A Date with Judy Blu-ray Review: The Goody-Good, the Baddie, and the Beery
By Steve Geise |
This classic MGM musical combines the golly-gee innocence of high school hijinks with the sizzle of Carmen Miranda, forbidden love ...
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Town Without Pity Blu-ray Review: Kirk Douglas Without Compassion
By Mat Brewster |
In occupied West Germany, 16-year-old Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann) lies by the river with her boyfriend, Frank Borgmann (Gerhart Lippert). ...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Ride
By Mat Brewster |
Someone ought to do one of those listicle things where they rank all the action movies set during the Christmas ...
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Sugar Hill Blu-ray Review: Supernatural Voodoo Woman
By Steve Geise |
Blaxploitation takes a trip to the voodoo bayou for this campy yarn. The story centers on a grieving woman named ...
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The Medium Blu-ray Review: A Lacking Message About the Supernatural World
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Silvio Amadio, The Medium (1980) is an Italian horror offering that stars Vincent Mannari Jr, Sherry Buchanan and ...
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Under Siege Blu-ray Review: Steven Seagal Is Hard to Kill on a Battleship
By Mat Brewster |
The huge success of Die Hard in 1988 changed the face of action films. Muscle-bound He-Men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and ...
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The Invention of Lying Blu-ray Review: A Solid Comedy That Tells It Like It Is
By Greg Hammond |
Comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson co-wrote and co-directed the wildly funny comedy/fantasy The Invention of Lying in 2009. ...
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The Lord of the Rings: Original Animated Classic Blu-ray Review: Ralph Bakshi’s Previz for Peter Jackson
By Steve Geise |
Long before Peter Jackson got the idea to create a cottage industry out of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works, underground animator ...
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The Cobweb Blu-ray Review: It’s All About the Drapes
By Joe Garcia III |
The Cobweb (1955) is a drama directed by Vincente Minnelli that centers around the staff and residents of a psychiatric ...
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Executive Suite Blu-ray Review: Succession in the 1950s
By Steve Geise |
Never got around to watching HBO’s Succession? Here’s a time-saving alternative: all the boardroom drama and backbiting condensed into one ...
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Grand Prix Blu-ray Review: Takes the Flag for Total Racing Immersion
By Steve Geise |
John Frankenheimer’s 1966 racing drama is so stacked with international stars that it might appear to be coasting on delivering ...
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Donovan’s Reef Blu-ray Review: Wild, Wayne, and Wonderful!
By Shawn Bourdo |
The new Blu-ray release of Donovan's Reef (1963) by Kino Lorber, also available on 4K Ultra HD, is the most ...
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The Beast to Die Blu-ray Review: Good Guy Gone Bad
By Steve Geise |
By the start of the ‘80s, Yusaku Matsuda (Yokohama BJ Blues) had tired of his typical action hero roles and ...
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Sands of Iwo Jima Blu-ray Review: John Wayne Storms the Beaches
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) stars John Wayne as a grizzled WWII sergeant in charge of ...
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Get Carter (1971) Blu-ray Review: Birth of British Gangster Movies
By Kent Conrad |
Jack Carter, a gangster in London, goes back to his own hometown to investigate the mysterious death of his brother. ...
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His Kind of Woman Blu-ray Review: Film Noir Follies
By Kent Conrad |
We open with the film-noir intrigue. A gangster wants access to his money. He's stuck in Italy and wants to ...
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Decent Vehicle For Clint’s Lighter Side
By Joe Garcia III |
Before The Deer Hunter (1978) and Heaven's Gate (1980), writer-director Michael Cimino made his silver-screen debut writing and directing Thunderbolt ...
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Dark Victory Blu-ray Review: Bette Davis Has Never Been Better
By Mat Brewster |
Dark Victory is a fairly conventional tear-jerking melodrama buoyed by a fantastic performance by Bette Davis. She plays Judy Traherne, ...
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The 100: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: Post-Apocalyptic Lord of the Flies
By Steve Geise |
After drifting out of print over the last decade, the first season of this sci-fi series is once again available ...
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Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies Blu-ray Review: Two Slapsticks, Two Rom-Coms
By Steve Geise |
This fascinating new collection compiles four German black and white comedies from the early years of the sound era, 1931-32. ...
Read More A Life at Stake Blu-ray Review: You’ve Never Seen Angela Lansbury Like This
By Mat Brewster |
I grew up with Angela Lansbury. Not literally, of course, but as a child of the 1980s, she was a ...
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Final Destination Bloodlines Blu-ray Review: The Road Less Travelled
By Greg Hammond |
Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth and latest installment in the series, is a slightly different ...
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21 Grams Blu-ray Review: Difficult to Enjoy
By Rons Reviews |
I love movies. If someone calls me and asks if I want to see a movie, I say yes. Don’t ...
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Detonation! Violent Riders Blu-ray Review: Firing on All Cylinders
By Steve Geise |
This 1975 Japanese bikersploitation film is a funk-fueled blast of fast-paced action and free-spirited youth. As directed and co-written by ...
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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review: A Fascinating Profile of an Enigmatic Man
By Gordon S. Miller |
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser is a documentary directed by Charlotte Zwerin about the famed jazz musician/composer. She was brought ...
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The Final Destination Blu-ray Review: The Franchise Hits a Speed Bump
By Greg Hammond |
The Final Destination is the fourth entry in the Final Destination franchise which now includes six films. If that isn’t ...
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Cobra Blu-ray Review: An Action-Packed Product of its Time
By Joe Garcia III |
Director George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone 1993) teams up with writer/star Sylvester Stallone once again to bring us the non-stop action ...
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F/X | F/X 2 Double Feature Blu-ray Review: Solving Crimes with Movie Magic
By Gordon S. Miller |
KL Studio Classics presents the theatrical adventures of special-effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) with the F/X | F/X 2 ...
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Rosa la rose, fille publique Blu-ray Review: A Day in the Life of a French Sex Worker
By Mat Brewster |
Rosa (Marianne Basler) is young, beautiful, and full of what the French call the joy of life. She's also a ...
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The Big Heat Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on William P. McGivern's serial in The Saturday Evening Post, later published as a novel, Fritz Lang's The Big ...
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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 1 Review: Something Old, Something New to Blu-ray
By Gordon S. Miller |
After four volumes of the Collector's Choice series, the Warner Archive Collection now presents Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 1, ...
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The Blues Under the Skin Blu-ray Review: Trouble in Mind
By Steve Geise |
Robert Manthoulis’s little-seen 1973 film is a curious combination of intimate music performances, documentary scenes of working-class poor, and scripted ...
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Blu-ray Review: One of the Greatest Nature Documentaries of All-time
By Davy |
There is a certain kind of relationship between humans and animals that can't be explained, but why should it be? ...
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Beware of Mr. Baker Blu-ray Review: Strange Brew
By Steve Geise |
This 2012 documentary delves into the riotous life of wild-eyed, mercurial drummer Ginger Baker, best known for his work with ...
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The Monkey Blu-ray Review: Has Heart, Humor, and Horror in Equal Measure
By Davy |
Osgood Perkins (filmmaker and son of the legendary Anthony Perkins) has built a stellar reputation as a wizard of horror, ...
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Final Destination 2 Blu-ray Review: Solid Sequel Fun
By Greg Hammond |
The Final Destination franchise includes six films, ten novels, a one-shot comic, and a comic series. There is no typical ...
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Sinners Blu-ray Review: A Modern Masterpiece
By Davy |
Acclaimed and highly imaginative filmmaker Ryan Coogler is one of our best living directors. His oeuvre since his startling 2013 ...
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Made in New Jersey: Films from Fort Lee Blu-ray Review: Birth of a Nation’s Films
By Steve Geise |
Hollywood wasn’t always the center of the U.S. film industry. For a handful of years in the early 20th century, ...
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The President’s Wife Blu-ray Review: Game Recognizes Game
By Steve Geise |
Early on in Catherine Deneuve’s recent film, it appears that she may have lost the thread. Nearing 80 during its ...
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The Usual Suspects (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Very Good Modern Noir
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, The Usual ...
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Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: There’s No Mystery That Angela Lansbury Is the Key to the Series’ Success
By Gordon S. Miller |
Murder, She Wrote is an hour-long mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as widowed author Jessica Fletcher, a resident of Cabot ...
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The Ballad of Wallis Island Blu-ray Review: Wish Fulfillment
By Steve Geise |
Most of us have a dream musical act we’d love to see reunited in concert. Charles Heath is a different ...
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The Complete Thin Man Collection Blu-ray Review: The Nick & Nora Charles Film Files
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Thin Man Collection is a repackaging of the six Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as ...
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Cheyenne: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with a Known Name
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Clint Walker, Cheyenne was the first hour-long Western. Now available on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection, The Complete ...
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Rustlers’ Rhapsody Blu-ray Review: A Clever Comic Tribute to the Singing Cowboys
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Hugh Wilson (Police Academy), Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985) is filled with gags, jokes, and subtle ten-gallon hat ...
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Mystery Street Blu-ray Review: Murder Most Dull
By Steve Geise |
This 1950 crime procedural emphasizes the procedure, with dialogue as dry as the Mojave and bland, robotic performances. It’s historically ...
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Extremely Interesting and Enlightening
By Davy |
Being a dedicated lover of cinema, it's always amazing to come across films that don't fit the normalcy of filmmaking. ...
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Three the Hard Way Blu-ray Review: What’s Black and White and Packed with Action All Over?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Gordon Parks Jr. followed up his feature-film debut of Superfly with Three the Hard Way, which brings together three ...
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Blu-ray Review: A Tale That Is Poignant with Both Laughter and Excitement
By Rons Reviews |
In 1998, moviegoers were given two similarly themed films. Both Armageddon and Deep Impact told the story of a large ...
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Midnight Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cinderella in Paris
By Steve Geise |
1939 is generally regarded as the greatest classic movie year of all time, largely due to The Wizard of Oz ...
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