Shawscope: Volume Three Limited Edition Box Set Blu-ray Review: Box of Delights
By Steve Geise |
The latest edition of Arrow Video’s Shaw Brothers retrospective packs a whopping 14 newly restored films, bonus features, and a ...
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The Beast with Five Fingers Blu-ray Review: Peter Lorre Does His Thing with Awesome Special Effects
By Joe Garcia III |
Before The Addams Family TV show gave us Thing, there was the murderous severed hand in The Beast with Five ...
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The Terminator 4K UHD Review: Tech Noir
By Jack Cormack |
The Terminator (1984; dir. James Cameron) is a suspenseful, A-grade B-movie—a “tech noir” crafted with cunning and care by a ...
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Evil Does Not Exist Blu-ray Review: Unpredictable and Highly Fascinating
By Davy |
Films can present so many labyrinth ideas where you're really not sure if you're watching one type of film or ...
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The Walking Dead (1936) Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Watch This on AMC
By Mat Brewster |
Boris Karloff appeared in over 80 films before starring in James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and becoming an overnight sensation. That ...
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Elton John: Never Too Late Movie Review: An Endearing Documentary
By writeonmusic |
Elton John has a hard time saying goodbye. Throughout his storied career he has announced his retirement for all manner ...
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The Return of Doctor X Blu-ray Review: Top of the Blood-Draining World, Ma!
By Joe Garcia III |
The Return of Doctor X is director Vincent Sherman’s (The Adventures of Don Juan [1948]) first time behind the camera ...
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The Block Island Sound 4K UHD Review: Something in the Water
By Kent Conrad |
You do not want your parents to succumb to the indignity of senescence. To lose their personalities to dementia, and ...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus Blu-ray Review: Art is Long, Life is Short
By Steve Geise |
Not to be confused with Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, the 2017 documentary about the Japanese composer’s life and career, Opus is ...
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The Addiction 4K UHD Review: Vampires, Philosophy, and More Vampires
By Kent Conrad |
The Addiction is about vampires. The Addiction is about evil and how it is connected to the human condition. The ...
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A Simple Plan Blu-ray Review: You Work for the American Dream. You Don’t Steal It.
By Greg Hammond |
A Simple Plan was directed by Sam Raimi and written by Scott B. Smith from his novel of the same ...
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Demolition Man 4K UHD Review: Frozen Ass-Kickers Against the Future
By Kent Conrad |
Sylvester Stallone is the good guy. He's the cop who does what the other cops won’t. He wears a beret, ...
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Super Spies and Secret Lies: Three Undercover Classics from Shaw Brothers Blu-ray Review: Yeah Baby, Yeah!
By Steve Geise |
Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers Studio will always be most closely associated with their immense output of kung fu films, but ...
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Tomie Blu-ray Review: Strictly for Junji Ito Completionists
By Steve Geise |
There’s a reason this 1998 J-horror film is finally appearing on U.S. Blu-ray, and it has little to do with ...
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Crust Blu-ray Review: A Small-Budget Masterpiece With Cult-Classic Appeal
By Joe Garcia III |
Sock Monster, Attack! Kill! Kill! Kill! Crust is kind of like Basket Case meets Ghoulies, Gremlins, and Little Shop of ...
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Blu-ray Review: They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore
By Mat Brewster |
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is exactly the sort of movie people are talking about when they say, ...
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Galaxy Quest 4K UHD Steelbook Review: It Never Gave Up
By Kent Conrad |
Galaxy Quest does the neat trick of being both a satire of TV sci-fi, and an excellent sci-fi story itself. ...
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The Sword (1980) Blu-ray Review: Thoughtful Kung Fu
By Mat Brewster |
The Sword is what you might call an arthouse take on the kung fu flick - call it New Wave ...
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The Last Video Store Blu-ray Review: A Delightfully Goofy Tribute
By Davy |
Being an incredibly dedicated movie lover, I always wanted to work in a video store but never got the chance ...
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Two – The Newly Restored 1928 Silents Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Comedy Fans
By Gordon S. Miller |
Flicker Alley has followed up last year's Laurel & Hardy: Year One - The Newly Restored 1927 Silents with Year ...
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Valkyrie Blu-ray Review: Ensemble Cast Saves Middling Thriller
By Greg Hammond |
Directed by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Bohemian Rhapsody), and written by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander, Valkyrie is the ...
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North by Northwest 4K UHD Review: A Masterpiece in Ultra High Definition
By Mat Brewster |
Like thousands of people across the nation, I had a heated argument with my family over Thanksgiving. We did not ...
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God 4K UHD Review: Herzog, The Beauty of a Filmmaker
By Mat Brewster |
A line of men snakes their way down a mountain, single-file like ants. Some are soldiers all decked out in ...
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Little Women (1994) 4K UHD Review: Little Women, Big Hearts, A Gorgeous New Transfer
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I sometimes laugh about how very similar and yet somehow completely different our lives were growing up. ...
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1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! Blu-ray Review: They Make the Case
By Gordon S. Miller |
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! started as a convention panel, became a film series at the American Cinematheque to celebrate ...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 4K UHD Review: A Silent Masterpiece Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
By Mat Brewster |
I am a great lover of classic film noir and Italian giallo. Any discussion of those genres inevitably leads to ...
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three Blu-ray Review: The End of an Era
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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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vols. 1 – 4 Blu-ray Review: Button Up Your Tonsils and Enjoy a Looney Ride
By Greg Hammond |
The Warner Archive Collection has released a four-disc set titled Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Volumes 1 - 4. Containing 97 ...
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Black Belt Jones Blu-ray Review: Enter the Car Wash
By Gordon S. Miller |
After working together on Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, director Robert Clouse reteamed with Jim Kelly, who stars as Black ...
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The Elephant Man Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set in the late 19th century, David Lynch's The Elephant Man tells the tragic tale of John Merrick (John Hurt) ...
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Megadeth: A Night in Buenos Aires Blu-ray Review: Megadeth at Their Thrashing Best
By Joe Garcia III |
Megadeth! Megadeth! Megadeth! Fronted by singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine, Megadeth is known for being one of the Big Four thrash-metal pioneers ...
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Drag Me to Hell 4K UHD Review: Raimi Returns to Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Sam Raimi, renowned horror movie director, has never been a major fan of horror movies. The Evil Dead creator only ...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 4K UHD Review: Surprisingly Fresh for a Dead Guy
By Kent Conrad |
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice feels like it should be a disaster. It's a sequel to a nearly 40-year-old film that had a ...
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Kiss Me, Kate (2024) Movie Review: Kiss Me, Stephanie
By Steve Geise |
Over the past summer, London’s Barbican Theatre staged a three-month revival of the classic Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. ...
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September (1987) Blu-ray Review: An August Night’s Relationship Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda (2004), two playwrights tell different versions of the same story, one comic and the ...
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Reagan (2024) Blu-ray Review: Win One for the Gipper
By David Wangberg |
Sean McNamara’s biopic on America’s 40th president doesn’t reveal much new detail about what the former actor turned politician went ...
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Night of the Blood Beast + Attack of the Giant Leeches Blu-ray Review: A Creepy Creature Double Feature
By Rons Reviews |
Looking for something fun and funny to watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon? Grab some popcorn and a cold soda ...
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Swingers Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles
By Gordon S. Miller |
Actor Jon Favreau had great success heeding the axiom“write what you know” with his screenplay for Swingers, a movie that ...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss Blu-ray Review: A Yakuza’s Life
By Mat Brewster |
There are eight million stories in Japan and this is one of them. Kinji Fukasaku's 1969 film Japan Organized Crime ...
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Didi Blu-ray Review: Ode to the Mostly Good Old Days
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sean Wang’s narrative feature debut treads the same perilous ground as Mid90s, Eighth Grade, and Thirteen with one notable ...
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Bill & Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy Review: “Sorry. They Melvined Me.”
By Greg Hammond |
Shout! Studios has released Bill & Ted’s Triumphant Trilogy (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray), including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, ...
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Shotgun Stories Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Father Are Visited Upon the Children
By Gordon S. Miller |
Writer/director Jeff Nichols delivers a powerful feature-film debut with Shotgun Stories, a compelling tragic story about an extended-family feud that ...
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Superman vs. The Elite Movie Review: Does Might Make Right?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" in Action Comics #775 by Joe Kelly, who ...
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Spider-Man (2002) Movie Review: A Spectacular Superhero Blockbuster
By Gordon S. Miller |
After decades stuck in development, director Sam Raimi was given the great responsibility of bringing Spider-Man to the silver screen ...
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Dogra Magra Blu-ray Review: Matsumoto’s Swan Song
By Steve Geise |
When a young man wakes up in an insane asylum with no memory of his past or his name, he ...
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space 4K UHD Review: They Aren’t Klowning Around
By Mat Brewster |
I like to imagine the Chiodo Brothers, writers, directors, and producers of Killer Klowns from Outer Space, were sitting around ...
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Journey into Fear (1943) Blu-ray Review: A Briskly Paced, Espionage Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based upon Eric Ambler's 1940 novel of the same name, Journey into Fear (1943) is a Mercury Production directed by ...
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Kingdom of the Spiders Blu-ray Review: A Notable Entry in the Eco-Horror Genre
By Gordon S. Miller |
During the eco-horror boom of the '70s, which saw movies like Empire of the Ants and The Food of the ...
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Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories Blu-ray Box Set Review: Broodingly Atmospheric Revenge Stories
By Greg Hammond |
Radiance Films has released a boxed set titled Daiei Gothic - Japanese Ghost Stories. The set includes three ghost stories ...
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Lust (2017) DVD Review: Delightful, Low Budget Bloody Mind Screw
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Severin Eskeland, Lust, aka Lyst, lures us down a familiar hallway then turns out the lights ...
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