The Princess Bride 30th Anniversary Fathom Events Review: A Fun Experience
By Todd Karella |
Thirty years ago, director Rob Reiner brought to the silver screen a film based on the 1973 novel written by ...
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Innocent Blood (1992) Blu-ray Review: A Parisian Vampire in Pittsburgh
By Luigi Bastardo |
Where An American Werewolf in London and From Dusk Till Dawn points on a map, John Landis' 1992 vampire horror/action/comedy ...
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Creep 2 Movie Review: Another Disturbing Entry into the Mind of a Lonely Murderer
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In 2014, director Patrick Brice helmed Creep, a localized found-footage horror movie about two men who ...
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Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) Blu-ray Review: Rural Murder Italian Style
By Kent Conrad |
There's an old saying in Classic Hollywood, attributed to Howard Hawks, that a good movie is "three good scenes, no ...
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Mansfield 66/67 Movie Review: Jayne’s Life Would Have Made a Great Reality Show
By Jade Blackmore |
Directors Todd Hughes and P. David Ebersole take a quirky approach to the life of actress Jayne Mansfield with the ...
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Popcorn (1991) Blu-ray Review: Hot Buttered Death
By Luigi Bastardo |
Crafted during that curious cusp separating the '80s and '90s, Popcorn initially failed to "pop" with audiences when it first ...
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Festival (1967) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Better Than Woodstock
By Mat Brewster |
In the early part of the 20th Century, various folklorists, including John Lomax, wandered about the country documenting the songs ...
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The Hidden (1987) Blu-ray Review: The Best Movie John Carpenter Never Made
By Luigi Bastardo |
The epitome of everything that made '80s cinema everlastingly fantastic, Jack Shoulder's cult classic The Hidden is a rare hybrid ...
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The Big Knife (1955) Blu-ray Review: Cuts Like a Life
By Luigi Bastardo |
Trying to classify The Big Knife as one particular film genre over another isn't an easy task. But then, there ...
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Geostorm 4DX Review: If You Intend to Weather This Storm, Do It in 4DX
By Gordon S. Miller |
Geostorm marks the directorial debut of Dean Devlin, screenwriter and producer of films such as Independence Day and Godzilla (1998). ...
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The Ambassador (1984) Blu-ray Review: When Exploitation Gets Political
By Luigi Bastardo |
One of two adaptations of Elmore Leonard's 52 Pick-Up produced and released by Cannon Films in the mid '80s, any ...
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The Lift (1983) / Down (2001) Blu-rays Review: Same Shaft, Different Play
By Luigi Bastardo |
"Take the stairs! Take the stairs! For God's sake, take the stairs!!" Elevators are the worst, aren't they? I mean, ...
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Alice Cooper: Welcome to My Nightmare Special Edition DVD Review: Highly Recommended
By Gordon S. Miller |
Vincent Furnier was the lead singer of the band of Alice Cooper and also went by the name Alice Cooper. ...
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Three O’Clock High Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: An ’80s Classic That Too Many People Haven’t Seen
By Rons Reviews |
Three O'Clock High makes my list of great movies that too many people haven't seen with other films such as ...
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Vampyr Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Come for the Film, Stay for the Book
By Steve Geise |
Although Vampyr was released way back in 1932, it isn't the first vampire film, as it was released after the ...
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Blu-ray Review: It Happened One Time
By Luigi Bastardo |
Hailing from that time before the Southern Gothic tale somehow transformed into hicksploitation, Suddenly, Last Summer extends from the creative ...
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Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Blu-ray Review: Swedish Sterling Slays Slinger
By Kent Conrad |
Watching older movies, it's fun to remember sometimes how much all media is created as much by the times as ...
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The Suspicious Death of a Minor Blu-ray Review: Two Genres, One Film
By Mat Brewster |
As I have been watching and reviewing more and more Italian films, I have come to realize that I tend ...
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The House (2017) Blu-ray Review: Silly but Slight
By Gordon S. Miller |
From the writers of Neighbors (2014), The House (2017) is a silly comedy about two parents trying to raise money ...
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The Beguiled (2017) Blu-ray Review: Coppola Beguiles Viewers
By Steve Geise |
Sofia Coppola's latest project is a remake of an old Clint Eastwood film based on a novel, and at first ...
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All the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Dawn of Erotica
By Luigi Bastardo |
If you've ever found yourself sitting in a darkened room with only the light of a saucy softcore selection flickering ...
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Phenomena (1985) Blu-ray Review: Argento at His Most Bewildering
By Luigi Bastardo |
One of Dario Argento's most eclectic contributions to the European horror movie boom of the 1980s, Phenomena is something like ...
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A Fish Called Wanda Special Edition Blu-ray Review: Filled with Amazing Performances and Genuinely Funny Premises
By Rons Reviews |
Just short of the film's 30th anniversary, Arrow Video sends a Special Edition of the classic comedy A Fish Called ...
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Certain Women Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Truly Amazing Film
By Davy |
When it comes to filmmaking, from the past to the present, it is always men at the forefront. However, and ...
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Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland DVD Review: Singer’s Final Years Explored
By Kit O'Toole |
Filming a biopic is fraught with difficulty. How can a writer and director accurately portray an international icon onscreen? Few ...
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker Blu-ray Review: Alcoholism is Beautiful
By Mat Brewster |
An elderly, well-dressed, well-kept man (Anthony Quayle) walks down some steps to the banks of the Seine. There, he meets ...
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David Lynch: The Art Life Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: With Chemicals, He Points
By David Wangberg |
I remember my first encounter with a David Lynch film was in 2004 during my Introduction to Film class at ...
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Don’t Torture A Duckling Blu-ray Review: Fulci Grows a Social Conscience
By Mat Brewster |
If Mario Bava is the grandfather of Italian horror and Dario Argento artsy-fartsy daddy figure who brought giallo to the ...
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The Slayer (1982) Blu-ray Review: Marital Crisis Solved by Slayer
By Kent Conrad |
Achieving notoriety in the early '80s (at least across the pond) for being one of the Video Nasties, films legally ...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity Blu-ray Box Set Review: Movies with Honor
By Steve Geise |
That "New" in the title is your tip that these films are a continuation of a previous project. In this ...
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The Survivalist Blu-ray Review: Very Lean, Sort of Mean, and Surprisingly Dull
By David Wangberg |
The best thing to say about Stephen Fingleton's feature film debut, The Survivalist, is that it completely strips away a ...
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Hype! Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: The Rise and Fall of Grunge
By Gordon S. Miller |
New to the Shout Select line, Hype! offers viewers an inside look at the Seattle music scene of late '80 ...
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A Ghost Story (2017) Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful and Tragic Tale of Loss
By David Wangberg |
Despite its October Blu-ray release, David Lowery's A Ghost Story is not a horror movie. It's actually the furthest thing ...
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Kid Galahad (1962) Blu-ray Review: Elvis. Bronson. Sold.
By Luigi Bastardo |
Despite having appeared in several dozen movies, there are relatively few things you can actually see Elvis do on-screen. One ...
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Home for the Holidays Blu-ray Review: An Unfairly Neglected, but Wickedly Funny Take on Family Dynamics
By Davy |
All of us have them: that dysfunctional family that you don't want to deal most of the time, can barely ...
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The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) Blu-ray Review: Deep Red Something
By Luigi Bastardo |
An ordinary man of an artistic nature witnesses a brutal murder, only to meet a cast of kooky characters as ...
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Wonder Woman (2017) Blu-ray Review: Entertaining, Uplifting, and Empowering
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the on-going competition between Marvel Comics and DC Comics, the latter has struggled keeping pace with their movies this ...
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Children of the Corn (1984) Blu-ray Review: Killer Kids Get Religion
By Kent Conrad |
Cult movies aren't the same as good movies. Good movies generally have decent production values, interesting stories and scripts, nuanced ...
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The Big Knife (1955) Blu-ray Review: Poison Pen Letter to Hollywood
By Kent Conrad |
The Big Knife (1955) is several things at once. It's a Hollywood movie about how awful Hollywood is. It's a ...
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The Moderns (1988) Blu-ray Review: Land of the Lost
By Luigi Bastardo |
At one point in time, filmmaker Alan Rudolph described his 1988 film The Moderns ‒ a project which took him ...
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The Big Sick Blu-ray Review: The Most Heartfelt and Realistic Romantic Comedy of the Year
By Davy |
When it comes to the romantic-comedy genre, the cliches are always there, front and center. You always get the same ...
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Hana-bi Blu-ray Review: Violence, Beauty, and Beautiful Violence
By Kent Conrad |
Off-beat and enigmatic, with a timeline that eschews strict linearity, Hana-bi (originally released in 1997 in the states as Fireworks) ...
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Loving Vincent Movie Review: Painting Life
By David Wangberg |
At the end of each Laika Studios feature film (Coraline, Kubo & the Two Strings, etc.), we get a time-lapsed, ...
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) Blu-ray Review: As Braindead as Its Name Implies
By Luigi Bastardo |
Though it may not be something I'm particularly proud of, movies from the late '90s are a source of bittersweet ...
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The Crimson Kimono (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Crash Course in Orientation
By Luigi Bastardo |
As someone whose entire adolescence coincided with the late '80s and early '90s, I was able to witness firsthand a ...
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TCM and Fathom Events Present E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
By Mat Brewster |
In the encyclopedia of 1980s movies, Steven Spielberg gets his own volume. No other filmmaker so fully exhibits what cinema ...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Blu-ray Review: Who’s Afraid?
By Luigi Bastardo |
In the late '60s, physician David Reuben started to turn repressed and under-educated Americans near and far with a breakthrough ...
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State Fair (1962) Blu-ray Review: Suppose They Held an Exhibition and Nobody Came?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Were Twilight Time's double-bill of the Reader's Digest-produced early '70s musical adaptations of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ...
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Tom Sawyer (1973) / Huckleberry Finn (1974) Blu-ray Review: Wild Oates and Foster Kids
By Luigi Bastardo |
Years before they preyed upon lonely elderly folks with unfulfilled promises of winning phony lotteries even Ed McMahon wouldn't stamp ...
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Phantasm: 5 Movie DVD Collection Review: The NeverEnding Horror Story
By Luigi Bastardo |
Although I was routinely exposed to the few horror film franchises that existed within the world of film before movies ...
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