Beyond the Poseidon Adventure DVD Review: A Different Kind of Disaster
By Luigi Bastardo |
If you've never seen the original version of Irwin Allen's disaster movie masterpiece The Poseidon Adventure, allow me to sum ...
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Testament (1983) DVD Review: Still Waiting for the World to Deserve It
By Luigi Bastardo |
Every single time one of my patented and less-than-stellar efforts at conversing with a fellow human being in the interest ...
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The Americanization of Emily Blu-ray Review: A Classic Satire of Heroism and War
By Luigi Bastardo |
The very traits that distinguish your average, everyday coward from that of renowned public hero are split by a very ...
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The Unknown Known Movie Review: Rumsfeld’s Snowflakes
By Critical curmudgeon |
Filmmaker Errol Morris has said of his interview with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that it was one ...
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The Lonely Man (1957) DVD Review: An Equally Lonely Movie
By Luigi Bastardo |
As soon as the brooding, bellowing, and otherwise lamentable sounds of Tennessee Ernie Ford's voice starts to croon the titular ...
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Fearless (1993) Blu-ray Review: Jeff Bridges in the Pre-Lebowski Years
By Luigi Bastardo |
Having "been there, done that" throughout the whole of the '90s, I have to say I have a certain amount ...
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The Escape (1939) DVD Review: An Emotionally Charged Gangster Classic
By Davy |
As we all know, the greatest year in Hollywood history was 1939, and it was really the year of Gone ...
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Infliction DVD Review: A Low-budgeted, Clever Shocker
By Davy |
Normally, I'm not into the whole "found footage" genre, because it can be a little cliched. There have been some ...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch Movie Review: A Looney Tunes Horror Movie
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Gremlins is a horror movie. Oh, it has some comedy in it, sure, but it is ...
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Radio Free Albemuth Movie Review: Faithful Adaptation of the Philip K. Dick Novel
By Greg Barbrick |
One of Philip K. Dick's (1928-1982) finest inspirations was VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), which he first laid out ...
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The Girl in the Empty Grave DVD Review: Andy Griffith Shines in Forgotten TV Thriller
By Luigi Bastardo |
After all-but-becoming Sheriff Andy Taylor in that long-running, still-in-syndication classic television series with the whistling theme song, Andy Griffith was ...
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Warner Archive’s James Cagney DVDs Review: Three Rarities for You Dirty Rats
By Luigi Bastardo |
Gangster. Dancer. Mister Roberts' personal pain in the ass. James Cagney inhabited all kinds of roles as a performer, and ...
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Tim Holt Western Classics Collection, Vol. 4 DVD Review: Atypical B Westerns
By Luigi Bastardo |
My love of classic black-and-white b-westerns is not a film fetish I try to hide. Anytime I get a chance ...
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Out with the Old, In with the Even Older: The Warner Archive Presents Dr. Kildare Movie Collection
By Luigi Bastardo |
Decades before the American public became more comfortable with the concept of watching the outrageous antics of an antisocial-and-yet-still-sociopathic doctor ...
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I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story Movie Review: A Portrait of an Artist as a Yellow Bird
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Amanda Salazar I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story is exactly that, a portrait of the man ...
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The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment DVD Review: Laurence Luckinbill, Desk Jockey
By Luigi Bastardo |
Possibly beget as one of three bullets loaded in the chamber of a short-lived ABC wheel series The Men, where ...
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The Vitaphone Comedy Collection, Volume Two – Shemp Howard (1933-1937) DVD Review: Thank You, Warner Archive!
By Luigi Bastardo |
After leaving the original vaudeville version of a comedy company that would later come to be known to the world ...
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Fernando Di Leo – The Italian Crime Collection, Vol. 2 DVD Review: Violenza all’Italiana
By Luigi Bastardo |
During my awkward years spent as a pretentious latter-stage teenager who spent way too much time watching weird, foreign-made films, ...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray Review: An Optical Feast
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa The Grand Budapest Hotel has all the trademarks of a Wes Anderson film: a vast ...
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What Price Hollywood? DVD Review: Hell Is a Place Called, Well, You Know
By Luigi Bastardo |
We've all heard the many tales of terror reaching from the furthest depths of the various circles of Hell that ...
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Free and Easy / Estrellados DVD Review: Buster Keaton en Español? ¡Sí!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Although MGM's 1930 pre-Code musical comedy Free and Easy wasn't silent comedian Buster Keaton's first talking motion picture, it was ...
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The Swimmer (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Last Great Studio-Made Cult Film
By Luigi Bastardo |
The very definition of a cult film is one that many (ahem) "scholars" such as myself can drunkenly argue amongst ...
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Still Mine Blu-ray Review: All He Wanted to Do Was Build a House
By Luigi Bastardo |
Chances are the one-time plight of now-deceased Canadian resident Craig Morrison eluded you back in the day. Back in 2007, ...
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Hearts and Minds (1974) Criterion Collection Review: A Riveting Documentary of the Vietnam War
By Greg Barbrick |
The Academy Award-winning Hearts and Minds is the most riveting war documentary I have ever seen. The raw footage and ...
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The Missing Picture Movie Review: A Fascinating, Creative, Heartbreaking Piece of Art
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed and written by Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, The Missing Picture is a fascinating and creative documentary. This 2013 picture ...
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RoboCop (2014) Blu-ray Review: Let’s Hope They Don’t Remake RoboCop 2
By Mark Buckingham |
The original RoboCop had an interesting mix of satirical social commentary, snarky jabs at the bigger-is-better consumerism of its era, ...
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The Book Thief Blu-ray Review: Familiar but Compelling Wartime Drama
By Kent Conrad |
It's almost always stupid to say, "They don't make films like this anymore" to describe some character drama. It's usually ...
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I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story Movie Review: Big Bird Brings Joy!
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Sesame Street's Big Bird is one of the most beloved icons of children's programming, if not ...
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The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story DVD Review: The Madcap’s Rise and Fall
By Jade Blackmore |
Syd Barrett's tragic journey from being the creative force behind Pink Floyd to becoming a virtual recluse in a few ...
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Ernest & Celestine Blu-ray Review: A Tail of Two Cities
By Steve Geise |
One of the biggest surprise nominees at this year's Academy Awards was this little-seen French animated film. Thanks to its ...
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Rollerball Blu-ray Review: Worth Viewing, but Didn’t Maximize Its Potential
By Gordon S. Miller |
Before Star Wars came along in 1977 and reminded moviegoers how much fun science fiction could be, most of the ...
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Classic Drama Collection DVD Review: Five Films Full of Drama, Comedy, Romance, and Costumes Galore
By Mat Brewster |
There is a moment whenever I'm browsing through the movie section of Wal-Mart, Target, or whatever dumb, big-box store I'm ...
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Chef Movie Review: A Truly Touching Father-Son Love Story
By Adam Blair |
How nice is it to watch a movie that gets better as it goes along? That was my happy experience ...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy Blu-ray Review: The Ham Outweighs the Intellect
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa Carol Reed's The Agony and The Ecstasy dramatizes the relationship between Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti ...
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Blended Movie Review: One of the Worst Films of 2014
By Rons Reviews |
In 1998, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore teamed up for The Wedding Singer, and it was good. Six years later, ...
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Sophia Grace & Rosie’s Royal Adventure DVD Review: A Cute, Fun, Family Film
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you've watched Ellen, you have more than likely seen these YouTube sensations who have become tiny stars. (If you ...
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Blazing Saddles Movie Review: Funny Racism with a Bite
By Davy |
Although I prefer Mel Brooks' other masterpiece, 1974's Young Frankenstein, it took some time for me to warm to his ...
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Wolverine Weapon X: Tomorrow Dies Today DVD Review: Days of Future Deathloks
By Steve Geise |
Marvel continues their ongoing motion comics conversions with this tale starring the omnipresent Wolverine. While there's no shortage of Wolverine ...
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13 Sins Blu-ray Review: Borrowing from the Best
By Mark Buckingham |
The Game. A Simple Plan. Fight Club. Eagle Eye. Saw. If you liked any or all of these movies, there's ...
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Dan Curtis’ Dracula Blu-ray Review: Jack Palance Is Dead and Loving It
By Elizabeth Periale |
Just released on Blu-ray, Dan Curtis' Dracula features Academy Award-winner Jack Palance (City Slickers, Shane, Barabbas) in the title role ...
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SIFF 2014 Review: Strictly Sacred: A Film about Girl Trouble
By Greg Barbrick |
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) may not be Cannes, or Tribeca for that matter, but it sure was the ...
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Like Someone in Love Criterion Collection Review: An Authentic Illusion
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kariostami has spent a lifetime constructing films meant to blur the line ...
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Death Spa Blu-ray Review: Light on Creativity, Heavy on Cringe-Worthy Acting
By Mark Buckingham |
Some horror movies take themselves seriously and deliver the goods in dramatic and spectacular fashion, whether that be something like ...
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Bachelor Flat DVD Review: Everybody Loves Terry-Thomas
By Elizabeth Periale |
Bachelor Flat is one of those breezy, zany, battle-of the-sexes farces that were cranked out a lot in the 1960s. ...
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Cardinal Richelieu / Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! DVDs Review: There’s a Reason They’ve Been Forgotten
By Mat Brewster |
The world has been making movies for roughly 220-plus years, producing approximately 300,000 films. That doesn't include made-for-TV movies, featured ...
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The Women (1939) Blu-ray Review: Their Own Worst Enemy
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, George Cukor's The Women uses the intriguing narrative device of ...
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3 Days to Kill (2014) Blu-ray Review: Not As Advertised
By Mark Buckingham |
The first hurdle I had to clear when spinning up 3 Days to Kill was reminding myself that it has ...
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The Pleasures of Being / Out of Step Movie Review: Jazz Critic Nat Hentoff Gets the Soft-bop Treatment
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa “Mingus tries harder than anyone I know to walk naked.” - Nat Hentoff in the ...
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Star Dust DVD Review: B-movie About Hollywood
By Davy |
Making a film about the ups and downs of Hollywood is a pretty bold feat. Some have surpassed perfection: All ...
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The Deep End Blu-ray Review: An Excellent, Realistic Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
Having children changes you. I'm not talking about the sentimental Hallmark-card emotionalism that goes something like, “I didn't know what ...
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