Much Ado About Dying Movie Review: Beautifully Uncomfortable
By Darcy Staniforth |
The burden of care-giving for another person at the end of their life is not something everyone will have to ...
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Frida (2024) Movie Review: An Artistic Tribute to Kahlo from Kahlo
By Darcy Staniforth |
Frida Kahlo used herself as the subject of many of her paintings because, as she said, “I am the subject ...
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Bombs Over Burma DVD Review: Chungking Express
By Steve Geise |
Anna May Wong stars as an elementary school teacher in China who moonlights as a World War II spy. The ...
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Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend Blu-ray Review: I’m Honestly at a Loss After Watching This
By Darcy Staniforth |
Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend looks at the legend of Bigfoot using historical accounts, testimony, and information from Bigfoot experts and ...
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Here’s Flash Casey DVD Review: His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, and Andy Hardy Walk into a Bar…
By Joe Garcia III |
Here’s Flash Casey (1938), directed by Lynn Shores (Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum), stars Eric Linden and Boots Mallory ...
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The Great Ziegfeld Blu-ray Review: There’s No Business Like Show Business
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Great Ziegfeld, winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, tells a story that, in quite an unusual on-screen ...
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Witness Blu-ray Review: Harrison Ford Among the Amish
By Joe Garcia III |
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGinnis, and Lukas Haas star in Witness (1985), a crime thriller that takes place mostly in the ...
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The Prince of Egypt: The Musical Blu-ray Review: Holy Moses
By Steve Geise |
DreamWorks makes another attempt at a live musical theater adaptation of one of their animated films, this time reaching all ...
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The Whip and the Body Blu-ray Review: Colorful Kink from Mario Bava
By Mat Brewster |
The thing about Mario Bava is that he became something of a bridge between classical and modern horror. He made ...
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Driving Madeleine Blu-ray Review: Driving Madame Daisy
By Steve Geise |
Wait, haven’t we seen this movie before? Yes, the concept is similar to Driving Miss Daisy, with shades of Green ...
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The Rolling Stones: Live at the Wiltern Blu-ray Review: 20 Licks Up Close and I Like It
By Gordon S. Miller |
To commemorate the band's 40th anniversary in 2002, the Rolling Stones released Forty Licks, notable among the many Stones compilations ...
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Jeanne Moreau, Filmmaker Blu-ray Review: Girl Power
By Steve Geise |
Any casual fan of French cinema recognizes the name of esteemed actress Jeanne Moreau. Of far less common knowledge is ...
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Archangel (1990) Blu-ray Review: Dreamlike Semi-silent Melodrama
By Kent Conrad |
Guy Maddin does not make movies in any particular genre. He makes "Guy Maddin" movies, which are unlike anything else ...
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Blu-ray Review: A Must-own for Fans of the D
By Gordon S. Miller |
The comic hard-rock duo Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) teamed up with director Liam Lynch to write and ...
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Afire Blu-ray Review: A Mixed Portrait of Uneasy Relationships
By Davy |
Some films have ideas that are so obvious that they are impossible to ignore once you discovered them. Unfortunately, Christian ...
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Migration Blu-ray Review: Funny but Flies South Quick
By Greg Hammond |
Benjamin Renner’s Migration is an animated adventure story from Illumination. It concerns itself with a family of mallards who have ...
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The Heroic Trio/Executioners Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Insane Hong Kong Lady Action
By Kent Conrad |
In the pre-Internet era, information about different cultures’ cinema was obscure. It was rumor. It was some still in a ...
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The Hobby Movie Review: What Was Once About Collecting Is Now About Investing
By Rons Reviews |
The documentary The Hobby bills itself as “a character-driven, feel-good deep dive into the high-stakes, eccentric world of card collecting.” ...
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Wonka Blu-ray Review: A Sweet Audiovisual Treat with Heart
By Lorna Miller |
When I first heard this film was Willy Wonka's origin story with Timothée Chalamet playing the titular role, I admit ...
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Contagion 4K UHD Review: If I Could Throw Your Computer in Jail, I Would
By Greg Hammond |
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum), is about a pandemic which spreads quickly and kills ...
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Black Tight Killers Blu-ray Review: Branded to Thrill
By Steve Geise |
Yasuharu Hasebe’s delirious caper oozes with style, and is better than ever in this new hi-def transfer restored by Radiance ...
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The Golden Coach Blu-ray Review: Jean Renoir’s Tribute to Theater
By Steve Geise |
When a traveling theater company rolls into a rich Peruvian town, the star actress named Camilla (Anna Magnani) quickly attracts ...
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Verotika Blu-ray Review: A Comic Book Horror Anthology Come to Life
By Joe Garcia III |
Verotika (2019) is writer/director Glenn Danzig’s debut and is an anthology horror movie based on characters from his Verotik comic ...
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Movie Review: I Am Your Captain, Your Judge, and Your Jury
By Greg Hammond |
Frank Lloyd’s Mutiny on the Bounty was nominated for eight Academy Awards and came away with one, Best Picture. The ...
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The Promised Land Movie Review: Mads Mikkelsen Harvests Another Winner
By Steve Geise |
When a destitute retired army captain sets out on a quixotic quest to cultivate inhospitable land, he runs afoul of ...
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La Syndicaliste Blu-ray Review: The Woman Who Maybe Cried Wolf
By Steve Geise |
Director Jean-Paul Salomé and star Isabelle Huppert team up again in this fascinating drama that is not at all what ...
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Wolfman’s Got Nards Blu-ray Review: The Monster Squad Squad Speaks
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Monster Squad and Wolfman's Got Nards, the 30th anniversary documentary about the film and its fans, are available together ...
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The Monster Squad Blu-ray Review: And the Children Shall Lead
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Monster Squad and Wolfman's Got Nards, the 30th anniversary documentary about the film and its fans, are available together ...
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Faithless (1932) Blu-ray Review: Tallulah Bankhead Makes It Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
The story goes that as a teenager Tallulah Bankhead won a contest in the Picture Post magazine which sent her ...
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Mademoiselle (1966) Blu-ray Review: Lust and Terror In France
By Mat Brewster |
Someone is wreaking havoc in a French provincial village. The cattle's drinking water has been poisoned, fires have been set ...
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Annie Hall Movie Review: Look, There’s God Coming Out of the Restroom
By Greg Hammond |
From the opening lines of Annie Hall, we know there will be no chance for romance between Alvy Singer (Woody ...
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...
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2024 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starting February 16, the 19th annual Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 700 theaters globally and in ...
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Darkman 4K UHD Review: A Must-See for Sam Raimi Fans
By Greg Hammond |
In Sam Raimi’s Darkman (1990), Liam Neeson, in his first starring action role, plays Dr. Peyton Westlake, a researcher in ...
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Godard Cinema Blu-ray Review: Interesting and Involving
By Davy |
When legendary, unconventional, and challenging filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard passed away in 2022, it left quite a shock to everyone, not ...
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Casino Remastered Edition Blu-ray Review: Paradise in the Desert Lost
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Martin Scorsese who co-wrote the script with Nicholas Pileggi, based on the latter's Casino: Love and Honor in ...
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Ghostwritten (2024) Movie Review: The Story Needs More Spelled Out
By Darcy Staniforth |
As a writer, there are days where inspiration becomes elusive. But what happens when those days turn into months and ...
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The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Blu-ray Review: If You Want to Hit Him, It’s Alright by Me
By Greg Hammond |
Norman Jewison’s The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is one of those rare comedies that holds its laughs ...
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Coming Home Blu-ray Review: Romantic War Drama at the Top of Its Game
By Greg Hammond |
There is nothing subtle about Hal Ashby’s Coming Home. It is not an anti-war film, it is, specifically, an anti-Vietnam ...
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Footloose (1984) 4K UHD Review: Rambunctious, Though Mostly Tired
By Greg Hammond |
After the death of his father, Ren McCormack (Keven Bacon), and his mother (Frances Lee McCain) move from Chicago to ...
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Scarlet Street Blu-ray Review: Take a Walk on the Wild Side
By Steve Geise |
Aside from the direction by Fritz Lang, I didn’t have much initial interest in watching this film. Edward G. Robinson ...
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Willy’s Wonderland 4K UHD Review: Nicolas Cage Brings a Whole Lot of Fun
By Greg Hammond |
Kevin Lewis’s Willy’s Wonderland stars Nicolas Cage, a possibly mute, probably just super quiet, nameless drifter driving the backroads, who ...
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Blu-ray Review: Twisty Drama in the Courtroom
By Kent Conrad |
A filmed courtroom drama has a double-edged sword. It's of course easy drama, the conflict is already fixed. Defense vs. ...
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Waitress: The Musical Blu-ray Review: Small-Town Servers Accentuate the Positive
By Steve Geise |
Following the conclusion of its four-year original Broadway run in early 2020, Waitress: The Musical returned to Broadway in late ...
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Burnt Offerings Blu-ray Review: Not the Average Haunted House Movie
By Joe Garcia III |
Burnt Offerings (1976) starring Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, and Burgess Meredith may well be director Dan Curtis’ masterpiece. ...
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Perfect Days Movie Review: Wim Wenders Examines Perfect Solitude
By Steve Geise |
Acclaimed German director Wim Wenders might seem an odd choice to helm a narrative feature about an elderly toilet cleaner ...
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Fathom Events Presents My Fair Lady for Its 60th Anniversary
By Mat Brewster |
Right after we married, my wife and I took our honeymoon in Stratford, Ontario. Just like its namesake in England, ...
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Loaded Guns Blu-ray Review: Firing Blanks
By Steve Geise |
By any conventional measure, Loaded Guns is a terrible movie. The wisp of a plot goes nowhere, the acting is ...
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He Walked by Night Blu-ray Review: You’ll Watch by Daylight
By Mat Brewster |
Part film noir, part ripped from the headlines semi-documentary, He Walked by Night influenced countless movies and television shows and ...
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