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The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review: Give My Regards to the Warner Archive Team

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 25, 2023

The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, is a melodramatic story focusing ...

A Moment of Romance Blu-ray Review: HK Stockholm Syndrome

By Steve Geise | Aug 22, 2023

When a bank heist goes awry, getaway driver Wah (Andy Lau) grabs the closest civilian as a hostage as he ...

Mutant Blast Blu-ray Review: A Witty, Weird, Gorific Blast

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 18, 2023

Troma Entertainment (The Toxic Avenger) brings Portuguese director Fernando Alle's odd, gory, silly yet witty, funny, and brilliant sci-fi/horror Mutant ...

Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani Blu-ray Review

By Steve Geise | Aug 18, 2023

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 | Aug 16, 2023

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 | Aug 16, 2023

Not to be confused with Paris Is Burning, this 1966 WWII drama boasts a seemingly unbelievable roster of stars reenacting ...

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Feels Like We’re Witnessing Real Life

By Davy | Aug 15, 2023

Ever since legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasjuiro Ozu died in 1963, there has been an array of cinematic stories he left ...

The Fastest Gun Alive Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Western

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 13, 2023

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 Joe Keaton | Aug 11, 2023

For Rio Bravo (1959; 141 mins.; dir. Howard Hawks)—my favorite Western or damn near it—I have almost no critical faculty. ...

Nightbreed 4K UHD Review: Clive Barker’s Monster Mess

By Kent Conrad | Aug 11, 2023

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 | Aug 10, 2023

A Spirit Halloween Bigfoot gets chased around by busty older women making corny, horny jokes. It's too long at 75 ...

Fast X Blu-ray Review: It’s Still About Family

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 9, 2023

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 | Aug 8, 2023

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 | Aug 8, 2023

Swamp Thing (1982) written and directed by Wes Craven takes DC Comics main monster from the page to the silver ...

Kokomo City Movie Review: A Raw Portrait of Sex Work

By Davy | Aug 4, 2023

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 | Aug 3, 2023

Even by the admittedly low bar of plot development in classic movie musicals, this film’s story is so half-baked it ...

Assault on Hill 400 Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Throwback to ’40s and ’50s B Combat Movies

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 1, 2023

Assault on Hill 400 is loosely based on the 2nd Ranger Battalions valiant siege of Bergstein, Germany in 1944 as ...

East of Eden (1955) 4K Ultra HD Review: All Kinds of Perfection

By Greg Hammond | Jul 29, 2023

Elia Kazan’s movie version of John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden is a retelling of the Cain and Abel story. ...

The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Blu-ray Review: A Fitting Farewell

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 27, 2023

Created by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, The Venture Bros. ran for seven seasons on Adult Swim over 14 years ...

Cimarron (1931) Blu-ray Review: An Epic Western and a Product of Its Time

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 26, 2023

The Warner Archive Collection presents RKO Pictures' Cimarron directed by Wesley Ruggles, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, and ...

Soundies: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review: The Set Is Really a Lot of Fun

By Davy | Jul 25, 2023

Going through history, there's always hidden gems of pop culture that seem lost forever, whether it's film or television. However, ...

One False Move Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Southern Discomfort

By David Wangberg | Jul 24, 2023

Carl Franklin’s work is a blind spot for me, sad to say. While the acclaimed filmmaker has only a few ...

Sympathy for the Devil (2023) Movie Review: Ride Angry

By David Wangberg | Jul 24, 2023

It’s almost too on the nose that Nicolas Cage would star in a movie called Sympathy for the Devil, in ...

Star Pilot Blu-ray Review: Space Satire Points Finger at Self

By Greg Hammond | Jul 23, 2023

Pietro Francisci’s Star Pilot (2 + 5 Missione Hydra in Italian, 1966) stars Leonora Ruffo and Anthony Freeman, and begins ...

Four Quartets DVD Review: Magnetic, Mesmerizing Solo Stage Performance

By Steve Geise | Jul 22, 2023

While we spent our pandemic lockdowns doomscrolling, Zooming, and making bread, Ralph Fiennes decided to memorize the entirety of T.S. ...

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 4K Digital Review: All the Feels

By Steve Geise | Jul 18, 2023

After focusing on Star Lord’s family back story for the first two movies, writer/director James Gunn turns his attention to ...

Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 1 Blu-ray Review: A Good Start to Becoming a Cartoon Collector

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 13, 2023

Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 presents 20 Warner Brothers cartoons, 10 each from the 1940s and '50s. There are ...

The Truman Show 4K UHD Review: Prescient Dystopic Satire

By Kent Conrad | Jul 13, 2023

What's frightening about The Truman Show, a dystopic nightmare about the co-option of human experience and survival in a corporate ...

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 | Jul 12, 2023

Before Pink Floyd became stadium rock giants during the 1970s, they were at the forefront of the London psychedelic music ...

Invaders from Mars (1953) Blu-ray Review: Classic Science Fiction Gets the Royal Treatment

By Greg Hammond | Jul 11, 2023

Invaders from Mars (1953) concerns a young boy named David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt - who carries much of the film ...

The Rules of the Game Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: The Shooting Party

By Joe Keaton | Jul 10, 2023

On the brink of WWII, Jean Renoir—inspired by baroque music and an opera, Les Caprices de Marianne—took his collaborators to ...

Only in Theaters DVD Review: If You Love Movies, It’s a Must-see

By Davy | Jul 7, 2023

Ironically, watching last year's documentary Only In Theaters, filmed by Raphael Sbarge, I felt regret for doing so on DVD. ...

Clash of the Wolves / Where the North Begins Blu-ray Review: A Rin Tin Tin Double Feature

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 6, 2023

Kino Classics and the Library of Congress present a Rin Tin Tin double feature with Clash of the Wolves / ...

Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece / Tintin and the Blue Oranges Blu-ray Review

By Steve Geise | Jul 4, 2023

The iconic Belgian comic book character has been translated into many forms of media over the years, and now two ...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman DVD Review: Murakami Gets Animated

By Steve Geise | Jul 3, 2023

Writer/director/composer Pierre Földes stitches together unrelated Haruki Murakami short stories into a somewhat cohesive narrative in this animated feature film. ...