Brit Noir Collection III Blu-ray Review: Panic on the Streets of London
By Steve Geise |
Kino’s third collection of late-period British noir compiles three tense dramas likely to be unknown to most viewers. While there’s ...
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Legends of the Lost Ark DVD Review: A No-Nonsense Search for the Ark of the Covenant
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Stephen Pettit, Legends of the Lost Ark (2026) is a documentary that follows archaeologist and Biblical scholar Dr. ...
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The Double (1971) Blu-ray Review: A Dead Man’s Dream
By Mat Brewster |
A man is shot inside a parking garage. As he lies dying, he flashes back on his life, recalling all ...
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Start the Revolution Without Me Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Parody
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, Bud Yorkin's Start the Revolution Without Me is ...
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The Maverick Queen Blu-ray Review: Barbara Stanwyck Tangles with Butch and Sundance
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Joseph Kane, The Maverick Queen (1956) finds silver-screen queen Barbara Stanwyck squaring off against Butch Cassidy, the Sundance ...
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Movie Review: What a Fabulously Tangled Web We Weave
By Greg Hammond |
Few sequels have the confidence to expand everything that made their predecessor special without losing sight of its emotional core. ...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Blu-ray Review: Introducing Miles Morales
By Gordon S. Miller |
Right from the very beginning, as colored pixels are seen when passing passed the Sony logo and the Columbia torch-bearer ...
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Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...
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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...
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King Creole 4K UHD Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid
By Steve Geise |
While Elvis Presley’s later films generally fell into a formulaic, lazy rut, this early effort marks a high point in ...
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Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy
By Mat Brewster |
Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...
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I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Blu-ray Review: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s (the True Story Behind) the Sex Pistols
By Joe Garcia III |
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...
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The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time
By Steve Geise |
Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...
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The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master
By Steve Geise |
Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...
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Colt .45 Blu-ray Review: You’d Watch It for Randolph Scott
By Joe Garcia III |
Colt .45 (1950) is a fun western with a simple plot. Directed by Edwin L. Mann and filmed in Technicolor, ...
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A Magnificent Life Blu-ray Review: A Mediocre Life Story
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sylvain Chomet rose to international fame with his 2003 breakout animated feature film, The Triplets of Belleville. Even within ...
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Bringing Out the Dead 4K UHD Review: Long Night’s Journey into Night
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Joe Connelly's novel of the same name, screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese reteam in Bringing Out ...
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The Christophers Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh Paints a Masterpiece
By Steve Geise |
Sometimes the best way to experience a great film is to know nothing about it. I went into this Blu-ray ...
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Night and Day Blu-ray Review: Cole Porter Vanishes Behind Cary Grant’s Star Power
By Steve Geise |
This biopic about Cole Porter boasts more than 20 of his songs. If that sounds like a lot, it is, ...
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A Man Named Rocca / La Scoumoune Blu-rays Review: Same Story, Same Actor, Very Different Films
By Mat Brewster |
In 1962, French author José Giovanni wrote a novel entitled L'Excommunié about an ex-gangster who comes to Marseilles to help ...
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The Black Shield of Falworth Blu-ray Review: Men in Tights
By Steve Geise |
This 1954 swashbuckler is most notable for the romantic pairing of real-life married couple Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Curtis ...
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Kiss of Death
By Steve Geise |
Bill Condon’s much-maligned film adaptation of the musical of the movie of the play of the novel arrives with considerable ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Blu-ray Review: Just Over Two Hours on Your Television Screen
By Mat Brewster |
Just over four months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 15 American B-25 bombers took off from aircraft carriers in ...
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Amrum DVD Review: How to Survive the End of Fascism
By Steve Geise |
Despite boasting globally recognized star Diane Kruger in the cast, this WWII-adjacent film focuses entirely on the effects of wartime ...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with a Social Conscience
By Mat Brewster |
From a certain angle, it seems absolutely bonkers that a film starring Rock Hudson, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, and Roddy ...
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Come Live with Me Blu-ray Review: A Very Relaxed Film
By Mat Brewster |
World War II-era films are fascinating to me. Especially those made in America before the USA entered the war. There ...
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Strange Cargo Blu-ray Review: Weird Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable starred in eight films together, all for MGM. Strange Cargo was the final one. It ...
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High Art Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Queer-film Aficionados and Indie-film Buffs
By Davy |
Pride month is over, but it's really not. Resilience and resistance are key to our survival as LGBTQIA+ people, especially ...
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Hi, Mom! 4K UHD Review: Young, Feral De Palma
By Rock London |
Brian De Palma’s fourth feature, Hi, Mom!, is the suspense master’s first—and arguably best—full-blown comedy. Loose, politically charged, and eager ...
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Stuff Going On
By Greg Hammond |
Three years after The Super Mario Bros. Movie turned Nintendo's mascot into a box-office powerhouse, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ...
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The Mastermind Blu-ray Review: That Title Might Be Sarcastic
By Mat Brewster |
On the outside, JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor) has a pretty good life. He's got a nice wife (Alana Haim) and ...
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Born a Ninja / Commando the Ninja Blu-ray Review: Recycled Ninja Trash but Fun
By Kent Conrad |
It's an interesting challenge to write a review on a movie, or pair of movies, when the liner notes in ...
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Eagles of the Republic Blu-ray Review: The Folly of State-Controlled Media
By Steve Geise |
When Egypt’s biggest movie star gets an offer to star in a state-funded biopic about the current president, he has ...
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La Tête Contre les Murs Blu-ray Review: The First Film from a French Master
By Mat Brewster |
George Franju cut his teeth making political documentaries. One was a blood soaked look inside a slaughterhouse. Two others were ...
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Unearthly Stranger Blu-ray Review: Strange, But Entirely Earthbound
By Steve Geise |
This 1963 British sci-fi film ratchets up tension by keeping alien threats completely hidden, with the increasingly stressed characters racing ...
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Inspector Maigret Collection Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Closes Three Cases
By Steve Geise |
French film titan Jean Gabin starred as Inspector Maigret in three films, which have all been collected in this new ...
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The Gay Divorcee Blu-ray Review: Astaire and Rogers. Together Again for the First Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, The Gay Divorcee is the second of the ten movies Fred Astaire and ...
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Brit Noir Collection II Blu-ray Review: A Jack Hawkins Triple Feature
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly five years ago, I reviewed a DVD collection of British noir films. I was not particularly enthused by it. ...
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Shutter Island Movie Review: The Heart of Darkness
By Greg Hammond |
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, is a neo-noir / psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio ...
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Solo (1970) Blu-ray Review: A Character-driven Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
A group of rich, elderly men are having a sex party with a bunch of underage girls. Suddenly, there is ...
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Lorne Blu-ray Review: Less Than You Are Looking For
By Greg Hammond |
For nearly 50 years, Lorne Michaels has occupied a unique spot in American entertainment. As the creator and guiding force ...
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Waves of Lust Blu-ray Review: A Tsunami of Female Nudity
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a younger man, I loved low-budget horror films and exploitation flicks. There was something so exciting about ...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao Blu-ray Review: Cabinet of Curiosities
By Steve Geise |
Tony Randall got the opportunity to show vast range in this 1965 fantasy fable, playing seven distinct characters in such ...
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Minority Report 4K UHD Review: One of Spielberg’s Best Films of the Century
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 short story of the same name, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is a captivating techno-thriller ...
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Scream 7 4K UHD Review: Neve Campbell Steals the Show
By Davy |
Scream 7, directed by the original film's screenwriter Kevin Williamson, has Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) living a new life far ...
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Sirat Blu-ray Review: The Journey Is the Destination
By Steve Geise |
A desperate elderly father shows up at a remote rave in the Moroccan wilderness in the hopes of locating his ...
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Million Dollar Legs (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code International Farce
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally developed by co-screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz for the Marx Brothers, who passed on it, Edward Cline's Million Dollar Legs ...
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The Great Outdoors 4K UHD Review: Wisconsin Vacation
By Steve Geise |
Following their winning partnership on the classic ‘80s teen films Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful, writer John ...
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Death Ship / Terror Train Double Feature DVD Review: Travel Terror Twofer
By Joe Garcia III |
Kino Lorber offers a double feature of travel terror on one DVD with Death Ship and Terror Train. Dread, panic, ...
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Suburban Fury DVD Review: The Strange Case of Sara Jane Moore
By Joe Garcia III |
Suburban Fury (2024) directed by Robinson Devore tells the story of Sarah Jane Moore and that time she attempted to ...
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