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Sol Madrid DVD Review: The Nutty NCIS Kojak Batman Star Trek 007 Affair

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 18, 2015

As I had iterated in my earlier review of The Scorpio Letters, the latter half of the '60s were big ...

Insider Access to Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out Review: Inside and Out of Site!

By Mat Brewster | Jun 17, 2015

Old media has been struggling with how modern audiences consume their movies, books, and music for quite some time. With ...

The Pillow Book Blu-ray Review: Peter Greenaway’s Idiosyncratic Collage

By Dusty Somers | Jun 16, 2015

Peter Greenaway's 1996 film The Pillow Book is alternately a sensual exploration of memory and a hot-blooded revenge fantasy, but ...

Valley of the Cycle Sluts DVD Review: Sluts Rule!

By Greg Barbrick | Jun 15, 2015

The Cycle Sluts are back, and boy are they pissed. In Valley of the Cycle Sluts (1992) we find seven ...

Jurassic World Movie Review: A Sequel 22 Years in the Making

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 14, 2015

Sequels have always been a tough market. Even as far back as the classic Universal Monster movies, filmmakers were struggling ...

Rio Bravo Blu-ray Review: A Western Classic Restored

By Mat Brewster | Jun 12, 2015

In 1952, director Fred Zinnemann made High Noon with Gary Cooper, who plays a small-town marshal whose being threatened by ...

The Searchers Blu-ray Review: Revisionist Western Before There Were Revisionist Westerns

By Kent Conrad | Jun 11, 2015

Taking a highly praised classic on is a tricky business for any film reviewer. A movie as celebrated and revered ...

John J. Malone Mystery Double Feature DVD Review: Pat O’Brien vs. James Whitmore

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 10, 2015

The list of female mystery writers in history isn't a terribly long one. Even today, the only mysteries set in ...

Arrow in the Dust DVD Review: This is More Like Dust in the Wind

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 8, 2015

Try and try as we may, that which we wish to do in the world is often limited by what ...

Dawn Patrol Movie Review: Surf, Sand, and Stupidity

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 7, 2015

Written by Kristen Lopez I went into Dawn Patrol with low expectations considering it's a surf movie slammed alongside a ...

Five Easy Pieces Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: One Easy Role to Nicholson’s Stardom

By Steve Geise | Jun 7, 2015

A year removed from his breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson moved to headliner status in this 1970 ...

McFarland, USA Blu-ray Review: Deserves to be Running in Your Home on a Regular Basis

By Rons Reviews | Jun 5, 2015

Disney has done quite well with underdog sports movies such as The Mighty Ducks, Remember the Titans, The Rookie, Invincible, ...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne / Island of Death Blu-rays Review

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 4, 2015

In Great Britain, they were banned from being made available to the public outright. In the United States of America, ...

Kid Glove Killer DVD Review: Van Heflin Shines in Unsuccessful Film Pilot

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 3, 2015

Since the mid 1990s, American television airwaves (where applicable) have been periodically tuning audiences into two tremendously popular forms of ...

Welcome to Me Movie Review: Alice Doesn’t Live off of TV Anymore

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 2, 2015

Written by Chris Morgan When Welcome to Me was making the festival rounds, I read a piece wherein the writer ...

The Scorpio Letters DVD Review: Amusing Z-Grade Eurospy Fodder

By Luigi Bastardo | Jun 1, 2015

Quite often, all it takes in order to get the writing ball rolling is an idea. Just one single silly ...

Black Patch (1957) DVD Review: A Genuinely Magnificent, Forgotten B Western

By Luigi Bastardo | May 31, 2015

Every now and then, something or someone comes along that simply surpasses all of your expectations and prompts you to ...

Twilight Time Presents European Dramas, American Musicals, and Zardoz

By Luigi Bastardo | May 30, 2015

In addition to re-releasing two previously sold out titles to Blu-ray in brand new 4K transfers, Twilight Time has also ...

Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces DVD Review: Bugs and the Gang’s Tunes are Looney Fun

By Elizabeth Periale | May 29, 2015

Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces, a recent release from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, is a fun-filled musical romp through classic cartoons. ...

Grateful Dead 2015 Meet-Up at the Movies: Alpine Valley, WI – 07/19/89 Review

By Gordon S. Miller | May 29, 2015

Hosted by Fathom Events and Rhino Entertainment at theaters across the country, the fifth annual Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the ...

Spellbound (2002) Movie Review: C-A-P-T-I-V-A-T-I-N-G

By Gordon S. Miller | May 28, 2015

The filmmakers of this Academy Award-nominated documentary present us with the stories of eight contestants participating in the 1999 Scripps ...

Escape from East Berlin DVD Review: Don Murray Flees Communist Oppression!

By Luigi Bastardo | May 27, 2015

It's little more than a footnote to today's generation, who has an entire world of information at their fingertips, but ...

The Velvet Touch (1948) DVD Review: Shades of Colombo in the Shadow of Birdman

By Luigi Bastardo | May 26, 2015

Primarily, there are two types of murder mysteries. The first and foremost variety is that of the whodunit, wherein audiences ...

Zombeavers DVD Review: Three Ladies Tending to Their Rotting Beavers

By Mark Buckingham | May 25, 2015

The Horror Comedy is a rather well explored genre at this point. From more goofy efforts like Young Frankenstein and ...

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 Blu-ray Review

By Gordon S. Miller | May 24, 2015

Murray Lerner filmed the performances at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, ’64, and ’65, and from those concerts created ...

Cops: Wildest Chases DVD Review: A Good Representation of the Series

By Gordon S. Miller | May 21, 2015

Cops, the long-running documentary series, debuted March 11, 1989 on FOX where it ran for 25 seasons. It was an ...

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Movie Review: Vampires of Iran

By Cinema Sentries | May 20, 2015

Written by Chris Morgan A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night billed itself as the “first Iranian vampire Western.” It ...

Society (1989) Blu-ray Review: Nice Buildup to the Impressively Grotesque

By Mark Buckingham | May 19, 2015

Having never seen it, I read the synopsis for 1989's Society and thought, "Yeah, that could be interesting." Then I ...

Mad Max: Fury Road Movie Review: Everyone Who Enters Will Lose

By Rons Reviews | May 19, 2015

In this latest incarnation of Mad Max, director and co-writer (along with Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris) George Miller manages ...

Hot Pursuit (2015) Movie Review: In the Race for Worst Film of the Year

By Rons Reviews | May 18, 2015

In this 87-minute outing, that seems much longer and ends as if the production company ran out of money, Reese ...

Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts Blu-ray Combo Pack Review: A Forgettable Adventure

By Todd Karella | May 16, 2015

Batman (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) isn't the only hero in Gotham City. The Flash, Green Arrow, and NIghtwing join forces ...

By Darcy Staniforth | May 13, 2015

From an early age most people are taught not to speak ill of the dead, but is it okay to ...

The Stranger Collection DVD Review: The Man with No Shame Trilogy

By Luigi Bastardo | May 13, 2015

With the exception of those sick individuals who mimic the patterns of serial killers, most copycats can be incredibly amusing. ...

Retaliation Blu-ray Review: Japanese Gangster Exploitation Mayhem

By Kent Conrad | May 12, 2015

One of the joys of watching old exploitation movies like Retaliation is that the inexpensive filmmaking meant that a documentary ...

Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World Movie Review: Engaging, Affecting, Poignant

By Mark Buckingham | May 11, 2015

The late Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger. Creator of the eponymous alien from Alien. Master of biomechanical macabre artwork. He seemed ...

Bad Men of Tombstone DVD Review: The First of the Last of the Badmen

By Luigi Bastardo | May 10, 2015

Throughout both the cinematic and literary realms of the western, a common thread/title tends to appear: "the Last of the ...

The D Train Movie Review: Star-Struck Straight Guy Goes Off the Rails

By Adam Blair | May 10, 2015

As sociologists, psychologists, and watchers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer well know, high school is a time of acute status ...

Tabloid Movie Review: The Legend May Be as Insane as the Truth

By Cinema Sentries | May 9, 2015

Written by Kristen Lopez Director Errol Morris has interviewed serious subjects like Robert S. MacNamara and delved deep into harsh ...

Cake Blu-ray Review: Learning to Live Again

By Darcy Staniforth | May 9, 2015

Cake is the story of Claire Bennett (Jennifer Aniston), a woman living with chronic pain after a tragic accident. She ...

Mad Max: Fury Road Movie Review: George Miller Gets It Spectacularly Right

By Greg Barbrick | May 8, 2015

When I hear the term “re-boot” it is usually code for “We made it suck.” The second Star Wars trilogy ...

Rifftrax Live: The Room Review: The Funniest Riff of a Terrible Movie

By Cinema Sentries | May 8, 2015

Written by Kristen Lopez Rifftrax Live has always played it safe with their movies. Back in the Mystery Science Theater ...

Face of Fire (1959) DVD Review: Slow but Poignant Human Horror

By Luigi Bastardo | May 7, 2015

Anyone not familiar with the family name of Band within the halls of the B movie archives probably shouldn't be ...

By Luigi Bastardo | May 6, 2015

Previously at Cinema Sentries, I had touched upon the subject of people bad trips, courtesy of two recent Blu-ray releases ...

Day of Anger Blu-ray Review: The Rules of the Game

By Gordon S. Miller | May 3, 2015

Day of Anger on Blu-ray includes the Italian and English dubs of the original I giorni dell'ira and the shorter, ...

Always Woodstock DVD Review: Predictability, Love, and Music

By Michelle Prather | May 2, 2015

If you've seen last year's Song One or Begin Again, then you're well acquainted with the notion that sometimes music ...

Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie Review: Plenty of Bang for Your Buck, but Too Much Bunk

By Rons Reviews | May 1, 2015

As the 2015 summer movie season kicks off, there are indications that some films will drift off into obscurity immediately ...

Screaming Eagles (1956) DVD Review: The Allied Artists Invasion of Normandy

By Luigi Bastardo | Apr 28, 2015

With every war that breaks out on Earth, whether it be global or regional, a high amount of controversy emerges ...

The Friends of Eddie Coyle Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Crime, Lowkey, and Unsentimental

By Kent Conrad | Apr 28, 2015

Released about a year after Coppola's crime epic, The Godfather, The Friends of Eddie Coyle was seen by some critics ...

Avengers: Age of Ultron Review: Marvel Rests on Their Laurels with Lumbering Popcorn Movie

By Cinema Sentries | Apr 28, 2015

Written by Kristen Lopez If you've been one of the Marvel true believers for years then they've never made a ...

Our Mother’s House DVD Review: The Illegitimate Dawn of an Unofficial New Wave

By Luigi Bastardo | Apr 27, 2015

Though it has never been "officially" classified in the annals of genre-specific filmdom, British cinema inducted a New Wave of ...