Grandma Blu-ray Review: A Common Story with Uncommon Grace
By Davy |
You would think that a road trip movie about a girl and grandmother bonding would be another one of those ...
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2016 Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films Review: An Excellent Group
By Mat Brewster |
If the Oscars have any real meaning (and let's be honest, they mostly don't outside of very rich, very famous ...
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The Devil Wears Prada 10th Anniversary DVD Review: One of the Best Films of the Last Ten Years
By Davy |
In the fashion world, which can be very intimidating, it is literally a dog-eat-dog world where only the strong (and ...
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2016 Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
The five Academy Award-nominees for this year's Live Action Short Film originated from Europe, the United States, and one production ...
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The Finest Hours Movie Review: Fine for About an Hour
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez You know the year's just begun when Disney debuts their latest inspirational drama. Usually geared towards ...
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Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: Action Heroes ’50s Japanese Style
By Kent Conrad |
The Nikkatsu Diamond Guys title comes from a marketing scheme from nearly 60 years ago. Nikkatsu is a studio in ...
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The Rolling Stones: From the Vault: Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990 Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle stadium tour ran for nearly a year. The North American leg started in Philadelphia on Aug ...
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TV Review: American Masters: Mike Nichols
By Davy |
When the great Mike Nichols passed away on November 19, 2014, it was a very shocking blow to not just ...
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Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 Ultimate Edition of Awesomness DVDs Review: Not Awesome, But A Lot of Fun
By Mat Brewster |
If it's funny for a fat guy to show athletic nimbleness, then I suppose a panda being an expert at ...
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Bitter Rice Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Beauty of the Downtrodden
By Steve Geise |
Long before Dino De Laurentiis was a noted Hollywood producer, he produced Italian films such as this 1949 drama. Interestingly, ...
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Shadows and Fog Blu-ray Review: or, Smoke and Mirrors
By Luigi Bastardo |
In several respects, the release of Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy in 1982 marked the beginning of two ...
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Ip Man 3 Movie Review: Love, Redemption, and Mike Tyson
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Elias Levey-Swain Wilson Yip's newest addition to his Ip Man film series, Ip Man 3, is a wildly ...
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The Doughgirls DVD Review: When Girl Comedies Didn’t Need Fart Jokes
By Luigi Bastardo |
In those glorious, long gone days before female-driven movies like Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids (to say nothing of the forthcoming ...
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Jaco DVD Review: Tribute to a Jazz Legend
By Jade Blackmore |
“It's not about bass playing, it's about being a storyteller.” The documentary Jaco traces the life of iconic jazz bassist ...
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Scorpio (1973) Blu-ray Review: A Different Kind of Zodiac Killer
By Luigi Bastardo |
Following on the heels of his previous action film, 1972's The Mechanic with Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent, British filmmaker ...
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Never a Dull Moment (1950) DVD Review: Why You Never Say Never
By Luigi Bastardo |
Based on the 1943 book Who Could Ask for Anything More? by composer Kay Swift ‒ best known to today's ...
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Tenderness of the Wolves Blu-ray Review: Not What You Expect, But Better
By Mat Brewster |
Ever since I can remember, I've been fascinated by serial killers. There is something so uniquely interesting about someone who ...
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Broken Lance Blu-ray Review: The Open Range (Robert) Wagnerian Opera
By Luigi Bastardo |
While it isn't entirely uncommon for a contemporary film to be remade into a western (it's much more common to ...
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Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny Deliver the Gift of the Rifftrax Experience
By Shawn Bourdo |
Someone wiser than me said, "Pay for experiences not things." I love movies. But I love the experience of going ...
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Beasts of No Nation Movie Review: Beautiful Brutality
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Elias Levey-Swain “I am thinking that the only way not to be fighting is to be dying.” Cary ...
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Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 9 DVD Review: Bogart’s Face and Bette Davis Eyes
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the bulk of the Warner Archive Collection's output varies on the whole, there are numerous riches lurking within the ...
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It’s in the Air (1935) DVD Review: Benny and the Debts
By Luigi Bastardo |
A melting pot of old vaudevillians and rising wisecrackers from all over the map, MGM's 1935 comedy It's in the ...
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Mojave Movie Review: Death and Pretension in the Desert
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Nothing good ever happens in the desert, or at least that's the ultimate message in director/screenwriter ...
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Man-Proof DVD Review: Pidegon Shoots Down Tone Deaf Loy
By Luigi Bastardo |
We all know the story: boy finds girl, boy finds another girl to run off and marry, first girl gets ...
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The Mad Genius / The Great Man Votes DVDs Review: Unburiedmore
By Luigi Bastardo |
What's in a name? These days, not a whole heck of a lot. We've witnessed the offspring, the grandchildren, and ...
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Deathgasm Blu-ray Review: Good, Brutal Fun
By Mark Buckingham |
Growing up, I remember hearing some adults referring to heavy metal music (and its offshoots) as "devil music." In Deathgasm, ...
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Murder in the Private Car DVD Review: A Pre-Code Mulligan Stew
By Luigi Bastardo |
An out of control railroad car inhabited by a loose gorilla and runaway madman, and crazy madcap comedy are the ...
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The Green Inferno Blu-ray Review: A Truly Visceral Experience
By Davy |
As we know, Eli Roth is one of those directors who is kind of a "love him or hate him" ...
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Hitler’s Madman / Hitler’s Children (1943) DVDs Review: A Double Dose of Propaganda
By Luigi Bastardo |
Maybe it was the surprise release of Triumph of the Will on Blu-ray from Synapse Films that inspired them. Or ...
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Bone Tomahawk DVD Review: Rare Horror Western Hybrid
By Kent Conrad |
One of the problems with the modern Western is the seemingly desperate need for creators to seem superior, both to ...
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Everything I Have Is Yours DVD Review: A Disjointed MGM Musical Programmer
By Dusty Somers |
The lone starring vehicle for husband-and-wife duo Marge and Gower Champion, Everything I Have is Yours is several spritely dance ...
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Blu-ray Review: Diminishing Returns
By Steve Geise |
While the first Maze Runner film delivered moderate thrills and sci-fi adventure, the sequel seems to be running in place. ...
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Tell Them Who You Are Movie Review: A Captivating Documentary about Cinematographer Haskell Wexler and His Son
By Gordon S. Miller |
Tell Them Who You Are is a captivating documentary. It begins as a look at the life and career of ...
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Wild Bill Elliott Western Collection DVD Review: The End of an Era
By Luigi Bastardo |
From the moment Bill Elliott made his earliest known appearance on celluloid in 1925, he garnered the interest of grumpy ...
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Spy (2015) Blu-ray Review: License to Laugh
By Gordon S. Miller |
When the whole world is in danger because a suitcase nuke falls into the wrong hands, whom does the CIA ...
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Blood Rage (1987) Blu-ray Review: Because Florida
By Luigi Bastardo |
American school history books used to (and probably still do) paint a pretty picture about Christopher Columbus and a certain ...
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Night and the City Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Jules Dassin’s Marvelous London Noir
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh, although director Jules Dassin claims never to have read ...
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Wake Up and Kill Blu-ray Review: Gritty but Unengaging Criminal Bio-pic
By Kent Conrad |
Wake Up and Kill isn't quite a traditional gangster film. There's a philosophy to the gangster film that requires a ...
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The Strangler (1964) DVD Review: There’s Always the Son
By Luigi Bastardo |
With school shootings occurring almost daily within the confines of the American border, and acts of terrorism (domestic and otherwise) ...
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The End of the Tour DVD Review: How to Make Talking Interesting
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Making a movie that is just people talking is tricky. It may not be technically difficult, ...
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The Who: Live in Hyde Park DVD Review: The 50-Year Anniversary Show
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Scott Blitstein What else can be written about The Who that hasn't already been written over the course ...
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Jellyfish Eyes Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Surprisingly Unsurprising
By Steve Geise |
The most surprising thing about unconventional artist Takashi Murakami's first feature-length directorial effort is that it is entirely conventional. Based ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Various Vamps, Visitors, Bats and Vats
By Luigi Bastardo |
Is it Halloween again yet? Yes, while many members of the commercialized human race rants about nightmarish presidential candidates inciting ...
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JACO DVD Review: Portrait of a Tortured Genius
By Kit O'Toole |
In 1976, an album was released that would revolutionize not only how the jazz bass is played, but the very ...
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Another Language / What Every Woman Knows DVDs Review: The Helen Hayes Code
By Luigi Bastardo |
Unless you're an actual resident of Manhattan itself in this day and age, it's almost hard to fathom a time ...
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Blood Rage Blu-ray Review: One of Arrow’s Top Releases
By Davy |
Of course the slasher genre is of an acquired taste, mainly because of the lack of unique dialogue or acting. ...
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What Have You Done to Solange? Blu-ray Review: Giallo at Its Finest
By Mat Brewster |
In the 1930s, the Mondadori company began producing a series of paperback books in Italy. They were usually translations of ...
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Sinatra: All or Nothing at All Blu-ray Review: That’s His Life
By Gordon S. Miller |
Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling singers ...
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The Bat (1959) / A Bucket of Blood Blu-rays Review: The Film Detective Goes Public (Domain)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Hailing from an era where it was never uncommon to see fly-by-night video distribution labels pop up with a couple ...
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Bobby Ware Is Missing DVD Review: And Starring Neville Brand as Indiana Jones
By Luigi Bastardo |
Twenty-three years after his death at the age of 71, Neville Brand remains one of B moviedom's greatest heavies. From ...
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