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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Licorice Pizza Movie Review: Heart Like a Wheel
By Joe Keaton |
Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, Licorice Pizza, is a warm screwball comedy, and his second unqualified success in a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Gambit (1966) Blu-ray Review: A Larcenous Lark
By Joe Keaton |
In director Ronald Neame’s caper flick, Gambit (1966; 109 mins.), a British cat burglar, Harry Dean (Michael Caine), teams with ...
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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). ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Prince of the City Blu-ray Review: The NYPD Blues
By Joe Keaton |
In Prince of the City (1981; dir. Sidney Lumet), everything about drug enforcement is crooked—and that’s the way it’s supposed ...
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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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Dune (2021) Blu-ray Review: Although Half the Story, Denis Villeneuve Delivers an Entertaining Science Fiction Spectacle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Denis Villeneuve wisely chose to only adapt the first half of Frank Herbert's landmark novel Dune, even though the ...
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Ragtime (1981) Blu-ray Review: The Movie Needed to be Shorter or Longer to Succeed
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel of the same name, Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981) is set in the turn of ...
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Disciples of Shaolin Blu-ray Review: Socially Conscious Kung Fu
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a kid one of the local television stations used to run what they called Kung Fu Theater ...
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Out of the Blue Movie Review: Into the Black
By Joe Keaton |
As a director, Dennis Hopper used to strike me as a case study on how not to direct. His breakout ...
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Shadow of the Thin Man Blu-ray Review: Bask in the Laughs and Intrigue
By Gordon S. Miller |
Shadow of the Thin Man is the fourth title in the six-film series featuring the detective team of Nick (William ...
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Live at Mister Kelly’s DVD Review: A History of Chicago Told Through a Nightclub
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Theodore Bogosian's Live at Mister Kelly's tells the story of Mister Kelly's, a famous Chicago nightclub, which existed on ...
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High Sierra Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Raoul Walsh Tells a Story Twice
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on W. R. Burnett's second novel, director Roaul Walsh's High Sierra (1941) is a captivating crime drama notable for ...
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Giallo Essentials [Yellow Edition] Blu-ray Review: Masked Killers, Disrobed Victims
By Steve Geise |
Arrow Video’s second box set collection of giallo classics is now available, arriving less than a month after the first ...
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The Old Fashioned Way / It’s a Gift / The Bank Dick Blu-rays Review: A Trio of W. C. Fields Comedies from KL Studio Classics
By Gordon S. Miller |
W. C. Fields got his start in vaudeville as a juggler. He went on to create an iconic comic persona, ...
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The Learning Tree Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Semi-Autobiographical Story from Gordon Parks
By Davy |
There have been so many films about growing up where characters (mostly youth) deal with first love, family issues, peer ...
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World Series 2021 Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Almost All the Highlights and Footage a Fan Could Ask For
By Todd Karella |
Growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, we didn’t have a local MLB team, and it ...
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The Last of Sheila Blu-ray Review: A Stylish Whodunnit
By Elizabeth Periale |
Fans of games, puzzles, and mysteries will enjoy the 1973 film The Last of Sheila. Written by the dynamic duo ...
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Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People Movie Review: Punk is NOT Dead
By Kent Conrad |
Angeli is an apparently extremely famous cartoonist in Brazil. He has created several iconic characters that are, and combined shock ...
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Review: An Amazing Movie from the MCU Spider-Verse
By Gordon S. Miller |
To paraphrase the Spider-Man comics, with great characters comes great responsibility and the Sony/Marvel partnership has met that challenge by ...
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To What Remains Movie Review: A Moving and Beautiful Story
By Darcy Staniforth |
My brother Robert is a combat veteran. He served as a tank gunner in the U.S. Army during the Gulf ...
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Krampus: The Naughty Cut 4K Ultra HD Review: Anti-Santa Extended Edition
By Kent Conrad |
A fan of folklore often feels a pang of loss when one of the creatures or legends you cherish suddenly ...
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Harold and Maude Blu-ray Review: Funeral Freak Flag
By Joe Keaton |
A cult comedy, Harold and Maude (1971; 91 minutes; dir. Hal Ashby) tries a mite too hard to be unusual. ...
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Angels with Dirty Faces Blu-ray Review: A Seminal Gangster Classic
By Davy |
James Cagney was one of the great actors of his time, and for all-time. He had a scowl that would ...
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain DVD Review: Not the Biopic That Some Might Think
By Darcy Staniforth |
I have had to sit for a while figuring out how to write about and review Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony ...
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West Side Story (2021) Movie Review: Spielberg Keeps It Real
By Steve Geise |
In Steven Spielberg’s vision of 1950s New York City, the West Side resembles a bombed-out warzone. That’s largely due to ...
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It’s a Wonderful Life Blu-ray Review: A Wonderful Film with an Interesting 75th Anniversary Release
By Rons Reviews |
It's a Wonderful Life endures as a Christmas classic after 75 years, though it has taken a backseat to more ...
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