Cobra Kai: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Cobra Kai Never Dies
By Steve Geise |
Johnny Lawrence is stuck in the past. In the wake of his humiliating loss to newbie Daniel LaRusso in the ...
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A Man and a Woman Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Chic Romantic Masterpiece
By Davy |
There is so much allure in French cinema. The stories may sometimes be simple, but filmmakers like Varda, Godard, Truffaut, ...
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It All Came True Blu-ray Review: Ann Sheridan Shines
By Mat Brewster |
In the original poster for It All Came True, Ann Sheridan receives top billing. It was the same in the ...
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Tea and Sympathy Blu-ray Review: A Study in Masculinity
By Mat Brewster |
Vincent Minnelli's 1956 weeper Tea and Sympathy had the difficult task of adapting the stage play of the same name ...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner Blu-ray Review: A Film That Never Overstays Its Welcome
By Davy |
Everyone at some point has had a guest who won't leave, and there's a reason why the phrase "wear out ...
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Peter Sellers Early Classics Blu-ray Review: Dawning of an Inimitable Talent
By Steve Geise |
Before he was a household name around the world, Peter Sellers honed his acting talent in a string of British ...
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The Dancing Hawk Blu-ray Review: Polish Cinema Gets Weird
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly every review of The Dancing Hawk will tell you that the narrative of the film is fairly straightforward and ...
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Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Games Cartoon Animals Play
By Gordon S. Miller |
Interesting that this collection is titled Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, as that is the name of the Hanna-Barbera program block that ...
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A Bridge Too Far 4K UHD Review: An Hour Too Long
By Mat Brewster |
Operation Market Garden was a hugely ambitious military mission conceived by Field Marshal Montgomery as a means for the Allied ...
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Jack Benny Comedy Classics: Artists and Models/Man About Town Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Jack Benny’s comedy career flourished in his long-running radio and TV show, but he also found time to be a ...
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Once a Thief 4K UHD Review: Action-packed Comedy
By Mat Brewster |
John Woo is the auteur of cool. He crystallized the heroic bloodshed genre into something Hollywood is still emulating today. ...
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Maigret Sees Red Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Plays Maigret One Last Time
By Mat Brewster |
Between 1931 and 1972, Belgian author Georges Simenon wrote some 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring his famed Parisian ...
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Scott Joplin Blu-ray Review: Rags to Riches to Rags
By Steve Geise |
The famous American ragtime composer was at the peak of his popularity at the time of this 1977 biopic movie, ...
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A Bucket of Blood / The Little Shop of Horrors Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Twice the Fun
By Greg Hammond |
Both A Bucket of Blood and The Little Shop of Horrors were produced and directed by Roger Corman and written ...
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Hercules and the Captive Women Blu-ray Review: Mistitled but Fun
By Joe Garcia III |
Hercules and the Captive Women is an Italian sword-and-sandals adventure starring Reg Park as the titular strong man. This escapade ...
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Merrily We Roll Along Blu-ray Review: Auld Lang Syne
By Steve Geise |
Stephen Sondheim’s failed 1981 musical was redeemed as a Tony-winning Broadway revival success in 2023, largely due to the massive ...
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The Black Raven Blu-ray Review: Murder Mystery on the Canadian Border
By Joe Garcia III |
The Black Raven (1943) directed by Sam Newfield is an old, dark house murder mystery that stars George Zucco, Wanda ...
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Trifole Blu-ray Review: Swing and a Miss
By Steve Geise |
Gabriele Fabbro’s earnest family drama transports viewers to Italy’s pastoral Piedmont region as a young English woman attempts to reconnect ...
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Cinderella in Concert Blu-ray Review: A Rockin’ Good Time
By Joe Garcia III |
Cinderella in Concert captures the band at their rocking best in 1991 during the Heartbreak Station Tour before personal and ...
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection Blu-ray Review: Geared More for the Serious Animation Collector
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection features 25 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive, from The ...
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Unleashed Edition) Blu-ray Review: The Toys Are Out of the Box
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pizzeria, Blumhouse and ...
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The New Fred and Barney Show: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Bedrock Faultlines
By Steve Geise |
Almost 20 years after their groundbreaking prime-time series triumph, the Flintstones gang attempted to recapture the magic in this revival ...
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Mogambo Blu-ray Review: Clark Gable Goes Back to Africa
By Mat Brewster |
Some 21 years after Red Dust (1932) premiered, MGM remade the film (which itself had been an adaptation of a ...
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Stranger on the Third Floor Blu-ray Review: The First Film Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Stranger on the Third Floor is often cited as the first true film noir. With that and the fact that ...
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Song Sung Blue (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Lack of Depth Is Frustrating
By Rons Reviews |
Chronicling the lives and careers of the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning and Thunder, Song Sung Blue, based on the ...
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Iphigenia Blu-ray Review: A Tragic Greek Masterpiece
By Mat Brewster |
I am not at all well versed in Greek history or its mythology. I know the basics. I read The ...
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon Blu-ray Review: Return to Moonlight Bay
By Steve Geise |
Two years after their onscreen pairing in On Moonlight Bay, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae returned as the same characters ...
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Spencer Tracy 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Another Great Set from Warner Archive
By Mat Brewster |
Spencer Tracy is generally considered one of the greatest classic Hollywood actors. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards and ...
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Dead of Night (1945) Blu-ray Review: Something Spooky This Way Comes
By Steve Geise |
When a group of strangers mysteriously meet at a secluded country estate, they resort to recounting stories of the supernatural ...
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Lucifer: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hell of a Ride
By Steve Geise |
Bored with ruling Hell, Lucifer Morningstar decamps to Los Angeles, where he teams up with the LAPD to take down ...
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The Dark Half Blu-ray Review: Stephen King’s Tale of the Evil That Lurks Within
By Joe Garcia III |
The Dark Half finds legendary horror director George A. Romero behind the camera on his third adaptation of a Stephen ...
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Deathstalker (2025) Blu-ray Review: A Cut Above the Rest
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington In 1983, Roger Corman gave the world Deathstalker, a slice of sword-and-sorcery schlock that became ...
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Dillinger (1973) Blu-ray Review: Print the Legend
By Mat Brewster |
The American Myth was built on outlaws. We love our anti-heroes. Think of the Wild West and folks like Billy ...
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Man in a Cocked Hat Blu-ray Review: The Empire Strikes Out
By Steve Geise |
When the British Empire learns of valuable mineral deposits in one of their long-forgotten territories, the Foreign Office dispatches bumbling ...
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Red Dust Blu-ray Review: Love and Lust on a Rubber Plantation
By Mat Brewster |
Any movie fan will tell you that you have to learn to suspend your disbelief from time to time. Movies ...
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Yes: Symphonic Live Blu-ray Review: Performing at a High Level in 2001
By Gordon S. Miller |
Yes – Symphonic Live finds the band (vocalist Jon Anderson, lead guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan ...
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Shameless: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hefty Load of Gallaghers
By Steve Geise |
Like the original UK series, Showtime’s U.S. version of Shameless followed the misadventures of a scrappy family of siblings headed ...
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The Sin of Nora Moran Blu-ray Review: A Pre-code Marvel
By Mat Brewster |
The Sin of Nora Moran is a little low-budget melodrama about a girl who is born into poverty, fights just ...
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The Dead Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Intimately Haunting Portrait of Memory and Humanity
By Davy |
Legendary, maverick filmmaker John Huston was always one of cinema's greatest storytellers. He never stuck to one genre; he had ...
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Blu-ray Review: Brings the Nightmare Front and Center
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Raoul Peck, Orwell: 2+2=5 casts an eye-opening spotlight on the life and work of the author ...
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James Stewart 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Four Great Films at a Great Price
By Mat Brewster |
A couple of years ago, me, my wife, and my brother were in one of those old-fashioned diners - the ...
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Fackham Hall Blu-ray Review: One Joke After Another
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I are big fans of British panel shows. These are basically game shows, but with celebrities (mostly ...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie Blu-ray Review: An Uneven Affair
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Rod Serling's iconic TV series, Twilight Zone: The Movie is an anthology of four stories, a new one ...
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Blue Moon (2025) Blu-ray Review: Hawke and Kaplow Outshine Rodgers and Hart
By Steve Geise |
I was fully prepared to dislike this film, or even worse, be totally unmoved by it. From Ethan Hawke’s distracting ...
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Manpower (1941) Blu-ray Review: Great Cast, Disappointing Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes a film disappoints you for what happens on the screen. Sometimes a film disappoints for what it could have ...
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The Verdict (1946) Blu-ray Review: Watch Lorre and Greenstreet One Last Time
By Mat Brewster |
Between 1941 and 1946, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in nine different films together. Their first pairing was The ...
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Captain Blood Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Errol Flynn’s Swashbuckling Lead Debut
By Joe Garcia III |
Captain Blood (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz, is a fast-paced pirate film based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini and ...
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Falling Skies: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Wyle Sans Scrubs
By Steve Geise |
Between his acting stints in the ER, Noah Wyle headlined this TNT series about humans battling an alien invasion. While ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Animation Sets to Date and That There Will Ever Be
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera’s Tom and Jerry franchise, Warner Bros. Entertainment has released Tom and ...
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One Battle After Another Blu-ray Review: Bizarre Love Triangle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is an action thriller that tells a ...
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