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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House of the Long Shadows Blu-ray Review: Four Horror Icons Enter an Old Dark House
By Joe Garcia III |
House of the Long Shadows (1983) directed by Pete Walker (Frightmare) brings together Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and ...
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Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films Blu-ray Review: Time to Ride the Wave
By Steve Geise |
Just in time for next year’s 20th anniversary of anime director Masaaki Yuasa’s first feature film, GKIDS and Shout! Factory ...
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The Train 4K UHD Review: “You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs!”
By Jack Cormack |
Based on a true story, director John Frankenheimer’s The Train (1964) is about the lengths the French Resistance went to, ...
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Barbie Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Greta Gerwig was granted access to Mattel's Barbie franchise and created a subversive blockbuster that explores gender politics, but ...
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Mondo New York Blu-ray Review: A Time Capsule Full of Uninhibited Freedom and Expression
By Davy |
Performance art, for many, is something that most people will take with a grain of salt, or twenty. However, it ...
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Grave Images Blu-ray Review: A Low Budget “Tales from the Crypt” Knock-Off
By Joe Garcia III |
Grave Images (1991) has a very cool name but is a very low budget Tales from the Crypt (1972) knock-off. ...
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The Sorrow and the Pity Blu-ray Review: A Multi-perspective Essay on the German Occupation of France
By Jack Cormack |
It’s 259 minutes long, it’s a bunch of interviews with folks who resisted (and others who collaborated with) the German ...
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Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Blu-ray Review: Bring Out Your Dead
By Greg Hammond |
The premise of Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (Lindsey Anderson Beer’s directorial debut) is that there is a local Pet Sematary (misspelled ...
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Farscape: The Complete Series 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Wild Ride in Outer and Inner Space
By Kent Conrad |
Westerns were a big thing for a very long time. The West (capital W very much intended) meant the frontier. ...
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Shaun the Sheep: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Cracking Collection of Agricultural Mayhem
By Steve Geise |
Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping needs, Shout! Factory has released a new Blu-ray box set of the ...
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Dumb Money Blu-ray Review: Fascinating to Watch Because of the Plot and Entertaining Because of the Cast
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Ben Mezrich's The Antisocial Network, Dumb Money tells the true story of the GameStop short squeeze when Keith ...
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The Quatermass Xperiment Blu-ray Review: The Beginnings of Hammer Horror
By Mat Brewster |
Our beloved Hammer Studios didn't always make beautifully designed gothic horror films. For their first decade-plus of existence, they made ...
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2 Days in the Valley Blu-ray Review: Not Quite Pulp Fiction
By Kent Conrad |
It's hard to overstate the change that Pulp Fiction made on mid-budgeted filmmaking in the early '90s. It's not like ...
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Showdown (1993) Blu-ray Review: It’s High School Bloodsport
By Joe Garcia III |
Before Never Back Down (2008) there was Showdown (1993)! A high school senior in a new city gets bullied, finds ...
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The Life of Emile Zola Blu-ray Review: Paul Muni Gives a Great Performance in the Lead Role
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Paul Muni, The Life of Emile Zola is part biopic, part courtroom drama as it tells the story of ...
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn Blu-ray Review: An Ode to Going to the Movies
By Mat Brewster |
One of my earliest memories is seeing Return of the Jedi at the cinema. I would have been seven years ...
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Days of Heaven Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Blue Harvest
By Jack Cormack |
The Criterion Collection has released Days of Heaven (1978; dir. Terrence Malick) in 4K as part of a 4K UHD/Blu-ray ...
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The Exiles (1961) Blu-ray Review: This Film Is a Revelation
By Davy |
Fish-out-of-water stories are pretty common and now cliched; they feature characters who usually leave their home, especially for better lives ...
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Moonage Daydream Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Phantasmagoric Journey Through the Art and Mind of David Bowie
By Gordon S. Miller |
Taking its title from a David Bowie song of the same name originally recorded by his band Arnold Corns then ...
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