Tribeca 2019 Review: Zoey Deutch is a Force of Nature in Buffaloed
By Matthew St.Clair |
Zoey Deutch is one of those performers who should have a bigger movie star career yet hasn't quite taken off. ...
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Tell It to the Bees Movie Review: Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger Carry Uneven Romance
By Matthew St.Clair |
Tell It to the Bees may be about a romance between two women who defy the conservative community they reside in. ...
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Terra Formars Blu-ray Review: Miike Can Do Better
By Mat Brewster |
Japanese director Takashi Miike is probably best known for his ultra-violent splatter films like Ichi the Killer and Audition. Or perhaps for his ...
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Strip Nude for Your Killer Blu-ray Review: Keep Your Clothes On
By Mat Brewster |
There are certain expectations that come with genre films. What is a genre except a set of criteria that help ...
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Tribeca 2019 Review: Flawless Brilliantly Offers a Profound Story About Self-Acceptance
By Matthew St.Clair |
Typically, films about high school students deal with conflicts like trying to fit in or the outcasts overcoming the villainous ...
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Tribeca 2019 Review: Lucky Grandma Hits the Jackpot
By Matthew St.Clair |
There are moments in life where we feel our luck runs out completely. However, for Grandma Wang (Tsai Chin), it ...
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Fantômas Three Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Tres Silly
By Mat Brewster |
Fantômas was originally first created in 1911 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. He appeared in some 43 stories over ...
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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki Blu-ray Review: Master Filmmaker’s New Challenge
By Kent Conrad |
Hayao Miyazaki has announced his retirement several times throughout his career, but in 2013 it looked like he meant it. ...
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The Brain (1988) Blu-ray Review: Giant Brain Eats Man
By Kent Conrad |
There are levels to shlock. And inside many a terrible movie, there are seeds of interest and enjoyment. The Brain is, ...
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Scared Stiff Blu-ray Review: Bored Silly
By Mat Brewster |
A little free critical advice to anyone planning to make a low-budget horror film: don't put all of your money, ...
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Tribeca 2019 Review: Luce Is a Well-Acted and Necessarily Searing Racial Drama
By Matthew St.Clair |
One amazing thing about the drama Luce is that practically every character is hard to pin down. Despite the film dealing with ...
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Dragged Across Concrete Blu-ray Review: Challenging, but Rewarding
By Mat Brewster |
Director S. Craig Zahler is a provocateur who loves both ‘70s genre conventions and pissing off at least half his ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2019 Review: Burning Cane Is a Visceral yet Rhythmic Directing Debut
By Matthew St.Clair |
The Devil may not be an enemy that can be seen at first glance. However, he can still take many ...
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Replicas (2018) Blu-ray Review: Attack of the Keanu Clones
By Elizabeth Periale |
Keanu Reeves plays Will, a neuroscientist who has more than a little bit of Victor Frankenstein to his personality. His ...
Read More Enigma (1982) Blu-ray Review: Where Have All The Good Spy Movies Gone
By Mat Brewster |
Spy movies just haven't been the same since the Berlin Wall crumbled and Russia turned to capitalism. Without the communist ...
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Glass Blu-ray Review: It’s Half Full
By Rons Reviews |
As a fan of the works of M Night Shyamalan, the end of his 2016 film Split featuring James McAvoy in an ...
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Keoma Blu-ray Review: The Spaghetti Western’s Last Breath
By Mat Brewster |
With his Dollars trilogy, Sergio Leone revived the failing western genre, infused it with European sensibilities, and created his own subgenre, the ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
The last day started with my first 9 am block viewing. While I was tempted to sleep in, I couldn't ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
Day Three started with what turned out to be my favorite film of the festival, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). ...
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Road to Zanzibar (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Welcome to the Jungle, Hope and Crosby Got Fun and Games
By Gordon S. Miller |
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has added to their roster Special Edition Blu-ray releases of the first four Road pictures starring Bing ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Two
By Lorna Miller |
My first full day started with one of my all-time favorite actors Gary Cooper starring in Love in the Afternoon ...
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The Strange Door Blu-ray Review: Not Strange Enough
By Mat Brewster |
Very loosely based upon the Robert Louis Stevenson story, The Sire de Maletroit's Door, The Strange Door stars Charles Laughton as Sire ...
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The 2019 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One
By Lorna Miller |
The festival is held over four days and spread out between the TCL Chinese Theater, the Chinese Multiplex, the Egyptian ...
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Diamonds of the Night Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Story of Youth Under Fire with a Brilliantly Fractured Eye
By Davy |
There are many similarities between Luis Bunuel and underrated auteur/director Jan Nemec. They both use surrealism to dictate the often ...
Read More Scream and Scream Again Blu-ray Review: You’ll Scream for It to Be Over
By Mat Brewster |
In London, a jogger runs toward the camera and collapses. He wakes up in a hospital bed while a nurse ...
Read More The House of the Seven Gables Blu-ray Review: A Fine Adaptation of a Classic Novel
By Mat Brewster |
Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Universal Studios was known for their horror films. They unleashed into cinemas a string ...
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The Kid Brother Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Comedic Gem
By David Wangberg |
I'm not too familiar with the work of Harold Lloyd, and The Kid Brother is actually the first film of his that ...
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Rafiki Movie Review: A Harmonious Portrayal of Queer Love
By Matthew St.Clair |
One way to describe Rafiki is that it feels triumphant. Partially because it was able to overcome its country-wide ban that nearly ...
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Little Movie Review: Typical yet Amusing Body-Swap Comedy
By Matthew St.Clair |
The central premise of Little is that it's pretty much a reverse Big. It depicts a 30-something woman who magically becomes her 13-year-old ...
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The Land Unknown Blu-ray Review: A Hot Time in Antarctica
By Mat Brewster |
We live in a world without mystery. We have the collective knowledge of humanity at our fingertips. We have explored ...
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post Blu-ray Review: Understated and Challenging
By Davy |
The fact that conversion therapy still exists is appalling to me, and it is still a controversial topic that rarely ...
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Pandas Movie Review: Simply Adorable
By David Wangberg |
One of the things about animal/nature documentaries is that a lot of them aim to be overly cutesy in their ...
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Sauvage Movie Review: A Fiercely Unsentimental Character Study
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Sauvage first opens, Leo (Felix Maritaud) is in what seems to be a doctor's office. The older man examining Leo asks ...
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Road to Singapore (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: On the Road to a Franchise
By Gordon S. Miller |
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has added to their roster Special Edition Blu-ray releases of the first four Road pictures starring Bing ...
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Vice (2018) Blu-ray Review: A Smug, Insulting Biopic
By David Wangberg |
In a perfect world, the cast of Vice would be in a movie that is compelling and maybe doesn't play to the ...
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019) Blu-ray Review: Girl Sleuth, Girl Power
By Elizabeth Periale |
Do kids still read Nancy Drew? I hope so. She was the original girl power hero, solving mysteries and having adventures. ...
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Aquaman Blu-ray Review: The Man Who Would Be Sea King
By Gordon S. Miller |
After appearing in Justice League, Aquaman (Jason Momoa) gets his own solo outing in the sixth installment of the DC Extended ...
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The Wind (2018) Movie Review: A Traditional Psychological Thriller with Unsettling Flair
By Matthew St.Clair |
Loneliness can be killer. Living in a world of both physical and mental isolation can cause a whirlwind of despair ...
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The Mule (2018) Blu-ray Review: The Old Man and the Drugs
By David Wangberg |
At this point, it's hard to take an actor seriously when he or she announces retirement from being in front ...
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Emmanuelle Blu-ray Review: A Young Girl’s Strange Erotic Journey From Paris to Bangkok
By Mat Brewster |
The 1970s were a fascinating time for American cinema. The studio system that dominated the Golden Age of Hollywood was ...
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A Silent Voice Blu-ray Review: Bully Redemption in a Subdued Tone
By Kent Conrad |
There's a certain style in Japanese storytelling and film-making where the important things are what is not shown, what is ...
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The Mustang Movie Review: Matthias Schoenaerts Carries This Poetic Gem
By Matthew St.Clair |
When The Mustang first opens, it seems like it's going to be a preachy, political demonstration of how endangered wild mustangs currently ...
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Brighton Beach Memoirs Blu-ray Review: A Nice Trip Home
By Rons Reviews |
By 1986, Neil Simon had already accumulated an incredible amount of awards and accolades for his work as a writer ...
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Inherit the Wind Blu-ray Review: Monkeys on Trial
By Mat Brewster |
I grew up in rural Oklahoma. I attended a conservative evangelical church. I can remember preachers and teachers railing about ...
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The Prize (1963) Blu-ray Review: Lots of Talent, Big Disappointment
By Mat Brewster |
Based upon a popular novel by Irving Wallace, The Prize (1963) was written by six-time Academy Award-nominee Ernest Lehman and ...
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The Body Snatcher (1945) Blu-ray Review: Boris Karloff’s Finest Hour
By Kent Conrad |
What makes The Body Snatcher interesting is how much it isn't like a low budget horror movie. That's what it ...
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For a Few Dollars More Blu-ray Review: Worth Every Penny
By Mat Brewster |
The western as a genre had its heyday from the 1930s through the mid 1950s. By the time 1960 rolled ...
Read More Monstrosity (1987) / Weirdo: The Beginning (1989) Blu-rays Review: Why? WHY?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Just when I thought the world was starting to get over its nasty habit of not making a whole heck ...
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Perfect Blue (1997) Blu-ray Review: Anime Psychothriller Lives Again
By Kent Conrad |
Perfect Blue was the feature film directorial debut of Satoshi Kon, one of the bright lights of anime whose career ...
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The Street Fighter Collection Blu-ray Review: A Thrilling Action Trilogy
By Gordon S. Miller |
Actor Sonny Chiba became an international sensation with the Japanese martial arts film, The Street Fighter, which saw him play ...
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