and the City

By generaljabbo | Jun 12, 2019

Frank Sinatra was born in New Jersey and synonymous with New York City. He also defined what a Las Vegas ...

Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blu-ray Review: Fun, If Over-packed, Crossover Event

By Kent Conrad | Jun 11, 2019

Crossovers are fun because they can never really be consequential. Popular characters are the tent poles of multi-billion dollar corporations ...

Kidnapped (1971) Blu-ray Review: More Political than Adventurous

By Mat Brewster | Jun 11, 2019

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote over a dozen novels in his lifetime plus multiple short stories, poems, essays, and other works. ...

Fatso Blu-ray Review: Starring the Great Comedian Dom DeLuise

By Davy | Jun 9, 2019

Being a guy on the chubby side, I can definitely relate to films about the dangers of binge-eating and food ...

Modest Heroes Blu-ray Review: Eat Their Shorts

By Mat Brewster | Jun 8, 2019

When Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement in 2013, producer Yoshiaki Nishimura grabbed as many animators from the famed studio as ...

Bright Angel Blu-ray Review: A Coming-of-Age Road Trip

By Mat Brewster | Jun 6, 2019

One of the great joys of being a movie nerd in these times is that we have access to so ...

Let the Sunshine In Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Love Is…Brutally Human

By Davy | Jun 5, 2019

For most people, love is a constant slope towards madness and eventual pain. We crave it, but sometimes, when it's ...

A Star is Born: Encore Blu-ray Review: As Great As the Original Version

By David Wangberg | Jun 5, 2019

Bradley Cooper showed his prowess for directing with his debut, the 2018 version of A Star is Born. In some aspects, ...

The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: A Solid Entry in the Franchise

By Shawn Bourdo | Jun 3, 2019

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided our writer with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The opinions ...

La Prisonnière Blu-ray Review: Cluzot Gets Modern

By Mat Brewster | Jun 1, 2019

The 1960s were a time of enormous cultural upheaval. The aftermath of World War II found many countries with a ...

Road to Utopia (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Striking Comedy Gold

By Gordon S. Miller | May 31, 2019

Kino Lorber Studio Classics has added to their roster Special Edition Blu-ray releases of the first four Road pictures starring Bing Crosby, ...

The Nun (1965) Blu-ray Review: Get Thee to a Nunnery

By Mat Brewster | May 30, 2019

Jacques Rivette's 1965 adaptation of the Denis Diderot book The Nun (La Religieuse) was controversial before it was even released. The script ...

Cold Pursuit Blu-ray Review: Revenge Served at the Right Temperature

By Gordon S. Miller | May 28, 2019

Cold Pursuit finds Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland remaking an English version of his 2014 film In Order of Disappearance (Kraftidioten). Liam Neeson ...

By Elizabeth Periale | May 27, 2019

"Isn't It Romantic opens with Roy Orbison's classic song "Oh, Pretty Woman" playing, as a young Aussie, Natalie, watches Julia Roberts ...

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires Blu-ray Review: The Genre Blending Works Well

By Gordon S. Miller | May 26, 2019

Released on Blu-ray from Scream Factory, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires is the ninth and final entry in Hammer's Dracula film series ...

A Delicate Balance Blu-ray Review: A Caustic Bore

By Mat Brewster | May 20, 2019

In the mid 1970s, producer Ely Landau created a subscription-based film series that attempted to recreate a theater experience at ...

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part Blu-ray Review: A Delightful Continuation of the Franchise

By Gordon S. Miller | May 19, 2019

I try to be open-minded about movies before I see them, but like Osgood Fielding III said in Some Like It ...

The Image Book Blu-ray Review: Godard Expresses the Hell of the Contemporary World

By Davy | May 18, 2019

Have you ever watched a film and wondered what's actually in the images you're seeing? Have you every looked at ...

By Elizabeth Periale | May 15, 2019

In 1978, hairdresser-turned movie mogul Jon Peters bought a murder-mystery screenplay, Eyes of Laura Mars, for his then-girlfriend, Barbra Streisand. She ...