Holiday in Spain Blu-ray Review: Scent of a Mystery Woman
By Luigi Bastardo |
Three-dimensional television sets with Ultra High-Definition 4K resolution. A kajllion-and-one useless apps for our increasingly useless smartphones. A vast array ...
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A Will for the Woods DVD Review: A Documentary That Deserves to Be Seen
By Darcy Staniforth |
“Honor the dead, heal the living, and invite in the divine.” These are the words of Joe Sehee, founder and ...
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Tusk (2014) DVD Review: A Black Comedy with Humor So Dark You Can’t See It
By Luigi Bastardo |
There was once a point in history where many of us, myself included, felt Kevin Smith had potential. After hopping ...
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Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine Movie Review: A Deserving, Wonderful Tribute
By Davy |
Matthew Shepard was an innocent human being. A human being who was taken from this world all too suddenly. A ...
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Horns Blu-ray Review: Daniel Radcliffe Can Still Talk to Snakes
By Elizabeth Periale |
Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe) met the love of his life, Merrin Williams (Juno Temple), when they were just children, and ...
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The Skeleton Twins Blu-ray Review: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Are Fantastic Centerpieces
By Darcy Staniforth |
The Skeleton Twins stars Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as twin siblings, Milo and Maggie, who have not spoken to ...
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The Doors: Feast of Friends Blu-ray Review: Strange Days Revisited
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hitting the vaults once again, The Doors and Eagle Rock Entertainment have re-teamed for Feast of Friends, a short film ...
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Waking Sleeping Beauty DVD Review: How Disney Animation Got Its Groove Back
By Gordon S. Miller |
Waking Sleeping Beauty is a fascinating documentary about the renaissance of Disney animation that occurred during the 1980s and '90s. ...
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Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster DVD Review: Admittedly Goofy but a Lot of Fun
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster was the fifth in the series, premiering in Japan in 1964 and the U.S. in 1965. ...
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The Night Porter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Nazi Love Story
By Mat Brewster |
Normally I'd say that the space between True Art and exploitation is wide and wandering, but if The Night Porter ...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster DVD Review: The End of an Era
By Gordon S. Miller |
Invasion of Astro-Monster, known in the United States as Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, is a sequel to Ghidorah. The film was released ...
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition Blu-ray Review: What Have They Done?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Peter Jackson continues The Hobbit trilogy with The Desolation of Smaug, an action-packed fantasy adventure that improves upon the previous ...
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Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 8 DVD Review: Four Films That Broke the Code
By Luigi Bastardo |
Once more, the guys and gals at the Warner Archive - along with the folks at the Turner Entertainment Corp. ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Blu-ray Review: A Star-Lord is Born
By Gordon S. Miller |
The executives and filmmakers at Marvel Studios have made an impressive impact on both the world of pop culture and ...
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The Maze Runner Digital HD Review: Lord of the Labyrinth Flies
By Steve Geise |
Oh great, another teen dystopian flick, right? Yes, The Maze Runner seems like an also-ran following the lead of the ...
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A Newly Widened Screen: Two Steve Martins and a Black Scorpion
By Luigi Bastardo |
As some of you may recall, there was once a time when television sets were great big, bulky, boxy contraptions ...
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Stonehearst Asylum Blu-ray Review: Might Make Poe Proud
By Mark Buckingham |
Coming this week to a retailer near you is Stonehearst Asylum, a 19th Century thriller of sorts from Brad Anderson, ...
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Top Five Movie Review: Genuine Laughs with the Sting of Truth
By Adam Blair |
Perceptive moviegoers know that they can pick up clues about the movie they're about to see by the trailers selected ...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition Blu-ray Review: Peter Jackson Goes Back Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Filmmaker Peter Jackson returned to the world of J.R.R. Tolkien with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first part of ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Blu-ray Review: Shades of Gray
By Luigi Bastardo |
While it certainly wasn't the first motion picture adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic, MGM's 1945 version of The Picture ...
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When the Wind Blows (1986) Blu-ray Review: Wild Is the Wind
By Luigi Bastardo |
Not many people may remember this, but there was a lot of nuclear war going back in the '80s. Big ...
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The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) Blu-ray Review: Ex-Swordsman Blues
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's always interesting to see the similarities between samurai films and the western. Both genres have served to inspire filmmakers ...
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The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears Blu-ray Review: Bizarre, Incomprehensible, and Mesmerizing
By Mat Brewster |
After watching The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, you'll probably have a lengthy discussion with your viewing partner about ...
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Flaming Star Blu-ray Review: Hunka Hunka Burning Death
By Luigi Bastardo |
It wasn't until earlier this year, when Twilight Time released the happy, family-friendly flick Follow That Dream to Blu-ray, that ...
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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 & 2 DVDs Review: What, No Sammy Petrillo?
By Luigi Bastardo |
While they were once as easy to find as a pregnant woman in a maternity ward, the world of comedy ...
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She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry Movie Review: A Sober and Sentimental Reflection
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa The problem for Feminism is the same oversimplified and problematic perception of all political movements ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg Blu-ray Review: Picking Up the Pieces
By Luigi Bastardo |
We've all heard the saying "War is Hell" a million times over. Hell, there are probably over a million films ...
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Dr. Gillespie Film Collection DVD Review: Van Johnson and Keye Luke Join the Fun
By Luigi Bastardo |
In many respects, MGM's original Dr. Kildare Movie Collection essentially served as filmdom's first hospital show. Granted, the series was ...
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 Digital Download Review: Here Be Dragons
By Elizabeth Periale |
Fans of Hiccup and his adorable dragon Toothless will be delighted to learn that their second feature, How to Train ...
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The Skeleton Twins Movie Review: A Twisted Tale of Those Bound by Blood
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez As the holidays get closer we'll all be thrust together with family we may love, but ...
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UHF Blu-ray Review: Constant Parodying, Semi-Constant Laughter
By Kent Conrad |
"Weird Al" seems to be perpetually "coming back". It's surprising to see, in a world where all careers have peaks ...
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Darkman Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Delivers the Fun Quotient
By Davy |
As we all know, Sam Raimi is one of our favorite directors, cult films (The Evil Dead series), and blockbusters ...
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Bunny Lake Is Missing Blu-ray Review: Required Viewing Is Found
By Luigi Bastardo |
As soon as the opening credits of Bunny Lake Is Missing fade in following the perfunctory Columbia lady logo, it's ...
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The Rolling Stones: From the Vault – L.A. Forum (Live in 1975) DVD Review: It’s Only a Concert Video, but I Like It
By Mat Brewster |
In a thousand years, at universities all over the world, in classes titled "Rock 'N' Roll 101," professors will lay ...
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It Happened One Night Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Original Runaway Bride
By Steve Geise |
It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time in cinematic history when romantic comedies were extremely rare. That ...
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The Hook (1963) DVD Review: “Kid, Any Day a War Ends is a Nice Day.”
By Luigi Bastardo |
George Seaton had quite the varied career. Starting out as a struggling playwright and actor within the theater, the future ...
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The Graduate Movie Review: The Perfect Way to Disturb the Sounds of Silence
By Shawn Bourdo |
The year 1967 was one of those magical years (like 1972 or 1996) that produced so many groundbreaking movies that ...
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Very Extremely Dangerous (2012) DVD Review: A Life of Utter Chaos
By Greg Barbrick |
Three-time felon Jerry McGill (1940 - 2013) was a musician whose life was the stuff of legend. Very Extremely Dangerous ...
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Touch the Wall Movie Review: A Tale of Two Swimmers
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Todd Ford Near the end of Touch the Wall, an engaging new sports documentary—and a rare one about ...
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James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D Blu-ray Review: What Goes Down Goes Waaay Down
By Mark Buckingham |
I watched Deepsea Challenge 3D a few nights ago (though decidedly in 2D as I lack the necessary equipment for ...
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Life Itself (2014) Movie Review: A Fascinating Person Attached to That Thumb
By Adam Blair |
Do you think you know Roger Ebert? Believe me, whatever you know, you know only part of the story. Just ...
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England DVD Review: Introducing Peter O’Toole
By Luigi Bastardo |
Though he had a relatively noted - if short-lived - career in the Hollywood limelight as an A picture actor, ...
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Birdman of Alcatraz Blu-ray Review: The Cinematic System’s Sympathetic Psychopath
By Luigi Bastardo |
November 2014 could truly be one of the most auspiciously underestimated months in the history of home video releases. One ...
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AFI Fest 2014 Review: Red Army
By Gordon S. Miller |
Gabe Polsky's documentary Red Army tells the story of Viacheslav "Slava" Fetisov, one of the most successful defensemen to ever ...
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Mokey / Revolt in the Big House DVD Reviews: A Young Robert Blake Two-fer
By Luigi Bastardo |
While Robert Blake is unlikely to be on everyone's list of people to meet, the one-time child actor was one ...
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AFI 2014 Review: Tales of the Grim Sleeper
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Nick Broomfield, Tales of the Grim Sleeper is a chilling tale that epitomizes the quote attributed to Edmund ...
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Genesis: Three Sides Live Blu-ray Review: …And Then They Were Live…
By Gordon S. Miller |
Available for the first time as a stand-alone DVD and on Blu-ray, Genesis: Three Sides Live was initially released on ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 40th Anniversary Edition DVD Review: The Best Its Ever Been
By Mark Buckingham |
I've seen The Texas Chain Saw Massacre twice in my life now. The first was sometime in the 1990s, as ...
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AFI Fest 2014 Review: Two Days, One Night
By Gordon S. Miller |
After a brief absence from her solar-panel plant job, Sandra (Marion Cotillard) gets word on a Friday afternoon that she ...
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Wicked, Wicked DVD Review: The Best Bad Gimmick Movie Ever
By Luigi Bastardo |
Towards the end of his career in the motion picture industry, director Richard L. Bare - the sole individual behind ...
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