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Torso (1973) Blu-ray Review: Sleazy Suspenseful Giallo Goodness

By Kent Conrad | Nov 1, 2018

One of the things that make giallo movies arresting is setting. Giallo movies are Italian, and, unsurprisingly enough, tend to ...

Dragnet (1987) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Lackluster Satire

By David Wangberg | Oct 31, 2018

There's this feeling that lingers throughout Tom Mankiewicz's satirical approach to the hit television series, Dragnet. The feeling is that ...

John Carpenter’s The Fog Movie Review: A Thrilling Ghost Story

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 30, 2018

Currently in limited release across the country thanks to a new 4K restoration by Studiocanal, John Carpenter's The Fog is ...

Beautiful Boy (2018) Movie Review: Timothee Chalamet Elevates Muddled Family Drama

By Matthew St.Clair | Oct 30, 2018

Right off the bat, I'll just say that my biggest gripe with Beautiful Boy is that it focuses less on ...

Sorry to Bother You Blu-ray Review: Better Bother to Watch This Film

By Steve Geise | Oct 30, 2018

Writer/director Boots Riley has pulled off an amazing feat with his fresh, fearless debut feature film. Arriving in the film ...

Get Shorty: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: One of the Great ’90s Mobster Comedies

By David Wangberg | Oct 29, 2018

Back in 1977, Saturday Night Fever became a box-office sensation, garnering $237 million worldwide and putting its star, John Travolta, ...

Blood and Black Lace Blu-ray Review: The Origins of Giallo

By Mat Brewster | Oct 27, 2018

Having put Italian horror on the map with Black Sunday, Mario Bava continued to redefine the genre and essentially invented ...

Distant Voices, Still Lives Blu-ray Review: Accurately Captures the Battle of the Sexes

By Davy | Oct 26, 2018

Stories about troubled families doesn't hit cinema too often, but when they're done well, such as in Rachel Getting Married, ...

Schlock Blu-ray Review: Could Have Also Been Called Shoddy, Shabby, or Sucky

By Mat Brewster | Oct 25, 2018

Made in 1971 on a minuscule budget, John Landis' first film as a director, Schlock, is broad comedic satire of ...

Bohemian Rhapsody Movie Review: Rami Malek Electrifies As Freddie Mercury

By Matthew St.Clair | Oct 24, 2018

The band Queen is iconic because of not just their singles but their bold, genre-flipping style. Yet, the biopic on ...

1985 Movie Review: A Powerfully Meditative, Multi-Layered Gem

By Matthew St.Clair | Oct 23, 2018

Even though I've never really left the area I grew up in, in my opinion, the film 1985 still perfectly ...

City Slickers Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Yee-haw, It’s a Blast

By David Wangberg | Oct 23, 2018

During my youth, City Slickers had been a film that I watched with my parents only a few times. It ...

Valley Girl: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: True Love Finds a Common Ground

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 23, 2018

For the 35th Anniversary of Valley Girl, Shout! Factory has released a totally tubular version of a film on Blu-ray. ...

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Blu-ray Review: Sing-A-Long with the Oldies (and New Cast, Too)

By Elizabeth Periale | Oct 21, 2018

Available this Tuesday, October 23, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again reunites the cast from the original 2008 film starring ...

The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection: Volume 3 (1968-1969) Blu-ray Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 20, 2018

As mentioned in my review of Volume 1, Friz Freleng was an instrumental figure in animation history because of his ...

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot Blu-ray Review: Don’t Worry, You Didn’t Miss Anything

By Steve Geise | Oct 17, 2018

Gus Van Sant's latest project barely made a ripple at the box office during its brief theatrical release this summer, ...

Ant-Man and the Wasp Blu-ray Review: A Delightful Addition to the MCU

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 16, 2018

Ant-Man and the Wasp is the second Ant-Man movie and 20th installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After the serious, ...

Bad Times at the El Royale Movie Review: A Thrilling Genre Bender

By Matthew St.Clair | Oct 13, 2018

If there was an Oscar given for Most Well-Marketed Movie of the Year, Bad Times at the El Royale would ...

LAFF 2018 Review: Stuntman

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 12, 2018

One of the biggest stars of the 1970s was daredevil Evel Knievel, who made a living risking life and limb ...

Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge Blu-ray Review: The Magazine of Record and Records

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 11, 2018

Originally a two-part documentary on HBO, broken down into six episodes across two Blu-ray discs for this Shout Factory! release, ...

NYFF 2018 Review: Roma Is Flawlessly Transcendent

By Matthew St.Clair | Oct 10, 2018

The best word that can be used to describe Roma is that it is transcendent. It is a transcendent piece ...

A Star Is Born (2018) Movie Review: A Perfectly Adequate Remake

By Matthew St.Clair | Oct 9, 2018

After getting two remakes of the famed 1937 classic, do we really need another version of A Star Is Born? ...

The Public Image Is Rotten Movie Review: A Fine Introduction to John Lydon’s post-Sex Pistols Career

By generaljabbo | Oct 8, 2018

In the aftermath of the Sex Pistols' demise, the press, particularly in England, probably felt they had heard the last ...

LAFF 2018 Review: The Great Buster: A Celebration

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 6, 2018

Director Peter Bogdanovich pays tribute to the life and work of Buster Keaton in this biographical documentary about one of ...

Cabin Boy (1994) Blu-ray Review: Still Floating After All These Years

By Luigi Bastardo | Oct 4, 2018

Though I never saw the film in its entirety until much later in life, I was nevertheless present when Adam ...

A Star Is Born (1954) Blu-ray Review: Judy Garland is at the Top of Her Game

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 3, 2018

After being unceremoniously dismissed from MGM in 1950 due to erratic behavior as a result of psychological problems and addiction, ...

Gotti (2018) Blu-ray Review: Sleeping with the Fishes

By David Wangberg | Oct 2, 2018

Despite the colossal amount of negative press it received during its theatrical run, I half-expected Gotti to at least have ...

Exorcist II: The Heretic Blu-ray Review: Terrible Sequel, Great Movie

By Mat Brewster | Sep 28, 2018

Based upon the best-selling novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist was a huge success. It earned over $66 million ...

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. Movie Review: Raw / Chaotic / Fascinating

By Steve Geise | Sep 28, 2018

M.I.A. rose to fame as a recording artist, but her back story is so intriguing that she'd make a superb ...

The Transformers: The Movie Review: Still Got the Touch

By Mark Buckingham | Sep 28, 2018

On August 8, 1986, the original Transformers lit up the silver screen for the first time in The Transformers: The ...

Gold (1974) Blu-ray Review: Always Believe in Your Soul

By Luigi Bastardo | Sep 28, 2018

For years, finding a copy of Gold in its original unaltered form was about as rare as the eponymous mineral ...

A Raisin in the Sun Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Wonderfully Acted Film

By Davy | Sep 27, 2018

While some movies about the African-American experience are embarrassing and downright stereotypical, there are others that realistically transcend the bad ...

LAFF 2018 Review: Making Montgomery Clift

By Gordon S. Miller | Sep 26, 2018

Co-created by Hillary Demmon and Robert Clift, the actor's youngest nephew and son of his brother Brooks, Making Montgomery Clift ...

A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die Blu-ray Review: And Nearly Two Hours to Snooze

By Luigi Bastardo | Sep 26, 2018

If you had the good fortune to grow up in or around video rental stores during the '80s and '90s, ...

The Baby (1973) Blu-ray Review: Could Have Been a Cult Classic

By Mat Brewster | Sep 26, 2018

The 1970s must have been an amazing time to make movies. The studio system was breaking down, allowing more independent ...

Where Hands Touch Movie Review: Well-Acted and Well-Intended yet Misguided

By Matthew St.Clair | Sep 25, 2018

Before I go further into my review, I'll just get one thing out of the way. If you plan on ...

The Public Image Is Rotten Movie Review: Traces the 40-year History of John Lydon and Public Image, Ltd.

By Jade Blackmore | Sep 25, 2018

Near the beginning of The Public Image is Rotten, a young John Lydon is asked how long he'll live. “I'm ...

My Man Godfrey Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: My Man Powell Strikes Gold

By Steve Geise | Sep 24, 2018

At a glance, My Man Godfrey appears to be a typical formulaic production from Hollywood's golden age. Headlined by two ...

By Matthew St.Clair | Sep 23, 2018

They say there is no greater journey than life itself. Well, one thing about life that isn't great is the ...

The Man Who Cheated Himself Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Trust Anyone

By Gordon S. Miller | Sep 22, 2018

Produced by the Film Noir Foundation, restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and presented by Flicker Factory, The ...

The Pyjama Girl Case Blu-ray Review: Fact Is More Interesting Than Fiction

By Mat Brewster | Sep 21, 2018

In 1934, the corpse of a woman clad in exotic silk pajamas was found lying in a culvert in New ...

Horrors of Malformed Men Blu-ray Review: Complete Malformed Japanese Madness

By Kent Conrad | Sep 20, 2018

Escaped asylum inmates, mistaken identity, resurrection from the grave, bizarre biological experiments, murder, incest, and a plot for world domination ...