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American Sniper Movie Review: Eastwood Hits His Target

By Cinema Sentries | Feb 27, 2015

Written by Nils Forman I really didn't know what to expect when I decided to see American Sniper. I had ...

Love and Death (1975) Blu-ray Review: Dying is Easy. Loving is Hard.

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 27, 2015

Though some people out there would just assume never hear his name ever again, there is ultimately no denying the ...

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Blu-ray Review: Corman Slays ‘Em

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 26, 2015

While movies like Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde generally get the most credit for ...

Fright Night (1985) 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Brewster’s Thirties

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 25, 2015

If someone would have told me three years ago that I would be repeating myself, well, I probably would have ...

An Autumn Afternoon Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Master’s Final Masterpiece

By Dusty Somers | Feb 25, 2015

Before he died of cancer on his 60th birthday in 1963, Yasujiro Ozu left us with one final masterpiece in ...

The Best of Me (2014) Blu-ray Review: Another Dopey Romance from Nicholas Sparks

By Greg Barbrick | Feb 25, 2015

One thing is certain, Nicholas Sparks is the king of romance. Guys, if you are rolling your eyes, you should ...

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 24, 2015

While any chance to see the Francis Ford Coppola's award-winning masterpiece is a great treat, this LIVE presentation of The ...

Speed (1936) DVD Review: James Stewart Returns to Reclaim His Title

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 23, 2015

In-between the vast unnecessary space taken up within the confines of the virtual world by loving tributes to reality-TV celebrities ...

Maps to the Stars Movie Review: Monsters Incorporated

By Adam Blair | Feb 23, 2015

Unsettling and often unpleasant, Maps to the Stars teeters between dark (albeit funny) satire of Hollywood and luridly over-baked melodrama. ...

Hot Tub Time Machine (Unrated) Blu-ray Review: Round up Your Friends and Your Favorite Adult Beverages

By Gordon S. Miller | Feb 19, 2015

Hot Tub Time Machine is rated R for sexual content, nudity, drug use, and pervasive language, which are pluses in ...

The Murder Man (1935) DVD Review: When Spencer Met Stewart

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 17, 2015

It was 1935. The Hays Office had recently begun to enforce their code of morals in film. Meanwhile, film itself ...

Crazy Bitches Movie Review: Women Behaving Badly, and Paying for It

By Mark Buckingham | Feb 12, 2015

Jane Clark's Crazy Bitches describes itself as a "horror comedy sex romp." It's definitely at least two of those things. ...

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 12, 2015

Though the notion of an actor or actress being a "sex symbol" had been in existence well before the someone ...

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 11, 2015

As sad as this may sound to you, my earliest memories of childhood revolve around watching movies. My parents, for ...

The Story of Adele H DVD Review: Of Love and Madness

By Mat Brewster | Feb 11, 2015

Though Americans often think of his novels (and the musical based upon one novel), Victor Hugo is better known in ...

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Blu-ray Review: Embraces Optimism over Snarky Fantasy

By Cinema Sentries | Feb 10, 2015

Written by S. Edward Sousa Where have all the family films gone? Movies that cross genres and give every generation ...

Wrestling with Satan DVD Review: Putting Beelzebub in a Sleeper Hold

By Critical curmudgeon | Feb 10, 2015

Directed by Paul Aldridge and Tom Borden, the 2009 documentary Wrestling with Satan explores the Christian Wrestling Federation over the ...

Adventure in Baltimore DVD Review: Pastor Robert Young Hasn’t Got a Prayer

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 10, 2015

Exactly one year ago today, America's quintessential child star, Shirley Temple departed from this world - leaving behind an iconic ...

White Comanche DVD Review: 40% Cotton, 230% Shatner

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 9, 2015

Though many roads were constructed during the European western era of the '60s, very few paths were created that lead ...

101 Dalmatians (1961) Diamond Edition Blu-ray Review: An Amusing and Entertaining Film

By Lorna Miller | Feb 8, 2015

Disney's 101 Dalmatians is narrated by Pongo (Rod Taylor), an adult male Dalmatian, and starts cleverly with him introducing us ...

Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness DVD Review: Scooby Doo Meets Alien

By Cinema Sentries | Feb 8, 2015

Written by Chris Morgan When people think of Scooby-Doo, they probably think of those early Hanna-Barbera iterations. The cheap, repeating ...

International Settlement DVD Review: A Forgotten, Forgettable Film That Has Its Pleasures

By Mat Brewster | Feb 7, 2015

Fox Cinema Archives continues to release nearly everything from their extensive vault whether or not anyone actually cares for them ...

Young Mr. Lincoln Criterion Collection DVD Review: Ford’s Greatest Overlooked Film

By Greg Barbrick | Feb 6, 2015

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) may be the greatest overlooked film John Ford (1894 - 1973) ever made. To call a ...

The RKO Brown and Carney Comedy Collection DVD Review: The Lonely Quartet of a Forgotten Duo

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 4, 2015

It is often stated that history is written by the victors. This expression (usually attributed to Winston Churchill, although without ...

Dracula Untold Blu-ray Review: Unsurprising and Unnecessary, but Unexpectedly Entertaining

By Luigi Bastardo | Feb 2, 2015

Since that fateful day back in the late 1890s when Bram Stoker first introduced the world to Count Dracula, the ...

2015 Oscar-nominated Documentary Short Films Review

By Darcy Staniforth | Feb 1, 2015

This year's nominated short-subject documentaries include two films from Poland, two films from the United States, and one film from ...

Ratboy (1986) DVD Review: Locke and Load

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 30, 2015

After Clint Eastwood's career skyrocketed in the late '60s following the American release of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, the entire ...

2015 Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Films Review

By Gordon S. Miller | Jan 29, 2015

The Academy Award-nominees for this year's Live Action Short Film originated from Europe and Asia. They feature an intriguing collection ...

Panic Button (1964) DVD Review: When Mannix Met Mansfield

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 28, 2015

Considering how many times the Italian film industry has shamelessly ripped off American productions, I suppose it's only fitting (ironic, ...

2015 Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films Review: Feast is Far and Away the Best of the Five

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 27, 2015

Written by Chris Morgan Animation would seem to be particular conducive to the short film format, as cartoons have been ...

A Kiss Before Dying (1956) DVD Review: Just Skip the Kiss and Kill Me Already

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 26, 2015

Some things simply look better on paper. Like that time I was a kid when my friend and I worked ...

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness DVD Review: The Glorious End of an Era

By Steve Geise | Jan 24, 2015

Studio Ghibli has long garnered acclaim as an animation powerhouse, and yet very little is known about its inner workings ...

My Old Lady Blu-ray Review: or, Secrets & Lies: The Previous Generations

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 23, 2015

In this great big muddled world of ours, we seem to be divided into large groups of individuals. On the ...

The Bride Wore Black (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Roots of ’70s Grindhouse Cinema

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 22, 2015

While it is frequently reiterated that we are unable to take it with us, it should be noted that we ...

Atlas Shrugged Part III Blu-ray Review: Fool’s Gold

By Steve Geise | Jan 21, 2015

The final act of this unlikely trilogy spotlights a strong-willed individual who ignores public opinion and forges ahead with his ...

Breaking Away (1979) Blu-ray Review: How Kids Grew Up Before the Internet

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 20, 2015

Following the near collapse of the American film industry somewhere between the end of the '60s and the beginning of ...

The Serpent’s Egg DVD Review: The Non-Bergman Bergman Film

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 19, 2015

I will be the first to admit that my personal experience with the work of Ingmar Bergman is decidedly limited. ...

A Walk Among the Tombstones Blu-ray Review: Somber, Slow Detective Throwback

By Kent Conrad | Jan 18, 2015

Looking at the trailer for A Walk Among the Tombstones, one would be forgiven for assuming it is a Liam ...

Stay Hungry DVD Review: A Special Peculiarity as Sports Films Go

By Davy | Jan 17, 2015

Usually, when discussing movies of the 1970s, even the bad ones, there are some films that continue to get lost ...

The Party (1968) Blu-ray Review: Psychedelic Comedy of Errors

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 16, 2015

Written by S. Edward Sousa We open on a desert film set, the high-strung director—played with ‘look at me, Ma' ...

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power Blu-ray Review: “The Search for More Money”

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 14, 2015

A few years ago, I had the misfortune of seeing the last movie in Universal's Scorpion King legacy (which was ...

Wetlands (2013) Blu-ray Review: Filth Presented as Frankness

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 13, 2015

Written by S. Edward Sousa I've seen plenty of repugnant films, the kind that shock for the sake of shocking. ...

The Wizard of Oz Movie Review: TCM and Fathom Events Lovingly Present a Timeless Classic

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 12, 2015

Written by Kristen Lopez It's such a cliche adage but it holds true nonetheless: There's something about seeing certain movies ...

The Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 10, 2015

As a reasonably mature adult male who has been involved in an unending war with depression and mood swings since ...

Still Alice Movie Review: Going, Going, Gone, Girl

By Adam Blair | Jan 9, 2015

There are a lot of poignant moments in Still Alice, the new movie about the slow but inexorable disappearance of ...

Left Behind (2014) Blu-ray Review: Ungodly in Every Sense of the Word

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 8, 2015

Reaching out to a target audience with a speciality motion picture is never an easy task, particularly when said target ...

The Vanishing (1988) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Thriller as Character Study

By Kent Conrad | Jan 6, 2015

The missing person is the greatest motif of the mystery story. Even if the murder story is more common (and ...

‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time

By Luigi Bastardo | Jan 5, 2015

Since the dawn of mankind itself, there have been notable examples of individuals willing to break any rules that have ...

Taken Movie Review: A Fun-tastic Action Revenge Flick

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 4, 2015

Written by DW Smith Was he Secret Service? Was he FBI? Was he CIA? To be honest, I can't really ...

Rye Coalition: The Story of the Hard Luck 5 DVD Review: A Band of Brothers Bound Together

By Cinema Sentries | Jan 3, 2015

Written by S. Edward Sousa There's an old essay by Sarah Vowell, “These Little Town Blues,” it's in the Take ...