Uncategorized

Bandits of Orgosolo Blu-ray Review: It Don’t Feel Good to Be a Bandit

By Mat Brewster | Jul 7, 2024

Orgosolo is a tiny village on the Italian island of Sardinia. Recent tourism has raised the island's economic prospects, but ...

Prey (2022) Movie Review: A Great Script and Talented Cast Breathe New Life into an Aging Franchise

By Greg Hammond | Jul 7, 2024

Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey (2022) is the fifth film in the Predator franchise, and seventh in the complete franchise. It serves ...

Class Blu-ray Review: Pre-Brat Pack Comedy Drama That Pops Like Flat Champagne

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 6, 2024

Class (1983) directed by Lewis John Carlino and featuring music by Elmer Bernstein is an unbalanced comedy drama that finds ...

Justice League Dark Movie Review: I Will Take You There, So You Are No Longer Here

By Greg Hammond | Jul 5, 2024

Justice League Dark is an animated DC superhero film which holds the spot as the 28th film of the DC ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Missing from Fire Trail Road

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 4, 2024

May Ellen Johnson-Davis disappeared from the Tulalip Indian reservation near Seattle on November 25, 2020. Two years later, director Sabrina ...

Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Movie Review: A Fast-Paced Action Thriller

By Greg Hammond | Jul 3, 2024

Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is an animated DC superhero film which holds the spot as the 29th film of ...

Batman: The Killing Joke Movie Review: Two Guys Are in a Mental Asylum

By Greg Hammond | Jul 1, 2024

Sam Liu’s Batman: The Killing Joke is the 27th of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies. It was written by ...

Orlando, My Political Biography Blu-ray Review: A Highly Original Celebration of Personal Identity

By Davy | Jul 1, 2024

Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) remains one of the seminal literary works of the twentieth century. One of the first of ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIX Blu-ray Review: Loads of Stars, Tons of Thrills

By Mat Brewster | Jun 30, 2024

Kino Lorber continues their excellent series of releasing relatively obscure film noirs. For this, their 19th set in the series, ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 29, 2024

The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in August 1971. It was intended ...

Victims of Sin Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Zoot Suit Riot

By Steve Geise | Jun 28, 2024

If you’re new to Mexico’s rumbera musical genre, imagine classic Hollywood musical tropes filtered through a crime-ridden back alley, removing ...

Son of Batman Movie Review: I Owe My Grandfather a Death

By Greg Hammond | Jun 28, 2024

Son of Batman is an animated DC superhero film which holds the spot as the 20th film of the DC ...

Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World Movie Review: Deep Dive into a Historic Concert

By Kit O'Toole | Jun 28, 2024

In September 1969, Toronto experienced their own Woodstock: the Toronto Rock ’N Roll Revival Festival, a landmark event featuring music ...

Arthur Dong’s LGBTQ Stories Blu-ray Review: Necessary Documents

By Davy | Jun 27, 2024

Although Pride month will be over in just a few days, our endless fight to as LGBTQ individuals will never ...

Macbeth (1948) Blu-ray Review: Orson Welles Gets Shakespearean

By Mat Brewster | Jun 27, 2024

William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers in the English language. Macbeth is arguably his greatest play. Orson Welles ...

Never Open That Door Blu-ray Review: Two Stories of Humanity Against Inhumanity

By Davy | Jun 26, 2024

Film noir is universal. It reaches all over the world. The United States isn't the only country that can produce ...

The Case of the Bloody Iris 4K UHD Review: A Typically Stylish Giallo

By Kent Conrad | Jun 25, 2024

The Case of the Bloody Iris exemplifies the appeal of the giallo completely. Giallo is the Italian precursor to the ...

Sympathy for the Underdog Blu-ray Review: Crime Takes a Holiday

By Steve Geise | Jun 25, 2024

Director Kinji Fukasaku began a string of memorable 1970s yakuza films with this newly restored gem. The film follows a ...

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) Blu-ray Review: Hitchcock Comedy, for Better or Worse

By Kent Conrad | Jun 25, 2024

There's an underrated aspect of Hitchcock's films, and that is their comedy. The comedy tends to be ironic, and based ...

Act of Violence (1948) Blu-ray Review: Terrific Film Noir with Heart

By Mat Brewster | Jun 25, 2024

A trench-coated figure hobbles toward us in shadow. The New York City skyline hovers over him at an odd angle. ...

Dune Part Two Blu-ray Review: Will the Prophecy Be Fulfilled?

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 25, 2024

Director/co-writer Denis Villeneuve continues his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel with Dune Part Two, an interplanetary political epic that equals ...

The Boys in the Boat Blu-ray Review: Wasted Potential and Talent

By Rons Reviews | Jun 25, 2024

Legendary actor and inconsistent director George Clooney brings the #1 New York Times Bestselling Non-Fiction novel to the big screen ...

Cat Ballou Blu-ray Review: The End of the Western

By Kent Conrad | Jun 24, 2024

When I talk to people younger than myself about Westerns, the first name they generally mention is "Clint Eastwood." What ...

Into the Wild Blu-ray Review: The Lost Boy

By David Wangberg | Jun 23, 2024

Sean Penn’s adaptation of Into the Wild was what initially inspired me to then read the book on which it’s ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Satisfied

By Steve Geise | Jun 23, 2024

Filled with Renée Elise Goldsberry’s self-recorded archival clips, this new documentary traces her meteoric ride on the Hamilton express at ...

Eight Men Out Blu-ray Review: We’re Talking Baseball…Scandals, and Say It Ain’t So, Joe!

By Joe Garcia III | Jun 22, 2024

Bottom of the ninth, writer/director John Sayles steps to the plate. He takes a big swing and hits a home ...

American Fiction Blu-ray Review: Will Be Talked About for Years to Come

By Davy | Jun 21, 2024

There are some movies that just come and go, meaning that you watch them once and move on. Cord Jefferson's ...

Team America: World Police 4K UHD Review: Pulls the Right Strings

By Greg Hammond | Jun 21, 2024

From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the long-running TV series South Park (328 episodes between 1997 - ...

Querelle Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Man in Every Port

By Rocky London | Jun 20, 2024

In director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle (1982; adapted from a book by Jean Genet), a Belgian sailor, Querelle (Brad Davis), ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Luther: Never Too Much

By Steve Geise | Jun 20, 2024

Luther Vandross built a recording career on love songs featuring his unforgettable voice, but director Dawn Porter takes a deep ...

South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut 4K UHD Review: Still Funny but Aging Rapidly

By Greg Hammond | Jun 20, 2024

South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker, and written by Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady, is ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Desire: The Carl Craig Story

By Steve Geise | Jun 19, 2024

Widely regarded as one of the key figures and champions of the Detroit EDM scene, Carl Craig is both a ...

Chinatown 4K UHD Review: Noir Gold; or “The point is, the girl dies”

By Rocky London | Jun 18, 2024

As a masterpiece, Chinatown needed its two main creators, screenwriter Robert Towne (who won the movie’s sole Oscar) and director ...

Thunderheart Blu-ray Review: A Gritty Neo-Western

By Joe Garcia III | Jun 18, 2024

Thunderheart (1992) was directed by Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist), written by John Fusco (Young Guns I & II) ...

All That Breathes Blu-ray Review: A Profound, Lyrical Film

By Davy | Jun 17, 2024

I also appreciate cinematic stories about the relationships between humans and wildlife, where our bonds are much stronger than we ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Soldiers of Song

By David Wangberg | Jun 15, 2024

Ryan Smith’s Soldiers of Song starts off as if we’re about to watch a trailer for the documentary that’s going ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Hacking Hate

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 15, 2024

Simon Klose's Hacking Hate is a compelling documentary that is more chilling than any horror movie as it explores online ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Shelf Life

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 14, 2024

Documentarian Ian Cheney's Shelf Life is an anthological look at cheese, a food item so ubiquitous that many take it ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Pirópolis

By David Wangberg | Jun 13, 2024

From the film’s opening shot to the final haunting minutes, Nicolás Molina’s Pirópolis grabs your attention, immerses you into the ...

The Burglars Blu-ray Review: Some Great Action Set Pieces

By Mat Brewster | Jun 13, 2024

The Burglars opens with a long, mostly silent, jewel heist. It is reminiscent of a similar scene in Jules Dassin's ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: They All Came Out to Montreux

By Steve Geise | Jun 12, 2024

How did a tiny Swiss lakeside town become the site of a legendary music festival? Why is it called the ...

Saigon (1948) Blu-ray Review: Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake’s Last Film Together

By Mat Brewster | Jun 12, 2024

During World War II and for about a decade after, there were a slew of American movies set in exotic ...

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Movie Review: When Worlds Collide

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 11, 2024

Previously intended to be a movie that connected the DC Animated Universe Justice League and Justice League Unlimited TV series ...

Tribeca 2024 Review: Boys Go to Jupiter

By Steve Geise | Jun 11, 2024

In Julian Glander’s candy-colored, CG-animated vision of suburban Florida, slacker friends co-exist with odd sentient creatures and an orange juice ...