Parasite (2019) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Rich Fam, Poor Fam
By David Wangberg |
One of the hardest things for a filmmaker to do is blend multiple genres together and do it so seamlessly. ...
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The Deeper You Dig Blu-ray Review: A Terrific Low-budget Horror
By Mat Brewster |
In a small, dark bar, in a small New York hamlet, Kurt (John Adams) eats a grubby little dinner and ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: My Psychedelic Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
(L-R): Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith in MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY. Photo Credit: Joanna Harcourt-Smith/Courtesy of SHOWTIME. My Psychedelic Love ...
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The Gunfighter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Price of Fame
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set in the Southwest Territory of the 1880s, a Texan named Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) was known the fastest gun. ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: Belushi
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set to air November 22 on Showtime, R.J. Cutler's Belushi is a standard biographical documentary that tells the regrettably all-too-familiar ...
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The Mothman Legacy Movie Review: For an Audience New to the Legend
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you grew up in a town that has local legends, you no doubt grew up hearing the stories that ...
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Graveyards of Honor Blu-ray Review: Grim Yakuza Renegade Dramas
By Kent Conrad |
Both Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike were unlikely survivors in their different eras of Japanese cinema. They both were highly ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: Wolfwalkers
By Gordon S. Miller |
Made by the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s Wolfwalkers is the third in Moore's Irish ...
Read More Seat 20D Movie Review: Suse Lowenstein Shines a Light with Her Sculpture ‘Dark Elegy’
By Darcy Staniforth |
Do you remember where you were when you learned that your life had just changed forever? Perhaps it was when ...
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The Forty-Year-Old Version Movie Review: A Winningly Profound Directorial Debut
By Matthew St.Clair |
The benefit of artistic expression is that it allows artists to vent their frustrations. Whether it’s through a script, a ...
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Warning from Space Blu-ray Review: Starmen Waiting in the Sky
By Kent Conrad |
All science fiction is dated. Even the most up-to-the-minute, forward-looking piece of work is still a work of its time, ...
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Claudine Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Ahead of Its Time
By Davy |
In the 1970s, the blaxploitation genre of film exploded, and it was usually centered on stories of masculine black men, ...
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Batman: Death in the Family Interactive Movie Review: Ready Viewer One
By Gordon S. Miller |
A sequel to the animated film Batman: Under The Red Hood, which I previously reviewed, Batman: Death in the Family is an animated film ...
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Totally Under Control Movie Review: Timely and Timeless
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar The obligation while reviewing documentaries that has always challenged and fascinated me is to create ...
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Pierrot le Fou Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Still Feels Modern and Fresh
By Davy |
The legendary and unclassifiable filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is reaching his 90th birthday this year (in just two months from now), and ...
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A Rainy Day in New York Movie Review: Woody Allen Covers Overly Familiar Ground
By Gordon S. Miller |
A Rainy Day in New York is Woody Allen's 48th feature film as writer/director and is finally making its way ...
Read More Ivansxtc Blu-ray Review: Extremely Modern and Dead-on
By Cinema Sentries |
Obviously, I don't have any experience of Hollywood, but seeing films and TV shows about it through my ordinary eyes, ...
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Momma’s Man Blu-ray Review: A True American Independent Original
By Davy |
We all have moments of reflections and uncertainty, whether we are so eager to grow up into adults, or when ...
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Focus Features 10-Movie Spotlight Collection Blu-ray Review
By Mat Brewster |
Last week I reviewed a 10-film collection from Blumhouse Productions, a relatively young studio that specializes in low budget films. This ...
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First Cow Blu-ray Review: Striking Gold and Finding Friendship
By David Wangberg |
This tumultuous year saw several films see a brief theatrical release before being pulled altogether. Unless it was something that ...
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Possessor Movie Review: Layered with Terror
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar When someone asks me what a film is about, I'm often puzzled whether to share ...
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Airplane! Blu-ray Review: Surely, It Hasn’t Been 40 Years
By Gordon S. Miller |
The seventh title in the “Paramount Presents” line is Airplane!, a hysterical send-up of the disaster-film genre, and specifically Zero Hour! (1957), which writers/directors ...
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Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo! DVD Review: Good on Many Levels
By Shawn Bourdo |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the DVD reviewed in this Blog Post. The ...
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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3 Criterion Collection Box Set Review
By Steve Geise |
Legendary writer/director and noted film buff Martin Scorsese established The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in 2007 to restore and ...
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Split Second (1992) Blu-ray Review: Blade Runner and Alien’s Stupid Baby
By Kent Conrad |
Stealing the antagonist from one Ridley Scott movie and the world building (and star) from another, Split Second could have been a ...
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Little Monsters (Vestron Video Collector’s Series) Blu-ray Review: A Fun Romp for Children
By Gordon S. Miller |
Richard Alan Greenberg's Little Monsters (1989) is definitely a kid's film. Not a family film nor a film for young children, but ...
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Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile (2004) Blu-ray Review: Poirot Solves Multiple Murders
By Elizabeth Periale |
Acorn Media has released on Blu-ray Death on the Nile, starring David Suchet as the ingenious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It ...
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Blumhouse of Horrors 10-Movie Collection Blu-ray Review: A Mixed Bag
By Mat Brewster |
For over a decade now, Blumhouse Productions has specialized in making small budget films, mostly horror, that give their directors ...
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The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels Live (Atlantic City, NJ, 1989) DVD Review: Sucking in the ’80s
By Joe Keaton |
In 1989, the Rolling Stones returned to the stage from a seven-year touring hiatus. They needn't have bothered. Ok, so ...
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Variety (1983) Blu-ray Review: A Revealing Character Study of a Woman Rediscovering Herself
By Davy |
Usually, films about female sexual awakening and newfound sexuality are often told from the point-of-view of male directors. I'm not ...
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Flash Gordon (1980) 4K Ultra HD Review: Garish and Spirited Comic Action
By Kent Conrad |
George Lucas's inspirations for Star Wars were many. He was a voracious reader of golden age science fiction, and picked elements he ...
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TIFF 2020 Review: Get the Hell Out Is an Incredibly Bonkers Zombie Comedy
By Matthew St.Clair |
To put it bluntly, Get the Hell Out is a lot. A lot of storyline and thematic material rolled into one adrenaline-fueled ...
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TIFF 2020 Review: Violation Mixes Heavy-Handed Symbolism with Harrowing Trauma
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Violation first opens, it shows a wolf observing its dying prey. Accompanied by an ominous score, the opening sequence provides a ...
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Black Test Car + The Black Report Blu-ray Review: Japanese Businessman Noir
By Kent Conrad |
One of the enduring images of contemporary Japanese culture is the salaryman. The rather anonymous guy in the suit who ...
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Shivers Blu-ray Review: My Favorite Horror Film Ever
By Davy |
David Cronenberg, the master of "Body Horror", has more than any other director in the history of cinema, expertly showcased, ...
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Ronnie Wood: Somebody Up There Likes Me Movie Review
By Jade Blackmore |
“I never got beyond 29 in my head,” Ronnie Wood says at the beginning of the documentary Somebody Up There Likes ...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Emotionally Captivating
By David Wangberg |
Listed as one of the 1,001 movies you need to see before you die, Christ Stopped at Eboli is a film of ...
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Pitch Black 4K Ultra HD Review: Riddick Starts Here
By Kent Conrad |
Pitch Black was released in 2000, and it feels very much like the last science fiction action film of the '90s. ...
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Roman Holiday Blu-ray Review: Audrey Hepburn Epitomizes Charm in Italian Locations
By Elizabeth Periale |
Paramount Home Entertainment has released the 1953 Hollywood classic film Roman Holiday for the first time on Blu-ray and it's about time. ...
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Weathering with You Blu-ray Review: Anime Girls Make the Rain Stop
By Kent Conrad |
In a 2021 Tokyo that is drenched with constant rainfall, there's a rumor going around about a so-called Sunshine girl: ...
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Beau Travail Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Mysterious, Haunting, and Transformative
By Davy |
The great and visionary director Claire Denis is one the greatest cinematic poets of our time. She's a provocative and ...
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The Devil All the Time Movie Review: Actors Elevate Excessively Grim Crime Drama
By Matthew St.Clair |
As William Shakespeare famously wrote in his play The Tempest, “Hell is empty. And all the devils are here.” Words that ...
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Superman: Man of Tomorrow Blu-ray Review: A Hero Grows in Metropolis
By Gordon S. Miller |
Superman: Man of Tomorrow presents viewers a young Clark Kent (Darren Criss) as he heads from Smallville to Metropolis, knowing little ...
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Pizza, A Love Story Movie Review: A Loving Tribute to New Haven’s Tomato Pie
By Elizabeth Periale |
Pizza wasn't invented in New Haven. It was perfected there. That's the tagline to MVD Entertainment Group's Pizza, A Love Story, ...
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Beyond the Visible – Hilma af Klint Blu-ray Review: An Artist for the Ages
By Elizabeth Periale |
The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings, and with great force. I had no idea what ...
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Brute Force & The Naked City Criterion Collection Blu-ray Reviews: A Jules Dassin Double Feature
By Mat Brewster |
There are over 1,000 movies in the Criterion Collection, these are two of them. Jules Dassin has five films thus ...
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The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K UHD Review: Four Masterworks of Suspense
By Kent Conrad |
Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense, but that's too limited a title for him. Where his talents ...
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We Bare Bears: The Movie DVD Review: A Satisfying Send-Off
By David Wangberg |
Warner Bros Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the DVD reviewed in this Blog Post. The ...
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A Stranger Among Us Blu-ray Review: A Shiksa Cop Out of Water
By Elizabeth Periale |
A Stranger Among Us is a strange film. At times a crime thriller, a romance, a fish-out-of-water story, and a golden-toned ...
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Entwined Movie Review: An Ingenious yet Underdeveloped Horror Pic
By Matthew St.Clair |
When our main protagonist Panos (Prometheus Aleiferopoulos) enters the ominous town of Alyti, he's informed that he's the only and ...
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