The Killer Elite (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Wrath of Caan
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sam Peckinpah's legacy on the world of film was something most people in the industry certainly never saw coming. Consistent ...
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Salvador (1986) Blu-ray Review: Oliver Stone Finds His Calling
By Luigi Bastardo |
Prior to becoming a standout name with the international success of Platoon in 1987, Oliver Stone was only known for ...
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Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) DVD Review: More Than a Name on a Postcard
By Luigi Bastardo |
Prior to her success as the best-selling writer of the "Alphabet" mysteries which have gone to be a vital part ...
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My Name Is A by Anonymous DVD Review: A Horrifyingly Real and Daring Expose
By Davy |
Based on the horrifying true story of the murder of 10-year-old Elizabeth Olten in 2009, director Shane Ryan's very disturbing ...
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Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection (1931-1956) DVD Review: Too Little, Too Late
By Luigi Bastardo |
When I was just a tiny little lad, I - like many other small children - had an intense fear ...
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The Bowery Boys: Volume Four (1946-1958) DVD Review: My Life Is Finally Complete
By Luigi Bastardo |
Nearly two years ago, the Warner Archive released a multi-disc set containing what had previously been something of a Holy ...
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My Old Lady Movie Review: Paris When it Fizzles
By Adam Blair |
Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline have, collectively, given me hundreds of hours of viewing pleasure on stages and screens large ...
Read More The Dogs of War (1980) Blu-ray Review: These Boots Are Made for Walken
By Luigi Bastardo |
Despite the claims of many an adult website author, bigger is not always better. Take the contemporary action film genre, ...
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Come Morning Blu-ray Review: Hopefully I’ll Forget That I Watched It, Come Morning
By Mark Buckingham |
Come Morning has been compared to A Simple Plan, which was a movie I enjoyed a great deal. Simple Plan's ...
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The Moonshine War (1970) DVD Review: Early Hicksploitation with an Unlikely Cast
By Luigi Bastardo |
Essentially, there are two types of hicksploitation genres: you either have a group of Yankees wandering into the South only ...
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Che! (1969) Blu-ray Review: A Prime Example of ‘What Were They Thinking?’
By Luigi Bastardo |
Every now and then, a motion picture comes along that is so positively astute in its own sense of being, ...
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Neighbors (2014) Blu-ray Review: All Good in This Hood
By Steve Geise |
This summer's breakout comedy hit delivers on its deceptively simple concept via some fresh character development, largely avoiding what could ...
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Prom Night (1980) Blu-ray Review: Disco! Dancing! Death!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a classic slasher flick, only to wonder "Man, I sure wish ...
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The One I Love Movie Review: Do I Know You?
By Adam Blair |
If you haven't yet seen The One I Love, please consider this article a giant SPOILER ALERT! and read no ...
Read More 42nd Street Forever: The Peep Show Collection, Volume 1 DVD Review: Show Some Respect for Your Elders
By Mark Buckingham |
When I first spun this disc up, I wasn't sure what to expect. I always had this impression of a ...
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Fed Up Movie Review: Oh Sugar, It’s a Drag
By Critical curmudgeon |
The subject of Stephanie Soechtig's Fed Up could not be more pressing. The numbers presented in this 2014 documentary are ...
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Any Given Sunday 15th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: Oversized Game Meets Oversized Filmmaker
By Kent Conrad |
Recently at lunch, I was watching ESPN with the sound off at a local bar. For 20 minutes, the anchors ...
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All That Jazz Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Lord of the Dance
By Steve Geise |
Joe Gideon is tired. Tired of women, tired of choreography, tired of drugs, and yet inexplicably driven to continue pursuing ...
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No No: A Dockumentary Movie Review: Covers All the Bases
By Jade Blackmore |
No No: A Dockumentary traces the colorful and complex career of MLB pitcher Dock Ellis, who pitched a no-hitter (or ...
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Rocks in My Pockets Movie Review: Animated Exploration of Suicide and Depression
By Kent Conrad |
Rocks in My Pockets begins with a detailed discussion of suicide by hanging, with all angles fully explored, from how ...
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Nasty Habits (1977) DVD Review: Nunsploitation of a Different Denomination
By Luigi Bastardo |
There truly is no separation of church and state when it comes to a movie like Nasty Habits, a late ...
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Seven Psychopaths DVD Review: It’s Like Adaptation Meets Fight Club
By Mark Buckingham |
Seven Psychopaths centers around Marty (Colin Farrell), a struggling Hollywood screenwriter overdue to finalize his next project which he has ...
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Superman: Unbound Movie Review: Superman Meets Brainiac…Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the story from Action Comics #866-870 (2008) by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, Superman: Unbound (2013) is about ...
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Enchantment (1948) DVD Review: Everlasting Loves, Friends, and Lovers Divine
By Luigi Bastardo |
Keeping up with their brief, recent Samuel Goldwyn/David Niven motif, the Warner Archive Collection has re-issued the 1948 romantic drama ...
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Raffles (1930) / Raffles (1939) DVD Review: Because Cricket Doesn’t Pay
By Luigi Bastardo |
There have been many notable, historically celebrated examples of a literary character enjoying a long and happy life (or death) ...
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Willow Creek Blu-ray Review: A New Horror Classic
By Davy |
The huge, unparalleled success of 1999's The Blair Witch Project was a blessing and a curse. It changed the way ...
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Out of the Past (1947) Blu-ray Review: Lightning Captured in a Bottle
By Luigi Bastardo |
Some things simply aren't easy to capture. Bigfoot. Blood from a stone. Bones in ice cream. And of course, the ...
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Sin City Blu-ray Review: Almost Everything Is Black and White
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Frank Miller's award-winning, graphic novel series Sin City everything is black and white with a rare splash of color. ...
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Circle the Wagen DVD Review: Definitely Worth Watching
By Darcy Staniforth |
The term, "circle the wagons" come from the period of pioneer expansion in America. If one wagon in a wagon ...
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2 by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff (1991) / Raining Stones (1993) Blu-ray Review: Depressingly Fascinating
By Luigi Bastardo |
If there's one thing you may have noticed amidst all of the screaming and flailing mechanical bits in the latest ...
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A Very Honorable Guy (1934) DVD Review: A Lighter Look at Dark Humor
By Luigi Bastardo |
Eighty years ago, a man's reputation meant everything - whether he was a high society snob who looked down at ...
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Boredom DVD Review: A State This Documentary Won’t Leave You
By Davy |
While boredom is a very intimidating condition that affects all of us at some point in our lives, Albert Nerenberg's ...
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You Said a Mouthful (1932) DVD Review: Pre-Code and Pre-Politically Correct
By Luigi Bastardo |
I suppose there's little argument to be had in the speculation that we as a species have a tendency to ...
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To Be Takei Movie Review: To Somewhat Boldly Go
By Adam Blair |
If you drew a Venn diagram of target audiences for the documentary To Be Takei, I would be right smack ...
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Broadminded (1931) DVD Review: Pre-Code Comedy with…Wait, Bela Lugosi?!
By Luigi Bastardo |
As any halfway decent stand-up artist can attest to (or at least should be perfectly aware of), the element of ...
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Divergent Blu-ray Review: Shailene Woodley Has a Dauntless Task
By Lorna Miller |
Being a big fan of Veronica Roth's book series, I was thrilled to hear that Divergent was being made into ...
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RiffTrax Live!: Godzilla (1998) Review: Catastrophic Laughs
By Mark Buckingham |
The RiffTrax boys are at it again. This time, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett, and Mike Nelson have chosen to skewer ...
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The Buddy Holly Story (1978) Blu-ray Review: And I Suppose You’re Mary Tyler Moore?
By Luigi Bastardo |
As I had briefly eluded to in my less-than-coherent rambling for Twilight Time's Blu-ray release of the Elvis flick Follow ...
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Follow That Dream (1962) Blu-ray Review: Elvis Presley Stands His Ground in Florida
By Luigi Bastardo |
Of the umpteen gazillion pop culture icons and references that circle throughout both my delicately-balanced conscious mind and that bizarre ...
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Batman: Assault on Arkham Blu-ray Review: Better than Its Straight to Video Release Implies
By Mat Brewster |
A title that should have more appropriately been called Suicide Squad: Assault on Arkham is never-the-less an enjoyable entry into ...
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Grateful Dead 2014 Meet-Up at the Movies: Beat Club 4/21/72 Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
On July 17, Fathom Events and Rhino Entertainment teamed up to present the annual “Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies” in ...
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The Other Woman (2014) Blu-ray Review: An Average Comedy That Needed to Push the Envelope a Lot More
By Todd Karella |
Carly Whitten (Cameron Diaz) had finally found Mr. Right. He had a great job, tons of money, is good looking ...
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Insomnia (1997) Criterion Collection Review: An Influential Thriller
By Shawn Bourdo |
I sat down to write this upon the day of hearing of the passing of Robin Williams. He took a ...
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria Blu-ray Review: Because Nothing Brings a Town Together Like Booze
By Luigi Bastardo |
As anyone who has ever seen the likes of Wall-E or even Army of Darkness knows all-too-well, heroes can sometimes ...
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Man Hunt (1941) Blu-ray Review: Ein Film von Fritz Lang? Oh Heck, Ja!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Once, as a child in the 1980s, I found myself sitting up late one night watching TV. It was nothing ...
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GMO OMG Movie Review: Where is the H.O.P.E
By Darcy Staniforth |
Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert has returned to teach the world about food again, but this time he is not talking about ...
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Blue Ruin Blu-ray Review: An Intense, Visceral Experience
By Davy |
There have been many films that center on the nature of revenge, but it is very rare that any of ...
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Grace Kelly Collection DVD Review: From a Queen to a Princess
By Gordon S. Miller |
It is an impressive feat that Grace Kelly (November 12, 1929 - September 14, 1982) is such an iconic figure from Classic Hollywood even ...
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To Catch a Thief DVD Review: Crime Never Looked So Good
By Gordon S. Miller |
Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief is his first film shot in the short-lived widescreen format VitsaVision, and his second film shot ...
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Beyond Westworld: The Complete Series DVD Review: …Where Everything Went Wrong!
By Luigi Bastardo |
There are simply some ideas that look better on paper than they do on film. The impending J. J. Abrams' ...
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