Lu Over the Wall Blu-ray Review: Vampire Mermaids Warm the Heart
By Kent Conrad |
Masaaki Yuasa is something of a wild card anime director. In an industry that can be chided for a certain ...
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Mikey and Nicky Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Elaine May Should Be Unanimously Acclaimed
By Davy |
When it comes to underappreciated figures of film, none are more legendary and important than Elaine May. After a successful ...
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms Blu-ray Review: Emotional, Poignant Fantasy Epic
By Kent Conrad |
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms is visually stunning, and works hard at it. It opens with the working of ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Untouchable Lets Weinstein’s Victims Be Heard
By Matthew St.Clair |
The documentary Untouchable, which depicts the rise and fall of former movie producing mogul Harvey Weinstein, doesn't tell us any ...
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Reign of the Supermen Blu-ray Review: Too Much Story Compressed into a Small Amount of Time
By Todd Karella |
In the previous DC animated film, The Death of Superman, the Man of Steel met his demise at the hands ...
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The Possessed / The Fifth Cord Blu-rays Review: Giallo Before and After Argento
By Mat Brewster |
There were giallo around before Dario Argento unleashed The Bird with the Crystal Plumage but that film upended, supplanted and ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Little Monsters Is a Bloody Delight
By Matthew St.Clair |
For those of you who don't know the synopsis, Little Monsters is not a documentary on Lady Gaga's fan base. ...
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2019 Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
For over a decade, ShortsTV has proudly brought the Oscar-nominated Short Films to audiences across the globe. This exclusive release ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Sweetheart Is a Terrific Creature Feature
By Matthew St.Clair |
Despite Sweetheart being a pretty standard creature feature, it still proves to be quite effective. One reason is because it ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Wounds Is Indeed Rather Hurtful
By Matthew St.Clair |
One way to describe Wounds is that the experience of watching it doesn't feel like self-inflicted pain. However, it does ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: The Nightingale Is Frustratingly Gratuitous
By Matthew St.Clair |
The biggest positive about The Nightingale happens at the very beginning of the film. Our main character, Clare, is singing ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Alfre Woodard Is Oscar Worthy in Clemency
By Matthew St.Clair |
It's no secret that ageism towards older actresses in Hollywood is a legit problem. However, one faction of that problem ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Geraldine Viswanathan is the Strong Center of Hala
By Matthew St.Clair |
Part coming-of-age story and part meditative portrait of religious hypocrisy, Hala is quite an effective showcase. It also takes the ...
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Diamonds for Breakfast Blu-ray Review: Should Have Had Bran
By Mat Brewster |
A man stands in a London museum admiring a collection of Russian artifacts including the Crown Jewels that were confiscated ...
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Then Came You (2019) Movie Review: Steer Clear
By David Wangberg |
Coming-of-age films in which cancer-stricken teens are at the forefront have become a dime-a-dozen concept, and after Then Came You,there ...
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The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl Blu-ray Review: A Long, Strange Trip
By Mat Brewster |
Two strangers have a separate, but equally long, strange night where they meet an increasingly eccentric group of people. In ...
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Suspiria (2018) Blu-ray Review: Wildly Reinvented, Massively Flawed
By Kent Conrad |
Suspiria is a strange film to remake, because most of what makes it an effective movie has nothing to do ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Velvet Buzzsaw Is Wonderfully Chaotic
By Matthew St.Clair |
Writer/director Dan Gilroy has proven himself as a master of demonstrating the craving for more. Whether it's more ratings or ...
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Sundance 2019 Review: Awkwafina Proves Her Dramatic Range in The Farewell
By Matthew St.Clair |
A movie about a family hiding the family matriarch from her own terminal illness. On paper, it sounds rather dour. ...
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First Man Blu-ray Review: A Giant Leap for Mankind and for a Man
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on James R. Hansen's biography First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, director Damien Chazelle along with his ...
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Blu-ray Review: Pros and Cons on the French Riviera
By Elizabeth Periale |
Steve Martin and Michael Caine are a dynamic duo vying for the fortune, and affections, of American heiress Glenne Headly, ...
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Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic Blu-ray Review: A Powerful Performance by Linda Blair
By Davy |
After The Exorcist, Linda Blair's career got a bad rap because nothing else came close to the level of success ...
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Melies: Fairy Tales in Color Blu-ray Review: When Special Effects Were Magic
By Kent Conrad |
Georges Melies was one of the first special-effects wizards in the history of Cinema. He was so early on the ...
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Glass Movie Review: An Ambitiously Uneven Thriller
By Matthew St.Clair |
Glass, the final film in M. Night Shyamalan's superhero trilogy that includes Unbreakable and Split, proves to be quite fragile. ...
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Yessongs: 40th Anniversary Special Edition Blu-ray Review: For Fans Only
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally released on Blu-ray in the UK for the actual 40th anniversary in 2012, Yessongs, also the name of a ...
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The House That Would Not Die (1970) Blu-ray Review: A Clear Case of Repossession
By Luigi Bastardo |
Originally broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week just four days before Halloween in 1970, The House That Would ...
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On the Basis of Sex Movie Review: An Effective Crowd-pleaser
By Matthew St.Clair |
It seems like we're catching Ruth Bader Ginsburg fever. The documentary RBG, which depicts Ginsburg's journey to the Supreme Court, ...
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Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938 Volume One DVD Review: Strong to the Finish
By Gordon S. Miller |
Popeye the spinach-eating sailor is an animation icon known the world over for his adventures, many of which involve fighting ...
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The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection: Volume 4 (1971-1975) Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
As originally mentioned in my review of Volume 1, Friz Freleng was an instrumental figure in animation history because of ...
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Don’t Come Back from the Moon Movie Review: Stay Seated for This
By David Wangberg |
Although I have yet to experience fatherhood, I do know from close friends and family members that any type of ...
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The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Beyond Suspicion Blu-ray Review: Proto-Giallo
By Mat Brewster |
Giallo films had been around for several years before Dario Argento revolutionized and popularized the genre in The Bird with ...
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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Movie Review: Revealing a Lesser-Known Story of Rock ‘n’ Roll
By Kit O'Toole |
Just when it seems like books and documentaries have thoroughly covered the history of rock 'n' roll, along comes a ...
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When Harry Met Sally… (30th Anniversary Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Sweet, Funny Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
Shout Factory celebrates the 30th anniversary of Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally... with a new Blu-ray release that includes ...
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Four Times That Night Blu-ray Review: Rashomon Remade As a Sex Comedy
By Mat Brewster |
A woman and a man meet at a park. They agree to go dancing later that evening. Afterwards, they go ...
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Mid90s Blu-ray Review: An Authentic Coming-of-age Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
Written and directed by Jonah Hill, Mid90s is an authentic coming-of-age story about a young teenager named Stevie (Sunny Suljic) ...
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Knives of the Avenger Blu-ray Review: Swords, Sandals, and Not Much Else
By Mat Brewster |
Come with me, my friends, for a trip down memory lane. The year is 1982 and a little fantasy film ...
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Let the Corpses Tan Blu-ray Review: An Assault on the Senses
By Mat Brewster |
With The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, French directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani created a modern giallo that ...
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Kusama: Infinity DVD Review: Connecting the Dots in a Great Artist’s Life
By Elizabeth Periale |
Eighty-nine-year-old Yayoi Kusama is currently the top-selling artist in the world, but her path to success has not been a ...
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The Laurel & Hardy Comedy Collection DVD Review: A Fine Mess of Films
By Gordon S. Miller |
Tying in with the release of Stan & Ollie, The Laurel & Hardy Comedy Collection by Mill Creek Entertainment presents ...
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Brewster McCloud Blu-ray Review: A Weird, Strange Trip into the Altmanverse
By Mat Brewster |
After spending a decade or so making industrial films then directing television episodes, Robert Altman finally connected with critics and ...
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Bright Lights, Big City: 30th Anniversary Special Collector’s Edition Review: Still Rings True in Today’s Social-media and Celebrity-obsessed Culture
By Darcy Staniforth |
Bright Lights, Big City is being released in a Special Collector's Edition for its 30th Anniversary celebration. The film is ...
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Hallelujah the Hills Blu-ray Review: Did Not Hit the Mark
By Darcy Staniforth |
Hallelujah the Hills was written and directed by Adolfas Mekas. The film was a hit at the 1963 Cannes Film ...
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Love, Gilda Movie Review: A Beautiful and Personal Portrait
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you notice, as you are reading this review, that I sound sentimental for Gilda Radner, it's because I am. ...
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Screwball Comedy Classics Double Feature Volume 2: His Girl Friday & The Front Page DVD Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
VCI Entertainment presents Screwball Comedy Classics Double Feature Volume 2: His Girl Friday & The Front Page, two films based ...
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Mary Poppins Returns Movie Review: Unnecessary but Delightful
By David Wangberg |
It's not like the world needed a sequel to Mary Poppins, but we got one anyway. And you know what? ...
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Blindspotting Blu-ray Review: Not Throwing Away Their Shot
By Steve Geise |
Daveed Diggs rose to fame as a prominent Tony-winning actor in the original Broadway cast of musical phenomenon Hamilton, so ...
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Streets of Fire Blu-ray Review: Rock and Roll Dreams Come True
By Mark Buckingham |
I first heard of 1984's Streets of Fire sometime in the last few years, which surprised me given I spent ...
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Mandy (2018) Blu-ray Review: Destined to be a Cult Classic
By David Wangberg |
For every disposable, straight-to-VOD picture that Nicolas Cage does, he'll usually come up with something that surprises and shocks even ...
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De Niro & De Palma: The Early Years Blu-ray Review: For Fans Only
By Mat Brewster |
That Robert De Niro is one of the greatest film actors of all time there is no doubt. He has ...
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Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: Impressive Visuals but Disappointing Audio
By Gordon S. Miller |
From July 2007 through November 2008, Warner Brothers released three volumes of Popeye the Sailor cartoons on DVD, which contained ...
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