Ransom! (1956) DVD Review: “And Introducing Leslie Nielsen”
By Luigi Bastardo |
Although television was basically considered to be the bastard cousin of the cinema during the '50s, it nevertheless proved to ...
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Radio Days (1987) Blu-ray Review: Twilight Time Strikes Gold(en Age of Radio)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Although I was one of those kids born at the very tail-end of the Generation X era - a mark ...
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The Dog (2014) Movie Review: What Really Happened on a Dog Day Afternoon
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez It's an unspoken rule in Hollywood's appropriation of true events that said events are either painfully ...
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1948 Film Noir in Review: Three Thrillers from Poverty Row’s Monogram Picture
By Luigi Bastardo |
Being as how I dive into a handful of Warner Archive releases on a weekly basis, I have to wonder ...
Read More The Warner Archive Presents Alan Ladd, Cinema’s Very Own Napoleon
By Luigi Bastardo |
There are two things most vintage movie buffs will instantly think of whenever Alan Ladd's name is mentioned: the movie ...
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Born Yesterday (1950) Blu-ray Review: A Memorable Holliday in DC
By Luigi Bastardo |
In 1946, writer Garson Kanin unveiled unto Manhattan a simple Broadway play entitled Born Yesterday. The story concerned a uncouth, ...
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Under the Skin DVD Review: Being Human…Sort of
By Critical curmudgeon |
Based on Michael Faber's 2000 novel, Under the Skin is a compelling motion picture about discovering humanity from an alien ...
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Violent Saturday (1955) Blu-ray Review: The Day Before Sunday, Bloody Sunday
By Luigi Bastardo |
As someone who grew up and lived far too long in a small community, I learned that drama is often ...
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A Threesome with Errol Flynn (Because Who Wouldn’t Want to?)
By Luigi Bastardo |
From his breakout starring role in 1935's Captain Blood, it was quite apparent that Errol Flynn was the sort of ...
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Need for Speed (2014) Blu-ray Review: Bad, Bad, Bad (But with Some Great Car Stunts!)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Like many film critics, I frequently fantasize being on one end of the camera or another. The generalized speculation at ...
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Save Your Legs! (2012) Blu-ray Review: Wait, Australia Has Sports?
By Luigi Bastardo |
I know what you're thinking: "Twilight Time finally brings us a movie from Australia, and it's about cricket?" OK, well ...
Read More Curtains (1983) Blu-ray Review: A Shining Example of “Less Is More”
By Luigi Bastardo |
If there's one memory I tend to cherish more than most others, it would be the amount of video stores ...
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Alive Inside Movie Review: Where There Is Music, There Is Life
By Mark Buckingham |
"They're very musical people, aren't they?" quips Randolph in 1983's Trading Places. While he intended it as a racial and/or ...
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) Blu-ray Review: When Nightmares Become Reality
By Luigi Bastardo |
I suppose it isn't entirely out of the ordinary for a human being from any regular ol' walk of life ...
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Bloody Moon / Bloody Birthday / The Baby (1973) Blu-rays Review: Bad, Bizarre, & Bizarrely Beautiful
By Luigi Bastardo |
Several years ago, back when I first started writing for the now defunct dvdinmypants.com, a Severin Films release landed on ...
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Our Family Honor (1985) DVD Review: The Beginning of a Short-Lived Series
By Luigi Bastardo |
Years before television viewing audiences found themselves frantically tuning in on a weekly basis to see what outrageous antics were ...
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Brannigan Blu-ray Review: Dirty Duke (Done Dirt Cheap?)
By Luigi Bastardo |
Of all the many fascinating little tidbits shuffled away within the footnotes of film history, there is nothing quite as ...
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High Barbaree (1947) DVD Review: Van Johnson and June Allyson Drop a Bomb
By Luigi Bastardo |
As anyone who has ever judged a wet t-shirt contest in a college town can surely attest to, there's nothing ...
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Rio 2 Blu-ray Review: Welcome to the Jungle
By Steve Geise |
Although the first Rio didn't really set the box office on fire or generate frantic demand for further adventures, it ...
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GMO OMG Movie Review: What Are You Putting in Your Mouth?
By Mark Buckingham |
Jeremy Seifert is your every-man American. Wife, kids, and concerned about the well being of his family. He tries to ...
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Persona Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Absolute Must Have
By Mat Brewster |
Everyone agrees that Ingmar Bergman is one of the greatest director's of world cinema. Almost no one disagrees that his ...
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A Summer’s Tale Movie Review: Dissecting Love and Sex with Philosophical Precision
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa French filmmaker Eric Rohmer was in his mid-seventies when in 1996 he wrote and directed ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Men of Action (and Reaction)
By Luigi Bastardo |
If today's box office blockbusters are capable of delivering any kind of message at all, it would be that a ...
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Sabotage (2014) Blu-ray Review: A Lesson in Self-Sabotage
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Since his return to acting post-Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't exactly been embraced with open ...
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th DVD Review: Jason, Jason, and More Jason
By Mat Brewster |
Looking to cash in on the success of John Carpenter's Halloween, Paramount Pictures hired Sean S. Cunningham to produce and ...
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Under the Skin DVD Review: Well, The Cinematography is Beautiful
By Rons Reviews |
Have you ever visited a museum with a friend and as you both stand starring at a painting, your friend ...
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) DVD Review: Well, Not Really, No
By Luigi Bastardo |
In all the annals of crime fiction, there can perhaps be no greater task assigned to any filmmaker than the ...
Read More The Sunshine Boys (1975) DVD Review: Walter Matthau and George Burns Are Forever Young
By Luigi Bastardo |
The mid '70s was essentially the zenith of a now-occasionally-questioned-by-film-scholars craze wherein virtually every melodramatic Broadway hit penned by playwright ...
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The Future, the Past, and Creepy Dolls: Twilight Time Breaks the Eclectic Mold
By Luigi Bastardo |
A little over three years ago, a tiny niche distributor began to issue limited edition releases of movies that didn't ...
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Underwater Dreams Movie Review: Good in Spite of Its Marketing
By Mark Buckingham |
The synopses for the documentary Underwater Dreams talk about undocumented Mexican high school students building an underwater robot for a ...
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Chad Hanna DVD Review: Henry Fonda Joins the Circus
By Adam Blair |
There are two 1940 movies starring Henry Fonda, both featuring Jane Darwell and the basso-voiced character actor John Carradine, that ...
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Persona (1966) Criterion Collection Review: Chilling, Strange, and Metaphysical
By Davy |
In my own opinion, no other film in history has garnered so much critical analysis as Ingmar Bergman's 1966 masterpiece, ...
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RiffTrax Live!: Sharknado Review: Wisecracks That Cut Deeper Than Shark Bites
By Mark Buckingham |
RiffTrax was borne out of the '90s cult hit show Mystery Science Theater 3000 where three smart-alecks would snipe witty, ...
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Musical Oddities from the Warner Archive
By Luigi Bastardo |
While Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps best known today by under-read Facebook users as the guy who said "Without music, life ...
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Losers, Lineages, Lust, Lemons, and Lynch: Five Comedies From Twilight Time
By Luigi Bastardo |
That which makes something "the funny" is something we as human beings utterly fail to see eye-to-eye on far too ...
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Bronies vs. A Brony Tale: A “Tail” of Two Brony Documentaries
By Darcy Staniforth |
When I get a movie to review, I really try not to compare it with other films that cover the ...
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Wildcat Bus (1940) DVD Review: As Outdated as Public Transportation Itself
By Luigi Bastardo |
Prior to the days of Big Oil coyly destroying America's public transportation system in favor of urging everyone to buy ...
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A Slight Case of Larceny (1953) DVD Review: Bottom of the Barrel Comedy
By Luigi Bastardo |
It's always interesting to watch a titan fall within the realm of film - even one who was as diminutive ...
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Girl Trouble (1942) DVD Review: Romantic Comedy Lite
By Elizabeth Periale |
Hollywood churned out romantic comedies by the dozens in the 1930s and 1940s. Wacky heiresses, bumbling suitors, and their faithful ...
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Woman’s World DVD Review: It’s Frothy, ’50s Fun
By Elizabeth Periale |
Woman's World is a glossy, mid-'50s drama, with comedic undertones provided by June Allyson, and finally available on DVD on-demand ...
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Sky Full of Moon (1952) DVD Review: And a Script Full of Maroons
By Luigi Bastardo |
Throughout the annals of romantic history, ladies and gentlemen - whether it be pressed onto paper, matted into music, or ...
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The Way, Way Back Blu-ray Review: A Coming-of-Age Classic
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa As far as coming-of-age movies go The Way, Way Back is the exception. Most in ...
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Never Too Late to Learn? Twilight Time’s Quintet Examines Human Nature
By Luigi Bastardo |
If there was one particular collection of words that I would repeatedly hear and subsequently remind myself during those brutal ...
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Document of the Dead DVD Review: An Absolutely Wonderful Labor of Zombie Love
By Davy |
There have been many documentaries about the making of movies, especially about the horror genre, but Roy Frumkes' 32 year-old ...
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Caged (1950) DVD Review: Polished Prototype of a Sleazy Subgenre
By Luigi Bastardo |
You know when the words "Pile out, you tramps! It's the end of the line!" are uttered by a grumpy, ...
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Performance (1970) Blu-ray Review: Mick Jagger Highlights Psychedelic Cult Classic
By Luigi Bastardo |
Whenever people ask me how my day was, I tend to tell them that I won't honestly be able to ...
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Brain Donors (1992) DVD Review: An Underrated and Extremely Neglected Comedy
By Luigi Bastardo |
Capturing the elements that made classic comedies classic for a contemporary comedy is ne'er an easy task. In fact, it ...
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Boyhood Movie Review: As Time Goes By
By Adam Blair |
Boyhood is a paradox of a film, equal parts interesting and maddeningly mundane. It was made over the span of ...
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Death Among Friends (1975) DVD Review: Lighthearted Murder Fare = Failed TV Pilot
By Luigi Bastardo |
While many of you will no doubt agree with Christopher Lloyd's line in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ...
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Search for the Gods (1975) DVD Review: What, Another Failed TV Pilot? You Bet!
By Luigi Bastardo |
In the late '60s, a fellow named Erich von Däniken published a book entitled Chariots of the Gods?, which - ...
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