Edge of Doom (1950) DVD Review: Can Dana Andrews Save Farley Granger’s Soul?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Prolific filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn left this world in 1974 to start issuing malapropisms in the world beyond, he had personally ...
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The In-Laws (1979) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: So Funny It Never Wears out Its Welcome
By Gordon S. Miller |
While there's a lot of hand-wringing and pearl-clutching that goes on whenever a sequel or remake is announced in Hollywood, ...
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Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Movie Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Socially Conscious Mind
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez "Each of us is responsible for our own happiness," says television producer and impresario Norman Lear. ...
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These Three (1936) DVD Review: Kids Say the Darndest Things
By Luigi Bastardo |
Even before the Hays Office began enforcing the content of motion pictures in 1934, certain things just weren't permitted to ...
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Too Late for Tears / Woman on the Run Blu-rays Review: At Long Last, Lost Noir
By Luigi Bastardo |
There is nothing quite so overwhelming as being utterly unable to control one's situation. Despite all of our best efforts, ...
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The Family Fang DVD Review: A Beautiful Mix of Sharp Comedy and Poignant Drama
By Darcy Staniforth |
Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang use public disruption to create their art. Once they become parents, they include their ...
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Elstree 1976 DVD Review: Meet the People Behind the Star Wars Masks
By Shawn Bourdo |
I love documentaries. True stories are irresistible. Maybe it's the story of an product or invention or behind the scenes ...
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Blood and Black Lace Blu-ray Review: Astonishingly Beautiful Depiction of Ugliness
By Kent Conrad |
Blood and Black Lace, a lurid proto-slasher movie with gruesome and copious violence, is one of the most visually beautiful ...
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Louder Than Love – The Grande Ballroom Story DVD Review: It Was Quite a Place to Be
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Scott Blitstein When most people think of live music in the late '60s, they probably think of Haight-Ashbury, ...
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RiffTrax Live: MST3K Reunion Review: A Complete Blast
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern While watching movies in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, with my friends, we would occasionally crack a few ...
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Suture Blu-ray Review: Standard Plot, Fascinating Presentation
By Mat Brewster |
Two men, half brothers, meet at a bus station and ride back to one of their houses. They have only ...
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Kung Fu Panda 3 Awesome Edition Blu-ray Review: Another Awesomely Bodacious Panda Adventure for the Entire Family
By Todd Karella |
Once again, DreamWorks has brought everyone's favorite animated panda to his biggest adventure yet as he tries to save the ...
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The Legend of Tarzan Movie Review: Nothing to Stoke the Legend of Greystoke
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Tarzan of the Apes, the first novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series, was published in ...
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The BFG (2016) Movie Review: Delightful for Children, Mediocre for Adults
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Seven years have passed Wes Anderson's fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox, the last time a work by ...
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A Woman, A Part Movie Review: Ladies on Edge and on the Edge
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Whether it be directing or writing features, or just leading movies of substance, audiences are frustrated ...
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The Return of a Man Called Horse Blu-ray Review: Harris Whispers. He Screams. He ACTS!
By Luigi Bastardo |
In 1970, a simple tale of A Man Called Horse galloped its way onto the silver screen to shock audiences ...
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The Arrow Roundup for June
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez What's the best from Arrow in June? The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) ...
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Appointment with Crime Blu-ray Review: Tell Crime You’ll Need to Reschedule
By Dusty Somers |
A relatively obscure British crime thriller, John Harlow's noirish Appointment with Crime (1947) nabs a few style points early on ...
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Return of the Killer Tomatoes! Blu-ray Review: Less Killing, More Silliness
By Mat Brewster |
We have Jim Henson to thank for this. During Muppets Take Manhattan, there was a fantasy sequence in which Miss ...
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Fathom Events and TCM Present Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
By Mat Brewster |
As any cinephile with children can tell you, it's a challenge deciding what movies are appropriate for them to watch. ...
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Private Property (1960) Movie Review: Seamy and Sexy in Equal Measure
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez It's an average day in sunny Los Angeles. Two men - you wouldn't immediately avoid them ...
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By Luigi Bastardo |
A timeless, tiresome proverb tells us it is darkest before the dawn, and we have all surely met that one ...
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T-Rex Movie Review: A Teenage Gold Medalist is Still a Teenager
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Elias Levey-Swain Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari's spacious and often tranquil sports documentary follows boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields ...
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The Neon Demon Movie Review: A Glittering Mess You Must See
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I entered the theater with feelings of doubt prior to watching Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon ...
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Charlie Chan 3-Film Collection DVD Review: Honorable Circle, Now Complete
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's usually easy to say exactly where a film franchise begins. Universal Studios' Jaws (1975) movies officially started with Steven ...
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Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: Some Things Don’t Translate
By Kent Conrad |
Japanese cinema is samurai showdowns, tough gangster pictures, or calm, quietly devastating domestic dramas. Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi. Oh, and Godzilla. ...
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Valley of Love DVD Review: Isabelle and Gerard and the Goddamn Heat
By Critical curmudgeon |
Guillaume Nicloux writes and directs the considerate Valley of Love, which kind of has one foot in Maurice Pialat's 1980 ...
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Survivor (2015) Blu-ray Review: A Little Action, A Lot of Filler
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan You look at the Blu-ray cover for Survivor and you see Pierce Brosnan and Milla Jovovich ...
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Central Intelligence Movie Review: The End Is Near
By Rons Reviews |
I have long since theorized that if Kevin Hart and Melissa McCarthy ever made a buddy film together, it would ...
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LAFF 2016 Review: Dr. Feelgood
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The first rule of the Hippocratic oath can be recited by those without a medical degree: ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Dramatic Epics from Time (and Even Space!)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Whether you attended only one week of high school or an entire day in the food and beverage industry, you're ...
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Blood Bath Blu-ray Review: Bloody Interesting
By Mat Brewster |
Roger Corman's name is synonymous with low-budget, independently financed b-pictures. He's produced over 400 films in his career, most of ...
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Zootopia Blu-ray Review: The Great Bunny Detective
By Steve Geise |
Judy Hopps is a bunny. Nick Wilde is a fox. In the peaceful animal world of Zootopia, that doesn't automatically ...
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La Chienne Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Early Renoir is a Delight
By Mat Brewster |
Life has not gone well for Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon). He works as a cashier for a hosiery company and ...
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Warcraft Movie Review: It’s for Those Who Grew Up Playing the Game
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kim Wilson The year was 1999. I watched my then-boyfriend play this fantasy/strategy game on an old Windows ...
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Fathom Events Presents Ghostbusters (1984) on the Big Screen
By Mat Brewster |
From the moment it was announced that they were remaking Ghostbusters with women as the leads, the Internet lost its ...
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Time to Choose Movie Review: The Truth is Still Inconvenient, and More Important
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez A decade has passed since Al Gore reported to us about climate change, and won an ...
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Le Amiche Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Antonioni Drains the Passion from Melodrama
By Dusty Somers |
It's tempting to label Michelangelo Antonioni's fourth feature film Le Amiche a transitional work, as it shuns Neorealism and embraces ...
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The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead Movie Review: Behind the Punk Music
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern When you hear the words "punk music," the first names that pop up are usually The ...
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Killer Dames: Two Gothic Chillers by Emilio P. Miraglia Blu-ray Review: Killer Queens?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Following in on the high, blood-stained heels of their previously-released gialli box set, Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano ...
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LAFF 2016 Review: Free CeCe!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez With trans issues at the forefront of several legal squabbles, it isn't surprising that documentaries have ...
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The Fits Movie Review: Confidence and Dance Are a Fitful Combo
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Donovan once sang it "must be the season of the witch" and with Robert Eggers' New ...
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Tab Hunter Confidential Movie Review: It Tells the Hard Truth about the Darkside of Stardom
By Davy |
As we all know, Hollywood can be a make-or-break industry, creating stars and destroying them. Some make it, while others ...
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KISS Rocks Vegas Cinema Event Review: Exactly What You’d Expect from a KISS Concert
By Todd Karella |
Fathom Events is known for bringing one-time events into movie theaters throughout the country. These presentations can range from plays ...
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Me Before You Movie Review: A Melodramatic Romance and Questionable Portrayal of Disability
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez A common technique in classic film of the 1930s-1950s was disabling, or other means of eliciting ...
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The Naked Island Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
By Steve Geise |
Kaneto Shindo's film about the daily struggles of a poor farming family has one major hook: a total absence of ...
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The Assassin (2015) Blu-ray Review: Mesmerizingly Beautiful, Maddeningly Obtuse
By Kent Conrad |
It's hard when reviewing a movie to admit that you don't get it. If you have enough ego to broadcast ...
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Killer Dames: Two Gothic Chillers by Emilio Miraglia Blu-ray Review
By Mat Brewster |
Emilio Miraglia rose through the ranks of Italian cinema in the early '60s, making his bones as an assistant director ...
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Blood Bath (1966) Blu-ray Review: Alternately Bloody Good and Awfully Bad Stuff
By Luigi Bastardo |
Within the grand scope of filmmaking, there is perhaps no greater force than that of editing. If you take a ...
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Grateful Dead 2016 Meet-Up at the Movies: Sullivan Stadium, MA – 07/02/89 Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hosted by Fathom Events and Rhino Entertainment at theaters across the country, the sixth annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the ...
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