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Batman: Hush 4K Ultra HD Review: The Bat, the Cat, and Villains Aplenty

By Steve Geise | Aug 9, 2019

DC's animated films tend to be adaptations of their classic comic-book works, with this story in particular being one of ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie Review: Terrifyingly Serviceable

By Matthew St.Clair | Aug 9, 2019

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark may be a Guillermo del Toro production, yet his singular directorial vision still feels ...

UglyDolls Sing-Along Edition Blu-ray Review: A Kids Movie, Through and Through

By Mark Buckingham | Aug 7, 2019

There are two kinds of movies for children, as I see it. First, there are ones with subtlety and nuance ...

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Blu-ray Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 6, 2019

What We Left Behind, a riff on the title of the series finale "What You Leave Behind," finds Deep Space Nine showrunner ...

The BRD Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Fassbinder at His Best

By Mat Brewster | Aug 5, 2019

When World War II ended, Germany was due a reckoning. As a nation, they had to come to terms not ...

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Movie Review: Keeping It in the Family

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 2, 2019

Considering the Fast & Furious franchise has generated over $5 billion at the worldwide box office, it's not a surprise ...

The Leopard Man (1943) Blu-ray Review: Subtle, Underrated ’40s Chiller

By Kent Conrad | Jul 30, 2019

Based on Cornell Woolrich's dark novel, Black Alibi, The Leopard Man was the first property Val Lewton wanted to develop when he became ...

Attack of the Robots (1966) Blu-ray Review: Eddie Constantine Lays His Cards on the Table

By Luigi Bastardo | Jul 29, 2019

Crafted in the wake of Jean-Luc Godard's immortal Alphaville ‒ a deadpan French New Wave satire of contemporary espionage and sci-fi films ...

Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 Blu-ray Review: The Rise and Fall of a Franchise

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 28, 2019

Back before superheroes were all the rage at the box office, Tim Burton and his creative team brought Batman to ...

Universal Horror Collection, Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: Atwill Employment, Mostly

By Luigi Bastardo | Jul 28, 2019

The phrase "classic Universal horror" is most likely to get a vintage monster movie enthusiast to talk nerd shop about ...

Wild Rose Movie Review: A Star is Born in Jessie Buckley

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 28, 2019

Anyone who's had a dream might often be told they can achieve it if they set their mind to it. ...

Missing Link Blu-ray Review: Missing Story, Finding Artistry

By Steve Geise | Jul 28, 2019

Missing Link is the latest film from the animation wizards at Laika, the tiny U.S. studio responsible for gems including Kubo and ...

The Doors: The Final Cut 4K Ultra HD Review: Break on Through

By Steve Geise | Jul 27, 2019

Although the movie is named after the band, it's really all about the rise and fall of Jim Morrison. The ...

Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood Movie Review: Middle-Ground Tarantino

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 26, 2019

Quentin Tarantino's previous feature The Hateful Eight was a demonstration of both his strongest and weakest qualities as a filmmaker. His follow-up, ...

The Mountain (2019) Movie Review: Worth Exploring

By David Wangberg | Jul 25, 2019

I'm not familiar with any of Rick Alverson's previous efforts, such as The Comedy and Entertainment. But if there's something to be learned ...

The Lion King (2019) Movie Review: Purrs Rather Than Roars

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 23, 2019

Given the iconic status of the 1994 animated classic The Lion King, there may be some panic over whether the new ...

By David Wangberg | Jul 23, 2019

In recent years, the war genre has mostly shown viewers the events of what happened during World War II or ...

Batman Begins Movie Review: A Hero Reborn

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 22, 2019

Eight years after the damage done to Batman from the one-two combination of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin by ...

Outfest 2019 Review: Sell By Is Directly Accessible and Rather Progressive

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 22, 2019

Sell By may be queer themed since it centers around a homosexual couple coming to grips with their turbulent relationship. Yet, ...

The Milky Way (1969) Blu-ray Review: Surrealistic Satire

By Mat Brewster | Jul 21, 2019

h About an hour into Luis Bunuel's surrealistic drama The Milky Way, two men, a Jesuit and a Jansenist, argue over ...

Death in the Garden Blu-ray Review: Well Worth Watching

By Mat Brewster | Jul 20, 2019

After befriending Salvador Dali and finding success in the surrealist movement with films like Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or, Luis Buñuel was ...

Hellboy (2019) Blu-ray Review: Will Certainly Find Its Audience over Time

By Chad Derdowski | Jul 19, 2019

I was tempted to start this review by talking about how the filmmakers had an uphill climb when rebooting Hellboy, as ...

A Faithful Man Movie Review: Rom-Com Written with Impressive Finesse

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 18, 2019

Louis Garrel's sophomore directorial effort A Faithful Man is certainly loyal to particular romantic-comedy traditions. It's both traditional and a slight deconstruction ...

Shazam! (2019) Blu-ray Review: DC Makes a Marvelous Movie

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 16, 2019

Although it's the seventh movie in Warner Brothers' DC Extended Universe series, David F. Sandberg's Shazam! comes across like it ...

The Old Man and the Sea (1990) DVD Review: Anthony Quinn Gives an Excellent Performance

By Jade Blackmore | Jul 16, 2019

Anthony Quinn gives a riveting performance as the elderly fisherman Santiago, who has gone 84 days without catching a fish, ...

High Life (2019) Blu-ray Review: Out of This World

By David Wangberg | Jul 13, 2019

If 2001: A Space Odyssey had more of a horror aspect and were to get slapped with an R rating, it might ...

Pretenders with Friends Blu-ray Review: A Hits-Heavy, Star-Studded Concert

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 12, 2019

Decades Rock Live! was a VH1 Classic television series that gathered bands and guests to play a concert at Trump Taj ...

Resurrecting the Champ Blu-ray Review: The Story of the Fight Many of Us Face for Acceptance

By Rons Reviews | Jul 11, 2019

I love those evenings when you come home late, plop down in front of the TV, start clicking around, and ...

Earthquake (1974) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 9, 2019

Producer/director Mark Robson's Earthquake was a star-studded disaster movie that the '70s was known for. Unfortunately, the famous folks go to waste ...

Road to Rio Movie Review: Hypnotizing Hilarity

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 6, 2019

Road to Rio (1947) is the fifth in the series and the first entry that sees the trio of Bob ...

The Illusionist (2006) Blu-ray Review: Full of Tricks and Treats

By David Wangberg | Jul 5, 2019

There was a time in which both Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and Neil Burger's The Illusionist played at the theater at which I worked. ...

Midsommar Movie Review: A Luminous Hellscape

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 4, 2019

When Ari Aster made his feature film debut with Hereditary, it was a demented portrait of grief and anxiety covered in ...

Spider-Man: Far From Home Movie Review: Living in a Post-Endgame World

By David Wangberg | Jul 3, 2019

Serving as an epilogue to Avengers: Endgame, and also the final installment of Marvel's Phase Three set of feature films, ...

Dances with Wolves Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable, Albeit Unsurprising, Western

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 2, 2019

Thanks to Shout Factory, the theatrical cut of Dances with Wolves finally made its debut on Blu-ray as part of a three-disc ...

Matinee (1993) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Joe Dante’s Love Letter to B-movies

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 1, 2019

Matinee opens with Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman), a William Castle-type producer in a trailer for Mant, a movie about a ...

Yesterday (2019) Movie Review: Oh-Blah-Di, Oh-Blah-Da

By David Wangberg | Jun 29, 2019

Danny Boyle's Yesterday imagines a world in which all the people, living all around the world, had never heard of John Lennon, ...

Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart Blu-ray Review: One Story Cut Twice

By Mat Brewster | Jun 28, 2019

Throughout the 1940s, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a series of films that are considered some of the greatest ...

The Chambermaid (2019) Movie Review: A Wonderfully Facile Character Study

By Matthew St.Clair | Jun 27, 2019

On the surface, it doesn't seem like The Chambermaid is about much. It's about a maid named Eve (Gabriela Cartol) who works ...

Universal Horror Collection, Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: Bela Lugosi Versus Boris Karloff

By Mat Brewster | Jun 26, 2019

The year 1931 saw the release of both Dracula and Frankenstein. Both became absolute classics of the horror genre, cornerstones for the long-lasting ...