Ghost Story: Turn of the Screw DVD Review: Should Have Turned It Off
By Mat Brewster |
I don't believe I have ever read a single word written by Henry James. I have a BA in English ...
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The Bounty (1984) / U Turn (1997) Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes South
By Luigi Bastardo |
Everyone has that proverbial journey in their lifetime that can only later be described as a bad trip. My second ...
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Tribeca 2015 Review: Dirty Weekend: What Happens in Albuquerque Stays in Albuquerque
By Adam Blair |
Since his 1997 filmmaking debut with In the Company of Men, the rap on writer/director Neil LaBute is that he's ...
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All at Sea [aka Barnacle Bill] DVD Review: Alec Guinness in Full (Multiple) Form
By Luigi Bastardo |
Television shows notwithstanding, the bulk of British filmmaking - that is to say, actual feature length films made especially for ...
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One Foot in Heaven DVD Review: Ass-Kickers, Shit-Kickers, and Methodists
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sometimes, the whole "forgive and forget" thing just doesn't cut it. One of the more novel aspects of the seven-kajillion ...
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Tribeca 2015 Review: Grandma: Lily Tomlin’s Tour de Force
By Adam Blair |
It's easy to forget just how great a film actress/screen presence Lily Tomlin can be. In part, she's a victim ...
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Long Weekend (1978) Blu-ray Review: Nature Can Be a Real Mother
By Luigi Bastardo |
During the the last half of the '90s, I devoted the bulk of my meager existence to the video store ...
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Solomon and Sheba (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Show with Everything (Including Yul Brynner)
By Luigi Bastardo |
The year 1959. It was a time of luscious, extravagant widescreen productions - fueled by luscious, extravagant budgets beget by ...
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Lenny (1974) Blu-ray Review: They Call Dustin Hoffman Bruce?
By Luigi Bastardo |
In this day and age, it seems highly laughable that the very sort of individuals we pay to openly laugh ...
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Monkey Warriors DVD Review: A Fascinating Look at How Monkeys Have Adapted to City Life
By generaljabbo |
In Jodhpur, India, there's a gang war going on. These aren't gangs in the traditional sense, however. Hanuman Langur monkeys, ...
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Tribeca 2015 Review: A Courtship: Christian Mingle to the Max
By Adam Blair |
Is there an optimal, sure-fire way to find one's absolutely perfect mate? The owners of dating websites imply that their ...
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Tribeca 2015 Review: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
By Adam Blair |
For the purposes of this review, let's accept two axioms. 1.) Nostalgia is both seductive and inevitable, and 2.) Explaining ...
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Batman vs. Robin Blu-ray Review: Another Dark and Dangerous Day in Gotham
By Steve Geise |
The title of DC's latest animated film is catchy, but it's also a bait and switch. Sure, Robin briefly toys ...
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The Fog of War Movie Review: Hindsight Is 20/20
By Gordon S. Miller |
Robert S. McNamara served from 1961 to 1968 as the Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon ...
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not DVD Review: A Movie So Nice You’ll Watch It Twice
By Mat Brewster |
Halfway through He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not the film literally rewinds itself and starts at the beginning. Only ...
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The Big Shot / Swing Your Lady DVDs Review: A Binary Blast of Bogey
By Luigi Bastardo |
Just when you thought you had seen just about everything Humphrey Bogart ever made, along comes the Warner Archive Collection ...
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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn DVD Review: Lost in Translation
By Elizabeth Periale |
Kids will like the latest filmed version of the adventures of Mark Twain's classic characters, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, ...
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Movie Review: Visually Captivating
By Darcy Staniforth |
What happens when a simple man asks simple questions that require complex answers that he cannot understand? This is what ...
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The Immigrant DVD Review: Finding Grace in the Worst of Times
By Mat Brewster |
Fleeing war torn Poland sisters Ewa (Marion Cotillard) and Magda (Angela Sarafyan) endure hardships and humiliations during the long boat ...
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Daryl Hall & John Oates: Live in Dublin DVD Review: 90 Minutes of Hits
By Greg Barbrick |
My connection to the music of Hall & Oates goes back a long way. I remember “She's Gone” in 1973, ...
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The Alphabet Murders (1965) DVD Review: Oh, My Aching Little Grey Cells!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Along with the various adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the most celebrated - as well as imitated - fictional sleuth of ...
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Festering!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Having never been a very literary-minded lad, I must confess that I did not devote quite as much of my ...
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Odd Man Out Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Deft and Thrilling Storytelling
By Davy |
There have been many films about personal and conflicted crisis of conscience, such as American Beauty (1999), The Apostle (1997), ...
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Hans Crippleton: Talk To the Hans Movie Review: It’s So Good, I Almost Hated It
By Mark Buckingham |
Hans Crippleton: Talk to the Hans opens with an introduction by Barnaby Hunt (Andy Hankins) to Horror Hunts, Hunt's macabre-flavored ...
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control Movie Review: Skewed Look at Human Behavior
By Kent Conrad |
The title might throw a viewer off - 'Out of Control'. A documentary about things being out of control sounds ...
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A Brief History of Time Criterion Collection Review: A Quirky, Idiosyncratic Tribute
By Davy |
Everyone knows the story of Stephen Hawking, the iconic physicist, cosmologist, author, and director of research. They also know that ...
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To Sir, With Love (1967) Blu-ray Review: Twilight Time Goes to School
By Luigi Bastardo |
By today's standards, the classic movie motif of a determined teacher reaching a group of tough, underprivileged kids in an ...
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Stormy Weather (1943) Blu-ray Review: What an Eye for Beauty This Storm Has!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Having essentially gone through the growing up part of my wasted youth engaging in the fine art of bad film, ...
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A Most Violent Year Blu-ray Review: A Most Underrated Film
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez It still stings a bit knowing J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year was all but ignored ...
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Wild (2014) Blu-ray Review: Embrace the Beauty
By Lorna Miller |
The death of her mom Bobbi (Laura Dern), a divorce from her husband (Thomas Sadoski), and years of self-destructive choices ...
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Gone with the Pope Blu-ray Review: Duke Mitchell’s Unsung Swan Song Finds a Voice
By Luigi Bastardo |
If Massacre Mafia Style was Duke Mitchell's antithesis to Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, the late Southern California Italian/American crooning ...
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The Thin Blue Line Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Paradigm Shift
By Shawn Bourdo |
Rarely do you watch a film and actually pinpoint where a genre actually changes. You watch Clerks or Pulp Fiction ...
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Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Loving the Absurd
By Greg Barbrick |
“I love the absurd,” says Errol Morris in one of the extras on the new Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of ...
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2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day Three and Four
By Lorna Miller |
Saturday morning, I opted to sleep in and miss The Man Who Would be King (1975) to see So Dear ...
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2015 TCM Classic Film Festival Review: Day One and Two
By Lorna Miller |
The 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival was the best one I have attended. The previous four festivals were fantastic but ...
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Blind Woman’s Curse Blu-ray Review: Gory Japanese Ghosts and Yakuza Fun
By Kent Conrad |
Blind Woman's Curse, directed by Teruo Ishii and due out on Blu-ray on April 21 from Arrow Video, is a ...
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Unbroken (2014) Blu-ray Review: Look, If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Despite having seen the trailer for the film at the cinema prior to its release, it wasn't until I saw ...
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Into the Woods Blu-ray Review: Bringing out My Inner Theater Geek
By Mat Brewster |
When choosing Into the Woods as my Pick of the Week, I noted that I'm not as big of a ...
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Exodus: Gods and Kings Blu-ray Review: Cecil B. Diminished
By Luigi Bastardo |
According to His faithful flock and their respective independently-produced movies, God is not dead. The concept of the Hollywood biblical ...
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Memory Lane (2012) DVD Review: Ambitious but Lacks Polish
By Mark Buckingham |
The promotional material for Memory Lane called down the thunder by comparing itself to the likes of Primer and Memento. ...
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McLintock! (Authentic Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: An Entertaining Escape
By Gordon S. Miller |
Made by his own Batjac Productions, John Wayne stars as the titular McLintock! in a variation of Shakespeare's Taming of ...
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The Wrecking Crew Movie Review: A Musical History and a Labor of Love
By Darcy Staniforth |
A few months back Marc Maron released an episode of his podcast, WTF, where he sat down with Denny Tedesco ...
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The Way He Looks Blu-ray Review: An Instant Classic
By Davy |
There have been many coming-of-age movies, such as The Yearling (1946), The 400 Blows (1959), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), ...
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The Breakfast Club: 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Kids Can Be So Cool
By Luigi Bastardo |
One of the few filmmakers who made movies about teenagers while actually having an understanding about the awkward, spotty-faced years ...
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Come Together: A Beatles Tribute Documentary Review: Meet the Faux Beatles!
By Kit O'Toole |
At this very moment, a Beatles tribute band is likely playing a concert somewhere throughout the world. Over 8,000 groups ...
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Mark of the Devil Blu-ray Review: Say Hello to Arrow Video USA, Kids!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Nothing delights me more than seeing a new cult video label emerge in the USA. After the collapse of the ...
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Big Hero 6 Blu-ray Review: This Movie Will Make You Feel Better
By Gordon S. Miller |
When the Walt Disney Company bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009, there was much speculation about what would be the first ...
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WolfCop DVD Review: Bloody, Sexy, Crazy, and Furry
By Mark Buckingham |
A movie like WolfCop doesn't need a lot of explanation -- the title kind of tells you everything you need ...
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Massacre Mafia Style Blu-ray Review: Duke Mitchell’s Godfather Antithesis
By Luigi Bastardo |
It is sometimes interesting - well, to me, that is - how many of the articles I request or wind ...
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Dumber and Dumber To Blu-ray Review: Still Dumb After All These Years
By Gordon S. Miller |
It's no surprise that the directing team of Bobby and Peter Farrelly would write, produce, and direct The Three Stooges, ...
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