Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) Blu-ray Review: Illuminating French Proto-Slasher
By Luigi Bastardo |
To the trained eye of an advanced mystery movie sleuth, spotting the writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac ...
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The Future of Work and Death DVD Review: Raises More Questions Than Answers
By Darcy Staniforth |
The Future of Work and Death is a documentary narrated by British actor Dudley Sutton. The film is broken into ...
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LAFF 2017 Review: MOSS
By Darcy Staniforth |
MOSS takes place over a 36-hour period in a small riverside town in rural North Carolina. The film opens with ...
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Caltiki the Immortal Monster (1959) Blu-ray Review: Bava’s First Horror Bash
By Kent Conrad |
Every era gets the horror monsters it deserves, I think. In the '30s and '40s old literary monsters were brought ...
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Blu-ray Review: Coming to Denmark
By David Wangberg |
You hear stories about people wanting to migrate from their home country to a new area all the time. All ...
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Ride the High Country Blu-ray Review: A Captivating Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Sam Peckinpah's second film, Ride the High Country, is a captivating Western about two old gunslingers who reunite for a ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Go Big, but Don’t Go Home!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Even if you're just now joining us here on Planet Earth, there's a fair chance you've already heard someone utter ...
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RiffTrax Live: Summer Shorts Beach Party! Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Working together on Rifftrax Live: MST3K Reunion Show must have been as much fun for for the cast as it ...
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Blu-ray Review: Brought Italian Horror to the World
By Mat Brewster |
While walking down the street late one night, Sam (Tony Musante), an American freelance writer living in Rome, spies a ...
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The Jacques Rivette Collection Blu-ray Review: New Wave, Old Hat
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sooner or later in life, everyone reaches a point where personal obsessions and rather weird views seem to overtake either ...
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House: Two Stories Blu-ray Review: ’80s Horror Done Weird
By Kent Conrad |
House II is one of the few movies I can remember seeing ads for on TV when I was watching ...
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High Noon (Olive Signature) Blu-ray Review: One is the Loneliest Number
By Gordon S. Miller |
Created during the period in United States history when the House Un-American Activities Committee was destroying lives under the pretense ...
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World Without End (1956) Blu-ray Review: Make Dystopia Great Again
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the notion of living in a world ravaged by nuclear war may be a regular staple in motion pictures ...
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From Hell It Came (1957) Blu-ray Review: This Is More Like “Heaven-Sent”
By Luigi Bastardo |
What can you say about a monster movie featuring a walking, stalking, murderous tree on a wooden rampage? In the ...
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Beauty and the Beast (2017) Blu-ray Review: A Delightful Remake
By David Wangberg |
Walt Disney is continually proving its efforts at adapting every animated classic in its vault is financially successful, and, because ...
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Bambi: Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Walt Disney at His Best
By Rons Reviews |
Can you sit down with three children ages seven, nine, and eleven, and watch a 75-year-old animated film without them ...
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Inquisition (1976) Blu-ray Review: “Let’s Face It, You Can’t Torquemada Anything!”
By Luigi Bastardo |
As a small child, Jacinto Molina became heavily captivated and inspired by the classic Universal horror movies of the '30s ...
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The Blood of Fu Manchu / The Castle of Fu Manchu Blu-ray Review: Toppling Towers
By Luigi Bastardo |
Even though nearly everyone involved in the creation of Harry Alan Towers' legendary film series have since passed on, the ...
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Spotlight on a Murderer Blu-ray Review: Shine the Light a Little Brighter
By Mat Brewster |
Count Hervé de Kerloquen (Pierre Brasseur) is told he won't live through the night. Before he expires, he slips into ...
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Where the Buffalo Roam Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Its Appeal Is Likely Limited to Hunter S. Thompson Fans
By Gordon S. Miller |
Billed as “a movie based on the twisted legend of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” and inspired by his Rolling Stone ...
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TCM and Fathom Events Present The Godfather
By Mat Brewster |
Some movies become so iconic they become transcendent. How many people have quoted lines like “Leave the gun. Take the ...
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Fight for Your Lady (1937) DVD Review: The Ultimate Showdown of Goofy Faces
By Luigi Bastardo |
If the Academy ever opted to include a category for the goofiest faces made on film, RKO's 1937 production of ...
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A United Kingdom (2017) Blu-ray Review: Strong Performances Lift Film Above Biopic Cliches
By David Wangberg |
Amma Asante's A United Kingdom has the feel of something that just missed the window for Oscar consideration and was ...
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The Hero (2017) Movie Review: A Familiar but Moving Story
By David Wangberg |
For the past nine years, several actors have played similar performances to that of Sam Elliott's in The Hero, and ...
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Get Out Blu-ray Review: Get In
By Steve Geise |
Get Out was a surprise critical and commercial box-office success earlier this year, seemingly coming out of nowhere to make ...
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Aftermath (2017) Blu-ray Review: A Serious Arnold Schwarzenegger Can’t Save This Melodramatic Misfire
By David Wangberg |
For most of his career, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been known as the tough guy, the guy that can kick butt ...
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Evil Ed Blu-ray Review: Not Evil Dead, but Evil Ed
By Mat Brewster |
Similar to the Hays Code in the United States but officially state-sponsored, Sweden created a censorship board in 1911. Designed ...
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) Blu-ray Review: Kon’nichiwa, Dirty Harry-san!
By Luigi Bastardo |
A full quarter of a century before he would stun filmgoers around the world with Battle Royale in 2000, the ...
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) Blu-ray Review: Corrupt Cops Combat Corporatization
By Kent Conrad |
Of the spate of Japanese movies that infiltrated the American consciousness at the beginning of the 21st century, when the ...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Masterpiece of Control
By Dusty Somers |
Who's in the mood for meatloaf with a side of existential dread? OK, I'm only so glib because writing about ...
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Roma Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Rome, I Love You
By David Wangberg |
In the opening text prior to the start of Roma, we get a detailed explanation of how the original version ...
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Wolf Guy Blu-ray Review: Too Much Guy, Not Enough Wolf
By Mat Brewster |
I've said it before, and I'll say it on a continuous loop until it stops being true: we live in ...
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The Boy Friend (1971) Blu-ray Review: Was This the Precursor to “The Apple”?
By Luigi Bastardo |
While musicals aren't my preferred form of motion picture entertainment, I did, in fact, see many a song-and-dance flick during ...
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Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Blu-ray Review: Dance with the Times
By Luigi Bastardo |
As the end of the 1960s rolled around, bringing with them the many changes some people are still having a ...
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Demon Seed (1977) Blu-ray Review: Artificial Intelligence Meets Artificial Insemination
By Luigi Bastardo |
Released just a few months before Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind would become science fiction movies ...
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The Jacques Rivette Collection Blu-ray Review: Not For Me
By Mat Brewster |
Inspired by Jean Cocteau to become a filmmaker, Jacques Rivette moved to Paris in the 1950s began making short films ...
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Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974) Blu-ray Review: The Epitome of So Bad, It’s Good
By Luigi Bastardo |
Imagine if an amateur Spanish filmmaker, light years away from honing in on the trade he decided to briefly pick ...
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A Woman’s Face (1941) / Flamingo Road (1949) DVDs Review: The Dark Side of Joan
By Luigi Bastardo |
While previously released to DVD by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, a number of Joan Crawford classics had fallen into that ...
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TCM and Fathom Events Presents the 40th Anniversary of Smokey and the Bandit
By Mat Brewster |
When TCM host Ben Mankiewicz introduced Smokey and the Bandit, there was both a gleam in his eye and a ...
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Long Strange Trip Movie Review: All a Dream They Dreamed One Afternoon Long Ago
By Mat Brewster |
Like America itself, the Grateful Dead were a great melting pot of cultures, genres, and styles. Take a close look ...
Read More The Sheik (1921) / The Son of the Sheik (1926) Blu-ray Review: Happy Valentino’s Day
By Luigi Bastardo |
One of the civilized world's first heartthrobs and cultural icons returns in two of his most famous works, now available ...
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The Yakuza (1974) Blu-ray Review: That Time Robert Mitchum Went to Japan
By Luigi Bastardo |
What can you say about a Japanese-American co-production from the director of Three Days of the Condor as written by ...
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The Commune (2017) Movie Review: Uneasy Living
By David Wangberg |
The Commune is a film that should be praised for its realistic depictions of a relationship growing stale and the ...
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Bells Are Ringing (1960) Blu-ray Review: You Found Me Just in Time
By Luigi Bastardo |
The history of the American musical is indeed a fascinating one, particularly once the genre was introduced to the ever-changing ...
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Brain Damage (1988) Blu-ray Review: Schlock That Loves Being Schlock
By Kent Conrad |
There's a certain genius to Brain Damage (1989). Thousands of horror movies are made which simply copy the last popular ...
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The Climber (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Stuff Scarfaces Are Made Of
By Luigi Bastardo |
Fresh from appearing in several collaborations for Paul Morrissey and the legendary Andy Warhol ‒ a union which culminated with ...
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Good Morning (1959) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Japanese Master’s Flatulent Comedy
By Kent Conrad |
Comedy doesn't tend to get the respect of drama in movie writing. Like horror, its effectiveness depends on whether or ...
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Alien: Covenant Movie Review: Ridley Scott Returns to the Bloody Basics
By David Wangberg |
More than 30 years after he terrified us with Alien, Ridley Scott returned to the franchise with Prometheus, a film ...
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Kiss of Death (1947) / Edge of Eternity (1959) Blu-rays Review: Homicidal Tendencies
By Luigi Bastardo |
Kiss of Death (1947)One of the most quintessential titles to ever emerge from the annals of film noir, Henry Hathaway's ...
Read More Ludwig (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Historical Epic Wherein Nothing Really Happens
By Luigi Bastardo |
I would only be slightly remiss were I to openly admit history was never my strongest subject in school. Truth ...
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