Crime + Punishment in Suburbia Blu-ray Review: Mostly Punishment
By Greg Hammond |
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia, written by Larry Gross in the early 1990’s and directed by Rob Schmidt in 2000 ...
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Spinout Blu-ray Review: Hey, Elvis! You Gotta Win This Race!
By Joe Garcia III |
Elvis Presley leads a small rock ‘n’ roll band, likes racing fast cars, and gets into all kinds of trouble ...
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The Prodigal Son Blu-ray Review: Sammo Hung Meets Wing Chun
By Steve Geise |
Continuing their series of Sammo Hung Blu-ray releases, Arrow Video’s latest entry is this 1981 gem. Sammo directs and co-stars ...
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Wichita Blu-ray Review: Wyatt Earp’s Origin Story
By Mat Brewster |
How many movies and TV shows have been made about Wyatt Earp? Or been influenced by his reputation? They say ...
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Gay Purr-ee Blu-ray Review: Judy Garland Gets Animated
By Steve Geise |
By the 1960s, Judy Garland was in decline, no longer a potent or reliable force at the box office and ...
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The Big Knife Blu-ray Review: Stabbing Old Hollywood
By Mat Brewster |
Hollywood loves making movies about Hollywood. Usually, they are fawning tales about the magic of the movies, or about how ...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K UHD Review: Batman in Love
By Kent Conrad |
In the last couple of decades, DC has been aggressive about adapting its comic book stories into films. Some of ...
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Malone Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Shows Off a Particular Set of Skills in a Generic Actioner
By Gordon S. Miller |
Burt Reynolds is Malone. But in 1987 that didn't mean as much as it did back in the '70s when ...
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD Review: A Fantastic Set
By Gordon S. Miller |
This three-disc set features 75 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive. The biggest star to come out of ...
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Foolish Wives Blu-ray Review: The First Million Dollar Picture
By Kent Conrad |
Erich von Stroheim, the director of Foolish Wives, was well known for his aristocratic and military background. He was a ...
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Borsalino Blu-ray Review: A (Not Quite) Epic French Gangster Flick
By Mat Brewster |
Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo were two of the biggest and greatest film stars in France. They were both great ...
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Liar’s Moon Blu-ray Review: A Teenage Soap Opera with a Great Soundtrack
By Joe Garcia III |
Rich girl, poor boy. Good kids tangled in a web of deceit spun long ago by their parents. It’s Romeo ...
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Hardcore Blu-ray Review: A Solid and Nervy Depiction
By Davy |
The 1970s was a legendary and often gritty time for filmmaking. There were obviously the films of Martin Scorsese, William ...
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Fathom Events Presents John Carpenter’s They Live
By Mat Brewster |
I don't go to the movie theater much anymore. It is too expensive. The crowds are always obnoxious. Half the ...
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Enter the Dragon 4K UHD Review: Are You Not… Entered?
By Jack Cormack |
Enter the Dragon (1973; dir. Robert Clouse) is one of the most famous kung fu movies ever made. In the ...
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City of the Living Dead 4K UHD Review: Where Zombies Are Ghosts
By Kent Conrad |
What makes Italian horror films of the '70s and '80s exciting is that anything can happen. What makes them infuriating ...
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The Flash (2023) Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Go Home Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Andy Muschietti's The Flash (2023) is the 13th installment of the DCEU. The franchise gets an amusing but disjointed, multiverse ...
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Brightwood DVD Review: An Independent Horror Flick with a Blood-Soaked Heart
By Greg Hammond |
Brightwood, written, directed, and edited by Dane Elcar, and starring Dana Berger as Jen, and Max Woertendyke as Dan, is ...
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A Taste of Blood (2020) Blu-ray Review: These Vampires Aren’t Sexy but the Soundtrack Is
By Joe Garcia III |
A modern-day family in the Argentina countryside faces its bloody past in A.K. Tolstoy's A Taste of Blood (2020) brought ...
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The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review: Give My Regards to the Warner Archive Team
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, is a melodramatic story focusing ...
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A Moment of Romance Blu-ray Review: HK Stockholm Syndrome
By Steve Geise |
When a bank heist goes awry, getaway driver Wah (Andy Lau) grabs the closest civilian as a hostage as he ...
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Mutant Blast Blu-ray Review: A Witty, Weird, Gorific Blast
By Joe Garcia III |
Troma Entertainment (The Toxic Avenger) brings Portuguese director Fernando Alle's odd, gory, silly yet witty, funny, and brilliant sci-fi/horror Mutant ...
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Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Superstar Italian actor Franco Nero headlines three separate projects by director Damiano Damiani with a unifying spotlight on the mafia ...
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Danke Schoen for a Perfect Movie
By Kent Conrad |
For a certain segment of the population, this is the movie. The movie. One of my older brothers. My high ...
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Is Paris Burning? Blu-ray Review: Night of 100 Stars
By Steve Geise |
Not to be confused with Paris Is Burning, this 1966 WWII drama boasts a seemingly unbelievable roster of stars reenacting ...
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Feels Like We’re Witnessing Real Life
By Davy |
Ever since legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasjuiro Ozu died in 1963, there has been an array of cinematic stories he left ...
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The Fastest Gun Alive Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Frank D. Gilroy's teleplay The Last Notch, Russell Rouse's The Fastest Gun Alive is a compelling western that ...
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Rio Bravo 4K UHD Review: Degüello
By Jack Cormack |
For Rio Bravo (1959; 141 mins.; dir. Howard Hawks)—my favorite Western or damn near it—I have almost no critical faculty. ...
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Nightbreed 4K UHD Review: Clive Barker’s Monster Mess
By Kent Conrad |
It's unfortunate, but perhaps not surprising that Clive Barker hung up his directing hat. He made his first film, Hellraiser, ...
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Bigfoot or Bust Blu-ray Review: It’s Busty Alright
By Joe Garcia III |
A Spirit Halloween Bigfoot gets chased around by busty older women making corny, horny jokes. It's too long at 75 ...
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Fast X Blu-ray Review: It’s Still About Family
By Gordon S. Miller |
Fast X, the latest installment in the franchise, is a sequel to Fast Five. I opened my review of the ...
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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: A Master Reflects
By Kent Conrad |
With a master artist, their later works are impossible to judge outside of the context of their careers. One could ...
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Swamp Thing (1982) Blu-ray Review: Wes Craven’s Beauty and the (Bayou) Beast
By Joe Garcia III |
Swamp Thing (1982) written and directed by Wes Craven takes DC Comics main monster from the page to the silver ...
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Kokomo City Movie Review: A Raw Portrait of Sex Work
By Davy |
I'm always struck by powerful stories that showcase our lives as LGBTQIA+ individuals, because we matter too, especially in an ...
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Du Barry Was a Lady Blu-ray Review: All Show, Little Story
By Steve Geise |
Even by the admittedly low bar of plot development in classic movie musicals, this film’s story is so half-baked it ...
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Assault on Hill 400 Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Throwback to ’40s and ’50s B Combat Movies
By Joe Garcia III |
Assault on Hill 400 is loosely based on the 2nd Ranger Battalions valiant siege of Bergstein, Germany in 1944 as ...
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East of Eden (1955) 4K Ultra HD Review: All Kinds of Perfection
By Greg Hammond |
Elia Kazan’s movie version of John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden is a retelling of the Cain and Abel story. ...
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The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Blu-ray Review: A Fitting Farewell
By Gordon S. Miller |
Created by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, The Venture Bros. ran for seven seasons on Adult Swim over 14 years ...
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Cimarron (1931) Blu-ray Review: An Epic Western and a Product of Its Time
By Joe Garcia III |
The Warner Archive Collection presents RKO Pictures' Cimarron directed by Wesley Ruggles, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, and ...
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Soundies: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review: The Set Is Really a Lot of Fun
By Davy |
Going through history, there's always hidden gems of pop culture that seem lost forever, whether it's film or television. However, ...
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One False Move Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Southern Discomfort
By David Wangberg |
Carl Franklin’s work is a blind spot for me, sad to say. While the acclaimed filmmaker has only a few ...
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Sympathy for the Devil (2023) Movie Review: Ride Angry
By David Wangberg |
It’s almost too on the nose that Nicolas Cage would star in a movie called Sympathy for the Devil, in ...
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Star Pilot Blu-ray Review: Space Satire Points Finger at Self
By Greg Hammond |
Pietro Francisci’s Star Pilot (2 + 5 Missione Hydra in Italian, 1966) stars Leonora Ruffo and Anthony Freeman, and begins ...
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Four Quartets DVD Review: Magnetic, Mesmerizing Solo Stage Performance
By Steve Geise |
While we spent our pandemic lockdowns doomscrolling, Zooming, and making bread, Ralph Fiennes decided to memorize the entirety of T.S. ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 4K Digital Review: All the Feels
By Steve Geise |
After focusing on Star Lord’s family back story for the first two movies, writer/director James Gunn turns his attention to ...
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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 1 Blu-ray Review: A Good Start to Becoming a Cartoon Collector
By Gordon S. Miller |
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 presents 20 Warner Brothers cartoons, 10 each from the 1940s and '50s. Not sure ...
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The Truman Show 4K UHD Review: Prescient Dystopic Satire
By Kent Conrad |
What's frightening about The Truman Show, a dystopic nightmare about the co-option of human experience and survival in a corporate ...
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Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd Movie Review: A Look at the Life of Pink Floyd’s Founder
By generaljabbo |
Before Pink Floyd became stadium rock giants during the 1970s, they were at the forefront of the London psychedelic music ...
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Invaders from Mars (1953) Blu-ray Review: Classic Science Fiction Gets the Royal Treatment
By Greg Hammond |
Invaders from Mars (1953) concerns a young boy named David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt - who carries much of the film ...
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The Rules of the Game Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: The Shooting Party
By Jack Cormack |
On the brink of WWII, Jean Renoir—inspired by baroque music and an opera, Les Caprices de Marianne—took his collaborators to ...
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