808 Movie Review: All About That Bass
By Steve Geise |
The singular defining aspect of all modern popular music is its deep, thumping bass. This new documentary explores the principal ...
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The Right Stuff (30th Anniversary Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Real Superhero Movie
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Tom Wolfe's award-winning non-fiction book, writer-director Phillip Kaufman's The Right Stuff is a marvelous look at the men ...
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Lone Wolf and Cub Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Manga Comes to Life
By Steve Geise |
As the shogun executioner, Ogami Itto has a comfortable gig until he falls from grace and endures the death of ...
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Frank & Lola Movie Review: Not Your Average Love Story
By Mat Brewster |
Michael Shannon is such an intense actor I don't know that I could ever see him as a romantic lead. ...
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AFI Fest 2016 Review: Mifune: The Last Samurai: A Wonderful Remembrance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazak's documentary tells the story of Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, who together with director Akira Kurosawa became ...
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Pete’s Dragon (2016) Blu-ray Review: A Fine Film If You Simply Change the Name
By Lorna Miller |
The original Pete's Dragon (1977) is one of my all-time favorite Disney films. When I heard a remake was in ...
Read More C.H.U.D. (1984) Blu-ray Review: The A-List B-Grade Latchkey Monster Flick
By Luigi Bastardo |
Like many of the "classic" horror flicks I tend to review, C.H.U.D. first crawled its way out of the manhole ...
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Hannie Caulder (Olive Signature) Blu-ray Review: Rape, Revenge, and Raquel
By Dusty Somers |
An early entry in the rape-revenge subgenre, Burt Kennedy's western Hannie Caulder requires you to squint pretty hard to read ...
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Citizen Kane 75th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: An Underwhelming Celebration of Cinema History
By Davy |
What can you say about Citizen Kane that hasn't already been said? Director/actor/writer/producer Orson Welles' controversial landmark film has been ...
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Fathom Events and TCM Present Breakfast at Tiffany’s
By Mat Brewster |
In 1995, the alternative rock band Deep Blue Something released their only hit song, "Breakfast at Tiffany's”. I was in ...
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They Were Expendable / She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Blu-rays Review: The WAC Duke
By Luigi Bastardo |
While both names carry around their own amount of (significant) weight, it's almost hard to imagine a John Ford movie ...
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Citizen Kane 75th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: One of the Medium’s Most Visually Compelling Films
By Gordon S. Miller |
After a restored DCP master of Citizen Kane played at the 2016 AFI Fest, followed by an AFI Master Class, ...
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Hell or High Water Review: All Hail West Texas
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Fittingly, I watched an episode of Columbo recently wherein William Shatner plays a TV detective who ...
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C.H.U.D. Blu-ray Review: Cheesy Happenings, Underwhelming Direction
By Kent Conrad |
What's weird about C.H.U.D. is how much it's like a real movie. An '80s horror flick, it has the feel ...
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Blindman (1971) DVD Review: Don’t Let This One Out of Your Sight
By Luigi Bastardo |
It was only 1971, but a lot had changed in the entertainment world since the '60s ended. First, and perhaps ...
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The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Blu-ray Review: Extensive, Exhausting Exploitation Experience
By Kent Conrad |
Enormous multi-movie box sets (especially expensive ones) have two real audiences: already devoted fans, and movie buffs who want to ...
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Macbeth (1948) Blu-ray Review: Something Welles This Way Comes
By Davy |
Orson Welles was always a man of very eclectic tastes and certain cinematic desires. He wasn't just a dominating, and ...
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze Blu-ray Review: A Hero? Yes. Super? Hell, No.
By Luigi Bastardo |
Lately, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been threatening all of mankind by announcing he is slated to star in one ...
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Joshy Blu-ray Review: A Darkly Funny Film about Loss and Friendship
By Darcy Staniforth |
A few months after his fiancé Rachel (Alison Brie) commits suicide on his birthday, Joshy (Thomas Middleditch) decides he still ...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment Holiday Gift Guide 2016
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's that time of the year once again, videophiles. And with all of the crazy mixed-up offerings 2016 has been ...
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AFI Fest 2016 Review: Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
By Gordon S. Miller |
Filled with a treasure trove of archival material, Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds shines a spotlight on ...
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Twilight Time Presents: The Southern Pacific Training Montage
By Luigi Bastardo |
Generally, my attempts at finding a common link between Twilight Time's monthly releases leaves me a lot of room to ...
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Johnny Guitar (Olive Signature) Blu-ray Review: A Captivating Story Populated with Complex Characters
By Gordon S. Miller |
The new Olive Signature line of releases includes Nicholas Ray's compelling Johnny Guitar, mastered on Blu-ray from a new 4K ...
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AFI Fest 2016 Review: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
By Gordon S. Miller |
My favorite aspect of AFI Fest is that along with the new films competing for awards and those by up-and-comers ...
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The Love Witch Movie Review: A Loving Tribute to a Bygone Era
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez This has been a year of studio era homages in cinema, with Hail, Caesar! and this ...
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Vamp (1986) Blu-ray Review: From Dusk Till… Hey, Wait a Minute!
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the cinematic equilibrium of horror and comedy had been teeter-totting off and on for many years prior, it really ...
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Blu-ray Review: Gritty, Dirty, Bloody Fun
By Mat Brewster |
Born in 1939, Wes Craven was raised in a strict Baptist family, attended very conservative religious schools, and received a ...
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The Initiation (1984) Blu-ray Review: Old School’s Out Forever
By Luigi Bastardo |
If there was one lesson to be learned from the entire run of the slasher film subgenre, it is that ...
Read More Twilight Time Presents: Sense and Sensitivities
By Luigi Bastardo |
Like certain recent events in world history have proved, the elements of both sense and sensitivity are not always in ...
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Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression: Live at the Royal Albert Hall Review: An Impressive, Raucous Affair
By Gordon S. Miller |
In March of 2016, Iggy Pop and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age revealed they had secretly collaborated ...
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Arrival Movie Review: You May Have to Sit Through It Twice to Get It
By Rons Reviews |
At hearing the title of the new science fiction film from director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Enemy), my first thought was ...
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Morris from America Blu-ray Review: A Coming-of-Age Story Without the B.S.
By Dusty Somers |
Midway through Morris From America, Chad Hartigan's winning if decidedly minor coming-of-age comedy, 13-year-old Morris (Markees Christmas) is forced to ...
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Bad Moms Blu-ray Review: Factory-made Comedy
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Hello, everyone, and welcome to the movie factory. I am your tour guide, The Vern, and ...
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TCFF 2016 Review: Funeral Day
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern All of us deal with the notion of death in different ways. When someone close to ...
Read More Private Property Blu-ray Review: Sizzling Hot Forgotten Noir
By Kent Conrad |
Made just on the cusp of the broadening of censorship rules in Hollywood, Private Property was probably too much, too ...
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The Initiation Blu-ray Review: Better Than Most of Its Slasher Ilk
By Davy |
During the early 1980s, the slasher genre was at an all-time peak, not critically but commercially. The more movies that ...
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Last of the Mississippi Jukes DVD Review: Blues History Revisited
By Kit O'Toole |
Actor Morgan Freeman, who co-owns Mississippi juke joint Ground Zero, describes Delta Blues as “American classical music.” The documentary Last ...
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Beauty and the Beast 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: New Features for the Old Classic
By Steve Geise |
It's only been six years since the last time this Disney princess was allowed out of the video vault, but ...
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Can’t Stop the Show: The Return of KIX Review: The Band Is Back Sounding As Good As They Always Have
By Todd Karella |
Formed in 1977, the hard rock band from Hagerstown, Maryland broke into the mainstream music scene with their fourth album, ...
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Twilight Time Presents: All for the Glory of Love
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's easy to get carried away sometimes, particularly when the target of your obsession is something (or someone) you love. ...
Read More The Satanist (1968) / Sisters in Leather (1969) Blu-ray Review: Lost and Bound
By Luigi Bastardo |
Like absent remote controls and missing keys, lost films also have a tendency to pop up once in a blue ...
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Vamp Blu-ray Review: Fun, but Forgettable
By Mat Brewster |
Legends of vampires are as old as recorded history. There are stories of vampire-like creatures from every corner of the ...
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I Drink Your Blood (1970) Blu-ray Review: Lap It Up, You Mad Dogs!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Like many cult/horror/exploitation movie enthusiasts who grew up in the '90s, I had to rely on mail-order companies to feed ...
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Slugs Blu-ray Review: Delightfully Terrible
By Mat Brewster |
I can't believe this is about to happen. You are about to read, from me, a positive review for a ...
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The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Box Set Review: Class-Ick
By Luigi Bastardo |
There will never be another Herschell Gordon Lewis in this world, ladies and gentlemen. And though some snobbier film aficionados ...
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Men & Chicken Blu-ray Review: Hard-Boiled Danish
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's been a considerable while since I last dived into a Danish picture, and my immediate thought as soon as ...
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TCFF 2016 Review: The Babymoon
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern This was one movie I had little interest in seeing at the Twin Cities Film Fest. ...
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Crime or Climb: Tails of Scaling and Failing from the Warner Archive
By Luigi Bastardo |
It is oft said one must reach the top in order to succeed, and this trio of minor motion pictures ...
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TCFF 2016 Review: Lake Runs Red
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern College students Lauren (Kaci Wegleitner) and Melissa (Lauren Morris) are on their way to spend a ...
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Edward G. Robinson Breaks Out of the Warner Archive Collection!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Compared to the infinite number of indistinguishable pretty boys popping up in one forgettable flick after another today, there could ...
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