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Bill & Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy Review: “Sorry. They Melvined Me.”

By Greg Hammond | Nov 12, 2024

Shout! Studios has released Bill & Ted’s Triumphant Trilogy (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray), including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, ...

Shotgun Stories Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Father Are Visited Upon the Children

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 12, 2024

Writer/director Jeff Nichols delivers a powerful feature-film debut with Shotgun Stories, a compelling tragic story about an extended-family feud that ...

Superman vs. The Elite Movie Review: Does Might Make Right?

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 9, 2024

Based on "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" in Action Comics #775 by Joe Kelly, who ...

Spider-Man (2002) Movie Review: A Spectacular Superhero Blockbuster

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 7, 2024

After decades stuck in development, director Sam Raimi was given the great responsibility of bringing Spider-Man to the silver screen ...

Dogra Magra Blu-ray Review: Matsumoto’s Swan Song

By Steve Geise | Nov 6, 2024

When a young man wakes up in an insane asylum with no memory of his past or his name, he ...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space 4K UHD Review: They Aren’t Klowning Around

By Mat Brewster | Nov 5, 2024

I like to imagine the Chiodo Brothers, writers, directors, and producers of Killer Klowns from Outer Space, were sitting around ...

Journey into Fear (1943) Blu-ray Review: A Briskly Paced, Espionage Thriller

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 2, 2024

Based upon Eric Ambler's 1940 novel of the same name, Journey into Fear (1943) is a Mercury Production directed by ...

Kingdom of the Spiders Blu-ray Review: A Notable Entry in the Eco-Horror Genre

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 31, 2024

During the eco-horror boom of the '70s, which saw movies like Empire of the Ants and The Food of the ...

Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories Blu-ray Box Set Review: Broodingly Atmospheric Revenge Stories

By Greg Hammond | Oct 31, 2024

Radiance Films has released a boxed set titled Daiei Gothic - Japanese Ghost Stories. The set includes three ghost stories ...

Lust (2017) DVD Review: Delightful, Low Budget Bloody Mind Screw

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 31, 2024

Written and directed by Severin Eskeland, Lust, aka Lyst, lures us down a familiar hallway then turns out the lights ...

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Movie Review: A Kind of Omniscience

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 30, 2024

Director Mark Cousins must love a challenge. The new documentary, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2024), attempts to bring a ...

Goodbye & Amen Blu-ray Review: Part Spy Thriller, Part Hostage Drama, Wholly Excellent

By Mat Brewster | Oct 30, 2024

Goodbye & Amen is a strange little film that twists a couple of genres together, not always successfully, but it ...

Separated Movie Review: Harm to the Children Was Part of the Point

By Greg Hammond | Oct 27, 2024

Errol Morris continues his streak of astonishingly edge-of-your-seat storytelling and filmmaking in his latest documentary, Separated, based on the book ...

Allonsanfan Blu-ray Review: The Revolution Is a Bit Dull, Actually

By Mat Brewster | Oct 27, 2024

After the downfall of Napoleon, Europe had to pick up the pieces and redraw the lines between countries. For quite ...

The Sting of Death (1990) Blu-ray Review: Love, Lies, and Madness

By Kent Conrad | Oct 25, 2024

The man has cheated on his wife. This is not in dispute. It has hurt her to her core. She ...

About Dry Grasses Blu-ray Review: Burns Like a Brush Fire

By Steve Geise | Oct 24, 2024

Samet is stuck in a rut. Consigned to a teaching job at a rural middle school in the Turkish hinterlands, ...

Through the Shadow (2015) DVD Review: A Gothic Spooker in the Classic Hollywood Tradition

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 23, 2024

Through the Shadow is Brazilian director/writer Walter Lima Jr.’s gritty remake of The Innocents (1961) and a reworking of the ...

A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Bedroom Farce

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 22, 2024

Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, Woody Allen's 11th film as writer/director is A Midsummer Night's Sex ...

Pursued (1947) Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Families Are Visited Upon the Children

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 21, 2024

Directed by Raoul Walsh, Pursued (1947) has the trappings of a western, but at its core, it is a family ...

Hanna-Barbera’s Superstars 10 Blu-ray Review: A Good Collection for Young Cartoon-Watchers

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 19, 2024

Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 collects 10 made-for-TV animated films that aired on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, a syndicated program that ...

Broken Oath Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Lady Snowblood

By Mat Brewster | Oct 18, 2024

Japanese author Kazuo Koike created and wrote the story for a manga called Lady Snowblood, about an orphan who grows ...

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 Blu-ray Review: DNotS 2 Is a DNR: Do Not Rewatch

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 17, 2024

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is brought to you by J.D. Feigelson, who wrote the original Dark Night of ...

American Movie 4K UHD Review: Film, Family, and Alcohol Abuse

By Kent Conrad | Oct 16, 2024

In its bare outline, American Movie is a documentary about a striving filmmaker. In the telling, it’s about addiction, family ...

The Boy and the Heron 4K UHD Review: Out of Retirement, Miyazaki Makes One of His Best Films

By Mat Brewster | Oct 16, 2024

After releasing The Wind Rises in 2013, acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from filmmaking. He was too ...

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 4K UHD Review: A Dream Release

By Mat Brewster | Oct 15, 2024

John Carpenter didn't invent the slasher genre with Halloween in 1978 but he certainly popularized it and solidified the formula. ...

A Quiet Place: Day One Blu-ray Review: A Successful Prequel

By Lorna Miller | Oct 14, 2024

Spooky movie season is upon on us and a viewing of A Quiet Place: Day One fits perfectly into my ...

Saturday Night (2024) Movie Review: Will the Revolution Be Televised?

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 12, 2024

In what could be described as “High Noon at Studio 8H,” director, producer, co-writer Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is a ...

Daytime Revolution (2024) Movie Review: When Counterculture Met Middle America

By Kit O'Toole | Oct 10, 2024

The date was February 14, 1972, and unsuspecting stay-at-home mothers sat down to watch an episode of the Mike Douglas ...

The Threat Blu-ray Review: Battle of Wits Royale

By Steve Geise | Oct 10, 2024

When two hardened death row inmates escape from prison, they come up with a fiendish kidnapping plot to get rich ...

Two Taoist Tales Blu-ray Review: Wild Supernatural Hong Kong Action

By Kent Conrad | Oct 9, 2024

Two Taoist Tales collects a pair of wildly ridiculous movies that involve monsters, demons, spells, and copious kung fu. It's ...

Conflict (1945) Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Classic

By Mat Brewster | Oct 5, 2024

Humphrey Bogart. Sydney Greenstreet. Warner Brothers circa 1945. Car crashes. Romance. The perfect murder. The psychology of guilt. Everything about ...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Horror Classic

By Mat Brewster | Oct 2, 2024

Fifty years ago this week, Tobe Hooper unleashed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the all-time greatest horror movies ...

Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 Review: A Heavy-Hitting, Hard Rock Performance

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 1, 2024

Frustrated working with the Deep Purple Mark III line-up, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore began recording with members of the band of ...

Touch (2024) Blu-ray Review: The Search for Past Love

By David Wangberg | Sep 29, 2024

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has recently been toying with several projects involving people against nature. Whether it’s The Deep, Everest, ...