Oliver! Movie Review: Dickens’ Dark Tale Gets the Grand Musical Treatment
By Greg Hammond |
Carol Reed’s 1968 adaptation of Oliver! exudes the kind of confidence that only a gigantic, lavish musical can muster. Based ...
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Confess, Fletch Movie Review: “No thanks, I ate yesterday.”
By Greg Hammond |
Confess, Fletch has one major problem that no amount of clever dialogue or talented supporting actors can overcome: it isn't ...
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Bonnie Scotland Blu-ray Review: Laurel and Hardy in Bonnie India
By Gordon S. Miller |
Bonnie Scotland is an interesting title for this Laurel and Hardy feature because, while the story certainly starts in Scotland, ...
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Deconstructing Harry Movie Review: “I’m a writer. I have to suffer for my work.”
By Greg Hammond |
There is a particular kind of artist who can turn his own neuroses into a career. Woody Allen has been ...
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Disclosure Day 4K UHD Review: Spielberg Returns to the Alien Well
By Mat Brewster |
There is an iconic moment in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg's 1977 classic, where a little boy ...
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A Man for All Seasons Movie Review: “Would You Cut a Great Road Through the Law to Get After the Devil?”
By Greg Hammond |
Fred Zinnemann's A Man for All Seasons is a remarkable historical drama about conscience, integrity, and the price of refusing ...
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You Can’t Take It with You Movie Review: A World Walt Disney Might Have Created
By Greg Hammond |
Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You is one of those movies that seems almost impossibly optimistic by modern ...
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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Blu-ray Review: “It’s not a movie. It’s a way of life.”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Richard O'Brien is the legendary creator of The Rocky Horror Show and the lesser-known co-creator of Linus O'Brien, who directed ...
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The Devil Queen Blu-ray Review: Day of the Dead
By Steve Geise |
There are ample reasons that this 1974 Brazilian drama is on the Kino Cult imprint instead of the general Kino ...
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Practical Magic 4K UHD Review: Spellbinding
By Lorna Miller |
Practical Magic is a movie that has grown on me over time which I enjoy more with each viewing. The ...
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The Bad Seed (1956) Blu-ray Review: Sugar and Spice, a Murderous Delight
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, The Bad Seed (1956) is a powerful psychological, horror thriller that stars Nancy Kelly and Patty ...
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The Stranger (2025) Blu-ray Review: Killing an Arab
By Steve Geise |
In the latest film adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic novel, director Francois Ozon (The Crime is Mine) remains remarkably faithful ...
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Jinsei Blu-ray Review: A Bold, Interesting Film
By Mat Brewster |
I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent man. I've watched a lot of movies in my life. Some of ...
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The Silence of the Lambs Movie Review: Like Having an Old Friend for Dinner
By Greg Hammond |
Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs is one of those rare films ...
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Repo Men 4K UHD Review: Bland Runner
By Steve Geise |
Although its title might lead viewers to believe this 2010 film is a continuation of Repo Man (1984), the film ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVII Blu-ray Review: Three From Republic Pictures
By Mat Brewster |
Boy, does it seem like movies have gotten longer these days. I mean, really long. It is almost as if ...
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Shakespeare in Love Movie Review: All the World’s a Stage
By Greg Hammond |
There is something brave about Shakespeare in Love, a movie that takes the most revered figure in English literature and ...
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Harlem School 1970 Blu-ray Review: Everyone Can Relate to This
By Davy |
Capturing public education at its roots with a deliberately primitive lens, multitalented filmmaker Phil Gries makes us flies on the ...
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Le Choc Blu-ray Review: Delon and Deneuve Deliver
By Steve Geise |
Ten years after their only other narrative feature film together (Un Flic), screen legends Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve teamed ...
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American Beauty (1999) Movie Review: A Rose by Any Other Name
By Greg Hammond |
When American Beauty won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2000, it seemed to capture something essential about the ...
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Manon 70 Blu-ray Review: Ruthless People
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Jean Aurel’s 1968 film tracks the rocky romance between two narcissists completely incapable of real emotions. Loosely updating the ...
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography Movie Review: My Work Is About Affection
By Greg Hammond |
Errol Morris’ The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography is a small, unusually kind film from a director better known for ...
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Money From Home 3D Blu-ray Review: Step Inside the World of Martin and Lewis
By Steve Geise |
When 3D first became a movie theater fad in the 1950s, the technology occasionally drifted outside of its typical sci-fi ...
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Small Time Crooks Movie Review: They Never Completed Kindergarten Because They Were Drafted
By Greg Hammond |
Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks begins with the kind of comic energy that makes it seem destined to become one ...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) Blu-ray Review: Cagney Pounds the Boards
By Steve Geise |
Although Shakespeare’s evergreen comedy has been adapted to the screen many times, Max Reinhardt’s lavish 1935 production was the first ...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors Movie Review: “Comedy Is Tragedy Plus Time”
By Greg Hammond |
Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors is one of his most serious and unsettling films. It is a dark comedy that ...
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Exit 8 Blu-ray Review: Clever and Creepy
By Davy |
Most video games don't exactly translate well to the big screen. But there a few that do, and Exit 8 ...
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Presenting Lily Mars Blu-ray Review: Broadway Baby
By Steve Geise |
Just four years removed from The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was still struggling to transition from child actress to ...
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MacArthur 4K UHD Review: War is Boring
By Mat Brewster |
I find it impossible to talk about MacArthur without comparing it to Patton, the 1970 film starring George C. Scott ...
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The Boxer (1977) Blu-ray Review: The Fighter Still Remains
By Mat Brewster |
According to the excellent visual essay by Tom Mes, which is included in this new Blu-ray release of The Boxer, ...
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Ping Pong Blu-ray Review: Balls of Furi
By Steve Geise |
At the start of this century, three notable live-action sports comedies emerged from Asia: Waterboys, Ping Pong, and Stephen Chow’s ...
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The Island (1980) 4K UHD Review: At Least It’s Never Boring
By Mat Brewster |
Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a massive success. It turned Spielberg into a household name. It almost single-handedly created the summer-blockbuster ...
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Brit Noir Collection III Blu-ray Review: Panic on the Streets of London
By Steve Geise |
Kino’s third collection of late-period British noir compiles three tense dramas likely to be unknown to most viewers. While there’s ...
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Legends of the Lost Ark DVD Review: A No-Nonsense Search for the Ark of the Covenant
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Stephen Pettit, Legends of the Lost Ark (2026) is a documentary that follows archaeologist and Biblical scholar Dr. ...
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The Double (1971) Blu-ray Review: A Dead Man’s Dream
By Mat Brewster |
A man is shot inside a parking garage. As he lies dying, he flashes back on his life, recalling all ...
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Start the Revolution Without Me Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Parody
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, Bud Yorkin's Start the Revolution Without Me is ...
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The Maverick Queen Blu-ray Review: Barbara Stanwyck Tangles with Butch and Sundance
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Joseph Kane, The Maverick Queen (1956) finds silver-screen queen Barbara Stanwyck squaring off against Butch Cassidy, the Sundance ...
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Movie Review: What a Fabulously Tangled Web We Weave
By Greg Hammond |
Few sequels have the confidence to expand everything that made their predecessor special without losing sight of its emotional core. ...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Blu-ray Review: Introducing Miles Morales
By Gordon S. Miller |
Right from the very beginning, as colored pixels are seen when passing passed the Sony logo and the Columbia torch-bearer ...
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Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...
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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...
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King Creole 4K UHD Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid
By Steve Geise |
While Elvis Presley’s later films generally fell into a formulaic, lazy rut, this early effort marks a high point in ...
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Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy
By Mat Brewster |
Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...
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I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Blu-ray Review: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s (the True Story Behind) the Sex Pistols
By Joe Garcia III |
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...
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The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time
By Steve Geise |
Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...
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The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master
By Steve Geise |
Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...
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Colt .45 Blu-ray Review: You’d Watch It for Randolph Scott
By Joe Garcia III |
Colt .45 (1950) is a fun western with a simple plot. Directed by Edwin L. Mann and filmed in Technicolor, ...
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A Magnificent Life Blu-ray Review: A Mediocre Life Story
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sylvain Chomet rose to international fame with his 2003 breakout animated feature film, The Triplets of Belleville. Even within ...
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Bringing Out the Dead 4K UHD Review: Long Night’s Journey into Night
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Joe Connelly's novel of the same name, screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese reteam in Bringing Out ...
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The Christophers Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh Paints a Masterpiece
By Steve Geise |
Sometimes the best way to experience a great film is to know nothing about it. I went into this Blu-ray ...
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