Martial Law: Lo Wei’s Wuxia World Blu-ray Review: The Brotherhood of Shaw Brothers
By Steve Geise |
We’ve had an abundance of far-ranging Shaw Brothers box sets in the past few years, but this one narrows the ...
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Naked Ambition Movie Review: The Story of a Renaissance Woman who Transcended the Societal Barriers of Mid-Century America
By Jade Blackmore |
Naked Ambition explores the life and extraordinary career of Bunny Yeager, the woman who brought Bettie Page to mainstream notoriety, ...
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When We Went MAD! The Unauthorized Story of MAD Magazine Blu-ray Review: What, Me Worry?
By Greg Hammond |
When We Went MAD! The Unauthorized Story of MAD Magazine was directed by Alan Bernstein and co-written by Bernstein, Nate ...
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Airport (1970) 4K UHD Review: The Disaster Movie That Started Them All
By Mat Brewster |
In the same way John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) didn't invent the slasher movie but rather popularized it and created the ...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) 5-Disc Set Review: Frodo Sets Out
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Fellowship of the Ring is spread across two Blu-ray discs. It opens with the story of the Dark Lord ...
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Book Review: Jaws: Memories From Martha’s Vineyard (Rev. and Updated) by Matt Taylor
By Shawn Bourdo |
The 50th Anniversary of Jaws (1975) has kicked the marketing machine for the film into overdrive. There have been LEGOs, ...
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The Cat (1992) Blu-ray Review: Goofy, Goopy Fun
By Mat Brewster |
There is a scene in the middle of The Cat, Lam Ngai Kai's goofy, goopy sci-fi flick from 1992, where a ...
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The Great Gatsby (1949) Blu-ray Review: Alan Ladd Sets a High Bar for All Future Gatsbys
By Steve Geise |
While this 1949 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel isn’t the first movie version, it is the earliest surviving ...
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Xanadu 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review: You Have to Believe Movie Musical Magic
By Lorna Miller |
Xanadu is a film I watch every couple of years. I was a fan from the start while the film ...
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Bring Her Back Blu-ray Review: Tackles Trauma and Grief with a Refreshingly Unsettling Tone
By Davy |
Anyone who says that the horror genre is growing stale probably hasn't seen an A24 film. They continue to unleash ...
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Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror Blu-ray Review: Light on Frankenstein but Heavy on the Fun
By Mat Brewster |
Spanish writer/director/actor Paul Naschy is best known for his portrayal of Count Waldemar Daninsky, a man who inevitably is bitten ...
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Two Weeks with Love Blu-ray Review: I’ve Had the Time of My Life
By Steve Geise |
A naive 17-year-old girl spends summer vacation in the Catskills with her family, where she falls under the spell of ...
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Melinda Blu-ray Review: Frankie Says Relax
By Steve Geise |
Frankie J. is a smooth-talking L.A. DJ on the prowl for ladies and fun, at least until his latest conquest ...
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Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection, Volume Two Blu-ray Review: Rabbit Season, Duck Season, Cartoon Season
By Gordon S. Miller |
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume Two has been reissued. Of the 50 main cartoons, 6 are from the 1930s, 22 ...
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Save the Tiger Blu-ray Review: An Intensely Emotional Time Capsule About Masculinity
By Davy |
As we know, the great Jack Lemmon could do anything. He was one of those actors who just could sit ...
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Gung Ho (1986) Blu-ray Review: Team Work Makes the Dream Work
By Joe Garcia III |
Gung Ho, directed by Ron Howard, is a comedy/drama that finds Micheal Keaton and Gedde Watanabe learning to work together ...
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Through and Through Blu-ray Review: A Truthful Tale of Society’s Victims Becoming Its Villains
By Davy |
In terms of films that feature outsiders on the outskirts of society, Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Krolikiewicz's stark 1973 film, Through ...
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Volume One Blu-ray Review: When You’re Jonesing for Chuck Jones
By Gordon S. Miller |
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One has been reissued. Of the 50 main cartoons, 3 are from the 1930s, 17 ...
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Gigi Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful, Morally Complicated Musical
By Mat Brewster |
It is difficult to know what to do with a film like Gigi. On one hand, it is impeccably made. ...
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A Date with Judy Blu-ray Review: The Goody-Good, the Baddie, and the Beery
By Steve Geise |
This classic MGM musical combines the golly-gee innocence of high school hijinks with the sizzle of Carmen Miranda, forbidden love ...
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Town Without Pity Blu-ray Review: Kirk Douglas Without Compassion
By Mat Brewster |
In occupied West Germany, 16-year-old Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann) lies by the river with her boyfriend, Frank Borgmann (Gerhart Lippert). ...
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Lolita (1962) DVD Review: She Was Lo, Plain Lo, In the Morning
By Greg Hammond |
Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita tells the tale of Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a professor of French literature who plans to vacation ...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Ride
By Mat Brewster |
Someone ought to do one of those listicle things where they rank all the action movies set during the Christmas ...
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Sugar Hill Blu-ray Review: Supernatural Voodoo Woman
By Steve Geise |
Blaxploitation takes a trip to the voodoo bayou for this campy yarn. The story centers on a grieving woman named ...
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The Medium Blu-ray Review: A Lacking Message About the Supernatural World
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Silvio Amadio, The Medium (1980) is an Italian horror offering that stars Vincent Mannari Jr, Sherry Buchanan and ...
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Under Siege Blu-ray Review: Steven Seagal Is Hard to Kill on a Battleship
By Mat Brewster |
The huge success of Die Hard in 1988 changed the face of action films. Muscle-bound He-Men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and ...
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Palindromes 4K UHD Review: Interesting Idea Falls Flat
By Greg Hammond |
Nine years after Todd Solondz’s highly acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse, he wrote and directed 2004’s Palindromes; a film that ...
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Bonjour Tristesse (2024) DVD Review: Mediterranean Summer Love
By Steve Geise |
At first glance, writer/director Durga Chew-Bose’s debut film seems similar to scores of other tales about young love near the ...
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The Invention of Lying Blu-ray Review: A Solid Comedy That Tells It Like It Is
By Greg Hammond |
Comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson co-wrote and co-directed the wildly funny comedy/fantasy The Invention of Lying in 2009. ...
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Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex Movie Review: Glam’s First Cosmic Dancer
By Kent Conrad |
There's a tradition of enormously influential musicians in the U.K. just not making it in the U.S. Robbie Williams still ...
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The Lord of the Rings: Original Animated Classic Blu-ray Review: Ralph Bakshi’s Previz for Peter Jackson
By Steve Geise |
Long before Peter Jackson got the idea to create a cottage industry out of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works, underground animator ...
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The Cobweb Blu-ray Review: It’s All About the Drapes
By Joe Garcia III |
The Cobweb (1955) is a drama directed by Vincente Minnelli that centers around the staff and residents of a psychiatric ...
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Executive Suite Blu-ray Review: Succession in the 1950s
By Steve Geise |
Never got around to watching HBO’s Succession? Here’s a time-saving alternative: all the boardroom drama and backbiting condensed into one ...
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Movie Review: Not Only a Curated Look at His Life but So Much More
By Darcy Staniforth |
I discovered Jeff Buckley as a college and community radio DJ in the late '90s. His album Grace was handed ...
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Grand Prix Blu-ray Review: Takes the Flag for Total Racing Immersion
By Steve Geise |
John Frankenheimer’s 1966 racing drama is so stacked with international stars that it might appear to be coasting on delivering ...
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Donovan’s Reef Blu-ray Review: Wild, Wayne, and Wonderful!
By Shawn Bourdo |
The new Blu-ray release of Donovan's Reef (1963) by Kino Lorber, also available on 4K Ultra HD, is the most ...
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The Beast to Die Blu-ray Review: Good Guy Gone Bad
By Steve Geise |
By the start of the ‘80s, Yusaku Matsuda (Yokohama BJ Blues) had tired of his typical action hero roles and ...
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Sands of Iwo Jima Blu-ray Review: John Wayne Storms the Beaches
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) stars John Wayne as a grizzled WWII sergeant in charge of ...
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Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible DVD Review: Alive and Kicking
By Steve Geise |
Riding the New Wave to international fame in the ‘80s, Simple Minds has instantly recognizable hits even as the band ...
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Get Carter (1971) Blu-ray Review: Birth of British Gangster Movies
By Kent Conrad |
Jack Carter, a gangster in London, goes back to his own hometown to investigate the mysterious death of his brother. ...
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His Kind of Woman Blu-ray Review: Film Noir Follies
By Kent Conrad |
We open with the film-noir intrigue. A gangster wants access to his money. He's stuck in Italy and wants to ...
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Decent Vehicle For Clint’s Lighter Side
By Joe Garcia III |
Before The Deer Hunter (1978) and Heaven's Gate (1980), writer-director Michael Cimino made his silver-screen debut writing and directing Thunderbolt ...
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Dark Victory Blu-ray Review: Bette Davis Has Never Been Better
By Mat Brewster |
Dark Victory is a fairly conventional tear-jerking melodrama buoyed by a fantastic performance by Bette Davis. She plays Judy Traherne, ...
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Lethal Weapon 4K UHD Review: Killer Chemistry
By Rock London |
The first Lethal Weapon is a satisfying cop caper, directed with a sure, slick hand by that old studio pro ...
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Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies Blu-ray Review: Two Slapsticks, Two Rom-Coms
By Steve Geise |
This fascinating new collection compiles four German black and white comedies from the early years of the sound era, 1931-32. ...
Read More A Life at Stake Blu-ray Review: You’ve Never Seen Angela Lansbury Like This
By Mat Brewster |
I grew up with Angela Lansbury. Not literally, of course, but as a child of the 1980s, she was a ...
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Cloud (2024) Movie Review: Internet Haters Go Gunning
By Kent Conrad |
Yoshii is kind of a jerk. He's not a monster, nor violent, mean, or aggressive. He's just kind of callous, ...
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Final Destination Bloodlines Blu-ray Review: The Road Less Travelled
By Greg Hammond |
Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth and latest installment in the series, is a slightly different ...
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21 Grams Blu-ray Review: Difficult to Enjoy
By Rons Reviews |
I love movies. If someone calls me and asks if I want to see a movie, I say yes. Don’t ...
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Final Destination 5 Movie Review: Death Returns in Fine Form
By Greg Hammond |
There is no doubt that the Final Destination movies are, for the most part, top-tier slasher/horror/gore movies. The deaths are ...
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