TCFF 2016 Review: Iron Will: Veterans’ Battle with PTSD
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD is something many people may recognize but few seldom really ...
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From Horrifying to Horrible: Back in Print from the Warner Archive
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the Warner Archive mostly brings us new and previously unreleased goodies to DVD, they also bring us the odd ...
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Marine Raiders / In Our Time (1944) DVDs Review: WWII WAC
By Luigi Bastardo |
Every time the Warner Archive Collection unearths another wartime propaganda movie, I have to wonder if Hollywood didn't make an ...
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Dark Water Blu-ray Review: A More Intimate Ring of Terror
By Kent Conrad |
While it's not entirely accurate to say that Ringu was the first J-horror movie (the momentum for that had been ...
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The Unspoken Movie Review: Don’t Speak
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Sometimes when watching a horror movie, I find myself laughing at moments most people would find ...
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother Blu-ray Review: Entertaining but Uneven
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother not only finds Gene Wilder starring as the title character but he is ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Moral Outcasts, Musicals, and Hey, Is That Charles Bronson?
By Luigi Bastardo |
The subject of outcasts seem to be the recurring thread with this wave of Twilight Time Blu-ray releases, as evidenced ...
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Girl in Woods DVD Review: Bring a Map
By Mark Buckingham |
Girl in Woods. The title kind of tells you the gist of it, no? Eh, not exactly. Girl Stranded in ...
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The Executioner Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Introduction to a Spanish Filmmaking Giant
By Dusty Somers |
Even among dedicated English-speaking cinephiles, the name Luis García Berlanga might not immediately spark a glimmer of recognition. The great ...
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The Thing (1982) / Tenebrae / Basket Case 2 & 3 on Blu-ray: Horror, Redefined
By Luigi Bastardo |
While none of the titles covered in this article are necessarily new to the world of home video by any ...
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Front Cover DVD Review: A Funny, Charming Take on the Asian Gay Experience
By Davy |
Obviously as most of us know, there are many people who think that gay cinema is just a way of ...
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Burial Ground (1981) Blu-ray Review: Still Smelling of Death After All These Years
By Luigi Bastardo |
There really isn't a movie like Burial Ground. My first encounter with this notorious Italian gut-muncher from 1981 probably occurred ...
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Nerve Blu-ray Review: Candid Camera 2016
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern We live in an age where everyone can record anything and with a good wifi connection, ...
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The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Blu-ray Review: Essential Comedy
By Mat Brewster |
When I wrote about watching the original Ghostbusters at a Fathom Event, I talked about how my sense of humor ...
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Gregory Peck Centennial Collection Blu-ray Review: Two Great Films, One Nice Package
By Mat Brewster |
That Gregory Peck was one of the greatest film actors to ever exist there is no denying. Had he only ...
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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Blu-ray Review: One of the Funniest Movies in a Long Time
By Darcy Staniforth |
After a series of unfortunate events at important family events, Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave's (Zac Efron) parents (Stephen Root ...
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Stablemates / Lord Jeff DVDs Review: A Double Dose of Rooney
By Luigi Bastardo |
The late Mickey Rooney made a sizable impact on classic cinema, leaving behind a list of motion picture and television ...
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George O’Brien Western Collection DVD Review: Nine Oats and a Lot of Grain
By Luigi Bastardo |
Generally, the star of vintage cowboy pictures ‒ or "oaters," as they are commonly referred to as ‒ tended to ...
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Blu-ray Review: Wes Craven’s Masterpiece
By Davy |
When legendary horror master Wes Craven passed away last year, it really shocked the world. Here was a man whose ...
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Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) DVD Review: Kershner. Corman. Coleman. Oh, My!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Best known by today's various subcultures for bringing us that which is often cited as the best Star Wars film ...
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Daughter of Dracula (1972) Blu-ray Review: Oh, the Horror
By Luigi Bastardo |
Prior to his departure from this world in early 2013, the late Jesús Franco had left an impressive looking resume ...
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Being Canadian DVD Review: Is Canada the Best Country in the World?
By Lorna Miller |
People often tell me when my Canadian side is showing. This is a huge compliment as everyone seems to think ...
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Slugs: The Movie Blu-ray Review: A Marvelously Muddled Mess
By Luigi Bastardo |
As a feller who spent entirely too much of his teenaged years in the horror sections of local video stores, ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Party Poopers, Poor Sports, Sore Losers, and Bad Romances
By Luigi Bastardo |
Despite all of society's best attempts at grooming us to be normal, well-behaved, completely functional human beings, there are just ...
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Vamp Blu-ray Review: Belongs in the Pantheon of Great Comic Horror
By Davy |
Usually, horror comedies are a one-in-a-million, meaning that some work (the Evil Dead trilogy, Slither), and others don't (976-Evil, Vampires ...
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Classic Albums: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds Blu-ray Review
By Rons Reviews |
When the discussion of the greatest album of all times breaks out a party, many people will chime in, some ...
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Queen of Katwe Movie Review: In Praise of Smart Women
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Disney's banked on sports films for the last decades, relying on stories of athletic prowess anchored ...
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Kamikaze ’89 Blu-ray Review: Captures the Vision of a Pre-Internet World
By Davy |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. The way he filmed actors, especially ...
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Haunted Honeymoon (1986) Blu-ray Review: Tamer Wilder
By Luigi Bastardo |
I was perhaps all of ten years old when I first saw a trailer advertising the Gene Wilder/Gilda Radner comedy ...
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Valley of the Dolls Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Laughter, Tears, and a Mountain of Dolls!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez America was a bit of a mess in the 1960s, not just on the national stage ...
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An American Werewolf in London (Full Moon Edition) Blu-ray Review: Its Cult-classic Status Is Certainly Warranted
By Gordon S. Miller |
After a string of comedic box-office successes (Kentucky Fried Movie, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers), director John ...
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A Town Called Panic: Double Fun Movie Review: The Bad Boys Are Back
By Gordon S. Miller |
In a world that seems to be growing increasingly insane, it's wonderful to have some controlled lunacy that is Stéphane ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Something I Can Never Have
By Luigi Bastardo |
At one point or another in life, we have experienced the passion, turmoil, and frustration that comes from not being ...
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Dead-End Drive-In Blu-ray Review: Post-Apocalypse, ’80s Style
By Mat Brewster |
The synopsis for Dead-End Drive-In on IMDB reads as follows: “In the near future, a teenage couple is trapped in ...
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The Everly Brothers: Harmonies from Heaven DVD Review: An Appreciation of the Duo’s Impact on Early Rock ‘n’ Roll
By Kit O'Toole |
Early rock pioneers the Everly Brothers set the standard for impeccable harmonies, and wowed audiences with their special blend of ...
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L.A. Confidential (Two-Disc Special Edition) DVD Review: A Masterful Film Noir
By Gordon S. Miller |
Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential, based on the novel of the same name by James Ellroy from his L.A. Quartet series, ...
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Warcraft Blu-ray Review: In My Entire Life, I Have Never Felt as Much Pain as I Do Now
By Luigi Bastardo |
Contrary to popular belief, the oft-repeated phrase "Hollywood has run out of ideas" has been popping up for quite sometime ...
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Styx: Live at the Orleans Arena Las Vegas Blu-ray Review: A Quality Performance Even Without the Band’s Biggest Songs
By Todd Karella |
Filmed while on tour in July of 2014, the Blu-ray shows off some of the band's well-known hits. Interspersed between ...
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) Blu-ray Review: Truth in Advertising?
By Luigi Bastardo |
For Italian filmmakers, the 1960s were as versatile of a period as ever, especially for the ever-expanding realms of fantasy. ...
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Fathom Events Presents Snowden Live
By Mat Brewster |
Of course Oliver Stone made a movie about Edward Snowden. If the former CIA operative/NSA contractor turned whistleblower/leaker of thousands ...
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Dead-End Drive-In Blu-ray Review: The Australian Escape From New York
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern It's difficult to decipher what will become a cult classic and what will end up being ...
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Early Masterwork
By Mat Brewster |
Kiku (Shotaro Hanyagi) is the adopted son of Kabuki royalty in Tokyo. As the presumed heir to this theatrical throne, ...
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The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) Blu-ray Review: Beheading Your Way
By Luigi Bastardo |
Generally, motion pictures which owe their entire existence to the success of an entirely different (and more popular) feature have ...
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records DVD Review: Not Enough Focus on the Fall
By Darcy Staniforth |
When I started buying music as a teen, The Wherehouse, Sam Goody, and Licorice Pizza could never compare to the ...
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Marauders Blu-ray Review: A Bank Heist Movie Worth Watching
By Lorna Miller |
FBI agents Montgomery (Christopher Meloni) and Stockwell (Dave Bautista) are tasked with investigating a sophisticated group of bank robbers who ...
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Valley of the Kings (1954) DVD Review: The Other Precursor to Indiana Jones
By Luigi Bastardo |
The history of biblical epics in Hollywood, especially once filmmakers began to broaden their horizons and film on location (to ...
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Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 10 DVD Review: The End of an Era? Not Quite!
By Luigi Bastardo |
It has been a full ten years since the first Forbidden Hollywood collection wandered into our lives courtesy the Turner ...
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The Arrow Video Roundup for September
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Arrow Video has a variety of amazing films out. Here's three worth plunking down your money ...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: These Ain’t Your Father’s Women-in-Prison Films
By Mat Brewster |
Leave it to the Japanese to perfect the Women-in-Prison subgenre. First time director Shunya Itō took all of the sleazy ...
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Seven Miles from Alcatraz DVD Review: Prison Breaks for Patriotism
By Luigi Bastardo |
A low-budget 1942 effort from RKO, Seven Miles of Alcatraz was directed by the very busy Edward Dmytryk, who helmed ...
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