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Long Day’s Journey into Night (2018) Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful Dream

By Mat Brewster | Dec 18, 2019

You gotta love marketers. They can make you lots of money and screw you at the same time. Bi Gan's ...

One Child Nation Movie Review: Harsh and Distressing Because It Is Real

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 17, 2019

Written by Ram Venkat Srikar The more brutal and tragic our world gets, the deeper and interesting the films based ...

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection Blu-ray Review: Becoming a Master

By Mat Brewster | Dec 17, 2019

From a very early age, Alfred Hitchcock knew he wanted to be in the filmmaking business. He read the trade ...

Christmas in July Blu-ray Review: A Gift in Any Month

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 16, 2019

Christmas in July, the second outing for Preston Sturges as a writer/director, is based on his play A Cup of Coffee. Despite ...

6 Underground Movie Review: Michael Bay All over the Place

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 16, 2019

Written by Ram Venkat Srikar I've always admired people who defeat their inhibitions and fully embrace what they want to ...

Old Joy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Quite Reflective and Moving

By Davy | Dec 15, 2019

Director Kelly Reichardt has become one of my favorite directors. She is one of the very few maverick filmmakers of ...

The Report Movie Review: A Story That Needs to Be Told

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 14, 2019

Written by Ram Venkat Srikar When we see a film or documentary which closely observes a real person or an ...

The Anne Bancroft Collection Blu-ray Review: Prepare to Be Seduced

By Mat Brewster | Dec 13, 2019

Anne Bancroft landed her first film role in 1952 as a lounge singer in Don't Bother to Knock. For the next ...

Hustlers (2019) Blu-ray Review: Hustles the Audience

By Steve Geise | Dec 13, 2019

Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows a group of conniving strippers as they turn the tables on their clients for illicit ...

Marriage Story Movie Review: A Story of an Extremely Competitive Couple on the Verge of Separation

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 12, 2019

Written by Sai Sagar Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story starts with the over-the-top dramatic score by Randy Newman and then enters the star ...

Road Games (1981) Blu-ray Review: Today’s Roadkill, Tomorrow’s Bacon

By Joe Keaton | Dec 12, 2019

From scene one of Road Games, the film grabs us. There is an extended moment, however, when we realize we are ...

Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator Movie Review: A Minimalistic yet Potent Documentation

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 11, 2019

Written by Ram Venkat Srikar When a news anchor displays disbelief in his claims of sleeping less than 30 hours ...

Bombshell (2019) Movie Review: A Well-Acted Yet Slightly Empty Procedural Drama

By Matthew St.Clair | Dec 11, 2019

Given how Bombshell has a seriocomic tone, depicts conservative media figures, and is written by Oscar-winner Charles Randolph who collaborated with Adam ...

Millennium Actress Blu-ray Review: Animated Japanese Film Fantasia

By Kent Conrad | Dec 10, 2019

It's a love letter to film, a historical overview of early to mid-century Japan, and a biography of an actress ...

The Fly Collection Blu-ray Review: Be Excited, Be Very Excited to Own This

By Mat Brewster | Dec 9, 2019

It is a deceptively simply story. A man invents a machine that can instantly teleport matter from one place to ...

The Goldfinch Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful but Messy Underachievement

By Cinema Sentries | Dec 8, 2019

Written by Michael Frank Every few years, a book comes along that everyone reads. Every book club picks it as ...

The Fan (1981) Blu-ray Review: Bloody ’80s Stalking Thriller

By Kent Conrad | Dec 7, 2019

The Fan was made in 1981. It's about a deranged man who kills people. He uses a special weapon to do ...

I’ll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd DVD Review

By Jade Blackmore | Dec 6, 2019

I'll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours Of Lynyrd Skynyrd is the second recent documentary about Southern rock band Lynyrd ...

Knives and Skin Movie Review: A Wonderfully Hazy Suburban Nightmare

By Matthew St.Clair | Dec 5, 2019

When looking at just the title for Knives and Skin, one might understandably expect a fair amount of violence to be ...

63 UP Movie Review: The Best Reality Show of All Time

By Steve Geise | Dec 4, 2019

Decades before we were deluged with a never-ending stream of “reality” TV shows, a British TV crew selected a group ...

All About Eve Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: All the World’s a Stage

By Steve Geise | Dec 3, 2019

Best Picture Oscar winners don't always age well, but as All About Eve approaches its 70th anniversary, it's every bit as entertaining ...

Jake Speed Blu-ray Review: When Indiana Jones and Brendan Fraser Aren’t Available, Call Jake Speed

By Mat Brewster | Dec 3, 2019

My mother likes to call the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies “a poor man's Indiana Jones.” What she means is that both series ...

Now, Voyager Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Superior Tearjerker

By Davy | Dec 2, 2019

With her saucer eyes, unparalled intensity, and unbridled non-vanity, Bette Davis has been and still is regarded as one of ...

The Fare Blu-ray Review: Groundhog Day in a Cab

By Mat Brewster | Dec 1, 2019

A taxicab driver named Harris (Gino Anthony Pese) gets a call to pick up someone in the middle of nowhere. ...

Funan Blu-ray Review: A Genocide Through the Eyes of One Family

By Mat Brewster | Nov 30, 2019

In the mid to late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia as one of the most brutal regimes in modern ...

Queen & Slim Movie Review: A Poetic Form of Protest Art

By Matthew St.Clair | Nov 28, 2019

Among the various music videos that director Melina Matsoukas has made, the one for “Formation” by Beyonce is easily one ...

Prophecy Blu-ray Review: Bear Loaf

By Joe Keaton | Nov 27, 2019

It was not supposed to turn out like this. For years, the Pitney lumber mill in Maine soaked its river-borne ...

The Circus Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Tramp Plays the Big Top

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 26, 2019

Made between his classic films The Gold Rush and City Lights, Charlie Chaplin's The Circus presents an entertaining outing for the Tramp who once again ...

Thor Movie Review: God of Boring

By Mat Brewster | Nov 24, 2019

Before I became a bonafide fan of the MCU, I watched their movies whenever I got around to it. Sometimes ...

Hitch Hike to Hell Blu-ray Review: Put Your Thumb Down and Run

By Mat Brewster | Nov 22, 2019

If you are a fan of Netflix's excellent series Mindhunter, then you may feel a sense of familiarity with Howard (Robert Gribbin), ...

Road Games Blu-ray Review: A Rear Windowesque Road Movie

By Davy | Nov 21, 2019

The Ozploitation era during the early '70s throughout the '80s had unleashed films with modest budgets, horror/comedy/action elements, nudity (mostly ...

AFI Fest 2019 Review: The Apollo

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 21, 2019

Roger Ross Williams's The Apollo opens with a performance in progress as Joe Morton reads to an audience at the theater and ...

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Blu-ray Review: Musical Parody Mostly Amusing

By Kent Conrad | Nov 19, 2019

Comedy, like horror, is largely critic-proof, because the power of the genre lies in an immediate emotional reaction. You get ...

Blinded by the Light Blu-ray Review: A Sweet Coming-of-Age Story with a Great Springsteen Soundtrack

By Cinema Sentries | Nov 18, 2019

Written by Glen Boyd On first blush, producer/director Gurinder Chadra's Blinded by The Light can come across as a little cheesy - ...

The Farewell Blu-ray Review: Family Matters

By David Wangberg | Nov 17, 2019

When someone is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the automatic assumption is that the person should know what they have ...

Charlie’s Angels (2019) Movie Review: A Heavenly Sequel Stuck in Purgatory

By Matthew St.Clair | Nov 16, 2019

The latest sequel in the Charlie's Angels franchise acts as both a continuation of the original story and an attempt at world ...

Radioflash Movie Review: A Mere Concept-Driven Post-Apocalyptic Story

By Matthew St.Clair | Nov 15, 2019

In today's techno-driven environment, Radioflash feels rather timely. In fact, it opens with our main character Reese (Brighton Sharbino) playing a virtual-reality ...