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Palm Trees and Power Lines Movie Review: A Disturbingly Common Premise Given a Modern Feel

By Davy | Feb 27, 2023

There are lots of films about the harsh realities of young adulthood, with emphasis on broken family dynamics, first love, ...

The Magnificent Seven (1960) 4K UHD Review: McQueen Rising

By Joe Keaton | Feb 26, 2023

It’s an Old West spin on a brilliant film, director Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. And hey, did it need to ...

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Blu-ray Review: Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast

By Steve Geise | Feb 24, 2023

London, 1968. It’s the height and epicenter of the Swinging Sixties, and hip housewife Mrs. Blossom (Shirley MacLaine) is content ...

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Dazed and Confused Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: School’s Out

By Joe Keaton | Feb 23, 2023

Dazed and Confused (1993; dir. Richard Linklater) circuits darkness: On the last day of school before the summer of 1976, ...

Ice Merchants Movie Review: A Heartrending Winner

By Davy | Feb 20, 2023

These days its amazing that filmmakers are still able to invent new ways to tell stories, especially those centering on ...

The Fabelmans Blu-ray Review: Steven Spielberg’s Cinema Paradiso

By David Wangberg | Feb 19, 2023

It’s hard to imagine what cinema would be like without Steven Spielberg’s presence. He’s the man who created the first ...

2023 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 17, 2023

Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...

Deadly Games Blu-ray Review: More Like Slays of Our Lives

By Joe Garcia III | Feb 17, 2023

Deadly Games (1982) is the passion project of writer/director Scott Mansfield and passions do play a large role in this odd ...

2023 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review

By Darcy Staniforth | Feb 16, 2023

Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...

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Francois Truffaut Collection Blu-ray Review: L’Enfant Tendre

By Joe Keaton | Feb 16, 2023

Director Francois Truffaut was a darling of French New Wave cinema. He left us some good movies. Unlike some of ...

The Final 19 Movie Review: A Riveting Account of a POW’s Experience

By David Wangberg | Feb 16, 2023

Dan Hefel knew he was going to be drafted eventually. With the Vietnam War intensifying, Hefel decided that it would ...

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Three Colors Trilogy Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Enigmatic Masterpieces About People Connecting

By Kent Conrad | Feb 15, 2023

The Three Colors of this film trilogy, Blue, White, and Red, are so-chosen for the French tri-color flag (sorry, U.S.A.) ...

Love on the Ground Blu-ray Review: Much Ado About Nothing

By Steve Geise | Feb 15, 2023

This 1984 French drama follows actors rehearsing a play, a time-worn concept of a show within a show dating back ...

2023 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films Review

By Davy | Feb 15, 2023

Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...

Emily Movie Review: Frances O’Connor’s Directorial Debut Soars to Wuthering Heights

By Steve Geise | Feb 13, 2023

First-time writer/director Frances O’Connor reimagines the final years of writer Emily Brontë’s life in this stunning period drama, heralding her ...

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Ghostriders Blu-ray Review: They Aren’t Just in the Sky!

By Joe Garcia III | Feb 11, 2023

MVD Visual brings to Blu-ray a refreshingly clear, remastered print of director/producer Alan Stewart’s Ghostriders (1987). A low budget action/horror ...

Let’s Hope It’s a Girl Blu-ray Review: Italian Film, Continental Cast

By Steve Geise | Feb 10, 2023

While this Italian film was a critical success in its native land in 1986, winning seven of its national awards ...

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The Bride Wore Black and Mississippi Mermaid Blu-rays Review: Truffaut Does Hitchcock

By Mat Brewster | Feb 9, 2023

For much of his career, Alfred Hitchcock was not taken seriously by the critical establishment. His films were hugely successful, ...

Irreversible: Straight Cut Movie Review: Still Remains an Exhaustive, Challenging Experience

By Davy | Feb 8, 2023

Director Gaspar Noe is one of the true cinematic enfant terribles. People love him or hate him, but there's also ...

Chicago: Limited Edition Blu-ray SteelBook Review: Rob Marshall Gives Audiences the Old Razzle Dazzle

By Lorna Miller | Feb 7, 2023

Musical theater is something that I have always enjoyed. It is often difficult to translate a spectacular and engaging play ...

That Man Bolt Blu-ray Review: That Man Hammer

By Steve Geise | Feb 7, 2023

At first glance, this movie seems to bear all the hallmarks of a blaxploitation classic: its prime 1973 release date, ...

Plane Movie Review: Gerard Butler Leads a Satisfying Shoot-’em Up

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 6, 2023

Directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis, Plane is a satisfying shoot-'em up ...

Legion of Super-Heroes Blu-ray Review: A Fun Superhero Adventure Geared Towards a Younger Audience

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 4, 2023

Listed as part of the Tomorrowverse line of animated DC movies, Legion of Super-Heroes has the feel of a pilot ...

White Woman (1933) Blu-ray Review: Certainly Watchable but Not Much More Than That

By Mat Brewster | Feb 3, 2023

In the early 1930s, Paramount Pictures made a name for itself by making films with beautiful women in exotic settings. ...

Men at Work Blu-ray Review: Put Away the Vegemite. It’s Not the Band from a Land Down Under

By Joe Garcia III | Feb 1, 2023

From writer-director Emilio Estevez comes Men at Work (1990), a misguided way to get him and his brother Charlie Sheen ...

Violent Night Blu-ray Review: Can’t Say They Didn’t Warn You

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 31, 2023

Director Tommy Wirkola's Violent Night opens with Santa (David Harbour) having grown disillusioned with his job, bringing to mind Rankin/Bass' ...

Bones and All Blu-ray Review: A Heartbreaking and Accomplished Tale of Young Love

By Davy | Jan 28, 2023

There are some films that only come once in a lifetime; films that seem to come from an otherworldly stratosphere; ...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Wondrous Story about a Wondrous Storyteller by a Wondrous Filmmaker

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 15, 2023

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen has the distinction of being the sixth Gilliam-directed title (#1166) released by ...

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Blu-ray Review: A Look at How Things Look

By Davy | Jan 12, 2023

The male gaze in film has been problematic since the silent age. Sometimes directors (mostly male) unintentionally objectify women on ...

Darryl Jones: In the Blood DVD Review: The Man in the Stones’ Shadow

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 7, 2023

While not a well-known name, Darryl Jones is an integral component of the “Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band in the ...

Invaders from Mars (1953) Blu-ray Review: A Standout in the ’50s Sci-fi Genre

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 6, 2023

William Cameron Menzies's penultimate movie as director, Invaders from Mars (1953), tells the story of an alien invasion seen through ...

Black Adam Blu-ray Review: Legend, Vengeance, and the Kahndaqian Way

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 4, 2023

Black Adam is the 11th film in the DC Extended Universe franchise.The character first appeared in rival Fawcett Comics' Marvel ...

El Vampiro Negro (1953) Blu-ray Review: An Argentinian “M”

By Kent Conrad | Dec 30, 2022

Film noir as a genre is rather over-subscribed. It existed for a relatively brief period in the ‘40s and ‘50s ...

Cinema’s First Nasty Women Blu-ray Set Review: Thoughtfully Highlights Unknown Performers from Different Walks of Life

By Davy | Dec 29, 2022

When Donald Trump called opponent Hilary Clinton a "nasty woman" at a 2016 televised debate, the term came back to ...

Twilight (1998) Blu-ray Review: Mystery and Noir Fans Should Enjoy It

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 28, 2022

After adapting Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool (1994), starring Paul Newman, its screenwriter/director Robert Benton teamed with Russo to write the ...

The Banshees of Inisherin Movie Review: Simply Lovely

By David Wangberg | Dec 28, 2022

What could be better than watching two under-appreciated actors give it their all? It’s watching two under-appreciated actors give it ...

Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be Movie Review: Adventures in Real and Imagined Past

By Steve Geise | Dec 27, 2022

This thoroughly charming French animated feature takes a unique approach in its storytelling. Rather than solely recounting the fictional adventures ...

Halloween Ends Blu-ray Review: Rights Many of the Wrongs Committed by Halloween Kills

By Davy | Dec 26, 2022

2018's Halloween was basic but effective because it erased the bad taste left by many of the original franchise's questionable ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2022 – Movies Are Dreams, Doll, That You Never Forget

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 25, 2022

From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a hiatus, from 2017-2021, I have punctuated each year with an ever increasingly ...

Broker Movie Review: The Korean Shoplifters

By Steve Geise | Dec 23, 2022

Japanese writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his cinematic explorations outside his native land and language with this dysfunctional relationship drama set ...