L’assassino (The Assassin) Blu-ray Review: The Lady-Killer of Rome Returns
By Luigi Bastardo |
The first feature film from Property Is No Longer a Theft director Elio Petri, The Assassin (L'assassino) is an interesting, ...
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Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism Blu-ray Review: Radical Politics and Radical Filmmaking
By Kent Conrad |
Some movies offer formal challenges as part of their appeal. They might have sequences of the narrative where the viewer ...
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Movie Review: Eh-Calibur
By David Wangberg |
The one question I had after the screening of Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was, “Why does ...
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Dead or Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Literally Explosive Cinematic Madness
By Kent Conrad |
The opening six minutes of Dead or Alive, one of the first films of Takashi Miike to get international attention, ...
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Buena Vista Social Club Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cuban Musicians Get the Recognition They Deserve
By Davy |
When it comes to music, there are many styles and cultures: Mexican, Spanish, Portugese, etc. However, Cuban music seems to ...
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The Dismembered (1962) Blu-ray Review: I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
By Luigi Bastardo |
Picture, if you can, what might have happened had a very bored Charles Addams sat down for a few hours ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Movie Review: A Solid Start to the Summer Movie Season
By David Wangberg |
Superhero movies are going to be coming down the cinematic pipeline for many years to come. The same can be ...
Read More The Girl and the General (1967) DVD Review: All Give Some, None Give All
By Luigi Bastardo |
From a screenwriting perspective, Pasquale Festa Campanile was a fairly active fellow. Beginning in the 1950s, Campanile would go on ...
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Interiors (1978) / Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) Blu-rays Review: Suicidal Tendencies
By Luigi Bastardo |
Interiors (1978)As anyone who has ever straddled a bicycle, slipped into something made out of lamé, or walked into a ...
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Property Is No Longer a Theft Blu-ray Review: More Political Treatise than Film
By Mat Brewster |
Elio Petri's 1973 film Property is No Longer a Theft is a political film (barely) disguised as a comedic thriller. ...
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The Valley of Gwangi / When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Blu-rays Review: More Animated than Ever
By Luigi Bastardo |
Decades before civilized man would figure out new and inventive ways to suck the life out of that good ol' ...
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Blu-ray Review: An Impressive and Immersive High-def Experience
By Gordon S. Miller |
While the Star Wars universe had previously been expanded over the years into multiple mediums, Rogue One was the first ...
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Dead or Alive Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Typical Takashi Miike, Atypical Arrow Video Release
By Mat Brewster |
Takashi Miike is an insanely prolific (and possibly just straight up insane) Japanese director. He has 102 directorial credits on ...
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Vitaphone Varieties, Volume Three: 1928-1929 DVD Review: Utterly Amazing
By Luigi Bastardo |
After nearly five years since the last installment in the intermittent series, the Warner Archive Collection has assembled another amazing ...
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Shadowman Movie Review: A Beautiful Mind Fraught by Invisibility
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Since Van Gogh cut his ear off it's well-known that the mind of the artist is ...
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Neil Young Journeys Blu-ray Review: A Welcome Addition to Young’s Concert Filmography
By Gordon S. Miller |
Neil Young Journeys is director Jonathan Demme's third film starring the musician, the previous two being Neil Young: Heart of ...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai DVD Review: Japan’s Greatest Actor Profiled
By Kent Conrad |
Toshiro Mifune is one of the most dynamic actors who's ever played on the big screen. He was an animal ...
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Wait Until Dark (1967) / Love in the Afternoon (1957) Blu-rays Review: An Audrey Two-fer
By Luigi Bastardo |
In case you missed it, 2017 is already a great year for Audrey Hepburn fans. Twilight Time recently unveiled a ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Odd Men Out (and the Women Who Drive Them)
By Luigi Bastardo |
At one point or another, every one of us falls under the jurisdiction of being that which they once called ...
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House: Two Stories Blu-ray Review: Come on in for Some Goofy ’80s Horror
By Mat Brewster |
Picture me: a pubescent boy, somewhere in the late '80s, wandering about the local video store aisles. A burgeoning horror ...
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Django, Prepare a Coffin Blu-ray Review: A Slick Spaghetti Western
By David Wangberg |
Following the success of Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western, Django, dozens of films were released that bore the name but ...
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We Are X Blu-ray Review: Hair Metal and Heartache
By Kent Conrad |
Early in We Are X, Yoshiki, the leader of the band is asked in an English-language interview why the band ...
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For the Love of Spock DVD Review: Perfect for Both Those Who Love and Those Who Don’t Know Spock
By Rons Reviews |
We all know that there are people that don't like or simply don't get Star Trek. Nonetheless, it's hard to ...
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The Other Hell (1981) / Dark Waters (1994) Blu-rays Review: Breaking Bad Habits
By Luigi Bastardo |
The various subgenres of exploitation filmmaking are both wild and varied, ranging from bizarre tales featuring Bruce Lee wannabes to ...
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Tampopo Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Endearing, Sensual, and Tasty Experience
By Davy |
Some of the best films about food not only include food itself, but the reasons why it is essential, especially ...
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2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
The last day. It is always with mixed emotions when I look at the schedule for the final day. Film ...
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TCM and Fathom Events Present the 50th Anniversary of The Graduate
By Mat Brewster |
Some movies are so iconic, so ingrained in the consciousness of culture that it feels like you've seen it even ...
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Millionaires in Prison (1940) DVD Review: The Club Fed of the ’40s
By Luigi Bastardo |
Despite the slightly uplifting title, RKO's Millionaires in Prison is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to happen today ...
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Hidden Figures DVD Review: By the Numbers, but Done Well
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan When Hidden Figures got nominated for Best Picture, the general buzz was that it was a ...
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Story of Sin Blu-ray Review: Not Sinful Enough
By Mat Brewster |
For a film with “Sin” in its title that includes a nude woman on its cover and was directed by ...
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Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes Around the World (and Then Some)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Although statistics and insurance companies tend to inform us most accidents occur within only a few miles of our own ...
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Unforgettable (2017) Movie Review: It’s Actually Pretty Forgettable
By David Wangberg |
It's as if, for her directorial debut, longtime Hollywood producer Denise Di Novi followed every single rule in the How ...
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Ludwig (1973) Blu-ray Review: Lots of Castles, Little Story
By Kent Conrad |
Strange for an explicitly socialist director of the mid-20th century, but Luchino Visconti was unabashed in his almost fetishistic adoration ...
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A Girl in Every Port (1952) DVD Review: Because Chico Needed the Money
By Luigi Bastardo |
The wisdom and wit of Groucho Marx may be as timeless as comedy itself, but it can be a little ...
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The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-Wrestlemania DVD Review: A Fun Adventure Reminiscent of the Original Series
By Todd Karella |
The original Jetsons cartoon was produced by Hanna-Barbera back in the early ‘60s. While it only lasted 24 episodes, most ...
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2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
One of my most anticipated events was The Last Picture Show (1971) with director Peter Bogdanovich in attendance. While it ...
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Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968) Blu-ray Review: Can You Dig It?
By Luigi Bastardo |
While Sergio Leone's legendary pairings with Clint Eastwood may have injected fresh blood into the waning genre of the cinematic ...
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The Creeping Garden (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: An Intriguing Look at Slime Mold
By David Wangberg |
The Creeping Garden opens with a 1973 newscast that reports on some “blobs” being found in the backyards of some ...
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2017 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
Day One I was hoping to arrive in time to start the festival with the tribute to Robert Osborne but ...
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Batman: Bad Blood Movie Review: Keeping It in the Family
By Gordon S. Miller |
Batman: Bad Blood is the third film in a story arc that began in Son of Batman and continued in ...
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The Quiet Man Blu-ray Review: Entertaining Escapism on the Emerald Isle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Maurice Walsh's short story of the same name, The Quiet Man is the eighth pairing of actor John Wayne ...
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) Blu-ray Review: Undeniably Italian
By Luigi Bastardo |
The final entry of a surrealistic motion picture trio ‒ known to fans as the "Trilogy of Neurosis" ‒ Elio ...
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The Wanderers Blu-ray Review: Philip Kaufman’s Cult Classic Captures a Bygone Era
By Davy |
I think it's safe to say everyone can relate to being a teen. Doesn't matter what time period you're in, ...
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Battleground (1949) Blu-ray Review: War is Hell, but This Is Far from That
By Luigi Bastardo |
Initially advertised to the public as "The First Great Picture of the Second World War!", William A. Wellman's 1949 epic ...
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Blu-ray Review: A Great Day for Movie Lovers
By Luigi Bastardo |
A stranger arrives in a small town, only to discover he isn't wanted. While such a premise may have been ...
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The Vampire Bat (1933) Blu-ray Review: Restored and Ready to Leave Its Mark
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sometimes, being in the right place at the right time is all it takes. And when it comes to fairly ...
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Your Name Movie Review: Bodies Swapped, Heartstrings Tugged
By Kent Conrad |
For what is on the surface a sweet, elegiac coming of age romance, Your Name gets pretty ambitious. It starts ...
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Fathom Events Presents TCM Big Screen Classic Series: North by Northwest
By Shawn Bourdo |
Fathom Events and TCM have the best timing. I'm spending the year watching all of the films of Alfred Hitchcock. ...
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Cathy’s Curse (1977) Blu-ray Review: Still Cursed and Still Curse-Worthy
By Luigi Bastardo |
Apparently, nary a nation capable of manufacturing a motion picture during the 1970s was immune to the phenomenal success of ...
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My Most Anticipated at the 2017 TCM Classic Film Festival
By Gordon S. Miller |
One of the things I look forward to most every year is the TCM Classic Film Festival. It is a ...
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