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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Cry of the Hunted / Wind Across the Everglades DVDs Review: Attack of the Swamp Features
By Luigi Bastardo |
The strange allure of musty, humid air and untold perils that only an untamed marshland can offer has fascinated many ...
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The Big Short Movie Review: Adam McKay Tries to Get Serious
By Dusty Somers |
Adam McKay is not the filmmaker to give us a sober, lucid account of the financial crisis of the mid-2000s, ...
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Carol Movie Review: A Moving, Gorgeous Melodrama
By Dusty Somers |
Having already proved himself as the biggest Douglas Sirk fan on the planet, Todd Haynes improves upon the homage/pastiche of ...
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The Brain That Wouldn’t Die Blu-ray Review: The Head of No Class
By Luigi Bastardo |
Ah, the distant, slightly faded memory of a momentous moment during my wasted youth. I can still recall perusing the ...
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Walt Before Mickey Movie Review: Missing the Magic that Made Disney Disney
By Sombrero Grande |
When The Passion of the Christ was released in 2004, comedian Patton Oswalt compared it to making a movie about ...
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Fathom Events and TCM Present Roman Holiday
By Mat Brewster |
In my last discussion of a Fathom/TCM event, I praised my local Cinemark for being a very excellent cinema. This ...
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By Dusty Somers |
The narrative beats of Asif Kapadia's documentary on Amy Winehouse are eminently familiar, tracing a musician's rise to fame and ...
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Best of Enemies DVD Review: The Whole World Was Watching
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Scott Blitstein In 1968, ABC News ran a series of debates featuring William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal ...
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Requiescant Blu-ray Review: Massacred Mexican Communist Revenge
By Kent Conrad |
As Westerns go, Requiescant is an odd one. Its story isn't all that unusual - a young boy's entire Mexican ...
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Dope Blu-ray Review: Geeks, Drugs, and Bitcoins
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Scott Blitstein Malcolm and his friends Jib and Diggy are self-proclaimed geeks who live in a suburb of ...
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Southpaw Blu-ray Review: Feels Like Being Punched in the Face
By Rons Reviews |
With the film opening to a realistic depiction of the intensity in the locker room as a fighter prepares for ...
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The Funhouse Massacre Movie Review: They Bled, I Laughed
By Mark Buckingham |
Sometimes you root for the protagonists in a horror movie, sometimes you root for the killer(s). However, it's rare to ...
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Fred Claus Review: A Simple Movie the Entire Family Can Enjoy
By Chad Derdowski |
Growing up in the shadow a seemingly perfect sibling can be tough. Constant comparisons from parents will generally lead to ...
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James White Movie Review: Formally Oppressive, Thematically Thin
By Dusty Somers |
For the first 20 minutes or so, James White is an oppressive experience. In its first quarter, nearly every shot ...
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Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Glimpses into the Heart of the Artist
By Mat Brewster |
By the time Bob Dylan toured England in the Spring of 1965, he’d released five albums (two of which went ...
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Creed Movie Review: Blood, Sweat, and Boxing
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I may not have seen all the Star Wars films, but I've watched all the films ...
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Black Stone Cherry: Thank You: Livin’ Live, Birmingham, UK Review: An Enjoyable Performance in Spite of the Low Vocals
By Todd Karella |
Recorded October 30, 2014 on their Magic Mountain tour, the four-man band from Kentucky brought their brand of hard southern ...
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Please Believe Me (1950) DVD Review: A Romantic Comedy from Val Lewton?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sooner or later in life, everyone encounters a seemingly inescapable element of disappointment. And I should know, as it happens ...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Pronounced ‘Leh-‘Nerd ‘Skin-‘Nerd & Second Helping Live Blu-ray Review: You Can Go Home Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd had quite the homecoming this year. More than 50 years after Jacksonville teenagers Allen Collins, Gary ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Hard Pills to Swallow and Hard Acts to Follow
By Luigi Bastardo |
At some point or another in life, we've experienced something that can be best summed up as being that of ...
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Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour Live Blu-ray Review: Visually Impressive, Thematically Confusing
By Todd Karella |
Capturing Katy Perry's 2014/2015 concert tour recorded in Sydney, Australia last December, the show features seven different acts, nine costume ...
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AFI Fest 2015 Review: Flying Down to Rio
By Gordon S. Miller |
Notable for being the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, dancing the Carioca in one of their ...
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Trainwreck Blu-ray Review: Apatow Wrecks the Comedy
By Steve Geise |
Judd Apatow's latest directorial effort has its problems, but first-time leading lady Amy Schumer isn't one of them. Working from ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Five Selections of Summer
By Luigi Bastardo |
Once again, a seemingly brief period of time has passed by, leaving in its wake a stack of movies on ...
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Frank Zappa’s Roxy: The Movie DVD Review: A Necessary Purchase for Any Zappa Fan
By Jade Blackmore |
The concert film Roxy: The Movie starring Frank Zappa and the Mothers, filmed in 1973 during a three-night engagement at ...
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Before We Go Blu-ray Review: A Quaint Little Film
By Todd Karella |
Nick (Chris Evans) is sitting on the floor of Grand Central Station thinking about something important in his life when ...
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words Movie Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid
By Adam Blair |
One of the best moments in Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words is one of the quietest. It's just a ...
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Mr. Holmes Blu-ray Review: A Study in Relationships
By Lorna Miller |
It is hard to believe that the fictional character Sherlock Homes first appeared in print in 1887. Sir Arthur Conan ...
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SPECTRE Movie Review: The Story That Baffled Me
By Gordon S. Miller |
SPECTRE is Eon Productions' 24th James Bond film and the fourth starring Daniel Craig. The title is the name of ...
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The Beginning or the End (1947) DVD Review: Are You Gonna Drop the Bomb or Not?
By Luigi Bastardo |
"First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive. Then your hand grenade: you began to kill your own people, a few ...
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Pixar’s Inside Out is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
It was a tough October. I got strep throat and followed it with a nasty virus that turned into an ...
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Tenderness of the Wolves Blu-ray Review: Serial Killer Social Drama
By Kent Conrad |
German cinema during the '70s belonged to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The director was incredibly prolific from an annoyingly precocious age. ...
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The Intern Movie Review: Candy-Coated Faux Feminism at Its Worst
By Adam Blair |
I realize that criticizing a Nancy Meyers movie for being unrealistic is rather like criticizing maple syrup for being sticky. ...
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats Blu-ray Review: Same Story, Massively Different Films
By Mat Brewster |
There have been well over 300 films based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe - that's more than three ...
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The Hoodlum Saint DVD Review: When Nick Charles Met Jessica Fletcher
By Luigi Bastardo |
Many actors often own, or are generally known as, their most famous roles. During his memorable screen time in Wim ...
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Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Live in Hyde Park Blu-ray Review: So Good You Won’t Get It out of Your Head
By Gordon S. Miller |
Founding member Jeff Lynne was such an essential component to the massive success of Electric Light Orchestra throughout the '70s ...
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Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray Review: Once More Around the Clock
By Luigi Bastardo |
The theory of time travel is a tricky one indeed ‒ especially within the confines of the filmmaking world. While ...
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A Special Day Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Special Performances from Italian Screen Legends
By Steve Geise |
The setup for this Italian film is deceptively simple, but belies the impact of the performances by its two stars, ...
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Aladdin: Diamond Edition Blu-ray Review: Disney Ain’t Never Had a Film Like This Before
By Gordon S. Miller |
Aladdin is the fourth title released during the era known as the Disney Renaissance when the famed animation studio had ...
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Ballet Boys DVD Review: Transitioning Into Early Manhood—In Tights
By Michelle Prather |
Yet another wonderful dance documentary from First Run Features, Ballet Boys (2014) takes balletomanes to Norway, where we meet young ...
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Attack on Titan: The Movies: Part 1 & Part 2 Review: Anime-Inspired Cinematic Insanity
By Kent Conrad |
Of the various pleasures of Japanese cinema, for me one of the greatest is to see stuff on screen that ...
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Trader Horn (1931) / Eskimo (1933) DVD Reviews: A Pair of Van Dykes
By Luigi Bastardo |
In today's Internet-obsessed society, wherein anything ‒ from photos of far-off exotic places to the torturing of helpless animals ‒ ...
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Tomorrowland Blu-ray Review: Although the Pacing is Uneven, the Film Entertains and Inspires
By Chad Derdowski |
When an optimistic teen girl stumbles upon a doorway to a fantastic world of science and invention, she finds herself ...
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Eaten Alive Blu-ray Review: Not Nearly As Good As the Movies From Which It Draws Its Inspiration
By Mark Buckingham |
Back in 1975, the world was introduced to Spielberg's screen adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. Mardi Rustam, Tobe Hooper, ...
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PS Dance! DVD Review: Public Schools Going One Step Beyond for Education
By Michelle Prather |
Now that stringent Common Core standards, piles of homework, and hyper-competitive college admission have become the academic norm in the ...
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Dick Foran Western Collection DVD Review: The Singing Cowboy Who Could Actually Sing
By Luigi Bastardo |
If the all of the westerns from early 20th Century America were to be enshrined in a museum ‒ presented ...
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Experimenter Movie Review: We’re All Just Lab Rats in This Maze
By Adam Blair |
The Inquisition. The Terror of the French Revolution. The Soviet gulags. The Nazi death camps. Murdered civil rights workers. Abu ...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: Don’t Dream It, Buy It
By Davy |
What else can I say about The Rocky Horror Picture Show that hasn't already been said before. It is the ...
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines Blu-ray Review: There’s Nothing New Under the Ground
By Luigi Bastardo |
I was but a mere fresh teenager when my curiosity was first piqued by Universal Studios' Tremors ‒ starring Kevin ...
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