Shooter 4K UHD Review: American Sniper-ish
By Jack Cormack |
As a mindless piece of action, Shooter is an entertaining ride. Director Antoine Fuqua never seems less than committed to ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Crows are White
By David Wangberg |
Traditions are hard to break, especially if a particular population has been practicing them for more than a century. And ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: I Love My Dad
By Darcy Staniforth |
There is the old saying that “the truth is stranger than fiction.” So, it might be hard to believe that ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Sissy
By Davy |
Blood, gore, and social commentary are on full display in Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes' Sissy, a wicked horror-thriller that ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: A Vanishing Fog
By David Wangberg |
Augusto Sandino’s A Vanishing Fog is the first film to be shot entirely in the Páramo of Sumapaz, a large ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
By David Wangberg |
It’s a long and unique title, but The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic is also something ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Your Friend, Memphis
By Davy |
People with disabilities are too often ignored in documentaries, and that's a shame. You can learn a lot from them, ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: This Much I Know to Be True
By Darcy Staniforth |
Months ahead of its cinematic release in theaters, the SXSW audience had the opportunity to view the new music documentary ...
Read More SXSW 2022 Review: Radical Honesty
By Davy |
I can't say much about dating. I've never been on a date, so I have no experience. However, watching movies ...
Read More The Matrix Resurrections 4K UHD Review: Welcome to the Meta-Verse
By David Wangberg |
One of the things that The Matrix: Resurrections does is acknowledge that it feels pointless to make a sequel to ...
Read More All My Sons (1948) Blu-ray Review: Greed Is Not Good
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Arthur Miller's 1947 play of the same name, which was inspired by a true story, All My Sons ...
Read More Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol Blu-ray Box Set Review
By Steve Geise |
Arrow Video’s latest box set shines a light on the works of French New Wave director Claude Chabrol. Although he’s ...
Read More Bringing Up Baby Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Bone up on a Comedy Classic
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Howard Hawks and based on Hagar Wilde's short story, which Criterion includes in the booklet, Bringing Up Baby ...
Read More Hester Street Blu-ray Review: Joan Micklin Silver’s Beguiling 1975 Masterpiece
By Davy |
There have been so many films about immigrants trying to make a new life in America. Some of them immediately ...
Read More The Legend of the Stardust Brothers DVD Review: ’80s Japanese Manic Musical
By Kent Conrad |
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers is overlong, amateurishly acted, and schizophrenically directed. It has several scenes that make no ...
Read More The Batman (2022) Movie Review: Vengeance and Vigilantes Flood Gotham
By Gordon S. Miller |
Matt Reeves's The Batman reboots the franchise and takes the audience back to Bruce Wayne's (Robert Pattinson) second year as ...
Read More 2022 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, ...
Read More 2022 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, the ...
Read More 2022 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films Review
By Davy |
ShortsTV presents the 17th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films theatrical releases. Spanning the categories of Live Action, Animation, and Documentary, ...
Read More Evil Eye plus The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) Blu-ray Review: Slick in Italian, Murky in American
By Kent Conrad |
Nora has a very bad first night in Italy. The relative she is visiting dies of a heart attack right ...
Read More Village of the Giants Blu-ray Review: Brain Candy
By Rons Reviews |
Could there actually be a film out there that combines the Beach Blanket films and sci-fi films of the '60s ...
Read More The Three Musketeers (1948) Blu-ray Review: Night of 100 Stars
By Steve Geise |
MGM’s 1948 version of this classic tale is full of stars but short on clear direction. The first act plays ...
Read More House of Gucci Blu-ray Review: A Tale of Greed, Ego, and Betrayal
By generaljabbo |
For more than a century, the Gucci name has been synonymous with high-end fashion, luxury, and wealth. Founded by Guccio ...
Read More Alligator (1980) 4K Ultra HD Review: Jaws in the Sewers
By Kent Conrad |
It's always nice when a movie tells you exactly what it's about in the title. This film is a monster ...
Read More C.H.O.M.P.S. Blu-ray Review: It’s a Dog!
By Rons Reviews |
A movie from the '70s (1979) about a robot dog starring Valerie Bertinelli, Wesley Eure, Conrad Bain, Red Buttons, Jim ...
Read More Licorice Pizza Movie Review: Heart Like a Wheel
By Jack Cormack |
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Licorice Pizza, is a warm screwball comedy, and his second unqualified success in a ...
Read More The Flag of Iron & Legendary Weapons of China Blu-ray Review: Two Classics from Shaw Brothers Studios
By Mat Brewster |
Last month in my review of Disciples of Shaolin, I noted how much I loved old kung fu movies as ...
Read More Drive My Car Movie Review: A Sublime Journey
By Steve Geise |
As the least-known contender in this year’s Oscar Best Picture nominees, Drive My Car has the best opportunity to surprise ...
Read More La Dolce Vita Blu-ray Review: The High Cost of Fancy Living
By David Wangberg |
Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita clocks in at nearly three hours, the usual length of some big-budgeted epics that would ...
Read More Catwoman: Hunted 4K Ultra HD Review: DC Goes Anime
By Steve Geise |
DC’s latest animated film answers the question you probably never asked: what would a DC film look like as anime? ...
Read More Sundance 2022 Review: La Guerra Civil
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Eva Longoria Baston, La Guerra Civil tells the stories of two boxers, Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De ...
Read More Gold Diggers of 1933 Blu-ray Review: It’s Perfect
By Davy |
The Depression was and still remains one of the most devastating events in American history. So many people were unemployed, ...
Read More The Capture (1950) Blu-ray Review: Complex Modern Western Crime Narrative
By Kent Conrad |
Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), the protagonist of The Capture (1950), accidentally shoots an unarmed man. He believes the man is ...
Read More Journey to Shiloh Blu-ray Review: Too Many Questions and Questionable Motivations
By Rons Reviews |
Clearly trying to ride on the success of The Magnificent Seven and The Return of the Seven, Journey to Shiloh, ...
Read More Rich and Strange Blu-ray Review: Marriage in Crisis
By Kent Conrad |
Alfred Hitchcock is known as primarily a director of thrillers, and after he came to the U.S. in 1939 it ...
Read More Fritz the Cat / The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat Blu-rays Review: Sex, Drugs, and Counterculture
By Gordon S. Miller |
Scorpion Releasing by way of Kino Lorber Studio Classics has released the cinematic adventures of Robert Crumb's Fritz the Cat. ...
Read More Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Movie Review: Her Trailblazing Music Career Is Only Part of the Story
By Jade Blackmore |
“I wasn’t ready to be the caretaker of Poly Styrene’s legacy. I just lost my Mum,” Celeste Bell says at ...
Read More Red Angel (1966) Blu-ray Review: Disturbing War Hospital Drama
By Kent Conrad |
Red Angel is about a war-time nurse, and it lives up to themes implicit in the name. Nurse Sakura Nishi ...
Read More Salt in My Soul Movie Review: What It Means to Search for Hope and Answers
By Darcy Staniforth |
Most of us don't consider our own mortality as children. But children who live with chronic diseases are forced to ...
Read More ABBA Forever: The Winner Takes It All DVD Review: This New Documentary Is Unsatisfying
By Rons Reviews |
The TV movie/documentary which hit U.S. television in August of 2019, and now DVD, chronicles the History of ABBA, currently ...
Read More Gambit (1966) Blu-ray Review: A Larcenous Lark
By Jack Cormack |
In director Ronald Neame’s caper flick, Gambit (1966; 109 mins.), a British cat burglar, Harry Dean (Michael Caine), teams with ...
Read More Rifkin’s Festival Movie Review: Another Story About a Dead Shark
By Gordon S. Miller |
Woody Allen's 49th feature, Rifkin's Festival, finds the filmmaker return to Spain, where he previously shot Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008). ...
Read More The Lover 4K UHD Collector’s Edition Review: Fall in Love Again
By Steve Geise |
Famed director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of this steamy semi-autobiographical tale by author Marguerite Duras caused a sensation upon its 1992 theatrical ...
Read More Sundown (2022) Movie Review: A Long, Unengaging Walk on the Beach
By David Wangberg |
Michel Franco’s Sundown clocks in at 83 minutes but feels like it takes an eternity to reach its destination. Despite ...
Read More The Ultimate Richard Pryor Collection (Uncensored) 13-DVD Set Review: Earns the Ultimate Designation
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Ultimate Richard Pryor Collection (Uncensored) is a 13-disc set celebrating the iconic comedian's work in TV and film, ranging ...
Read More Stage Fright (1950) Blu-ray Review: Second-Tier Hitchcock Is Still Good Cinema
By Mat Brewster |
Stage Fright, Alfred Hitchcock's thriller from 1950 begins with a great curtain that opens to reveal a shot of, not ...
Read More The Piano Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Jane Campion’s Sublime Masterpiece
By Davy |
Despite all the accolades and acclaim, director Jane Campion still seems to be continuously undervalued and taken for granted. That's ...
Read More The Toolbox Murders (1978) 4K Ultra HD Review: Gruesome Grindhouse Exploitation
By Kent Conrad |
The difference between exploitation and horror is attitude. In a horror movie, you sympathize with the victim. In exploitation, your ...
Read More Prince of the City Blu-ray Review: The NYPD Blues
By Jack Cormack |
In Prince of the City (1981; dir. Sidney Lumet), everything about drug enforcement is crooked—and that’s the way it’s supposed ...
Read More Shock (1977) Blu-ray Review: Bava’s Final Film
By Kent Conrad |
Shock is the final film that Mario Bava directed and is commonly regarded as an underwhelming swan song. He was ...
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