Run Silent, Run Deep Blu-ray Review: Furious ’50s Sub Action
By Kent Conrad |
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) is the story of two frustrated men. We open with the first man's frustration. Commander ...
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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker Blu-ray Review: A Nutball’s (Further) Descent into Madness
By Joe Garcia III |
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) was directed by William Asher and stars Jimmy McNichol (brother of Kristy), Susan Tyrrell, and ...
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Over the Edge Blu-ray Review: Hits Close to Home
By Davy |
It was a banner year in 1979 for trouble youth-oriented films, such as The Warriors, The Wanderers, and Walk Proud, ...
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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 3 Blu-ray Review: Another Choice Collection of Classic Cartoons
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Warner Archive Collection has gone back through the vaults to present the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 3. This ...
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A Day at the Races Blu-ray Review: Better Than a Bowl of Tootsie-Fruitsie Ice Cream
By Gordon S. Miller |
After A Night at the Opera, the Marx brothers spent A Day at the Races, their seventh film and second ...
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Lisa Frankenstein Blu-ray Review: Captures How Life and Death Everything Feels As a Teenager
By Darcy Staniforth |
Being a teenage girl is already rough. But it gets rougher if you aren’t like the other girls and tend ...
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They Drive by Night Blu-ray Review: They Live by Day
By Mat Brewster |
One of the interesting things about becoming a classic movie fan is how you wind up just wandering around an ...
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Heroes: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Save the Cardboard, Save the World
By Steve Geise |
“Save the cheerleader, save the world.” With that simple theme, NBC’s superhero TV series captured the nation’s attention years before ...
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A Fistful of Dynamite Blu-ray Review: Viva la Sergio Leone Revolucion
By Kent Conrad |
For many filmgoers, Sergio Leone made four movies, four Westerns that helped to define the perception of the Spaghetti Western. ...
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The Lion in Winter (1968) Blu-ray Review: Cutthroat Politics, Medieval Style
By Kent Conrad |
The Lion in Winter is largely about terrible people who might love each other, when they're not plotting against each ...
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Colt .45: The Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set Review: Revolving Peacemaker
By Steve Geise |
Ask anyone not collecting Social Security to name an old Western TV series and you’ll likely get one of two ...
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Stand and Deliver Blu-ray Review: A Classic Classroom Drama
By Joe Garcia III |
Stand and Deliver (1988), directed by Ramon Menendez, is the story of a high school math teacher who dreamed the ...
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Una Familia de Tantas (A Family Like Many Others) Blu-ray Review: A True Cine Mexicano Classic
By Joe Garcia III |
Una Familia de Tantas (A Family Like Many Others) is a well-made family drama directed by Alejandro Galindo that won ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI Blu-ray Review: A Worthy Entry to the Series
By Greg Hammond |
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema is an on-going series of boxed sets each containing three noir films from ...
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Wednesday: Season 1 Blu-ray Review: Two Snaps Up
By Greg Hammond |
The Addams Family empire has quite a streak going. Starting with 150 single-panel comics (mostly published in The New Yorker) ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVIII Blu-ray Review: One Out of Three Ain’t Bad
By Mat Brewster |
I suppose there were always low-budget movies. As soon as somebody started making money from moving pictures, somebody else probably ...
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The Giant Gila Monster Special Edition Blu-ray Review: Hey, Kids! It’s a Rocking, Horror Double Bill with The Killer Shrews
By Joe Garcia III |
The Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews return! These two low budget sci fi/ horror flix directed by Ray ...
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The Long Riders Blu-ray Review: O Brother, Who Shot Thou?
By David Wangberg |
While the western genre is amongst my favorites for film and television, there are still some that I’ve overlooked or ...
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Drifter Blu-ray Review: A Taboo-breaking Time Capsule
By Davy |
As a member of the LGBTQ community, I'm always looking for films (past and present) that tell our stories. And ...
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Good Burger 2 Blu-ray Review: Still Serving Up the Laughs
By Greg Hammond |
It has been two and a half decades since Good Burger hit the screens to tell the story of Dex ...
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The Questor Tapes Blu-ray Review: An Android Seeks Its Creator in This TV Pilot from Gene Roddenberry
By Gordon S. Miller |
With a story by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and a screenplay credited to Roddenberry and Star Trek show runner ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVII Blu-ray Review: The B-Sides of Edward G. Robinson
By Mat Brewster |
Something I've been thinking about lately is how when I was growing up I had a pretty decent knowledge of ...
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The Lady Eve Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Preston Sturges Presents a Two-Sided Love Triangle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Monckton Hoffe's “Two Bad Hats,” The Lady Eve is Preston Sturges's third outing as writer/director, and with it, ...
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Suits: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Game of Phones
By Steve Geise |
Suits completed its nine-season broadcast run in 2019, but following its addition to Netflix last year, it’s more popular than ...
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Death Rides a Horse Blu-ray Review: Revenge Riders of the Dust Storm
By Jack Cormack |
In Death Rides a Horse (1967; dir. Giulio Petroni), Bill (a stiff but watchable John Philip Law) is a young, ...
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Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend Blu-ray Review: I’m Honestly at a Loss After Watching This
By Darcy Staniforth |
Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend looks at the legend of Bigfoot using historical accounts, testimony, and information from Bigfoot experts and ...
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The Great Ziegfeld Blu-ray Review: There’s No Business Like Show Business
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Great Ziegfeld, winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, tells a story that, in quite an unusual on-screen ...
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Witness Blu-ray Review: Harrison Ford Among the Amish
By Joe Garcia III |
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGinnis, and Lukas Haas star in Witness (1985), a crime thriller that takes place mostly in the ...
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The Prince of Egypt: The Musical Blu-ray Review: Holy Moses
By Steve Geise |
DreamWorks makes another attempt at a live musical theater adaptation of one of their animated films, this time reaching all ...
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The Whip and the Body Blu-ray Review: Colorful Kink from Mario Bava
By Mat Brewster |
The thing about Mario Bava is that he became something of a bridge between classical and modern horror. He made ...
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Driving Madeleine Blu-ray Review: Driving Madame Daisy
By Steve Geise |
Wait, haven’t we seen this movie before? Yes, the concept is similar to Driving Miss Daisy, with shades of Green ...
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The Rolling Stones: Live at the Wiltern Blu-ray Review: 20 Licks Up Close and I Like It
By Gordon S. Miller |
To commemorate the band's 40th anniversary in 2002, the Rolling Stones released Forty Licks, notable among the many Stones compilations ...
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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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