National Gallery Movie Review: Frederick Wiseman Delivers Cinematic Fulfillment
By Davy |
Although the documentary genre is a brilliant piece of cinema history, many people haven't exactly embraced it, and that unfortunately ...
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Possessed (1947) Blu-ray Review: At Last, Gender Equality in Film Noir!
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's always the same. One minute, you're wandering aimlessly down the surprisingly empty streets of Los Angeles, searching for a ...
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Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Blu-ray Review: Uneven Musical Gangster Noir (in Color)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Way back during those far-off days of the very early 1990s (he said in jest), I found myself - along ...
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The St. Louis Kid DVD Review: Another James Cagney Rarity Makes Its Debut
By Luigi Bastardo |
Chalk up yet another victory for the Warner Archive, boys and girls. Not only have they given us a new ...
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The Compleat Al DVD Review: Vintage Yankovic
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan It has been a big year for Weird Al Yankovic. The world's foremost parody musician, Weird ...
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The Killer Shrews DVD Review: A Shrewd Release from Film Chest
By Luigi Bastardo |
After Toho unleashed its monstrous creation Gojira upon the world in 1954 - itself a metaphor to the bombing of ...
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Style Wars Blu-ray Review: Capturing Street Art in Its Infancy
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa “Is that an art form? I don't know I'm not an art critic, but I ...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy Blu-ray Review: You’re a Grand Old Film
By Luigi Bastardo |
Generally, as I have pointed out in a previous article, biographical motion pictures are something of specialty items - usually ...
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The Italian Exploitation Invasion: Sex and Death, 1969-2012
By Luigi Bastardo |
The bulk of Italian cinema is generally recognized by the average American viewer as little more than a number of ...
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The One I Love Blu-ray Review: Seeing is Believing
By Darcy Staniforth |
Films about couples on the brink of losing their relationship are nothing new. We go to the theater to see ...
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Planes: Fire and Rescue Blu-ray Combo Review: Geared Toward Younger Kids
By Darcy Staniforth |
Planes: Fire & Rescue is the second of three movies planned for the Planes trilogy which is a spin-off from ...
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PlayTime Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Hulot vs. Modernization
By Davy |
As we film buffs know the works of Chaplin, Godard, Dreyer, and Antonioni, we are able to see their versions ...
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Hugh Hefner DVD Review: He’s Just Doing What He Loves
By Mark Buckingham |
Tony Palmer's 1973 Film About Hugh Hefner, the Founder and Editor of Playboy -- henceforth known as Hugh Hefner -- ...
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Boy Meets Girl (1938) DVD Review: Recommended Neglected Screwball Comedy Antics
By Luigi Bastardo |
When one hears a saying like "boy meets girl", an instant (usually negative) image of a sappy Hollywood romantic comedy ...
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Rifftrax Live: Anaconda Movie Review: A Slithering Halloween Treat
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Attending a Rifftrax Live show is fun, no matter the film being lampooned. The amount of ...
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A Handful of de Havilland: Three Obscure Olivias from the Warner Archive
By Luigi Bastardo |
In the middle of October 2014, Olivia de Havilland found herself having outlived her frequent, iconic on-screen romantic interest from ...
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Earth to Echo Blu-ray Review: Steven Spielberg’s Lawyers Ought to Be Happy
By Mat Brewster |
I recently wrote about how I've become obsessed with the idea of watching all the old movies I loved as ...
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Good People Blu-ray Review: Good People, So-So Movie
By Mark Buckingham |
Good People treads the rather well worn theme of greed making good people turn bad, greed specifically in this case ...
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Snowpiercer (2013) Blu-ray Review: Off to See the Wizard
By Steve Geise |
Chris Evans struck box-office gold with his latest Captain America film this year, but his other recent comic book film ...
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Looking for Johnny: The Legend of Johnny Thunders DVD Review: Even in Death, He Still Slings Six-strings
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa The Murder City Devils, one of the great outsider rock bands of the past two ...
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Maleficent Blu-ray Review: Gorgeous to Look at, but Hard to Watch
By Mat Brewster |
Hollywood has been remaking movies for nearly as long as its been making them. It does seem that the last ...
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One Night at Susie’s DVD Review: Makes a Hardened Man Humble
By Luigi Bastardo |
An early "all-talking" drama developed for audiences before the Hays Office sucked all the life out of the business, One ...
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Horns Movie Review: Daniel Radcliffe Can’t Handle the Truth
By Adam Blair |
Daniel Radcliffe just can't seem to get away from the supernatural. Harry, er, Daniel's latest dabble into the occult is ...
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John Wick Movie Review: Keanu Reeves Gets His Wick Debt
By Luigi Bastardo |
Once upon a time, many moons ago, the American western found itself in dire straits. Movies followed the same regular ...
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Oh, Sailor Behave DVD Review: Olsen and Johnson Liven a Dud to Death
By Luigi Bastardo |
Considering the seemingly-infinite amount of musicals Hollywood once proudly cranked out once the members of the industry figured out how ...
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The Lusty Men DVD Review: An RKO Rodeo Picture
By Luigi Bastardo |
While a day at the rodeo is not typically considered to be the most interesting of settings for a motion ...
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Begin Again DVD Review: Sorry, Once Was Enough
By Adam Blair |
When a movie is as cliché-ridden and predictable as Begin Again, it's often difficult to identify which is more to ...
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Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend DVD Review: The Feel-Good Flick of ’57
By Luigi Bastardo |
Towards the end of his prolific career as one of Hollywood's favorite cowboy stars, Randolph Scott was prone to signing ...
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Son of a Gunfighter DVD Review: Sundown of the American Gundown
By Luigi Bastardo |
As the middle of the 1960s approached, American cinema bid two of its mightiest moneymakers a small, barely-audible adieu. First ...
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Under Fire (1983) Blu-ray Review: Nick Nolte Knows How to Shoot (a Camera)
By Luigi Bastardo |
With a story focusing on a journalist, a photographer, and a revolution, Twilight Time's release of Roger Spottiswoode's 1983 drama ...
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Movie Review: An Amazing Documentary
By Darcy Staniforth |
Most stories you hear about managers in the entertainment business are tales of cutthroat men and women who only care ...
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The Two Faces of January Movie Review: Sex and Suspense from Three Strong Actors
By Adam Blair |
Patricia Highsmith's novels have been the basis for one of Hitchcock's greatest movies, the 1951 Strangers on a Train, as ...
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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family Triple Feature DVD Review: The Off Grid Trilogy
By Luigi Bastardo |
Two years ago, Lionsgate Home Entertainment unveiled the first of a popular cinematic trilogy from not only another time, but ...
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Classic Shorts from the Dream Factory, Volume 3 DVD Review: The Lost Stooges
By Luigi Bastardo |
The early filmic legacy of The Three Stooges - or the comedy troupe of Howard, Fine, and Howard, as they ...
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The Believers (1987) Blu-ray Review: That Old Black Magic Has Me in Its Spell
By Luigi Bastardo |
Today's younger generation of photoplay viewers probably only recognizes actor Martin Sheen as the father of Charlie and/or "the guy ...
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Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection Blu-ray Review: Finally, Duel in HD!
By Luigi Bastardo |
With the fourth quarter upon us and the holiday season that comes with it closing in at an ever-alarming speed, ...
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The Vanishing (1993) Blu-ray Review: So Bad That It Actually Becomes Good
By Luigi Bastardo |
Once upon a time, I received a copy of an Italian-made English-language movie that had been dubbed into Italian before ...
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The Adventures of Marco Polo DVD Review: “The Princess Bride” of Its Day?
By Luigi Bastardo |
As anyone who was taught in grade school about what a great benefactor Christopher Columbus was to the Natives on ...
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Are You Here Blu-ray Review: Never Fleshes Itself Out
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa Both charming and overwrought by a cadre of undeveloped plotlines and too many man-child clichés, ...
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Audrey Rose Blu-ray Review: An ‘Exorcist’ for the Neil Simon Crowd
By Luigi Bastardo |
The mark of a new decade brings with it much anticipation of something new. Something special. A particular type of ...
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The Blob (1988) Blu-ray Review: Everybody’s in the Pink Now
By Luigi Bastardo |
Though many a motion picture updating replete with a bit of blood founds its way into theaters during the '60s ...
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Camp X-Ray Movie Review: Exploring the Gray in Guantanamo Bay
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In the thirteen years since the events of September 11th, the "detainees" in Guantanamo and their ...
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Chef Blu-ray Review: Not the Easiest to Digest
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Amanda Salazar Food trucks are in right now. This craze started a few years ago when these mobile ...
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La Bamba (1987) Blu-ray Review: Lou Diamond Phillips Debuts as Ritchie Valens
By Luigi Bastardo |
For my money, biographical motion pictures are often comparable to those certain speciality stores in strip malls only a small ...
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The Great Race (1965) Blu-ray Review: Blake Edwards, How Great Thou Art
By Luigi Bastardo |
When Blake Edwards departed from this world in late 2010, he left behind a lasting and versatile legacy of contributions ...
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The Prosecution of An American President DVD Review: Former Manson Prosecutor Takes on George W. Bush
By Greg Barbrick |
Vincent Bugliosi is best known as the prosecutor of Charles Manson, and for writing the book Helter Skelter (1974) about ...
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Nosferatu in Venice (Prince of the Night) DVD Review: When Art Becomes Trash
By Luigi Bastardo |
The essence of classic German expressionist cinema - particularly in the field of horror - is something many imitate, but ...
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The Desert Song (’43 and ’53 Versions) DVDs Review: Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
By Luigi Bastardo |
In the mid 1920s, composer Sigmund Romberg collaborated with the lyricists at large Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, and Frank ...
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Sleeping Beauty (1959) Diamond Edition Blu-ray Review: Same Great HD Presentation, but Less Features
By Davy |
In terms of film classics, there is always a Disney film in that pantheon, but unfortunately Sleeping Beauty (1959) isn't ...
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Grindhouse Trailer Classics, Volume 1 DVD Review: Seven Years Later…
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sometimes it just takes a while for things to cross The Pond. Seven years ago, the April 2007 release of ...
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