Wax Mask (1997) Blu-ray Review: The Steampunk Phantom Terminator of the Wax Museum
By Luigi Bastardo |
Within the annals of Italian horror films, there are perhaps no two better-known names than those of Lucio Fulci and ...
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Mine Movie Review: An Interesting Idea Mines for Substance
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The single-person drama is a genre Hollywood hasn't unlocked yet. The ultimate in high-concept storytelling, the ...
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Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood Blu-ray Review: Save Yourself, Dawg
By Luigi Bastardo |
When is a dog movie strictly for the dogs? When it's Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, that's ...
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Return of Kung Fu Trailers of Fury Blu-ray Review: Conceived in Hell, Made in Hong Kong
By Luigi Bastardo |
'Following on the high-kicking heels of last year's Kung Fu Trailers of Fury release, the folks at Severin Films have ...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Vote for Pedro
By Luigi Bastardo |
There are few films which can combine failed romances, hysteria, spiked gazpacho, the fine art of voiceover acting, and get ...
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Donnie Darko Movie Review: Still Well Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
In 2001, writer-director Richard Kelly created Donnie Darko, a film that is (among many other things) a nostalgic trip back ...
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Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg Movie Review: He’s Got His Mojo Working
By Adam Blair |
I should actually recuse myself from reviewing Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg, the Starz documentary debuting March 31, ...
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I Am Not Your Negro Movie Review: A Film That Needs to Be Seen and Taught
By Darcy Staniforth |
I think about James Baldwin quite a lot. I think about his writings and his teachings. I think about the ...
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The Delinquents Blu-ray Review: For Robert Altman Fans Only
By Mat Brewster |
After directing some 65 industrial films and short documentaries for the Calvin Company, Robert Altman got his first real break ...
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45 Years Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Art of Quiet Devastation
By Dusty Somers |
The camera never strays far from Charlotte Rampling in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, and for good reason. In this elegant, ...
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Rules Don’t Apply DVD Review: Warren Beatty’s Overlong Ego Trip
By Adam Blair |
Warren Beatty is both the perfect person and the worst person possible to have made Rules Don't Apply, his concoction ...
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Dig Two Graves Movie Review: Gothic Horror Disappoints
By Mat Brewster |
Standing on a cliff above an old quarry, two men, Proctor (Gabriel Cain) and Waterhouse (Ted Levine), pull two corpses ...
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Cinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: A Love Letter to the Cinema
By Mat Brewster |
Every year during the Oscars, my social media feed fills up with jokes about how often they are going to ...
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Canoa: A Shameful Memory Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Harrowing but Important
By Davy |
In this day and age, politics have become a horror show, meaning that corruption and savagery usually comes first, and ...
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September Storm (1960) Blu-ray 3D Review: The Stars That Didn’t Steal the Night Away
By Luigi Bastardo |
While perhaps best known for writing classic crime novels such as Little Caesar and The Asphalt Jungle ‒ to say ...
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Cinema Paradiso (Arrow Academy) Blu-ray Review: A Timeless Classic
By Davy |
As the most magical medium in the world, Cinema has the power to move us: to make us laugh, cry, ...
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The Lovers on the Bridge Blu-ray Review: A Realistic Portrait of Homelessness and Love
By Mat Brewster |
Cinematic portrayals of the homeless tend to be unrealistic if not downright demeaning. When they are not brought out for ...
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Deluge Blu-ray Review: Deserving to be Rediscovered
By Davy |
Today, when it comes to the disaster film, style is usually chosen over substance, meaning that a huge budget is ...
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Drive-In Massacre (1976) Blu-ray Review: Well Worth the Price of Admission
By Luigi Bastardo |
Had your average drive-in movie theater screen been constructed with a curtain, then Stu Segall's Drive-In Massacre would have definitely ...
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Moana Blu-ray Review: While a Nice Addition to the Disney Catalog, It’s Severely Lacking In Storyline
By Todd Karella |
A long time ago, there was only the ocean until the mother island Te Fiti arose. The island was the ...
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Shut In Blu-ray Review: Naomi Watts Deserves Better
By Mat Brewster |
A good thriller can be a great many things: exciting, scary, gruesome, erotic, and even funny. The one thing they ...
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Ghost in the Shell (1995) Limited Steelbook Blu-ray Review: Philosophical Animated Noir with Boobs
By Mat Brewster |
In the near future, human beings augment their bodies with mechanical and computerized parts. You can get hardened shells, robotic ...
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Psychomania Blu-ray Review: Inexplicable Zombie Biker Cult Movie
By Kent Conrad |
Other people's movie cults are just weird. My own cult obsessions are, of course, completely justifiable and unquestionable (Big Trouble ...
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Doctor Strange (2016) Blu-ray Review: Marvel Goes Into the Mystic
By Gordon S. Miller |
Created by artist Steve Ditko and writer Stan Lee, Doctor Stephen Strange debuted in Strange Tales #110 (July 1963) and ...
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984) Blu-ray Review: Relocation, Relocation, Relocation!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Immigration. Russians. No, it has nothing to do with current (controversial) topics, kids ‒ rather, said subjects are at the ...
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Fathom Events and TCM Present “All About Eve”
By Mat Brewster |
All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, a record that has not been beaten to this day (Titanic ...
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Police (1985) Blu-ray Review: Pialat’s Procedural
By Dusty Somers |
Police is the second collaboration between Maurice Pialat and Gérard Depardieu, after 1980's Loulou, in which Isabelle Huppert falls for ...
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Mondo Bastardo: Odds and Ends from the International World of Exploitation
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the nations of the world may not agree on many points, at least our respective histories of filmmaking have ...
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We Are the Flesh Blu-ray Review: Grotesquely Beautiful
By Mat Brewster |
In We Are The Flesh, first-time director Emiliano Rocha Minter gleefully crosses every boundary of good taste and morality he ...
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Panther Girl of the Kongo Blu-ray Review: The Claw Monsters Strike Back
By Luigi Bastardo |
After wowing Saturday Matinee Serial lovers everywhere in 2015 with a casual release of the 1950 guilty pleasure The Invisible ...
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Solace (2015) Blu-ray Review: Quantum of Bollocks
By Luigi Bastardo |
From its opening frame, Solace leaves one with an immediate impression similar to what you might experience were you to ...
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Cameraperson Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Beautiful, Sad, Wonderful
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes when I can't sleep, I'll lie in bed at night and think about all the different houses and apartments ...
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It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) Blu-ray Review: Gene Kelly’s Blues
By Luigi Bastardo |
Even if you're the type of person who generally loathes (or at least has trouble sitting through) musicals, you might ...
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The Goodbye Girl (1977) Blu-ray Review: Back When Richard Dreyfuss Was Sexy
By Luigi Bastardo |
If nothing else, Neil Simon's award-winning 1977 precursor to the contemporary rom-com, The Goodbye Girl is of a certain cinematically ...
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Dark Passage / On Dangerous Ground Blu-ray Reviews: Bogie. Bacall. Lupino. Ryan. Sold.
By Luigi Bastardo |
While history's greatest philosophers wise men may have brought forth many a pertinent question as to the purpose and situation ...
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Blu-ray Review: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sixteen years after Elizabeth Taylor transcended from child actress into a full-fledged "adult" in Father of the Bride ‒ wherein, ...
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Father of the Bride (1950) Blu-ray Review: RSVP to the WAC BD ASAP
By Luigi Bastardo |
Let's take a brief gander at marriage, folks. While many of us are keen to issue a timeless, fool proof ...
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Moonlight Blu-ray Review: Will Take Its Place Alongside the Greatest Films Ever Made
By Davy |
When it comes to films about sexuality, especially those from the LGBT point of view, you don't often see it ...
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Nocturnal Animals Blu-ray Review: Tom Ford’s Dark Masterpiece
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Eight years ago, designer Tom Ford segued into the world of filmmaking with the critical darling ...
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Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man Blu-ray Review: An Awkward Documentary Hybrid
By Dusty Somers |
We'd already hit capacity overload on the “Fuck 2016” meme by the time Leonard Cohen's death was announced on Nov. ...
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Manchester by the Sea Blu-ray Review: A Modern Masterpiece
By Davy |
Last year, 2016, was actually a great time for thought-provoking cinema. You had a modern musical; a story of a ...
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The Survivor (1981) Blu-ray Review: I Guess Fate Really Is the Hunter
By Luigi Bastardo |
While he is perhaps best known to cult horror and sci-fi audiences today as the guy who was in Michelangelo ...
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Cameraperson Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: No Better Film Experience Last Year
By Davy |
When it comes to human honesty, there is no better genre of film stronger than the documentary. In a time ...
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2017 Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
Through the wars of the past and the present to the wars that we battle in our own bodies, this ...
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2017 Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
North America owned the Animation Short Film category this year with three from the United States and two from Canada, ...
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The Handmaiden DVD Review: Period Thriller, Twisty and Twisted
By Kent Conrad |
Movies that depend on plot twists have a number of complications forced on them, in order to be good and ...
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Alfred the Great (1969) DVD Review: Greater Things Have Happened
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sprawling epics were all the rage in the 1950s, with fantastical biblical yarns and timeless tales of undefeatable conquerors popping ...
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When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932) DVD Review: How About a Break Instead?
By Luigi Bastardo |
While I am always eager to point out how wretched contemporary filmmaking seems to have become, I can never dismiss ...
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Black Society Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Madman Miike’s (Relatively) Somber Saga
By Kent Conrad |
Takashi Miike is the Japanese director who will, seemingly, film anything. And anything does not just mean he'll put the ...
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Howards End Blu-ray Review: Luxuriously Lush
By Mat Brewster |
Upon watching the new 4K restoration of Howards End by the Cohen Film Collection, I come to realize it was ...
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