Tideland Blu-ray Review: Childhood, Love, and Necrophilia
By Kent Conrad |
In a recorded introduction to Tideland, director Terry Gilliam states flat out, "Many of you are not going to like ...
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Searching Movie Review: Brilliantly Deceitful and Ingenious
By Matthew St.Clair |
It's hard to know where to begin when describing the sheer brilliance of Searching. For one, it handles a really ...
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Smithereens Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Indie Filmmaking at Its Most Raw and Unpolished
By Davy |
Films about women by women are pretty rare these days. These are stories about women taking control of their lives ...
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Mind Game (2004) Blu-ray Review: Endlessly Confusing, Endlessly Fascinating
By Kent Conrad |
The first couple minutes of Mind Game contains, after a brief scene of a girl being chased onto a subway ...
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Beast (2018) Blu-ray Review: It’s a Beauty
By David Wangberg |
While Jessie Buckley has made several notable appearances on television, Beast marks the first time she's taken on a role ...
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By Gordon S. Miller |
Given the success of the first Deadpool, it wasn't a surprise a sequel was made. The foul-mouthed, wise-cracking mutant (or ...
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat Movie Review: A Look at the Creative Development of an Art Icon
By Jade Blackmore |
An untitled painting of a skull by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $110 million in 2017, making it one of the ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Audacious Mischief
By Gordon S. Miller |
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has released The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in both its 1938 91-minute cut and its 77-minute ...
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The Wife (2017) Movie Review: Glenn Close Does Career-Best Work
By Matthew St.Clair |
There's no denying that Glenn Close is one of our greatest living actresses. Her career spans 30 years and she's ...
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Deep Rising Blu-ray Review: Schlocky, B-Movie Fun
By David Wangberg |
Stephen Sommers' Deep Rising was one of those movies I wanted to see when it initially released, but I never ...
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First Reformed Blu-ray Review: Praise Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke
By David Wangberg |
It's a subject in which Paul Schrader is very familiar, and also the one from which some of his best ...
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Color of Night (1994) Blu-ray Review: Color Me Bad for Enjoying It So
By Luigi Bastardo |
Much like director Richard Rush's 1980 cult classic The Stunt Man has never been the sort of film one could ...
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Crazy Rich Asians Movie Review: An Incredibly Winning Rom-Com
By Matthew St.Clair |
It is quite admirable to see a film like Crazy Rich Asians being greenlit so that Asian-American audiences can see ...
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The Rider (2018) DVD Review: Beautiful and Poignant
By David Wangberg |
Chloe Zhao's The Rider is a film that begins with our lead character, Brady Blackburn, removing staples from his head. ...
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Avengers: Infinity War Blu-ray Review: A Marvelous (pun intended) Superhero Movie
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starting with Iron Man (2008), the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gone onto to become a multimedia behemoth. It's been so ...
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters? Blu-ray Review: I Hope They’re Not with Solange
By Mat Brewster |
Two years after he directed the excellent giallo What Have You Done to Solange?, Massimo Dallamano helmed this giallo/poliziotteschi hybrid. ...
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BlacKkKlansman Movie Review: Haunting, Hilarious, and Thought Provoking
By Matthew St.Clair |
The best way to describe Spike Lee's latest joint, BlacKkKlansman, is that it is haunting, humorous, and thought provoking in ...
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Street Mobster Blu-ray Review: Gritty, Nasty Yakuza Drama
By Kent Conrad |
Street Mobster is a rough, often ugly story about Okita, a common street thug who tries to eke out a ...
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Dragon Inn Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Villains Check In but They Don’t Check Out
By Gordon S. Miller |
King Hu's second entry into the Criterion Collection is Dragon Inn (1967), his first film after leaving the Shaw Brothers ...
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Marrowbone (2018) Blu-ray Review: A Cure for Insomnia
By David Wangberg |
Based on its trailer, its look, and the fact that it has Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, Split) and Mia Goth ...
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The Spy Who Dumped Me Movie Review: Kate McKinnon Provides Non-Stop Laughs
By Matthew St.Clair |
Not only is The Spy Who Dumped Me a fun movie-going experience but it is proof that we should put ...
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Condemned! | The Devil to Pay! DVDs Review: Both Worthy of Exclamation Points
By Luigi Bastardo |
Once again, the Warner Archive Collection has unveiled a couple of forgotten titles starring Ronald Colman, the British-born talent who ...
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Brotherly Love (2018) Movie Review: Neither Heavenly nor Unholy
By Matthew St.Clair |
Based on the novel Seventy Times Seven by Salvatore Sapienza, Brotherly Love follows the story of Vito Fortunato (Anthony J. ...
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Mac and Me (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: E.T. Phone Lawyer
By David Wangberg |
It's one thing to pay homage to a certain film. It's another to do an almost beat-for-beat replica and try ...
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Irma La Douce Blu-ray Review: An Oft-forgotten Classic
By Shawn Bourdo |
In 1963, Billy Wilder is three years removed from a pinnacle movie of his career with The Apartment. His amazing ...
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Nico, 1988 Movie Review: Both Simplistic and Unsentimental
By Matthew St.Clair |
During the opening montage of Nico, 1988, the song “These Days” starts playing over it. A song that may be ...
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout Movie Review: Best Action Movie of the Summer
By Matthew St.Clair |
The Mission: Impossible franchise manages to live up to its title because it attains a feat that franchises rarely accomplish. ...
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A Strange Adventure (1956) Blu-ray Review: An Unremarkable Thriller
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the cliffhanger serial formula Republic Pictures would be so well remembered for had already been extinct by the time ...
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I Walk Alone (1947) Blu-ray Review: A Fine, Slow-Burning Film Noir
By Luigi Bastardo |
The first of what would ultimately tally up to be seven feature films starring the talents of Burt Lancaster and ...
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Ready Player One Blu-ray Review: A Grand Spectacle Lacking Substance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Ernest Cline's book of the same name, Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is a fantastic adventure in the ...
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The Day After Blu-ray Review: Still Has a Probing Effect on Society Today
By Davy |
When it comes to nuclear annihilation, there have been many successful cinematic attempts to truly justify the horrifying reality of ...
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Super Troopers 2 Blu-ray Review: Stick with the First One
By David Wangberg |
One of my main concerns about a sequel to a film being released more than a decade later is the ...
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Arrow Video Presents Director Vincent Ward’s First Two Features, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Vigil
By Shawn Bourdo |
There's a funny thing about favorite movies. You can easily find people to share a love for anything Harry Potter ...
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The Third Murder Movie Review: All Justice, No Truth
By Kent Conrad |
There shouldn't be much to the murder trial. After all, the murderer has already confessed. The prosecution is pushing for ...
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You Were Never Really Here Blu-ray Review: A Dark, Masterful Thriller
By David Wangberg |
Prior to watching Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, I came across one short comment on Letterboxd in which ...
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Tiger by the Tail (1970) Blu-ray Review: The Lyons’ Tiger’s a Bear, Oh My
By Luigi Bastardo |
Outwardly, there isn't much for the average contemporary moviegoer to get excited about over R.G. Springsteen's Tiger by the Tail. ...
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Godmonster of Indian Flats Blu-ray Review: Please, Don’t Act So Sheepish
By Luigi Bastardo |
Even established connoisseurs of strange little motion pictures generally regarded as "bad" can occasionally step into something they are wholly ...
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Sorry to Bother You Movie Review: Completely Zany yet Brilliant
By Matthew St.Clair |
“Uhh…...what?” That was the best possible way to describe my reaction to Sorry to Bother You. It is completely bizarre, ...
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Rampage (2018) Blu-ray Review: A Beloved Arcade Game Brought to Life on the Big Screen
By Todd Karella |
Energyne is a company run by brother and sister Brett (Jake Lacy) and Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman). They are experimenting ...
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1/1 Movie Review: Solidly Acted yet Overly Ambitious
By Matthew St.Clair |
Plenty of us know Lindsey Shaw as Jennifer “Moze” Mosely from the Nickelodeon television series Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. ...
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The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail Blu-ray Review: Stereotypical Giallo
By Mat Brewster |
When Lisa Baumer's (Ida Galli) husband dies in a plane explosion (via a very obvious model getting blown to bits ...
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Doom Asylum Blu-ray Review: Terribly Charming
By Mat Brewster |
When a hotshot palimony attorney (Michael Rogen) wins a big case, he takes his girlfriend (Patty Mullen) for a ride ...
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Woman Is the Future of Man / Tale of Cinema Blu-ray Review: Best Left in the Arthouse
By Steve Geise |
South Korean arthouse cinema doesn't often receive U.S. Blu-ray release, so kudos to Arrow Academy for making these films available, ...
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Eighth Grade Movie Review: Pitch-Perfect Portrait of Adolescence
By Matthew St.Clair |
Eighth Grade was a rather confusing and painful experience. The movie Eighth Grade, however, is a portrait of an adolescent ...
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Skyscraper (2018) Movie Review: “Die Hard” in a Building
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ten years ago, Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) was an FBI agent injured on the job by an explosion that leaves ...
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Path of Blood Movie Review: Harrowing and Uncomfortable
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Path of Blood first opens, there is a video of a group of young jihadists laughing before they are ...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! Blu-ray Review: Undercover Yakuza Hijinks
By Kent Conrad |
Seijun Suzuki, one of the stable of directors at Nikkatsu in the '50s and '60s, Japan's oldest film studio, was ...
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Ant-Man and the Wasp Movie Review: A Pint-Sized Superhero Film with Big Heart
By Matthew St.Clair |
Earlier this year, Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War showed us how bold and innovative Marvel Cinematic Universe films can ...
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A Quiet Place Blu-ray Review: Shhhhhh
By Mat Brewster |
To make a film filled with long silences and almost entirely free of audible dialogue is a bold choice. To ...
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Black Lightning: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: A Realistic Feel to a Show About Superheroes
By Todd Karella |
Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Cinema Sentries with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The ...
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