Born to Be Blue Movie Review: Many Shades of Blue
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Written by Kristen Lopez A week seemingly filled with biopics, from the Hank Williams story I Saw the Light to ...
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Rage of Honor Blu-ray Review: Sho and Kill
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Late one night, I decided to pop in this Blu-ray. I knew nothing about this movie ...
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They’re Watching Movie Review: Scary Monsters and Scarier Moldovans
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Elias Levey-Swain They're Watching is not an ordinary horror-comedy. It does not blend well the themes of both ...
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Making The Grade Blu-ray Review: An Unappreciated Comedy That Has Held up Nicely Over the Years
By Todd Karella |
Palmer Woodrow (Dana Olsen) has been thrown out of six different schools in the last three years. His parents are ...
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine / Dr. Goldfoot & the Girl Bombs Blu-rays Review: An Interesting Time Capsule
By Shawn Bourdo |
Kino Lorber has released two vintage Vincent Price films from 1965 and 1966 respectively. You hear the name "Vincent Price" ...
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The Hateful Eight DVD Review: Definitely Hateful, For Better or Worse
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Every Quentin Tarantino movie is an event, especially as he continues to threaten to retire eventually, ...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides / Roughshod / Station West DVDs Review: Girls Run the West
By Luigi Bastardo |
If there is one department the American film industry was certainly not lacking a sufficient output of during the first ...
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Undertow Blu-ray Review: David Gordon Green Thinks About Moving Past Malick
By Dusty Somers |
The opening sequence of David Gordon Green's third film, Undertow, portends an interesting stylistic progression for the filmmaker, his Terrence ...
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Black Mama, White Mama Blu-ray Review: Now This Is How You Do Exploitation!
By Mat Brewster |
Last week I complained that the new release of an old Pam Grier exploitation film, Sheba, Baby forgot to actually ...
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Silicon Cowboys Movie Review: A Compact Documentary About Compaq
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez It's near impossible to escape technology in this day and age, and with it such an ...
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American Horror Project, Vol. 1 Blu-ray Review: In One Word, ‘Yes!’
By Luigi Bastardo |
As a guy who has become slightly worn out from watching mostly B-grade movies for the majority of both his ...
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The Peanuts Movie Blu-ray Review: A Sweet Film That Appeals to All Generations
By Shawn Bourdo |
The recent Blu-ray and DVD release of The Peanuts Movie by 20th Century Fox leaves me with a conundrum of ...
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Sheba, Baby Blu-ray Review: Blaxploitation, Family Style
By Mat Brewster |
After a string of low-budget, b-grade exploitation flicks in which she kicked ass, cracked wise, and stripped down, Pam Grier ...
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The American Friend Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Tense Blend of Suspense and Character Study
By Davy |
There have been a few cinematic adaptations of famed author Patricia Highsmith's stories, such as 1951's Strangers on a Train, ...
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Sisters (2015) Blu-ray Review: Forty-Six Candles
By Steve Geise |
Sisters might sound like a sibling relationship comedy, but it actually joins Hollywood's long, proud heritage of ribald comedy films ...
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The Serpent and the Rainbow Blu-ray Review: When You’re Craven Zombies
By Luigi Bastardo |
In this day and age, wherein masses of mindless individuals with no ability to properly implement the usage of the ...
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Hangman (2015) Blu-ray Review: Watching Home Movies
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Written by The Vern Unlike a lot of people I know, I don't mind the found-footage genre. The first Paranormal ...
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By Luigi Bastardo |
Sho Kosugi has always been something of a special hit-and-miss performer in the world of B-grade martial arts movies. Although ...
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Turn It Up! Movie Review: A Celebration of the Electric Guitar
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Scott Blitstein I was sixteen years old, standing in a pawn / jewelry shop owned by family friends. ...
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Jane B. Par Agnes V. & Kung-Fu Master Blu-ray Review: 2 Films by Agnes Varda Starring Jane Birkin
By Davy |
As everyone, or at least film buffs, know by now that famous filmmaker Agnes Varda is the most influential female ...
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The Intruders (2015) DVD Review: This Generation’s Wait Until Dark
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern The home-invasion genre is one that can be enjoyable with gems like Funny Games or Panic ...
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Bad Boy (1949) DVD Review: You Make Us Feel So Good
By Luigi Bastardo |
Of all the subgenres of exploitation filmmaking, the field of Juvenile Delinquency is perhaps the most neglected. In a weird ...
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Clouds of Sils Maria Movie Review: Heartache and Laughter in the Swiss Alps
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Elias Levey-Swain With Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas has created something that is both desperately intrusive and ...
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Zootopia Movie Review: Disney Goes Political, With Bunnies!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez As Disney continues basking in the icy glow of Frozen's success the rest of their animation ...
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The Danish Girl Blu-ray Review: A Complex, Beautiful Tale of Love and Identity
By Darcy Staniforth |
The Danish Girl is a complex tale of love and identity. This film tells the story of landscape artist Einar ...
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The Martian Movie Review: Lost in Space
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Of all the nominees for Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards; The Martian is the ...
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The Mutilator Blu-ray Review: One of the ’80s More Vicious Outings
By Davy |
When it comes to the 1980s, the slasher genre was one of the most popular of phenomenons, with major franchises ...
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Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo DVD Review: Giant Robots with Daddy Issues
By Kent Conrad |
This will take some explaining. In the mid '90s, the anime TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion sparked something of a ...
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The Good Dinosaur Blu-ray Review: An Alternative Earth Offers a Universal Lesson
By Gordon S. Miller |
Pixar's The Good Dinosaur presents an alternative history where the asteroid that led to mass extinction on Earth 66 million ...
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2016 Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
This year the Oscar-nominated short documentary films all address uncomfortable subject matter that most people don't want to talk about. ...
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Heaven Knows What Movie Review: Step into the Shoes of a Former Heroin Addict
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern Remember the old saying, ”You can never truly know a person until you walk a mile ...
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Pray for Death Blu-ray Review: Not Enough Ninja
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a kid, one of the local television stations used to run a show called Kung Fu Theater ...
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Joy Movie Review: When Real Life is Like a Fairy Tale
By Adam Blair |
David O. Russell's Joy has gotten somewhat lost in the awards season shuffle, and that's a shame. It nabbed only ...
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Fatherland (1986) / Sense and Sensibility (1995) Blu-rays Review: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
By Luigi Bastardo |
Transitioning into a new environment is never an easy task, as is evident in two entirely different European motion pictures ...
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Spotlight Blu-ray Review: A Great Film Documenting Terrible Things
By Mat Brewster |
When I received my copy of Spotlight in the mail, I told my wife I'd be staying up late to ...
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Spotlight (2015) DVD Review: One of the Greatest Depictions of Investigative Journalism Ever Made
By Davy |
Investigative journalism has become a dying art, mainly because people can get the news on the internet with their smartphones, ...
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Let There Be Light: John Huston’s Wartime Documentaries Blu-ray Review: From Propaganda to Trauma
By Kent Conrad |
It's odd to feel nostalgia for a time one never lived in, and to envy men who are fighting in ...
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The Littlest Hobo (1958) DVD Review: The Dogs Must Be Crazy
By Luigi Bastardo |
A stranger wanders into town and, amid the prejudices and fears of many locals, changes the lives of people before ...
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TV Review: American Masters: B.B. King: The Life of Riley
By Jade Blackmore |
The latest installment of the PBS series, American Masters, documents the life and music of blues maestro Riley “B.B.” King. ...
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Trumbo Blu-ray Review: Bryan Cranston’s Tour de Force
By Mat Brewster |
The only thing Hollywood likes more than making movies portraying themselves as heroes is making movies portraying themselves as martyrs ...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Blu-ray Review: The Special Features Are the Best Part
By Todd Karella |
On December 21, 1937 Walt Disney released "Disney's Folly," a reckless endeavor that was mocked by critics and seen as ...
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About the Young Idea DVD Review: A Revealing, Reminiscent Look Back at the Jam’s Rise
By Michelle Prather |
The late John Weller, Paul Weller's father and perhaps the Jam's biggest fan, would ring in shows by shouting, “Put ...
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Howard the Duck Movie Review: It’s Not as Bad as You Think
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern As I'm sure most of you already know. Movies have and will always be one of ...
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SPECTRE Blu-ray Review: Ghosts of Bond’s Past
By Steve Geise |
After the nearly universal acclaim and gigantic box office for the previous Bond outing, Skyfall, any follow-up was likely to ...
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My Pal Wolf DVD Review: Dog Gone Girl
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sometimes, you never know what the true premise of a motion picture may turn out to be. This can be ...
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The Emigrants / The New Land Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Profound Cinematic Experience Like No Other
By Davy |
There have been many films about the dangerous journey of immigrants to America, the land of prosperity and new beginnings, ...
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Steve Jobs DVD Review: A Good Choice For Best Picture
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Steve Jobs is one of the more integral folks in this modern technological era of ours. ...
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Bridge of Spies Blu-ray Review: Spielberg’s History Tour Reaches the Cold War
By Steve Geise |
For the last decade, Steven Spielberg has been stuck in the past as a director, churning out one historical film ...
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It Follows Movie Review: A Horror Movie to Think About
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by The Vern It Follows has the most terrifying premise when you stop to really think about it. Many ...
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl Blu-ray Review: A Remarkably Forthright Film
By Dusty Somers |
Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl isn't particularly groundbreaking from a visual or formal standpoint; its burnished digital ...
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