Union Pacific Blu-ray Review: The Great Train Epic
By Mat Brewster |
Westerns love trains. Almost as much as they love horses and saloons. There are westerns where a stranger comes to ...
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No Time For Love Blu-ray Review: No Time for Colbert and MacMurray
By Mat Brewster |
Coming off the huge success of It Happened One Night (1934), Paramount quickly began looking for another romantic comedy for ...
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Godzilla vs. Kong Blu-ray Review: Clash of the Titans
By Gordon S. Miller |
Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth entry in the Monsterverse franchise, taking place three years after the events of Godzilla: ...
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Nine Days Movie Review: A Soul-Stirring Piece of Minimalist Science Fiction
By Matthew St.Clair |
Like any sci-fi masterpiece, Nine Days offers escapism with its fantastical concept while providing insightful commentary on ways of the ...
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Vengeance Trails: 4 Classic Westerns Blu-ray Review: Proving There’s More to Spaghetti Westerns than Sergio Leone
By Mat Brewster |
The western was one of the more prominent genres of American cinema from the 1930s through the 1950s. As it ...
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The Dead Zone (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Film
By Shawn Bourdo |
The Dead Zone Collector's Edition (Scream Factory) "In his mind he has the power to see the future / In ...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4K Ultra HD Review: Dario Argento’s Debut Giallo
By Kent Conrad |
Dario Argento is one of those "stylish" directors who, at some point in his career, allowed the style to completely ...
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Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One Blu-ray Review: Gotham for the Holidays
By Gordon S. Miller |
Batman The Long Halloween, Part One is the first of a two-part home-video release based on the 13-issue comic book ...
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Thunderbolt Blu-ray Review: A Snooze-fest of Sound and Shadow
By Joe Keaton |
A remake of his earlier gangster film Underworld (1927), director Josef von Sternberg’s Thunderbolt (1929) is his first talkie. Even ...
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It Happened at the World’s Fair Blu-ray Review: It Probably Shouldn’t Have
By Steve Geise |
Elvis Presley starred in dozens of films in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and many of them were quite entertaining. This ...
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Baise Moi Blu-ray Review: This Movie Didn’t Win Me Over
By Davy |
When it comes to seeking out new films to watch, I sometimes let my curiosity get the better of me. ...
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Hail to the Deadites Movie Review: Evil Dead’s Biggest Fans
By Kent Conrad |
Horror movie fanatics are a different breed. They've attached themselves to a genre, and usually one film or series in ...
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game Blu-ray Review: Almost a Home Run
By Steve Geise |
Now that it’s mid-summer, it’s peak time to enjoy the national pastime: baseball…in musical form. Warner Archive rounds the bases ...
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Deep Cover Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Review: Neo-Noir with a Message
By Mat Brewster |
Russell Stevens (Laurence Fishburne) is a good cop. He's also a black man. And a good, black cop is exactly ...
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Pickup on South Street Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Sam Fuller Blends Film Noir with a Cold War Spy Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Samuel Fuller directed and wrote the screenplay for Pickup on South Street, a movie that blends film noir with a ...
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Shenandoah Blu-ray Review: Indifference in a Time of War
By Mat Brewster |
Charlie Anderson (James Stewart) is a good man. He's built a big, beautiful farm in Virginia. He's raised six sons ...
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Dead & Buried (1981) 4K Ultra HD Limited Edition Review: Uncovered ’80s Horror Gem
By Kent Conrad |
Dead & Buried takes place in a small town, which is always bad news in a horror movie. Those are ...
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I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes Blu-ray Review: Limp Mystery Noir
By Kent Conrad |
There's a tendency amongst enthusiasts of film noir to use it as a badge of quality. If some old movie ...
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Last Train from Gun Hill Blu-ray Review: Variation on a Western Theme
By Gordon S. Miller |
Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn star are as former friends who become formidable foes over family in director John Sturges's ...
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An American in Paris: The Musical Blu-ray Review: C’est Bon
By Steve Geise |
As live musicals shut down during the pandemic, recorded performances stepped in to help fill the entertainment void. The 2014 ...
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain Movie Review: A Wonderful Tribute, Albeit One Tinged with Sadness
By Gordon S. Miller |
Documentarian Morgan Neville has won an Academy Award and Grammy Award for 20 Feet from Stardom, has won and Emmy ...
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Years of Lead Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set Review: Transforms Lead into Gold
By Steve Geise |
When most film fans think of Italian genre films of the 1970s, the first term that comes to mind is ...
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Explorers Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Kids in Space
By Gordon S. Miller |
The success of family-friendly, space fantasy films like George Lucas's Star Wars franchise and Steven Spielberg's E.T. led to wave ...
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The Gilded Lily Blu-ray Review: Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray’s First Team-Up
By Mat Brewster |
By the time The Gilded Lily was made in 1935, Claudette Colbert was a huge star. She'd gained notoriety in ...
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Punk the Capital Blu-ray Review: Building a Sound Movement
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you are a punk or a fan of punk and hardcore, you know the importance of Washington DC in the ...
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Major Dundee Blu-ray Review: Get Whipped and Bury Your Dead
By Joe Keaton |
Director Sam Peckinpah was a few things: a drunk, misogynist boor; an auteur who was always getting screwed by the ...
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Black Widow (2021) Movie Review: Back in the MCU
By Gordon S. Miller |
After making her first appearance in Iron Man 2 and sacrificing herself for half the universe in Avengers: Endgame, Natasha ...
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British Noir III DVD Review: A Nice but Slight Look into the Genre
By Mat Brewster |
Film noir seems like the quintessential American genre. The French term literally means black film and was used as a ...
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It Happened on 5th Avenue Blu-ray Review: Thoroughly Charming Happenstance
By Steve Geise |
You know how sometimes you stumble across a movie you had no intention of watching but end up really liking ...
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My Little Chickadee Blu-ray Review: A Delightful Romp Worth Seeing Some Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
My Little Chickadee is one of nine films starring Mae West that Kino Lorber Studio Classics released at the end ...
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Irezumi Blu-ray Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman
By Steve Geise |
A wealthy merchant’s daughter becomes a murderous geisha after receiving a huge back tattoo of a spider. At a glance, ...
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World of Wong Kar Wai Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: What a Wonderful World
By Steve Geise |
Wong Kar Wai burst into the international film scene in the 1980s and has remained an icon ever since. While ...
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Fool for Love Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Father Revisited
By Gordon S. Miller |
During the '80s, director Robert Altman made a series of six films that were based on plays. One was Sam ...
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Werewolves Within Movie Review: A Hair-Raising Horror-Comedy
By Matthew St.Clair |
Werewolves are more than just humans that turn into creatures under the shiny full moon. They’re also a manifestation of ...
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Madame Curie Blu-ray Review: Geniuses Oblivious to Their Attraction
By Steve Geise |
Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon portray the Curies in this biographical film about the early career of the discoverer of ...
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Irezumi (1966) Blu-ray Review: Revenge and Obsession
By Kent Conrad |
"Irezumi" is the Japanese word for a style of tattooing. It employs the use of a long wooden-handled needle that ...
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Ziegfeld Follies Blu-ray Review: Two Hours of Follies, Half Hour of Jollies
By Steve Geise |
While movie musicals typically follow a paper-thin plot as a device to string together their songs, this oddity ditches the ...
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John Wayne Essential 14-Movie Collection DVD Review: A Good Sampling of the Duke’s Work
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Wayne appeared in 169 feature length films over his 50-year career as an actor. The 14 films in this ...
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Years of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers (1973-1977) Blu-ray Review: A Great Overview of the Poliziotteschi Genre
By Mat Brewster |
The Italian Giallo is generally considered to be a subgenre of horror. This makes plenty of sense as they are ...
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Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection 4K Ultra HD Box Set Review: Dolby Atmos to the Rescue
By Steve Geise |
Just in time for this month’s 40th anniversary of the theatrical debut of Indiana Jones, this new box set presents ...
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The Stylist Blu-ray Review: Director Jill Gevargizian Is out to Change the Horror Genre
By Davy |
Unfortunately, the film industry still continues to overlook the cinematic accomplishments of females, and that also includes horror movies. In ...
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There Was a Crooked Man… Blu-ray Review: Revisionist Western Could Have Used a Few More Revisions
By Mat Brewster |
The western is, perhaps, the most malleable and everlasting American film genre. Though it has certainly been in decline for ...
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Just a Gigolo Blu-ray Review: Bowie and Dietrich Make the Best of a Misfire
By Steve Geise |
This Berlin-set film arrived at an opportune time in David Bowie’s career, since he was living in the city for ...
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Grizzly Blu-ray Review: Jaws with Claws Has Flaws
By Gordon S. Miller |
Producer David Sheldon gleefully announces in an extra that Grizzly was the first to follow in the footsteps of Jaws. ...
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Mission: Impossible (25th Anniversary Limited Edition) Blu-ray Review: MacGuffin Royale
By Joe Keaton |
In the summer of 1996, Paramount Pictures brought three TV shows that originated in the 1960s to the big screen: ...
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Escape from Fort Bravo Blu-ray Review: A Serviceable B-western Undercut by Its Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Sturges' Escape from Fort Bravo sets a love triangle within a Civil War-era western, but the limited development of ...
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King Kong (1976) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Special Effects Marvel
By Gordon S. Miller |
After appearing in two Toho Studios-produced films during the 1960s, the character of King Kong returned to the silver screen ...
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Tove Movie Review: Moomin Mama Makes Her Mark
By Steve Geise |
Tove Jansson rose to international fame thanks to her creation of the iconic Moomin characters. Although she passed away 20 ...
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The Amusement Park Movie Review: George A. Romero’s Lost Film on the Horrors of Old Age
By Jade Blackmore |
In the late 20th Century, several religious organizations sponsored dramatic TV shows. These shows ran as religious or public service programming, ...
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Drunken Master II Blu-ray Review: Pinnacle Chan Martial Arts
By Kent Conrad |
The fun of any of Jackie Chan's early Chinese movies is in the thrill of seeing someone doing something potentially ...
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