Crossing the Bridge / Indian Summer Blu-ray Review: A Mike Binder Double Feature
By Rons Reviews |
I first became aware of Mike Binder when he was a talented young stand-up comedian in the late '70s. I ...
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Darkest Hour Blu-ray Review: Gary Oldman Gives a Riveting Portrayal as Winston Churchill
By Gordon S. Miller |
Joe Wright's Darkest Hour tells the story of Winston Churchill's first few weeks in office as Prime Minister of the ...
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Gate II (1990) Blu-ray Review: Fun, but for Big Fans Only at Best
By Luigi Bastardo |
My first viewing of Gate II was when the film first came to my hometown's dinky second-run theater (which was ...
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Battle Cry (1955) Blu-ray Review: Former A-List Hit with Future B-Grade Stars
By Luigi Bastardo |
Battle Cry's cast is enough to send shivers up the spine of any classic B-movie enthusiast from sheer excitement. The ...
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Fathom Events and GKIDS Present Mary and the Witch’s Flower
By Mat Brewster |
In September 2013, famed director and Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement. He had made such proclamations before ...
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Big Business / Scenes from a Mall Blu-ray Review: An Interesting Combination
By Shawn Bourdo |
Kino Lorber recently teamed up two late-'80s / early-'90s films for a Blu-ray release that seem to share little in ...
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Annihilation Movie Review: A Beautifully Horrific Piece of Science Fiction
By Matthew St.Clair |
After making his directorial debut with Ex Machina, writer/director Alex Garland brings us his latest opus that is Annihilation, a ...
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Concert for George Movie Review: A Deeply Moving Tribute to a Multifaceted Artist
By Kit O'Toole |
George Harrison's life and career may seem impossible to capture in just an hour and a half. Yet his friends ...
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The Sea Wolf (1941) Blu-ray Review: Another Major Discovery from the WAC
By Luigi Bastardo |
The discovery of any classic film in its original uncut form brings with it an opportunity to rejoice. Recently, the ...
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The Emperor in August / Sayonara / The Yellow Handkerchief Blu-rays Review: Three for Japan
By Luigi Bastardo |
American and Japanese. Remakes and originals. Love and war. Though they may all appear to be starkly different on the ...
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An Actor’s Revenge Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Kabuki Costumes in Modernist Cinema
By Kent Conrad |
Yukinojo, the kabuki female impersonator who gets the titular vengeance in Kon Ichikawa's An Actor's Revenge (1963), is a tough ...
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By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Spencer Coile Honey (Heather Graham) was raised to believe that her sexuality should never be addressed. As a ...
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The Hero Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Long Train Ride into the Soul of an Artist
By Mat Brewster |
Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar), an enormously famous movie star, boards an overnight train from Calcutta to Delhi to receive a ...
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Elevator to the Gallows Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Ruthless People
By Steve Geise |
Louis Malle's directorial debut is notable for numerous reasons. He was only 24 years old at the time, fresh off ...
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Hack-O-Lantern (1988) Blu-ray Review: Every Night is Halloween
By Luigi Bastardo |
Only a short time ago, finding a copy of Jag Mundhra's low-budget '80s horror flick Hack-O-Lantern on VHS was similar ...
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TCM and Fathom Events Present The Philadelphia Story
By Mat Brewster |
Playwright Phillip Barry wrote a play called The Philadelphia Story specifically for Katharine Hepburn to star in. After it was ...
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Black Panther Movie Review: Marvel’s Most Game-Changing Film Yet
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Captain America: Civil War came out in 2016, one of its major highlights was scene stealer Chadwick Boseman as ...
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The Trip to Spain (2017) Blu-ray Review: Moore (or Les) of the Same
By Luigi Bastardo |
The third film adaptation to spawn from Michael Winterbottom's television series The Trip, The Trip to Spain reunites British comedians ...
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The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) Blu-ray Review: Try Hard
By Luigi Bastardo |
Any time you depict a filthy rich jock as someone the average moviegoer should be able to sympathize with, you're ...
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The Girl Without Hands Blu-ray Review: A Mesmerizing Fairy Tale
By Mat Brewster |
Based upon an old German fairy tale as collected by the Brothers Grimm, The Girl Without Hands is a French ...
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Mr. Mom Blu-ray Review: Role Reversal Comedy Has Few Laughs
By David Wangberg |
Stan Dragoti's Mr. Mom is what happens when someone decides that a sitcom with its premise might not have much ...
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Not As a Stranger (1955) Blu-ray Review: Robert Mitchum, Sociopathic Surgeon
By Luigi Bastardo |
Any movie which conjures up the mental image of a motorcycle bound Lon Chaney Jr. going out in a drunken ...
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The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) Blu-ray Review: Too Sweet for Me
By Rons Reviews |
There are three types of people in the world: those who like Bob Hope, those who don't like Bob Hope, ...
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Victor Crowley Blu-ray Review: Why, Oh Why, Do They Keep Going into That Swamp?
By Mark Buckingham |
If it's been said once, it's been said a thousand times -- don't go into Honey Island Swamp in Louisiana ...
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The Witches (1967) Blu-ray Review: Someone Get These Witches a Spell
By Mat Brewster |
The concept of an anthology film in which you make one long movie consisting of several short films seems like ...
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Charley Chase at Hal Roach: The Talkies, Volume One: 1930-31 DVD Review: In One Word, “Yes!”
By Luigi Bastardo |
While history may not regard him as highly as many of the other on-screen comics who predated or succeeded him, ...
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Blade of the Immortal Blu-ray Review: The Immortal Takashi Miike
By Steve Geise |
Takashi Miike has directed some of the most well-known Japanese genre films to ever reach our shores, including his turn-of-the-century ...
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Freebie and the Bean Blu-ray Review: A Film That Should Have Stayed Buried in the Past
By Todd Karella |
In San Francisco, two cops Freebie (James Caan) and Bean (Alan Arkin) have spent more than a year trying to ...
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2018 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
ShortsTV, the World's Only Short Film Channel (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, is currently showing “THE 2018 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT ...
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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Remastered) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Previously released from Criterion in 2009, The Complete Monterey Pop Festival collects three D.A. Pennebaker film's: Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays ...
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The Aftermath (1982) Blu-ray Review: A Little Movie with a Long Wake
By Luigi Bastardo |
Were you to whisper the name "Steve Barkett" to the average moviegoer, a lengthy pause with near-audible chirping crickets in ...
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2018 Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
ShortsTV, the World's Only Short Film Channel (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will open “THE 2018 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS” ...
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The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection: Volume 1 (1964-1966) Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Anyone who who grew up watching Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes, surely remembers the unusual name “Friz Freleng” in the ...
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Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Blu-ray Review: The Steampunk World’s Greatest Detective
By Steve Geise |
Nearly 30 years ago, DC Comics launched an ongoing series of standalone stories set outside their normal comics continuity, eventually ...
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2018 Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
ShortsTV, the World's Only Short Film Channel (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will open “THE 2018 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS” ...
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Chris Claremont’s X-Men Movie Review: A Look at the Man Who Single-handedly Reinvented the X-Men Franchise
By generaljabbo |
The X-Men have been one of Marvel's most successful franchises for some time, both in the comic pages and on ...
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The Cloverfield Paradox Movie Review: A Surprise Sequel That Gets Lost In Orbit
By Matthew St.Clair |
The Cloverfield Paradox built a lot of hype by announcing that it would be available to stream on Netflix right ...
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Permission Movie Review: A Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Have All the Answers
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez When it comes to relationships, does the quality of one transcend the experience of being with ...
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The Violent Years (1956) Blu-ray Review: Ed Wood’s Teenage Girl Gang Terrorists
By Luigi Bastardo |
The list of filmmakers best known for helming the worst movies ever made is a long and varied one. In ...
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Deathdream (1974) Blu-ray Review: We Are the Dead of Night, We’re in the Zombie Room
By Luigi Bastardo |
While W.W. Jacobs may have never been much of a household name either before or after his death in 1943 ...
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Jabberwocky Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Frabjous Film! Callooh! Callay!
By Gordon S. Miller |
After co-directing Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Gilliam returned to the Dark Ages for his first solo outing, ...
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The Pirates of Blood River (1962) Blu-ray Review: A Dish, Out of Water
By Luigi Bastardo |
Your friends might argue a pirate movie won't float without water. Or an actual pirate ship. Heck, even an award-winning ...
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978) Blu-ray Review: Mildly Amusing
By David Wangberg |
Before David and Jerry Zucker teamed up with Jim Abrahams to deliver one of the zaniest and funniest spoofs ever ...
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) Blu-ray Review: Sunken Leisure
By Luigi Bastardo |
The advent of CinemaScope in the 1950s brought with it many changes to Hollywood. Sadly, in the case of 20th ...
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Captain from Castile (1947) Blu-ray Review: A Power-fully Fun Swashbuckler
By Luigi Bastardo |
Even at 141 minutes in length, Henry King's lavish big-budgeted adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's 1945 novel Captain from Castile only ...
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Kameradschaft Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Cry for Cooperation
By Kent Conrad |
It's difficult to separate Kameradschaft from its historical context. Released in 1931, this story of cooperation between French and Germans ...
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Napping Princess Blu-ray Review: Don’t Sleep on This
By Steve Geise |
While you might not be familiar with Kenji Kamiyama's name, he's the force behind many successful anime projects, most notably ...
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Waiting for Guffman (1996) Blu-ray Review: The Waiting is the Artist Part
By Luigi Bastardo |
Before he gave us his unique looks at dog shows and folk groups, This Is Spinal Tap co-creator and star ...
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The Green Slime (1968) Blu-ray Review: Would You Believe It When You’re Dead?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Apart from the occasional World War II movie, there haven't been terribly many instances in film history wherein the US ...
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958) Blu-ray Review: Climax Change
By Luigi Bastardo |
Though the notion of someone ‒ anyone ‒ being labeled as a "barn burner" in this day and age may ...
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