Green Lantern: Beware My Power Blu-ray Review: An Action-packed, Enjoyable Adventure for John Stewart’s First Outing
By Gordon S. Miller |
Green Lantern: Beware My Power re-tells how John Stewart became the Green Lantern amidst a larger Justice League story. It ...
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo Blu-ray Review: A Made-for-TV Dud
By Rons Reviews |
This review is full of references that may be considered spoilers. Ultimately, there is nothing I can write that would ...
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Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon DVD Review: Insanity Ensues
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you're a fan of the ridiculous and over-the-top comedy of the Reno 911! series, your fandom will only grow in ...
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Flatliners (1990) 4K UHD Review: Visually Stimulating Psychological Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Doctors lead very exciting lives in movies. Every doctor I've known in real life has been a little dull. Intelligent, ...
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The Capote Tapes DVD Review: Other Voices Help Tell the Story of the Famous Author
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Capone Tapes is a documentary about the life of author Truman Capote (1924 – 1984). The titular tapes were ...
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Miami Blues Blu-ray Review: A Pastel Sleeper
By Joe Keaton |
Based on the great Charles Willeford novel, Miami Blues (1990; dir. George Armitage) is a darkly comedic neo-noir. It sports ...
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Edge of Sanity Blu-ray Review: Anthony Perkins as Dr. Jekyll and Jack ‘The Ripper’ Hyde
By Joe Garcia III |
Edge of Sanity (1988), starring Anthony Perkins and directed by Gérard Kikoïne, is a very 1980s take on Dr. Jekyll, ...
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Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen Blu-ray Review: An Absolute Delight All the Way Through
By Davy |
I have seen lots of documentaries about the making of cherished films, but only a few of them really impressed ...
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My Old School Movie Review: Something Is Rotten in Scotland
By Steve Geise |
In 1993, a 16-year-old boy named Brandon Lee enrolled at a secondary school in an upscale neighborhood in Scotland. A ...
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Taza, Son of Cochise Blu-ray Review: Rock Hudson as an Apache Chief
By Joe Garcia III |
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) is the highly fictionalized story of the Apache chief who takes over after his father’s ...
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands Blu-ray Review: Sexy, Funny, and Highly Entertaining
By Davy |
Brazilian cinema isn't always on my radar, but when I actually see a Brazilian film, I realize that there is ...
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The Nan Movie Review: Bad Grandma
By Steve Geise |
Before Catherine Tate gained recognition in the U.S. with her turns as a Doctor Who companion and a boss in ...
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Planet of the Vampires Blu-ray Review: A Low Budget Masterpiece
By Mat Brewster |
Mario Bava's work as a special effects designer and cinematographer before he became a director is apparent in all the ...
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Giallo Essentials [Black Edition] Blu-ray Box Set Review: Back in Black
By Steve Geise |
Arrow Video is back with their third limited-edition box set exploring three lesser-known giallo films from the early 1970s. In ...
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The Righteous Blu-ray Review: An Audacious First Film
By Mat Brewster |
A married couple grieving for their lost daughter. A stranger at the door asking for help. Then asking for something ...
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The Frisco Kid Blu-ray Review: A Rabbi and a Bank Robber Ride West
By Joe Garcia III |
A Rabbi and a bank robber board a train… that’s where things get really wacky in director Robert Aldrich’s The ...
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The Sacred Spirit Blu-ray Review: Mostly yet Unsuccessfully Weird
By Davy |
Sometimes I do admire a slow-burn film, but only when it's done right. It has to have enough style, characterization, ...
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Devil in a Blue Dress Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Denzel Washington Makes Solving Mysteries Look Easy
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Walter Mosley's 1990 novel of the same name, Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress is an engaging ...
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Martial Club Blu-ray Review: Come for the Action, Stay for the Moral Lessons
By Mat Brewster |
The more Shaw Brothers kung fu movies I watch the more I get into their grooves and understand their tropes. ...
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Desperate Hours Blu-ray Review: Hostage Thriller Boils Over
By Kent Conrad |
Desperate Hours is based on a classic thriller scenario: a family held hostage in their own home by a criminal. ...
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Hell High Blu-ray Review: Watching It Is Pure Hell
By Mat Brewster |
The slasher subgenre of horror was in serious decline in 1989. Audiences, even the very forgiving horror hounds, had grown ...
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender DVD Review: A Fun Essay
By Davy |
Sometimes I don't get Hollywood. It has an infamously tedious tendency to be really behind the times. It's not exactly ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VIII Blu-ray Review
By Mat Brewster |
The thing about film noir is that it is a genre without definition. Unlike something like westerns or science-fiction, genres ...
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The Deer King Movie Review: Beautiful, If Overly Complicated Fantasy
By Kent Conrad |
Van, the protagonist of The Deer King, is a big man. Probably the biggest in the salt mine where he's ...
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Adventures of Don Juan (1948) Blu-ray Review: Come in with Flynn
By Mat Brewster |
One of the great joys of becoming a classic film enthusiast is discovering an actor or actress and then immediately ...
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Boomerang (1992) Blu-ray Review: A Hilarious Film That Is Still Challenging Stereotypes
By Darcy Staniforth |
I remember seeing Boomerang in theaters when it first came out. I have seen it many times since and still ...
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Phil Lynott Songs For While I’m Away + Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town: Live at the Sydney Opera House October 1978 DVD Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mercury Studios has paired the 2020 documentary Phil Lynott: Songs For While I’m Away, which aired on BBC Two,with the ...
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Hero (1997) Blu-ray Review: The Heroic Return of Shaw Brothers
By Steve Geise |
This classic Hong Kong action movie has two big draws for me: a star turn by Takeshi Kaneshiro and direction ...
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The Brain from Planet Arous Blu-ray Review: It’s Kind of Fun
By Rons Reviews |
The wait is finally over! The Brain from Plant Arous has been released! Yes, on June 21st Film Detective released ...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era Blu-ray Review: A Wedding and a Funeral and More
By Gordon S. Miller |
Time marches on for the beloved characters of Downton Abbey as their second appearance on the silver screen delivers a ...
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Edge of Tomorrow 4K UHD Review: Groundhog D-Day
By Kent Conrad |
It is a strange time to look at a film that earned hundreds of millions at the box-office and wonder: ...
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American Werewolves Movie Review: Has the Vibe of a 1980’s Network Special About Cryptids
By Darcy Staniforth |
The independent production company Small Town Monsters is not afraid to explore topics in the worlds of the strange and ...
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Strawberry Mansion Blu-ray Review: Seek Out This Surrealistic, Genre-blending Film
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed and written by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley, Strawberry Mansion is a surrealistic, genre-blending story that takes viewers on ...
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Tribeca 2022 Interview: Producer Annalise Davis Talks Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
Producer Annalise Davis has been in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having worked on films such as The ...
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Panda! Go Panda! Blu-ray Review: Proto Totoro Anime Film
By Kent Conrad |
In my estimation, Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro is one of the greatest films ever made. It's an almost perfect fantasy ...
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Fire in the Sky Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Story
By Darcy Staniforth |
Even with news of UFOs and UAPs in the pages of The New York Times and in the halls of ...
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Blu-ray Review: It’s No Secret, This Movie Stinks
By David Wangberg |
If David Yates and J.K. Rowling are serious about their plan to make the Fantastic Beasts series into five movies, ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The DOC
By Darcy Staniforth |
In the rap and hip hop world, it's one thing to have confidence and ego about being one of the ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
There have been many films and television series that involve top-level characters carrying out orders to bomb a certain location ...
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One-Armed Boxer Blu-ray Review: Delivers a Nuttiness Desired in An Old Kung Fu Movie
By Mat Brewster |
A man walks into a bar and notices another man sitting at his table. He tells the man that he ...
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True Romance 4K UHD Review: Sick Love, Slick Film
By Kent Conrad |
True Romance isn't a Quentin Tarantino movie. His name is on the screenplay. It has many scenes which no other ...
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The Worst Person in the World Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Breathtakingly Honest
By Davy |
Seeing The Worst Person in the World, filmmaker Joachim Trier's breathtakingly honest and so in-the-moment take on relationships and finding ...
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The Beatles and India: An Enduring Love Affair Blu-ray Review
By Shawn Bourdo |
This new feature-length documentary directed by Ajoy Bose was released June 21, 2022 by MVD Visual on DVD and Blu-ray. ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine
By Davy |
Coming out of the closet for in one of the most difficult things that anyone in LGBTQ community ever has ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Katrina Babies
By David Wangberg |
There is no way that someone could direct a documentary such as Katrina Babies the same way if they had ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Blu-ray Review: Well Worth Watching to See Spencer Tracy Play Against Type
By Mat Brewster |
Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was originally sold as a penny dreadful and ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: A Rising Fury
By David Wangberg |
Starting with the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2013, and leading up to the current invasion from Russia, A Rising ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Visitor
By David Wangberg |
After spending time in jail for “alcoholism,” Humberto (Enrique Araoz) is three years sober and ready to restart his life ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
By David Wangberg |
Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), or “Joe” as some call him, is not the kind of man you would think could ...
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The Initiation of Sarah Blu-ray Review: A Made-for-TV Carrie Rip-Off
By Mat Brewster |
In 1976, Brian De Palma released the supernatural horror movie, Carrie. Based upon Stephen King's first published novel of the ...
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