Fathom Events Presents The NeverEnding Story
By Mat Brewster |
I was maybe eight years old when The NeverEnding Story came to movie theaters. It immediately became my favorite movie ...
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Haunted Honeymoon (1940) / A Fine Pair / Brotherly Love (1970) DVDs Review: Reverse Power Flux Couplings
By Luigi Bastardo |
A fairly forgotten German synthpop group known as The Twins once declared "Love is a dirty word if you're not ...
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The Woman in White (1948) / Lizzie (1957) DVD Reviews: To Be or Not to Be (Crazy)
By Luigi Bastardo |
As the type of fellow who regularly attracts women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (or at least helps ...
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The Jungle Book (2016) Blu-ray Review: Much More Than the Bare Necessities
By Steve Geise |
The biggest surprise about this charming and successful film is that it works at all. Sure, it had a solid ...
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RKO Varieties Triple Feature DVD Review: The Very Definition of Below Paar
By Luigi Bastardo |
If you distinctly remember having seen the words "In Stereo ‒ Where Applicable" flash over the opening credits of a ...
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Floyd Norman: An Animated Life Movie Review: Delightfully Animated
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez My knowledge of the Walt Disney Company meant I immediately recognized the name Floyd Norman. No ...
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Hell Hunters (1986) DVD Review: No Need to Hunt for It, It’s Right Here
By Luigi Bastardo |
While jungle thrillers weren't exactly a new premise in the mid '80s, it wasn't until a steady stream of low-budget ...
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Blu-ray Review: A Neglected Curiosity Comes to Home Video
By Dusty Somers |
Otto Preminger's work in the late '60s and early '70s did not do wonders for his critical or commercial reputation, ...
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The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) Blu-ray Review: Hey, Where’s the Swingin’?
By Luigi Bastardo |
While exploitation cinema may seem like straightforward T&A or violence most of the time, there are ‒ much like a ...
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The Arrow Video Roundup for August
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Here's what's worth seeking from Arrow this month. Suture (1993) Arrow Video is such a necessity ...
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The Bloodstained Butterfly Blu-ray Review: The Unconventional Courtroom Giallo
By Luigi Bastardo |
It hasn't even been a year-and-a-half since the UK-based Arrow Video label first expanded into the U.S. market, but in ...
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Darker Shades of Blu: Film Noir from the Warner Archive
By Luigi Bastardo |
Along with the many wonderful Standard-Definition releases of films that have slipped through the cracks of time, the Warner Archive ...
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Fathom Events and TCM Bring Back National Lampoon’s Animal House
By Shawn Bourdo |
In association with Fathom Events, the TCM Big Screen Classics series, which brings classic films to theaters, is even more ...
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Microwave Massacre Blu-ray Review: This Comedy Is Overcooked
By Mat Brewster |
I used to have a roommate named Bobby. He was a nice guy, but not very culturally sophisticated. He was ...
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A Taste of Honey Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Taste of Adolescence
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez A renaissance in British cinema erupted in the 1960s; known as the Free Cinema and instigated ...
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The Bloodstained Butterfly Blu-ray Review: A Giallo Version of Zodiac
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern I must start off this review with a confession. The only giallo (supernatural/mystery films that were ...
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Microwave Massacre Blu-ray Review: Surely Someone Will Enjoy This
By Mark Buckingham |
Microwave Massacre tells the tale of Donald (Jackie Vernon), a construction worker with simple tastes driven mad by his wife's ...
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American Ninja / American Ninja 2: The Confrontation Blu-rays Review: The Dawn of Dudikoff
By Luigi Bastardo |
There are a number of things that made the 1980s the 1980s. New Wave music. Big hair. Video game consoles. ...
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Woman in the Dunes Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Digging out a Life in Sand
By Kent Conrad |
Every night, the woman shovels sand from the bottom of a hole, which gets carted up by a rope pulley, ...
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Speedy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The End of an Era
By Gordon S. Miller |
Not only is "Speedy" the title character played by Harold Lloyd in his last silent film and last appearance as ...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: She’d Have Killed Bill in the First Movie
By Kent Conrad |
Despite all the blood, boobs, torture, cruelty, crazy lighting schemes, and wild camera angles, the most indelible image in these ...
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War Dogs Movie Review: It’s a Dog Alright!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez War Dogs ads have glommed on to the recent trend of lampooning Donald Trump's "Make America ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Breaking the Rules of a Lovelorn, War-torn World
By Luigi Bastardo |
In a previously penned piece, I published my admiration of Michael Winner's Chato's Land (1972), which saw a recent Blu-ray ...
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After the Fox Blu-ray Review: An Unremarkable Collaboration
By Dusty Somers |
So, you've got one of the greatest Italian film directors of all time in Vittorio De Sica, one of the ...
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Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made Review: An Incredibly Involving Documentary
By Davy |
The power of film has its perks: you're able to collect anything and everything about film, you find and make ...
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The Immortal Story Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Marvel of Deep Emotion and Haunting Spareness
By Davy |
We all knew that Orson Welles was mad, but we also knew that he had the ability to make cinematic ...
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Florence Foster Jenkins Movie Review: Glittering British Banality
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Best known to 30-somethings as the director of High Fidelity (or for one of my favorite ...
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Crimes of Passion Blu-ray Review: Kathleen Turner Gets Kinky
By Mat Brewster |
Crimes of Passion is a psychosexual drama from Ken Russell (Tommy, Altered States). It works best when you think of ...
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Suicide Squad Movie Review: I Didn’t Care for It
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kim Wilson Even though the critics said it was a horrible movie, I took my favorite tween to ...
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‘Neath the Arizona Skies Blu-ray Review: A Satisfying, Inconsequential Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Offering little in the way of complexity when it comes to story or characterization, 'Neath the Arizona Skies stars John ...
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Suicide Squad Movie Review: DC Commits Suicide with Latest Blunder
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez After the massive blunder called Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad was primed to ...
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Gun the Man Down (1956) Blu-ray Review: Fleeting Oater Fodder, But Still Fun
By Luigi Bastardo |
When it comes to following in the footsteps of a larger-than-life actor, it can be pretty darn hard to get ...
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The Invitation (2016) Movie Review: Paranoia, Isolation, and a Good Wine Party
By Kent Conrad |
Writing about a movie like The Invitation is a delicate business, because much of its effectiveness depends on the surprise ...
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The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped Review: Totally Enjoyable
By Gordon S. Miller |
During 1994/1995, the Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood) toured the world behind Voodoo Lounge, ...
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The Twilight Time Roundup for July
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez A trio of amazing Twilight Time releases arrive, worthy of your hard-earned money. Romeo is Bleeding ...
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Chato’s Land (1972) Blu-ray Review: A Million Ways to Die Hard in the West
By Luigi Bastardo |
By the time 1972 rolled in, Charles Bronson was already 51-years-old and had been making moving pictures for 21 years. ...
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The Boss (Unrated) Blu-ray Review: Filled with Brilliant, Comedic Performances
By Darcy Staniforth |
Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) is an orphan, rejected by numerous families, who bucks the ideals of traditional family in order ...
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Crimes of Passion Blu-ray Review: The Double Life of a Working Girl
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern The name Ken Russell usually doesn't get mentioned along the ranks of other stylized filmmakers like ...
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Indian Point Movie Review: Never Goes Nuclear
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez No matter the environmental documentary, from global warming to fast food production, most emphasize the negativity ...
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Nikkatsu Diamond Guys: Vol 2 Blu-ray Review: The Sillier Side of Japan
By Mat Brewster |
The Nikkatsu Corporation was formed in 1912 when several smaller production companies and theatre chains consolidated. They had some success ...
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Lights Out Movie Review: You Can Keep the Lights On
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez What's the first thing people do when the power goes out? Search for light. Whether it's ...
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Doctor Butcher M.D. Blu-ray Review: Ready to Make House Calls Once Again
By Luigi Bastardo |
If you were one of the lucky lads or lasses who "matured" amid the days of VHS rental outlets, you ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Sprawling Epics, Sidney Poitier, and a Serial Killer?
By Luigi Bastardo |
From the rise and fall of great lands to the genesis of new ones, and a few odd points in-between, ...
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan Blu-ray Review: Master of Monsters Revealed
By Kent Conrad |
The advent of DVD extras has, I think, cost a toll on entertainment documentaries. I've seen reviews that refer to ...
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes! Blu-ray Review: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Vegetables and George Clooney’s Mullet
By Davy |
Once in a while, there is a classic comedy, a comedy so funny and so legendary that it sets the ...
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The Swinging Cheerleaders Blu-ray Review: These Girls Do More Than Swing
By Mat Brewster |
Quentin Tarantino once called director Jack Hill the “Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking.” I don't know that I'd go quite ...
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Ghostbusters (2016) Movie Review: These Gals Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez To say that a Ghostbusters reboot courts controversy is like saying water is wet. It took, ...
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The Angry Hills (1959) DVD Review: The Precursor to the 007 Franchise?
By Luigi Bastardo |
The late great production designer Ken Adam left behind a legacy which no mere mortal could ever live up to. ...
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Tickled Movie Review: Twisted and Terrific!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Tickling is a dangerous business; just ask the directing duo of David Farrier and Dylan Reeve ...
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The Whip Hand (1951) DVD Review: RKO Sets Its Sights to Start Seeing Red
By Luigi Bastardo |
There are many ways a film can become outdated. Our increasingly advancing world of technological wonders has made countless science ...
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