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Shooter 4K UHD Review: American Sniper-ish

By Jack Cormack | Mar 14, 2022

As a mindless piece of action, Shooter is an entertaining ride. Director Antoine Fuqua never seems less than committed to ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Crows are White

By David Wangberg | Mar 13, 2022

Traditions are hard to break, especially if a particular population has been practicing them for more than a century. And ...

SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 13, 2022

There is the old saying that “the truth is stranger than fiction.” So, it might be hard to believe that ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Sissy

By Davy | Mar 13, 2022

Blood, gore, and social commentary are on full display in Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes' Sissy, a wicked horror-thriller that ...

SXSW 2022 Review: A Vanishing Fog

By David Wangberg | Mar 12, 2022

Augusto Sandino’s A Vanishing Fog is the first film to be shot entirely in the Páramo of Sumapaz, a large ...

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SXSW 2022 Review: The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

By David Wangberg | Mar 12, 2022

It’s a long and unique title, but The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic is also something ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Your Friend, Memphis

By Davy | Mar 12, 2022

People with disabilities are too often ignored in documentaries, and that's a shame. You can learn a lot from them, ...

SXSW 2022 Review: This Much I Know to Be True

By Darcy Staniforth | Mar 12, 2022

Months ahead of its cinematic release in theaters, the SXSW audience had the opportunity to view the new music documentary ...

SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty

By Davy | Mar 12, 2022

I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...

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The Matrix Resurrections 4K UHD Review: Welcome to the Meta-Verse

By David Wangberg | Mar 11, 2022

One of the things that The Matrix: Resurrections does is acknowledge that it feels pointless to make a sequel to ...

All My Sons (1948) Blu-ray Review: Greed Is Not Good

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 10, 2022

Based on Arthur Miller's 1947 play of the same name, which was inspired by a true story, All My Sons ...

Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Box Set Review

By Steve Geise | Mar 9, 2022

Arrow Video’s latest box set shines a light on the works of French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. Although he’s ...

Bringing Up Baby Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Bone up on a Comedy Classic

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 8, 2022

Directed by Howard Hawks and based on Hagar Wilde's short story, which Criterion includes in the booklet, Bringing Up Baby ...

Hester Street Blu-ray Review: Joan Micklin Silver’s Beguiling 1975 Masterpiece

By Davy | Mar 7, 2022

There have been so many films about immigrants trying to make a new life in America. Some of them immediately ...

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers DVD Review: ’80s Japanese Manic Musical

By Kent Conrad | Mar 4, 2022

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers is overlong, amateurishly acted, and schizophrenically directed. It has several scenes that make no ...

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The Batman (2022) Movie Review: Vengeance and Vigilantes Flood Gotham

By Gordon S. Miller | Mar 3, 2022

Matt Reeves's The Batman reboots the franchise and takes the audience back to Bruce Wayne's (Robert Pattinson) second year as ...

2022 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 24, 2022

ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, ...

2022 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review

By Darcy Staniforth | Feb 24, 2022

ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, the ...

2022 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films Review

By Davy | Feb 23, 2022

ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, ...

Evil Eye plus The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) Blu-ray Review: Slick in Italian, Murky in American

By Kent Conrad | Feb 23, 2022

Nora has a very bad first night in Italy. The relative she is visiting dies of a heart attack right ...

Village of the Giants Blu-ray Review: Brain Candy

By Rons Reviews | Feb 23, 2022

Could there actually be a film out there that combines the Beach Blanket films and sci-fi films of the '60s ...

The Three Musketeers (1948) Blu-ray Review: Night of 100 Stars

By Steve Geise | Feb 22, 2022

MGM’s 1948 version of this classic tale is full of stars but short on clear direction. The first act plays ...

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House of Gucci Blu-ray Review: A Tale of Greed, Ego, and Betrayal

By generaljabbo | Feb 22, 2022

For more than a century, the Gucci name has been synonymous with high-end fashion, luxury, and wealth. Founded by Guccio ...

Alligator (1980) 4K Ultra HD Review: Jaws in the Sewers

By Kent Conrad | Feb 22, 2022

It's always nice when a movie tells you exactly what it's about in the title. This film is a monster ...

C.H.O.M.P.S. Blu-ray Review: It’s a Dog!

By Rons Reviews | Feb 22, 2022

A movie from the '70s (1979) about a robot dog starring Valerie Bertinelli, Wesley Eure, Conrad Bain, Red Buttons, Jim ...

Licorice Pizza Movie Review: Heart Like a Wheel

By Jack Cormack | Feb 16, 2022

Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Licorice Pizza, is a warm screwball comedy, and his second unqualified success in a ...

The Flag of Iron & Legendary Weapons of China Blu-ray Review: Two Classics from Shaw Brothers Studios

By Mat Brewster | Feb 12, 2022

Last month in my review of Disciples of Shaolin, I noted how much I loved old kung fu movies as ...

Drive My Car Movie Review: A Sublime Journey

By Steve Geise | Feb 12, 2022

As the least-known contender in this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees, Drive My Car has the best opportunity to surprise ...

La Dolce Vita Blu-ray Review: The High Cost of Fancy Living

By David Wangberg | Feb 11, 2022

Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita clocks in at nearly three hours, the usual length of some big-budgeted epics that would ...

Catwoman: Hunted 4K Ultra HD Review: DC Goes Anime

By Steve Geise | Feb 11, 2022

DC’s latest animated film answers the question you probably never asked: what would a DC film look like as anime? ...

Sundance 2022 Review: La Guerra Civil

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 10, 2022

Directed by Eva Longoria Baston, La Guerra Civil tells the stories of two boxers, Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De ...

Gold Diggers of 1933 Blu-ray Review: It’s Perfect

By Davy | Feb 9, 2022

The Depression was and still remains one of the most devastating events in American history. So many people were unemployed, ...

The Capture (1950) Blu-ray Review: Complex Modern Western Crime Narrative

By Kent Conrad | Feb 8, 2022

Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), the protagonist of The Capture (1950), accidentally shoots an unarmed man. He believes the man is ...

Journey to Shiloh Blu-ray Review: Too Many Questions and Questionable Motivations

By Rons Reviews | Feb 5, 2022

Clearly trying to ride on the success of The Magnificent Seven and The Return of the Seven, Journey to Shiloh, ...

Rich and Strange Blu-ray Review: Marriage in Crisis

By Kent Conrad | Feb 4, 2022

Alfred Hitchcock is known as primarily a director of thrillers, and after he came to the U.S. in 1939 it ...

Fritz the Cat / The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat Blu-rays Review: Sex, Drugs, and Counterculture

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 4, 2022

Scorpion Releasing by way of Kino Lorber Studio Classics has released the cinematic adventures of Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat. ...

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Movie Review: Her Trailblazing Music Career Is Only Part of the Story

By Jade Blackmore | Feb 2, 2022

“I wasn’t ready to be the caretaker of Poly Styrene’s legacy. I just lost my Mum,” Celeste Bell says at ...

Red Angel (1966) Blu-ray Review: Disturbing War Hospital Drama

By Kent Conrad | Feb 1, 2022

Red Angel is about a war-time nurse, and it lives up to themes implicit in the name. Nurse Sakura Nishi ...

Salt in My Soul Movie Review: What It Means to Search for Hope and Answers

By Darcy Staniforth | Jan 29, 2022

Most of us don't consider our own mortality as children. But children who live with chronic diseases are forced to ...

ABBA Forever: The Winner Takes It All DVD Review: This New Documentary Is Unsatisfying

By Rons Reviews | Jan 28, 2022

The TV movie/documentary which hit U.S. television in August of 2019, and now DVD, chronicles the History of ABBA, currently ...

Gambit (1966) Blu-ray Review: A Larcenous Lark

By Jack Cormack | Jan 28, 2022

In director Ronald Neame’s caper flick, Gambit (1966; 109 mins.), a British cat burglar, Harry Dean (Michael Caine), teams with ...

Rifkin’s Festival Movie Review: Another Story About a Dead Shark

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 28, 2022

Woody Allen's 49th feature, Rifkin's Festival, finds the filmmaker return to Spain, where he previously shot Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008). ...

The Lover 4K UHD Collector’s Edition Review: Fall in Love Again

By Steve Geise | Jan 27, 2022

Famed director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of this steamy semi-autobiographical tale by author Marguerite Duras caused a sensation upon its 1992 theatrical ...