The Man Between Blu-ray Review: Out of The Third Man’s Shadow
By Mat Brewster |
It is difficult not to compare The Man Between, Carol Reed's 1953 thriller to a film he made four years earlier, The ...
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The Cure: 40 Live – Curætion-25 + Anniversary Blu-ray Review: A Black Ruby Jubilee
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Cure: 40 Live collects two outstanding concerts performed in the summer of 2018 as founder Robert Smith, bassist Simon Gallup ...
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Seven Days to Noon Blu-ray Review: A Very Good Drama
By Mat Brewster |
The atomic bomb not only helped win World War II and fueled the Cold War for years after it, but ...
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Queen of Hearts (2019) Movie Review: Trine Dyrholm Guides This Effective Melodrama
By Matthew St.Clair |
Queen of Hearts, Denmark's Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film, is indeed a slight parable to Alice in Wonderland. However, ...
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Terminator: Dark Fate Movie Review: History (and the Franchise) Repeats Itself
By Gordon S. Miller |
Terminator: Dark Fate occurs in a timeline three years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and ignores Rise of the Machines, Salvation, ...
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Polyester Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: John Waters’ First Big-Budget Film
By Jade Blackmore |
Polyester, John Waters' first big budget, mainstream film, was released by in 1981 by New Line Cinema. Its $300,000 budget ...
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Naked Alibi Blu-ray Review: Gloria Grahame Steals the Show
By Mat Brewster |
The cops pick up a guy on a drunk and disorderly. He doesn't have any identification but says he's a ...
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The Wizard of Oz 4K UHD Review: Somewhere Over the HDR Rainbow
By Steve Geise |
Dorothy and the gang are back in a sparkling new 80th anniversary edition of the classic film, released in 4K ...
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Apprentice to Murder Blu-ray Review: Graduated to Boring
By Mat Brewster |
The early 1970s saw several British films being released that have been defined as “folk horror” by fans. These are ...
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Scars of Dracula Blu-ray Review: A Bit of a Retread but Still Enjoyable
By Gordon S. Miller |
Scars of Dracula is Hammer's sixth Dracula film and the fifth to feature Christopher Lee. It follows a familiar template: Dracula ...
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Ringu Blu-ray Review: One Ring That Started Them All
By Mat Brewster |
Japanese folklore has long included ghosts who haunt the living because they died with anger, rage, fear, or some other ...
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La Mala Noche (The Longest Night) Movie Review: A Dark and Gritty Experience
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Ecuador's submission to the International Feature award for this year's Oscars is quite a film. Writer-director ...
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Harriet Movie Review: Cynthia Erivo Carries Slightly Formulaic Biopic
By Matthew St.Clair |
Ever since she won rapturous acclaim for her Tony-winning performance as Celie in the musical The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo's film ...
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Paradise Hills Movie Review: A Beautiful, Messy Fantasy
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Paradise Hills, a new film made by the hands of writer-director Alice Waddington, follows Uma (Emma ...
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Scarface: The World Is Yours Limited Edition Review: Say ‘Hello’ to Your New Christmas Present
By Mat Brewster |
In the opening of Howard Hawks's gangster film Scarface (1932), we see a title card that notes that the film is an indictment ...
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Mountaintop Movie Review: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Reunite in ‘Colorado’
By Gordon S. Miller |
At Studio in the Clouds, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, 8750 feet above sea level, Neil Young reassembled his backing band Crazy ...
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Genius Party & Genius Party Beyond Blu-ray Review: Dozen Odd Egg Japanese Animations
By Kent Conrad |
Short movies get kind of short shrift because... they're short. And even though our modern mode of considering a "film" ...
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Wonder Woman: Bloodlines 4K Ultra HD Review: All Hail the Princess
By Steve Geise |
The latest DC animated film starts off poorly, with a prolonged 10-minute origin story on Wonder Woman’s home island of ...
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Shampoo Criterion Collection Review: Long Hair Don’t Care
By Joe Keaton |
Few films capture the mood of late '60s Los Angeles quite like Shampoo does; and few films of the '70s—that hallowed, so-called ...
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Toy Story 4 Blu-ray Review: A Toy’s Purpose
By Gordon S. Miller |
Even though Toy Story 3 seemed the perfect ending to the film franchise, Toy Story 4 offers a compelling continuation of the beloved Pixar ...
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La Marseillaise Blu-ray Review: Viva La Revolution!
By Mat Brewster |
The French Revolution is one of the most important events of modern history. That mere commoners - people stricken with ...
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My Boyfriend’s Back Blu-ray Review: A Light Comedy with Zombies
By Mat Brewster |
There has been a lot of bemoaning over the last few years about how Avenger-sized films have destroyed the mid-budget ...
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By the Grace of God (2019) Movie Review: Shines a Spotlight on the Catholic Church Scandal
By David Wangberg |
It wasn't that long ago that Tom McCarthy released Spotlight, the Best Picture-winning biopic that showcased a team of Boston Globe reporters investigating ...
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And Soon the Darkness (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: And Eventually the Thrills
By Mat Brewster |
Two British nurses, Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice), take a cycling holiday in rural France. They've planned their ...
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By the Grace of God Movie Review: An Effectively Procedural Account of Sexual Abuse
By Matthew St.Clair |
Given how Spotlight came out four years ago and also covers the topic of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, it's hard not ...
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Nightmare Beach Blu-ray Review: Somebody Wake Me Up
By Mat Brewster |
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to mix an ‘80s slasher with an ‘80s spring break comedy, ...
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Hercules in the Haunted World Blu-ray Review: Sword & Sandals Meets Horror
By Mat Brewster |
For decades the Italian film industry often emulated the successful films of the United States. Through the late 1950s and ...
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Dolemite is My Name Movie Review: Eddie Murphy is Back
By Matthew St.Clair |
When '70s stand-up comic Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) decided to enter the movie business, it was a rough road ...
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Midsommar Blu-ray Review: Unsettling in Any Season
By Steve Geise |
Midsommar is marketed as a horror film, but it's so different from the typical entries in that genre that it really ...
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Morituri (1965) Blu-ray Review: Hidden Naval WWII Classic
By Kent Conrad |
The cliché is, they don't make them like they used to. But, damn it, movies like Morituri don't get made anymore. It's ...
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix Blu-ray Review: Not Dark and Certainly Not Rising
By Rons Reviews |
The first thing I noticed when I received my Multi Screen Edition of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which hit store shelves on ...
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Fantastic Fungi Movie Review: Mushrooms Are (Finally) Cool
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Fungi aren't something stapled to the front of people's minds. They aren't something we think about ...
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The Prey Blu-ray Review: Pray You’ll Never Have to Watch
By Mat Brewster |
The 1980s were a great time for horror movies in general and slasher flicks in particular. With the advent of ...
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The Big Fix (1978) Blu-ray Review: A Hippy Neo-noir Lament
By Kent Conrad |
Despite being such a sunny city, Los Angeles is the home of noir. All those sun bleached streets are hiding ...
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Gosford Park Blu-ray Review: Upstairs Downstairs Sideways
By Gordon S. Miller |
Robert Altman's Gosford Park is his take on an Agatha Christie murder mystery. Set in 1932 during a shooting party held at ...
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Joker Movie Review: Self-Important, Nihilist Drivel
By Matthew St.Clair |
Going into Joker, which serves as an origin story for Batman's archnemesis, one shouldn't expect it to be any laughing matter. ...
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Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection Blu-ray Review: Trailblazing
By Mat Brewster |
Several weeks ago, I randomly decided to watch On Dangerous Ground, the pretty good film noir by Nicolas Ray from 1951. ...
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The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 Blu-ray Review: Flashback City
By Mat Brewster |
Wes Craven is often placed near the top of lists concerning the greatest horror filmmakers of all time, and rightly ...
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Ron’s Regal Unlimited Report #2: Rambo: Last Blood Is Not Worth It
By Rons Reviews |
It was my second weekend of having my Regal Unlimited Movie Subscription Pass, and it feels like I'm seeing movies ...
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Dilili in Paris Movie Review: Michel Ocelot’s Love Letter to the City of Light
By Steve Geise |
In his latest feature film, veteran animation auteur Michel Ocelot immediately toys with audience perceptions by opening on what appears ...
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Harpoon (2019) Movie Review: A Gory, Gutsy, Giddy Voyage
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank The first 15 minutes of Rob Grant's Harpoon are slow. Grant is methodical in the way he introduces ...
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Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island DVD Review: The Plot Is Pretty Much Contained in the Title
By Shawn Bourdo |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the DVD reviewed in this article. The opinions ...
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) Blu-ray Review: Same Gore, Less Story
By Kent Conrad |
It's strange that so many horror movies spawn enormous franchises when the surprise and the unknown are central to the ...
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Hellraiser (1987) Blu-ray Review: Clive Barker’s Semi-professional Debut
By Kent Conrad |
Roger Ebert hated Hellraiser when it came out, giving it half a star. He starts with the money quote Stephen King gave ...
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Memory: The Origins of Alien Movie Review: From Whence a Legend Came
By Mark Buckingham |
I've seen many making-of and behind-the-scenes featurettes for movies before, especially ones with elaborate special effects. I've seen documentaries about ...
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In the Aftermath Blu-ray Review: An Odd Mishmash of Live Action and Animation
By Mat Brewster |
In The Path to Aftermath, an extra included in Arrow Video's new release of In The Aftermath, producer Tom Dugan explains that in ...
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Always in Season Movie Review: Not an Easy Watch, but an Important One
By Darcy Staniforth |
As a parent, the loss of a child is one of the worst and unimaginable losses you can face. But ...
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Ron’s Regal Unlimited Report #1: All the Bad Movies You Want
By Rons Reviews |
I have a few friends that I go to the movies with regularly. One prefers the luxury theatres, so this ...
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Judy Movie Review: Renee Zellweger Elevates Glorified Wikipedia Entry
By Matthew St.Clair |
With Judy, Renee Zellweger has found a perfect fusion of actor and character. The story of Judy Garland trying to get ...
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Un Coeur En Hiver Blu-ray Review: A Man Without Feelings
By Mat Brewster |
In movies and on television, a sociopath - someone who doesn't have real feelings or emotions - is usually depicted ...
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