Jeanne Moreau, Filmmaker Blu-ray Review: Girl Power
By Steve Geise |
Any casual fan of French cinema recognizes the name of esteemed actress Jeanne Moreau. Of far less common knowledge is ...
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Archangel (1990) Blu-ray Review: Dreamlike Semi-silent Melodrama
By Kent Conrad |
Guy Maddin does not make movies in any particular genre. He makes "Guy Maddin" movies, which are unlike anything else ...
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Blu-ray Review: A Must-own for Fans of the D
By Gordon S. Miller |
The comic hard-rock duo Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) teamed up with director Liam Lynch to write and ...
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Afire Blu-ray Review: A Mixed Portrait of Uneasy Relationships
By Davy |
Some films have ideas that are so obvious that they are impossible to ignore once you discovered them. Unfortunately, Christian ...
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Migration Blu-ray Review: Funny but Flies South Quick
By Greg Hammond |
Benjamin Renner’s Migration is an animated adventure story from Illumination. It concerns itself with a family of mallards who have ...
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Tupac: Live at the House of Blues (2010) Blu-ray Review: Tupac and Snoop Back in ‘96
By Joe Garcia III |
Tupac: Live at the House of Blues was recorded in 1996 just months before Tupac was fatally shot and killed. ...
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Monk: Season Three Blu-ray Review: Bigger Stakes and More Colorful Characters
By Davy |
Having previously reviewed Season One and watching Season Two during its original broadcast, I have to say that after revisiting ...
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Wonka Blu-ray Review: A Sweet Audiovisual Treat with Heart
By Lorna Miller |
When I first heard this film was Willy Wonka's origin story with Timothée Chalamet playing the titular role, I admit ...
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Black Tight Killers Blu-ray Review: Branded to Thrill
By Steve Geise |
Yasuharu Hasebe’s delirious caper oozes with style, and is better than ever in this new hi-def transfer restored by Radiance ...
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The Golden Coach Blu-ray Review: Jean Renoir’s Tribute to Theater
By Steve Geise |
When a traveling theater company rolls into a rich Peruvian town, the star actress named Camilla (Anna Magnani) quickly attracts ...
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Verotika Blu-ray Review: A Comic Book Horror Anthology Come to Life
By Joe Garcia III |
Verotika (2019) is writer/director Glenn Danzig’s debut and is an anthology horror movie based on characters from his Verotik comic ...
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La Syndicaliste Blu-ray Review: The Woman Who Maybe Cried Wolf
By Steve Geise |
Director Jean-Paul Salomé and star Isabelle Huppert team up again in this fascinating drama that is not at all what ...
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Wolfman’s Got Nards Blu-ray Review: The Monster Squad Squad Speaks
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Monster Squad and Wolfman's Got Nards, the 30th anniversary documentary about the film and its fans, are available together ...
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The Monster Squad Blu-ray Review: And the Children Shall Lead
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Monster Squad and Wolfman's Got Nards, the 30th anniversary documentary about the film and its fans, are available together ...
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Faithless (1932) Blu-ray Review: Tallulah Bankhead Makes It Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
The story goes that as a teenager Tallulah Bankhead won a contest in the Picture Post magazine which sent her ...
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Mademoiselle (1966) Blu-ray Review: Lust and Terror In France
By Mat Brewster |
Someone is wreaking havoc in a French provincial village. The cattle's drinking water has been poisoned, fires have been set ...
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Godard Cinema Blu-ray Review: Interesting and Involving
By Davy |
When legendary, unconventional, and challenging filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard passed away in 2022, it left quite a shock to everyone, not ...
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Casino Remastered Edition Blu-ray Review: Paradise in the Desert Lost
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Martin Scorsese who co-wrote the script with Nicholas Pileggi, based on the latter's Casino: Love and Honor in ...
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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Blu-ray Review: If You Want to Hit Him, It’s Alright by Me
By Greg Hammond |
Norman Jewison’s The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is one of those rare comedies that holds its laughs ...
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Coming Home Blu-ray Review: Romantic War Drama at the Top of Its Game
By Greg Hammond |
There is nothing subtle about Hal Ashby’s Coming Home. It is not an anti-war film, it is, specifically, an anti-Vietnam ...
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Scarlet Street Blu-ray Review: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
By Steve Geise |
Aside from the direction by Fritz Lang, I didn’t have much initial interest in watching this film. Edward G. Robinson ...
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Blu-ray Review: Twisty Drama in the Courtroom
By Kent Conrad |
A filmed courtroom drama has a double-edged sword. It's of course easy drama, the conflict is already fixed. Defense vs. ...
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Waitress: The Musical Blu-ray Review: Small-Town Servers Accentuate the Positive
By Steve Geise |
Following the conclusion of its four-year original Broadway run in early 2020, Waitress: The Musical returned to Broadway in late ...
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Burnt Offerings Blu-ray Review: Not the Average Haunted House Movie
By Joe Garcia III |
Burnt Offerings (1976) starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, and Burgess Meredith may well be director Dan Curtis’ masterpiece. ...
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Loaded Guns Blu-ray Review: Firing Blanks
By Steve Geise |
By any conventional measure, Loaded Guns is a terrible movie. The wisp of a plot goes nowhere, the acting is ...
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He Walked by Night Blu-ray Review: You’ll Watch by Daylight
By Mat Brewster |
Part film noir, part ripped from the headlines semi-documentary, He Walked by Night influenced countless movies and television shows and ...
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Jennifer 8 Blu-ray Review: Ambitious but Flawed Crime Story
By Kent Conrad |
Jennifer 8 wants to be more than a serial killer story. It has the elements to be more. Friends with ...
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The Road to Hong Kong Blu-ray Review: The Formula Works to the End of the Map
By Greg Hammond |
A few months before the release of James Bond in Dr. No in theaters around the world, Bob Hope and ...
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Red Planet Mars Blu-ray Review: Peter Graves and Andrea King Put Some Life into a Surprisingly Religious Story
By Greg Hammond |
Red Planet Mars by director Harry Horner is a strange beast. It would like to be a sci-fi/thriller plopped down ...
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Joe’s Apartment Blu-ray Review: Riding Cockroaches Into the Sunset
By Greg Hammond |
Joe’s Apartment is a black comedy/musical/romance written and directed by John Payson. It stars Jerry O’Connell as down-on-his-luck New York ...
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One Blu-ray Review: It Starts with a Flash
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on DC Comics' 12-issue miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) written by Marv Wolfman and pencilled by George Pérez, ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI Blu-ray Review: I’m Thrilled They Keep Releasing Them
By Mat Brewster |
Kino Lorber continues their long tradition of releasing relatively obscure film noir. This collection features three very different films ranging ...
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The Odd Couple: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Opposites Attract Laughs
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Odd Couple, which earned playwright Neil Simon his first Tony, is about a pair of mismatched divorcees sharing an ...
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Eureka (1983) Blu-ray Review: Greed, Grudges, and Gruesomeness
By Kent Conrad |
Eureka is four films in one, in succession. First, it's an experimental art film about a man obsessed with finding ...
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The Outside Man Blu-ray Review: Outsider Deray Crafts an Insider Look at 1970s L.A.
By Steve Geise |
While this film may look like a typical 1970s U.S. crime drama at first glance, dig a little deeper and ...
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Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Six-Pack of Chan’s Early Films
By Gordon S. Miller |
Jackie Chan movies entered into the Criterion Collection in 2019 with the one-two punch of Police Story/Police Story 2. The ...
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal Blu-ray Review: Keep Looking, the Old Man Is in the Way
By Steve Geise |
This 1952 charmer masquerades as a Rock Hudson/Piper Laurie rom-com, but pay close attention to that waving man behind the ...
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Journey to Bethlehem Blu-ray Review: Joyful, Joyful, Movie, I Adore Thee
By David Wangberg |
As a Christian, I will admit that movies catered toward my demographic are mostly hard to stomach. They usually come ...
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Run Silent, Run Deep Blu-ray Review: Gable and Lancaster Are great
By Mat Brewster |
When my brother joined the Navy in the mid-1990s, he volunteered for submarine duty. It paid more than serving on ...
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Thinner: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Lose the Fat to Find a Good Story
By Greg Hammond |
Tom Holland’s (dir. Fright Night, Child’s Play) Thinner, based on the novel by Stephen King, is a body horror/thriller starring ...
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Strange Invaders Blu-ray Review: I Married a Woman from Outer Space
By Joe Garcia III |
Strange Invaders (1983) directed and co-written by Michael Laughlin, is a quirky ode to science fiction movies of the 1950s ...
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Why We Fight (2020) Blu-ray Review: Three Athletes Tell Us Why They Do
By Joe Garcia III |
Why We Fight is a look at three combat sports athletes and why they are so passionate about the Martial ...
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A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Blu-ray Review: Bringing Balance and Answers After 45 Years
By Joe Garcia III |
Making its sole television appearance on November 17, 1978, the Star Wars Holiday Special is an event that remains forever ...
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Please, Not Now! Blu-ray Review: Brigitte Bardot Will Have You Saying Please, Now!
By Steve Geise |
Brigitte Bardot is here to heat up the New Year in this steamy comedy from provocative writer/director Roger Vadim (Barbarella). ...
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The Facts of Murder Blu-ray Review: A Blending of Italian Genres
By Mat Brewster |
During the fascist regime of Mussolini, films and stories about crime were either deeply censored or outright banned in Italy. ...
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Oppenheimer Blu-ray Review: Prometheus Bound
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 2005 biography American Prometheus, Oppenheimer's screenwriter/director Christopher Nolan has crafted a compelling ...
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Elegant Beast Blu-ray Review: The Family That Scams Together
By Kent Conrad |
We know the Maeda family are shady from the first scene. They're rearranging the furniture in their apartment to hide ...
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The Emerald Forest Blu-ray Review: The Jungle Trip
By Jack Cormack |
Upon scanning the list of movies John Boorman has directed, one thing (to me) stands out. He has taken a ...
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Blast of Silence Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Silent Night, Hole-y Night
By Steve Geise |
Frank is grumpy because he has to travel out of town for work during Christmas season. Leaving Cleveland for the ...
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Gentleman Jim Blu-ray Review: Still Packs a Punch
By Joe Garcia III |
Gentleman Jim (1943) directed by Raoul Walsh stars Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith in a biopic inspired by the life ...
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