Hired to Kill Blu-ray Review: The A-Team’s Project Runway
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern There is a podcast I listen to called The Lair of the Unwanted that focuses on ...
Read More 
Eisenstein in Guanajuato DVD Review: An Ode to Stuff
By Critical curmudgeon |
Peter Greenaway's Eisenstein in Guanajuato is certainly full of a lot of things. The 2015 picture is part biopic, part ...
Read More 
The Zero Boys Blu-ray Review: A Thrill-less Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Execution is the most important aspect of any thriller. A science fiction movie with good ideas can stand pokey pacing ...
Read More 
When Everything is WAC: A Visual Buffet from the Warner Archive
By Luigi Bastardo |
Since its humble inception at the beginning of 2009, the Warner Archive Collection has been paying its respects to many ...
Read More 
Justice League: The New Frontier DVD Review: An Adventure Worth Exploring
By Gordon S. Miller |
Darwyn Cooke's award-winning, 2004 comic-book miniseries, DC: The New Frontier was tuned into a direct-to-video DVD in 2008. Set during ...
Read More 
The Witch Blu-ray Review: An Incredibly Spooky Descent into Gothic Madness
By Davy |
As we know, the horror genre is a rather dying one. In this case, filmmakers are forced to think up ...
Read More 
Dillinger (1973) Blu-ray Review: Times Were Tough, So He Got with the Times!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Never one to take a backseat to a popular genre, the always active brains behind the once prolific American International ...
Read More 
Macbeth (2015) Blu-ray Review: Heavy on Visuals, Light on Poetry
By Mat Brewster |
Directors of both stage and screen love fiddling with the settings, periods, and sometimes even the words of William Shakespeare. ...
Read More 
Money Monster Movie Review: More Like Mediocre Monster
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, Hollywood did everything to help audiences understand ...
Read More 
2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Four
By Lorna Miller |
Heading into the last day, I was already starting to feel sad that it was almost over. No matter how ...
Read More 
2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three
By Lorna Miller |
I decided to sleep in to prepare for another big day ahead since there wasn't anything that I really wanted ...
Read More 
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing End to a Disappointing Series
By Critical curmudgeon |
After the inert and exposition-heavy The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, the final chapter of the dystopic “trilogy” rumbles ...
Read More 
Bandits (2001) Blu-ray Review: Not As Bad As You’ve Heard
By Mat Brewster |
Even if you didn't know Bandits was made in 2001, you'd automatically know it was made in the late '90s ...
Read More 
Rifftrax Live: Time Chasers Review: The Weakest Rifftrax is Still Fun!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Rifftrax Live returns this month with another foray into the world of bad cinema, this time ...
Read More 
The Stuff Blu-ray Review: Once Is More Than Enough
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern When I was a kid, there was a new type of desert that had everyone talking. ...
Read More 
Barcelona Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Innocent Imperialists Abroad
By Kent Conrad |
The first thing to get about Barcelona is the movie is sympathetic to its protagonists. Fred and Ted are cousins ...
Read More 
2016 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
Each year as I am heading home from the TCM Classic Film Festival, I am sure that the next year ...
Read More 
Emelie Blu-ray Review: Strong Performances Elevate Generic Horror
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The horror genre cannibalizes itself, and I'm not talking about movies about cannibals. Unlike other genres, ...
Read More 
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Blu-ray Review: Return of the Franchise (to Great Heights)
By Gordon S. Miller |
Star Wars: The Force Awakens might well have been one of the most anticipated films of all time if the ...
Read More 
Captain America: Civil War Movie Review: Avenger vs. Avenger, ‘Nuff Said
By Gordon S. Miller |
Growing up reading comics, one of the biggest treats was seeing superheroes fight against each other regardless of the reason. ...
Read More 
Dangerous Men Blu-ray Review: Professionally, Thoroughly Terrible
By Mark Buckingham |
Back in 2005, Dangerous Men had an extremely limited release -- the writer/director/composer/costume designer/etc. John S. Rad spent thousands of ...
Read More 
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street Blu-ray Review: Sam Fuller Goes to Germany
By Dusty Somers |
Half a rollicking, goofy near-parody of noir and half a queasy, German New Wave-inflected portrait of futility, Dead Pigeon on ...
Read More 
Room Blu-ray Review: A Difficult but Emotionally Rewarding Cinematic Experience
By Davy |
There is no greater fear for a parent than the loss of a child to certain horrifying circumstances, such as ...
Read More 
Jane Got a Gun Blu-ray Review: Troubled Production, Decent Results
By Mat Brewster |
Plagued by production difficulties, it's a wonder Jane Got a Gun ever saw the light of day. In 2011, the ...
Read More 
The Gory Goodness of Arrow Video in May
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez You can't say Arrow Video isn't unpredictable! From gory horror to hard-boiled action and a biopic, ...
Read More 
Brief Encounter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Small but Poignant
By Mat Brewster |
Christ, David Lean knew how to compose a shot. I swear you could take all of his movies, put them ...
Read More
The Zero Boys Blu-ray Review: Totally ’80s Cheese
By Mat Brewster |
Oh the '80s! Was there a better decade for watching bad movies? The advent of home video not only meant ...
Read More 
Outlaw Gangster VIP: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Gangster and Outlaw, All in One
By Kent Conrad |
How is being an Outlaw Gangster different from just being a gangster? By definition, they're all outlaws, aren't they? It ...
Read More 
Fathom Events and TCM Present On the Waterfront
By Mat Brewster |
Director Elia Kazan named names. He at first refused to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities but when ...
Read More
The Stuff (1985) Blu-ray Review: The Thing Nightmares Are Made From
By Luigi Bastardo |
As a screenplay artist, Larry Cohen has many a unique offering under his literary belt. The New York-born auteur first ...
Read More 
Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano Ercoli Blu-ray Review: Arrow Strikes Giallo Gold
By Luigi Bastardo |
Though born in the early '60s, only a few short years before various forms of psychedelic and sexual revolutions began ...
Read More
Death Walks Twice Blu-ray Review: Two Times the Horror, Two Times the Fun
By Mat Brewster |
After the success of his first film as a director, Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Luciano Ercoli directed ...
Read More 
MSPIFF 2016 Review: Alena
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Bullying is one of those issues the media and the public have been ranting about in ...
Read More 
Twilight Time Presents: Our Own Personal Freedoms
By Luigi Bastardo |
Everyone strives for a little more room to breathe in this world. Some seek solace far away from others on ...
Read More 
The Huntsman: Winter’s War Movie Review: Winter Turns Around in Embarrassment
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez When Snow White and the Huntsman debuted in 2012, it marked the beginning of what's become ...
Read More 
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Movie Review: Texas’ Modern-day Witch Hunt
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In a true-crime landscape of Serial and Making a Murderer there's absolutely no better time for ...
Read More 
The Lady in the Van Blu-ray Review: Impound This Vehicle
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern When watching a movie, there are some things that are good to reveal about a character ...
Read More Bride of Re-Animator Blu-ray Review: A Gallows Worth of Fun
By Mat Brewster |
Brian Yuzna's sequel to the cult classic Re-Animator is the very definition of a film that is not for everyone. ...
Read More 
John Carradine Goes Fishing DVD Review: Oh, the Horror
By Luigi Bastardo |
By the time Fish Story had been shot, scored, and pasted together for its (presumably very limited) theatrical debut in ...
Read More MSPIFF 2016 Review: Here Comes the Videofreex
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Now that everyone can post all sorts of videos on the internet today, it's easy to ...
Read More 
The Forest Blu-ray Review: It May Make You Want To Give Up Camping
By Elizabeth Periale |
Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, The Tudors) stars in the supernatural thriller The Forest. The film is ...
Read More 
The Jungle Book (2016) Movie Review: A Loving Spin on an Old Tale
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Almost fifty years have passed since The Jungle Book graced movies screen, marking the end of ...
Read More 
Lamb DVD Review: A Heartbreaking Tale of Two Broken Individuals
By Davy |
Films that deal with uneasy relationships, such as Sundays and Cybele, can have a certain uncomfortable effect on audiences. Maybe ...
Read More 
MSPIFF 2016 Review: Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Before I explain anything about Norman Lear or this documentary, I feel that It's important to ...
Read More 
Justice League vs. Teen Titans Blu-ray Review: That’s So Raven, Damian
By Steve Geise |
DC appears determined to cater to all manner of Justice League fans this year. If the dark, brooding Batman V Superman ...
Read More 
Memories of a Penitent Heart Movie Review: Memories of a Fragmented Heart
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Blood is thicker than water is a common adage trotted out in order to emphasize the ...
Read More 
Sugar Kisses DVD Review: Young Love in Misshapen Chaos
By Critical curmudgeon |
Carlos Cuarón's 2013 film Sugar Kisses is part street fable and part Shakespearean tragedy. The screenplay by Cuarón and Luis ...
Read More
The Forest (2016) Blu-ray Review: Beautiful, but Dull
By Mat Brewster |
At the base of Mt. Fuji, Japan, lies the Aokigahara forest. With its large rocky ice caverns, it is a ...
Read More 
The Invitation Movie Review: An Invitation You Won’t Pass Up
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez A group of people reuniting after a certain period of time always makes for awkward fun, ...
Read More 
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Blu-ray Review: The Acting and Directing Elevate the Writing
By Mat Brewster |
Based upon a stage play of the same name, this movie was written by the playwright (Ed Graczyk) and directed ...
Read More
Recent Comments