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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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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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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Re-Animator 4K UHD Review: Dead Funny
By Joe Keaton |
Behold, Re-Animator (1985; dir. Stuart Gordon)—baby, you’re back. And in stunning 4K, no less. You still kick like a mule ...
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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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I, Madman Blu-ray Review: A Brilliant Work of Imagination
By Joe Garcia III |
I, Madman (1989) starring Jenny Wright and Clayton Rohner, brings us something other than the usual '80s, deranged monster slasher. ...
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Drop (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Thrills and Suspense Reminiscent of Hitchcock
By Greg Hammond |
Christopher Landon’s Drop is an intense delight from beginning to end mostly because of the charisma of the two leads, ...
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The Annihilation of Fish Blu-ray Review: Equally Hilarious and Heartfelt
By Davy |
Marvel independent filmmaker Charles Burnett is an unsung hero of cinema. One of the pioneers of giving leverage to directors ...
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Bottoms Blu-ray Review: Hilarious High School High Jinks
By Gordon S. Miller |
High-schoolers PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are nerdy lesbian virgins hoping to get together with their straight crushes, ...
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Black Bag 4K UHD Review: Soderbergh’s Bag of Tricks Expands to Espionage
By Steve Geise |
George and Kathryn Woodhouse are married British spies who work in the same office, throwing George’s life into disarray when ...
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Tribeca 2025 Review: Andy Kaufman Is Me
By Greg Hammond |
On the heels of Alex Braverman’s Thank You Very Much, the 2023 documentary about the enigmatic comedian/provocateur Andy Kaufman, comes ...
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Foul Play Blu-ray Review: To Catch an Assassin
By Gordon S. Miller |
Screenwriter Colin Higgins parlayed his success from the comedic, Hitchcockian thriller Silver Streak, into directing his screenplay Foul Play, another ...
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Rhapsody in Blue Blu-ray Review: Rapturous Rhapsody
By Steve Geise |
This movie was on my Blu-ray wish list for many years before it finally became reality last month thanks to ...
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The Straight Story Movie Review: Good, Old-Fashioned, Fantastic Storytelling
By Greg Hammond |
The Straight Story is easily David Lynch’s most accessible movie. As a G-rated, Disney film, it is about as far ...
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McHale’s Navy (1964) DVD Review: Toss It Overboard
By Rons Reviews |
I have very fond memories of this series, but not of the movie as I don’t recall seeing it. When ...
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Dirty Harry 4K UHD Review: Justice and Anarchy
By Kent Conrad |
I felt a little sad after watching Dirty Harry. It wasn't my first time, of course. I've seen the movie ...
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Lover Come Back Blu-ray Review: Pillow Talk 2
By Steve Geise |
Following the success (and enduring popularity) of their first rom-com together, Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson and Doris Day teamed up ...
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Movie Review: Rules to Live and Die By
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum delivers more of the same non-stop, eye-popping action (and that's a literal description of ...
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Alien 3 Movie Review: Witness a Slow Decline
By Greg Hammond |
David Fincher’s Alien3 is the third entry in the Alien franchise and, chronologically, directly follows the first two films, Alien ...
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The New Adventures of Tarzan Blu-ray Review: Spirited Action and Unintended Laughs Make for an Entertaining Serial
By Gordon S. Miller |
Available to watch altogether or as individual chapters, The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) is a 12-part serial starring Herman ...
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The Outlaw Josey Wales 4K UHD Review: The Weary Gunslinger
By Joe Keaton |
A Missouri farmer goes guerrilla after Union raiders kill his family—that’s the basic setup of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976; ...
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Two Heads Are Not Better than One
By Greg Hammond |
How to Get Ahead in Advertising is an unusual (though not unheard of) amalgamation of absurdist humor and body horror ...
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A Clockwork Orange Movie Review: Bezoomny Droogs and Horrorshow Bitvas
By Greg Hammond |
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell and based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, takes place in a ...
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The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Fun for All, and All for Fun
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Three Musketeers (1973) is star-studded, comic swashbuckler based on Alexandre Dumas’s 19th century classic novel of the same name. ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection Blu-ray Review: The Animated Pair’s Trademark Slapstick Violence Goes Widescreen
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry franchise, which began with their first cartoon, Puss ...
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Terror in the Fog: The Wallace Krimi at CCC Blu-ray Box Set Review: Big, Beautiful Box of Krimi
By Steve Geise |
Eureka’s new Masters of Cinema Blu-ray box set collects a selection of 1960s West German crime films, aka krimis. Bridging ...
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Movie Review: The Past and Future Collide
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, the seventh film in the franchise, sees the Impossible Mission Force deal with both Ethan ...
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Killer of Sheep Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Lyrical Portrait of Urban Decay
By Davy |
There are some films that possess the power to wash over you; to make you think, feel, and see the ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Love in the Time of Big Brother
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on George Orwell's classic novel of the same name, writer-director Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four tells the story of one ...
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Mission: Impossible 2 Movie Review: A Weak Entry in the Series
By Greg Hammond |
Mission: Impossible 2, a spy action thriller directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, is the second installment in ...
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The New Boy Movie Review: Woefully Disappointing
By David Wangberg |
After the surprise that was Sweet Country, I was all in for the next film from director Warwick Thornton. Just ...
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Looney Tunes Super Stars – Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham DVD Review: Get Yourself a Helping
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally released in 2012, Looney Tunes Super Stars - Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham presents 18 Looney Tunes / Merrie ...
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The Old Woman with the Knife Movie Review: Kill Bill Vol. 3
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Min Kyu-dong’s new action drama inverts the vengeance genre by focusing on the target, not the killer. That’s not ...
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Themroc Blu-ray Review: A Highly Unorthodox and Disturbing Comedy
By Davy |
Sometimes life really is bizarre. You don't know what's going on most of the time. The uncertainty grows and grows ...
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Better Man 4K UHD Review: Robbie Williams Is a Monkey
By Kent Conrad |
Reviewing this film, it is hard to separate the art from the commercial. Because if I was to contemplate the ...
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Juliet & Romeo Movie Review: A Forgettable Musical Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Classic
By David Wangberg |
You can tweak the title all you want, but that won’t change the fact that this is a bad movie. ...
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Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Movie Review: The Zombies Have Resurrected
By Kent Conrad |
The Zombies were the also-rans of the '60s. While the Beatles got the accolades and the Rolling Stones got the ...
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness Blu-ray Review: A (Golf) Star Is Born
By Steve Geise |
After director Seijun Suzuki was fired by Nikkatsu for the sheer audaciousness of Branded to Kill, he didn’t permanently abandon ...
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Room 666 / Room 999 Blu-ray Review: Capturing the State of Cinema
By Davy |
When it comes to cinema, there is always the unfortunate realization that it will come to an end (just like ...
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Eraserhead Movie Review: David Lynch Steps Out on Stage
By Greg Hammond |
David Lynch’s first feature-length film was the black-and-white, enigmatic and beguiling, Eraserhead. It is considered a classic of horror and ...
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Girl with a Suitcase Blu-ray Review: Impossible Beauty Meets Improbable Love
By Steve Geise |
Two years before her rise to worldwide recognition in both 8 ½ and The Pink Panther, Claudia Cardinale stunned Italy ...
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Pale Rider 4K UHD Review: Horseman is Drawing Nearer
By David Wangberg |
For the true Western genre fans out there, it’s not hard to see that Pale Rider is, essentially, an updated ...
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Alien: Romulus Movie Review: The Stars are Beginning to Fade
By Greg Hammond |
Fede Alvarez’ Alien: Romulus is part of the Alien franchise and takes place chronologically between the first movie entry, Ridley ...
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Insomnia (2002) Movie Review: Pacino and Williams Salvage a Weak Script
By Greg Hammond |
Insomnia is Christopher Nolan’s third feature film and first studio-backed production. It stars big names like Al Pacino, Robin Williams, ...
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