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The Ninja Trilogy 4K UHD Review: A Ninja Good Time

By Mat Brewster | Dec 8, 2025

If you were a boy of a certain age in the early 1980s, you probably had a thing for ninjas. ...

Grass and Chang Blu-ray Review: Laying the Foundation for King Kong

By Steve Geise | Dec 7, 2025

Years before they co-directed the original King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack teamed for these two ...

Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein Blu-ray Review: The Actor Directs

By Steve Geise | Dec 6, 2025

Robert Hossein was primarily renowned as an actor, but he also carved out a substantial career as a talented director. ...

Monk in Pieces Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling Biodoc

By Davy | Dec 3, 2025

Art has no boundaries, and it doesn't always have to explain what it is all about. It can cross over ...

Together Blu-ray Review: The Best Film David Cronenberg Never Made

By Davy | Nov 30, 2025

As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, the horror genre is perhaps the most consistent one, meaning that there ...

Alec Guinness Masterpiece Collection 4K UHD Review: So Much More Than Obi-Wan

By Mat Brewster | Nov 28, 2025

I'm of the generation that knows Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars movies. Older generations will know ...

A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story Blu-ray Review: A Celebration of Its Ruby Anniversary

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 27, 2025

Released in 2016, Keith Maitland's A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story tells the tale of the what ...

No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B & Scott B Blu-ray Review: Confrontational, Fearless, and Highly Original

By Davy | Nov 27, 2025

During the unfortunately short-lived No Wave movement, New York filmmakers like Beth B and her husband Scott B were making ...

The Mad Miss Manton Blu-ray Review: You’d Be Crazy Not to Love This

By Mat Brewster | Nov 26, 2025

The Mad Miss Manton takes place during the Great Depression. It is about a rich socialite and her gaggle of ...

The Prestige Movie Review: A Dark Study in Obsession

By Cinema Sentries | Nov 26, 2025

Written by M. J. Washington Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige, based on the novel by Christopher Priest, is a ...

Kansas City Confidential Blu-ray Review: A Tidy Midwestern Noir

By Mat Brewster | Nov 25, 2025

Planning and executing the perfect crime is a wonderful movie trope. All the planning, scheming, and preparation so often go ...

Out of the Fog Blu-ray Review: Into Beauty

By Mat Brewster | Nov 24, 2025

Life is always hard on the gentle people. The poor people. The people who just want to have a moment's ...

Manhattan Melodrama Blu-ray Review: John Dillinger’s Favorite Movie

By Mat Brewster | Nov 22, 2025

On the night of July 22, 1934, John Dillinger, one of the world's most famous gangsters, went to see a ...

Went Up the Hill DVD Review: Fell Down

By Steve Geise | Nov 21, 2025

Director/co-writer Samuel Van Grinsven’s sophomore feature is technically a ghost story, but plays more like a two-hander chamber drama. Vicky ...

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Blu-ray Review: It Tolls for Thee

By Joe Garcia III | Nov 20, 2025

For Whom the Bell Tolls was penned by Ernest Hemingway and brought to the silver screen by producer/director Sam Wood ...

The Searchers 4K UHD Review: He Had to Find Her

By Shawn Bourdo | Nov 19, 2025

By 1956, John Ford had already won four Best Director Oscars. He didn't have anything left to prove as a ...

Burden of Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Madness and Art in the Jungle

By Mat Brewster | Nov 19, 2025

Werner Herzog is one of cinema's greatest directors. His films are strange and wonderful. They are imbued with a sense ...

The Ogre of Athens Blu-ray Review: A Noir-Tinged Greek Tragedy

By Mat Brewster | Nov 18, 2025

Thomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) is an unassuming, shy, and completely unremarkable bank clerk. He is a man who has spent his ...

Malpertuis Blu-ray Review: Orson Welles Runs Wild

By Steve Geise | Nov 18, 2025

Just when I think Radiance Films can’t possibly find any more amazing, largely unknown gems, they drop this genre masterpiece ...

The Grifters Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Pitch-Black Film Noir

By Greg Hammond | Nov 16, 2025

In Stephen Frears' The Grifters, Roy (John Cusack) is a 25-year-old conman, a grifter who makes his living running petty ...

Flash Point (2007) Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Flash, Not Much Point

By Steve Geise | Nov 15, 2025

Donnie Yen’s slickly produced, lightly plotted 2007 actioner hearkens back to the 1980s-'90s glory days of Hong Kong cinema. In ...

Howards End 4K UHD Review: A Confounding “Romance”

By Greg Hammond | Nov 15, 2025

Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, and directed by James Ivory, is a visual treat filled ...

Dust Devil (1992) 4K UHD Review: Beautiful, Baffling African Horror

By Kent Conrad | Nov 14, 2025

Richard Stanley's career has been haphazard at best. He started making videos for the weird goth-cowboy British band Fields of ...

Scoop (2006) Blu-ray Review: London Murder Mystery

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 14, 2025

After directing Scarlett Johansson in the well-received Match Point, Woody Allen appeared with her on screen for his next film, ...

Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Blu-ray Review: A Stealth Elmo Lincoln Double Feature

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 11, 2025

Film Masters presents Tarzan of the Apes. Based on the first part of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 novel of the ...

Relay Blu-ray Review: Long Live Conspiracy Thrillers

By Steve Geise | Nov 9, 2025

Relay hearkens back to the paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, despite its present-day setting. Riz Ahmed stars as a shadowy ...

Frightmare (1974) Blu-ray Review: Cannibal Mother on the Loose

By Joe Garcia III | Nov 8, 2025

Frightmare is a British, pre-slasher horror movie directed by Pete Walker and stars Sheila Keith as a cannibal mother recently ...

Love, Brooklyn DVD Review: A Portrait of a Rapidly Changing City

By Davy | Nov 8, 2025

When it comes to love, some people just really have to grow up, and that's the basis of Love, Brooklyn, ...

Matter of Time Movie Review: Eddie Vedder Concert Raises Funds in Search of a Cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa

By Jade Blackmore | Nov 7, 2025

Matt Finlin’s documentary of Eddie Vedder’s 2023 solo concert in Seattle to raise money to cure the skin disease epidermolysis-bullosa ...

X Trilogy: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Box Set Review: Half Bad Over, and Over, and Over Again

By Greg Hammond | Nov 7, 2025

Ti West decided to make a horror trilogy which pays homage to the likes of Texas Chain Saw Massacre: X, ...

Dan Curtis’ Dead of Night (1977) Blu-ray Review: Trilogy of Terror Redux

By Kent Conrad | Nov 5, 2025

Throughout the '70s, Dan Curtis was the go-to man for network TV horror. From Dark Shadows to The Night Stalker ...

Shari & Lamb Chop DVD Review: A Comedy Team of One

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 5, 2025

Director Lisa D'Apolito follows up her documentary Love, Gilda with another film about a female television icon. Shari & Lamb ...

The Curse of Frankenstein 4K UHD Movie Review: The Dawn of Hammer Films

By Greg Hammond | Nov 2, 2025

Terence Fisher’s The Curse of Frankenstein, stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein. It was the first Hammer horror film in ...

Airplane II: The Sequel Blu-ray Review: More Like Airplane II: The Remake

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 31, 2025

Nineteen eighty-two was quite the year for Ken Finkleman, a Canadian comedy writer and performer on radio and television. He ...

Dan Curtis’ Classic Monsters Blu-ray Review: Made-for-TV Mayhem

By Kent Conrad | Oct 31, 2025

Dan Curtis was a television producer and director of the '60s and '70s. While his actual output was varied, he ...

Cop or Hood Blu-ray Review: Belmondo Star Vehicle Mostly Crashes

By Steve Geise | Oct 30, 2025

When a small-town police chief is murdered, a witty Parisian commissioner is dispatched to investigate. He’s not above using irregular ...

Joan Crawford Collection Blu-ray Review: Four of Joan’s Best

By Mat Brewster | Oct 29, 2025

There is this store in Nashville, TN, called McKay's. It is a huge place, and it sells used DVDs, CDs, ...

Deep Crimson Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Beauty of Crude Realism

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 27, 2025

Deep Crimson (1998) aka Profundo Carmesi stars Daniel Gimenez Cocho and Regina Orozco in Mexican director Arturo Ripstein’s reworking of ...

The Cat and the Canary (1927) 4K UHD Review: Silently Delightful

By Mat Brewster | Oct 27, 2025

I've seen something like 40 silent films in my life. That isn't a lot considering the hundreds of silents that ...

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (Terror Time Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Spooky Dooby Doo

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 26, 2025

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) is the franchise's first direct-to-video feature and it kickstarted the Scoocy-Doo crew's major resurgence, boosting ...

Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex DVD Review: Teenage Dream

By Steve Geise | Oct 26, 2025

The latest film about glam rock star Marc Bolan is an odd amalgamation of archival footage and new tribute performances. ...

Weapons 4K UHD Review: Don’t Fall for the Hype

By Greg Hammond | Oct 26, 2025

Weapons, the second thriller/horror film from Zack Cregger (Barbarian), tells the story of a mid-size, Northeastern town where 17 third-graders, ...

Eddington Blu-ray Review: A Wonderfully Pointed Vision of 2020

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 25, 2025

Eddington is a neo-western/thriller/dark comedy from writer/director Ari Aster (Midsommar) and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin ...