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The Lovely Bones DVD Review: Saoirse Ronan and Stanley Tucci are Bright and Shiny Stars

By Greg Hammond | Feb 2, 2024

Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones is based on the novel of the same name (2002) by Alice Sebold and stars ...

Jennifer 8 Blu-ray Review: Ambitious but Flawed Crime Story

By Kent Conrad | Feb 2, 2024

Jennifer 8 wants to be more than a serial killer story. It has the elements to be more. Friends with ...

The Road to Hong Kong Blu-ray Review: The Formula Works to the End of the Map

By Greg Hammond | Feb 1, 2024

A few months before the release of James Bond in Dr. No in theaters around the world, Bob Hope and ...

Joe’s Apartment Blu-ray Review: Riding Cockroaches Into the Sunset

By Greg Hammond | Jan 30, 2024

Joe’s Apartment is a black comedy/musical/romance written and directed by John Payson. It stars Jerry O’Connell as down-on-his-luck New York ...

There Is a Monster Movie Review: A Labor of Love That Misses the Mark

By Darcy Staniforth | Jan 30, 2024

There Is a Monster is the story of Jack, a photographer who is hoping for his big break while dealing ...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One Blu-ray Review: It Starts with a Flash

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 28, 2024

Based on DC Comics' 12-issue miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985) written by Marv Wolfman and pencilled by George Pérez, ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI Blu-ray Review: I’m Thrilled They Keep Releasing Them

By Mat Brewster | Jan 27, 2024

Kino Lorber continues their long tradition of releasing relatively obscure film noir. This collection features three very different films ranging ...

Eureka (1983) Blu-ray Review: Greed, Grudges, and Gruesomeness

By Kent Conrad | Jan 26, 2024

Eureka is four films in one, in succession. First, it's an experimental art film about a man obsessed with finding ...

The Outside Man Blu-ray Review: Outsider Deray Crafts an Insider Look at 1970s L.A.

By Steve Geise | Jan 25, 2024

While this film may look like a typical 1970s U.S. crime drama at first glance, dig a little deeper and ...

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Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Six-Pack of Chan’s Early Films

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 24, 2024

Jackie Chan movies entered into the Criterion Collection in 2019 with the one-two punch of Police Story/Police Story 2. The ...

Has Anybody Seen My Gal Blu-ray Review: Keep Looking, the Old Man Is in the Way

By Steve Geise | Jan 24, 2024

This 1952 charmer masquerades as a Rock Hudson/Piper Laurie rom-com, but pay close attention to that waving man behind the ...

Journey to Bethlehem Blu-ray Review: Joyful, Joyful, Movie, I Adore Thee

By David Wangberg | Jan 22, 2024

As a Christian, I will admit that movies catered toward my demographic are mostly hard to stomach. They usually come ...

Run Silent, Run Deep Blu-ray Review: Gable and Lancaster Are great

By Mat Brewster | Jan 21, 2024

When my brother joined the Navy in the mid-1990s, he volunteered for submarine duty. It paid more than serving on ...

Slamdance 2024 Review: Chaperone: Highs and Lows in Hilo

By Steve Geise | Jan 19, 2024

Misha is going nowhere fast. Nearly 30 years old, she’s in a perpetual state of arrested development, plodding along in ...

American Dharma Movie Review: Duty, Fate, and Destiny

By Greg Hammond | Jan 18, 2024

American Dharma is a documentary film in which director Errol Morris interviews Steve Bannon, who, among many other roles, was ...

Thinner: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Lose the Fat to Find a Good Story

By Greg Hammond | Jan 17, 2024

Tom Holland’s (dir. Fright Night, Child’s Play) Thinner, based on the novel by Stephen King, is a body horror/thriller starring ...

Kingdom of the Spiders DVD Review: Shatner vs. the Tarantulas

By Joe Garcia III | Jan 17, 2024

Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) stars William Shatner and Tiffany Bolling locked in battle with thousands of spiders in this ...

Strange Invaders Blu-ray Review: I Married a Woman from Outer Space

By Joe Garcia III | Jan 15, 2024

Strange Invaders (1983) directed and co-written by Michael Laughlin, is a quirky ode to science fiction movies of the 1950s ...

Why We Fight (2020) Blu-ray Review: Three Athletes Tell Us Why They Do

By Joe Garcia III | Jan 13, 2024

Why We Fight is a look at three combat sports athletes and why they are so passionate about the Martial ...

A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Blu-ray Review: Bringing Balance and Answers After 45 Years

By Joe Garcia III | Jan 10, 2024

Making its sole television appearance on November 17, 1978, the Star Wars Holiday Special is an event that remains forever ...

The Trip to Italy Movie Review: She’s Got a Lovely Gait. Probably Padlocked.

By Greg Hammond | Jan 10, 2024

The Trip to Italy is the second of four films directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and Rob ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2023 – You Can Burn The Midnight Oil With Me

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 7, 2024

From 2005-2013 and 2014-2022, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021 I returned ...

The English Patient Movie Review: When Were You Most Happy?

By Greg Hammond | Jan 6, 2024

Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient is an epic war drama with two romances thrown in for spice. All three parts: ...

Anti-Nowhere League: We Are the League DVD Review: Rude and Crude…They Are the League

By Joe Garcia III | Jan 5, 2024

Anti-Nowhere League did this and they did that. Animal did it with a shiny axe. So what? Winston shoved a ...

The Trip (2010) Movie Review: Everything’s Exhausting When You’re Past 40

By Greg Hammond | Jan 3, 2024

Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip is a strange beast: a television series made up of six episodes that were cut and ...

The Facts of Murder Blu-ray Review: A Blending of Italian Genres

By Mat Brewster | Jan 1, 2024

During the fascist regime of Mussolini, films and stories about crime were either deeply censored or outright banned in Italy. ...

Oppenheimer Blu-ray Review: Prometheus Bound

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 30, 2023

Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 2005 biography American Prometheus, Oppenheimer's screenwriter/director Christopher Nolan has crafted a compelling ...

Elegant Beast Blu-ray Review: The Family That Scams Together

By Kent Conrad | Dec 29, 2023

We know the Maeda family are shady from the first scene. They're rearranging the furniture in their apartment to hide ...

The Emerald Forest Blu-ray Review: The Jungle Trip

By Jack Cormack | Dec 28, 2023

Upon scanning the list of movies John Boorman has directed, one thing (to me) stands out. He has taken a ...

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) 4K UHD Review: Struggles to Find its Footing

By Greg Hammond | Dec 27, 2023

The phenomenal success of Randall Wallace’s screenplay for 1995’s Braveheart gave him carte blanche on his next film for which ...

Blast of Silence Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Silent Night, Hole-y Night

By Steve Geise | Dec 25, 2023

Frank is grumpy because he has to travel out of town for work during Christmas season. Leaving Cleveland for the ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2023 – I Still Don’t Understand What the Play Is About

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 24, 2023

From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a hiatus, from 2017-2021, I have punctuated each year with an ever increasingly ...

Gentleman Jim Blu-ray Review: Still Packs a Punch

By Joe Garcia III | Dec 23, 2023

Gentleman Jim (1943) directed by Raoul Walsh stars Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith in a biopic inspired by the life ...

Standard Operating Procedure Movie Review: We Just Did What We Were Told

By Greg Hammond | Dec 23, 2023

Errol Morris’ 2008 documentary Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) concerns itself with the photos uncovered at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 ...

Point Break (1991) 4K UHD Review: “27 banks in three years – anything to catch the perfect wave!”

By Jack Cormack | Dec 22, 2023

In Point Break (dir. Kathryn Bigelow), Johnny Utah, an FBI hotshot (Keanu Reeves), joins an FBI schlub (Gary Busey) to ...

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg DVD Review: See One of the Best Minds of His Generation

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 22, 2023

Originally released in 1993, Jerry Aronson documents The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, the famed Beat Generation poet who ...

House of the Long Shadows Blu-ray Review: Four Horror Icons Enter an Old Dark House

By Joe Garcia III | Dec 21, 2023

House of the Long Shadows (1983) directed by Pete Walker (Frightmare) brings together Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and ...

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Movie Review: And We Sleep and Eat with Death

By Greg Hammond | Dec 20, 2023

Lewis Milestone’s movie All Quiet on the Western Front comes from the novel of the same title by Erich Maria ...

Masaaki Yuasa: Five Films Blu-ray Review: Time to Ride the Wave

By Steve Geise | Dec 19, 2023

Just in time for next year’s 20th anniversary of anime director Masaaki Yuasa’s first feature film, GKIDS and Shout! Factory ...

The Train 4K UHD Review: “You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs!”

By Jack Cormack | Dec 18, 2023

Based on a true story, director John Frankenheimer’s The Train (1964) is about the lengths the French Resistance went to, ...

Barbie Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide

By Gordon S. Miller | Dec 16, 2023

Director/co-writer Greta Gerwig was granted access to Mattel's Barbie franchise and created a subversive blockbuster that explores gender politics, but ...