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A Date with Judy Blu-ray Review: The Goody-Good, the Baddie, and the Beery

By Steve Geise | Aug 13, 2025

This classic MGM musical combines the golly-gee innocence of high school hijinks with the sizzle of Carmen Miranda, forbidden love ...

Town Without Pity Blu-ray Review: Kirk Douglas Without Compassion

By Mat Brewster | Aug 13, 2025

In occupied West Germany, 16-year-old Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann) lies by the river with her boyfriend, Frank Borgmann (Gerhart Lippert). ...

Lolita (1962) DVD Review: She Was Lo, Plain Lo, In the Morning

By Greg Hammond | Aug 12, 2025

Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita tells the tale of Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a professor of French literature who plans to vacation ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Ride

By Mat Brewster | Aug 12, 2025

Someone ought to do one of those listicle things where they rank all the action movies set during the Christmas ...

Sugar Hill Blu-ray Review: Supernatural Voodoo Woman

By Steve Geise | Aug 12, 2025

Blaxploitation takes a trip to the voodoo bayou for this campy yarn. The story centers on a grieving woman named ...

The Medium Blu-ray Review: A Lacking Message About the Supernatural World

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 11, 2025

Directed by Silvio Amadio, The Medium (1980) is an Italian horror offering that stars Vincent Mannari Jr, Sherry Buchanan and ...

Under Siege Blu-ray Review: Steven Seagal Is Hard to Kill on a Battleship

By Mat Brewster | Aug 10, 2025

The huge success of Die Hard in 1988 changed the face of action films. Muscle-bound He-Men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and ...

Palindromes 4K UHD Review: Interesting Idea Falls Flat

By Greg Hammond | Aug 9, 2025

Nine years after Todd Solondz’s highly acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse, he wrote and directed 2004’s Palindromes; a film that ...

Bonjour Tristesse (2024) DVD Review: Mediterranean Summer Love

By Steve Geise | Aug 9, 2025

At first glance, writer/director Durga Chew-Bose’s debut film seems similar to scores of other tales about young love near the ...

The Invention of Lying Blu-ray Review: A Solid Comedy That Tells It Like It Is

By Greg Hammond | Aug 8, 2025

Comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson co-wrote and co-directed the wildly funny comedy/fantasy The Invention of Lying in 2009. ...

Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex Movie Review: Glam’s First Cosmic Dancer

By Kent Conrad | Aug 8, 2025

There's a tradition of enormously influential musicians in the U.K. just not making it in the U.S. Robbie Williams still ...

The Lord of the Rings: Original Animated Classic Blu-ray Review: Ralph Bakshi’s Previz for Peter Jackson

By Steve Geise | Aug 8, 2025

Long before Peter Jackson got the idea to create a cottage industry out of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works, underground animator ...

The Cobweb Blu-ray Review: It’s All About the Drapes

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 8, 2025

The Cobweb (1955) is a drama directed by Vincente Minnelli that centers around the staff and residents of a psychiatric ...

Executive Suite Blu-ray Review: Succession in the 1950s

By Steve Geise | Aug 7, 2025

Never got around to watching HBO’s Succession? Here’s a time-saving alternative: all the boardroom drama and backbiting condensed into one ...

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Movie Review: Not Only a Curated Look at His Life but So Much More

By Darcy Staniforth | Aug 7, 2025

I discovered Jeff Buckley as a college and community radio DJ in the late '90s. His album Grace was handed ...

Grand Prix Blu-ray Review: Takes the Flag for Total Racing Immersion

By Steve Geise | Aug 6, 2025

John Frankenheimer’s 1966 racing drama is so stacked with international stars that it might appear to be coasting on delivering ...

Donovan’s Reef Blu-ray Review: Wild, Wayne, and Wonderful!

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 5, 2025

The new Blu-ray release of Donovan's Reef (1963) by Kino Lorber, also available on 4K Ultra HD, is the most ...

The Beast to Die Blu-ray Review: Good Guy Gone Bad

By Steve Geise | Aug 4, 2025

By the start of the ‘80s, Yusaku Matsuda (Yokohama BJ Blues) had tired of his typical action hero roles and ...

Sands of Iwo Jima Blu-ray Review: John Wayne Storms the Beaches

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 3, 2025

Directed by Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) stars John Wayne as a grizzled WWII sergeant in charge of ...

Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible DVD Review: Alive and Kicking

By Steve Geise | Aug 2, 2025

Riding the New Wave to international fame in the ‘80s, Simple Minds has instantly recognizable hits even as the band ...

Get Carter (1971) Blu-ray Review: Birth of British Gangster Movies

By Kent Conrad | Aug 1, 2025

Jack Carter, a gangster in London, goes back to his own hometown to investigate the mysterious death of his brother. ...

His Kind of Woman Blu-ray Review: Film Noir Follies

By Kent Conrad | Jul 31, 2025

We open with the film-noir intrigue. A gangster wants access to his money. He's stuck in Italy and wants to ...

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Decent Vehicle For Clint’s Lighter Side

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 31, 2025

Before The Deer Hunter (1978) and Heaven's Gate (1980), writer-director Michael Cimino made his silver-screen debut writing and directing Thunderbolt ...

Dark Victory Blu-ray Review: Bette Davis Has Never Been Better

By Mat Brewster | Jul 29, 2025

Dark Victory is a fairly conventional tear-jerking melodrama buoyed by a fantastic performance by Bette Davis. She plays Judy Traherne, ...

Lethal Weapon 4K UHD Review: Killer Chemistry

By Joe Keaton | Jul 28, 2025

The first Lethal Weapon is a satisfying cop caper, directed with a sure, slick hand by that old studio pro ...

Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies Blu-ray Review: Two Slapsticks, Two Rom-Coms

By Steve Geise | Jul 27, 2025

This fascinating new collection compiles four German black and white comedies from the early years of the sound era, 1931-32. ...

By Mat Brewster | Jul 27, 2025

I grew up with Angela Lansbury. Not literally, of course, but as a child of the 1980s, she was a ...

Cloud (2024) Movie Review: Internet Haters Go Gunning

By Kent Conrad | Jul 25, 2025

Yoshii is kind of a jerk. He's not a monster, nor violent, mean, or aggressive. He's just kind of callous, ...

Final Destination Bloodlines Blu-ray Review: The Road Less Travelled

By Greg Hammond | Jul 25, 2025

Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein’s Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth and latest installment in the series, is a slightly different ...

21 Grams Blu-ray Review: Difficult to Enjoy

By Rons Reviews | Jul 24, 2025

I love movies. If someone calls me and asks if I want to see a movie, I say yes. Don’t ...

Final Destination 5 Movie Review: Death Returns in Fine Form

By Greg Hammond | Jul 24, 2025

There is no doubt that the Final Destination movies are, for the most part, top-tier slasher/horror/gore movies. The deaths are ...

Detonation! Violent Riders Blu-ray Review: Firing on All Cylinders

By Steve Geise | Jul 24, 2025

This 1975 Japanese bikersploitation film is a funk-fueled blast of fast-paced action and free-spirited youth. As directed and co-written by ...

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review: A Fascinating Profile of an Enigmatic Man

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 23, 2025

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser is a documentary directed by Charlotte Zwerin about the famed jazz musician/composer. She was brought ...

The Final Destination Blu-ray Review: The Franchise Hits a Speed Bump

By Greg Hammond | Jul 22, 2025

The Final Destination is the fourth entry in the Final Destination franchise which now includes six films. If that isn’t ...

Cobra Blu-ray Review: An Action-Packed Product of its Time

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 21, 2025

Director George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone 1993) teams up with writer/star Sylvester Stallone once again to bring us the non-stop action ...

F/X | F/X 2 Double Feature Blu-ray Review: Solving Crimes with Movie Magic

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 21, 2025

KL Studio Classics presents the theatrical adventures of special-effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) with the F/X | F/X 2 ...

Final Destination 3 Movie Review: Long-Running Series Stays Strong

By Greg Hammond | Jul 19, 2025

Produced, directed, and co-written (with Glen Morgan) by James Wong, Final Destination 3 continues the winning streak of entries in ...

Rosa la rose, fille publique Blu-ray Review: A Day in the Life of a French Sex Worker

By Mat Brewster | Jul 18, 2025

Rosa (Marianne Basler) is young, beautiful, and full of what the French call the joy of life. She's also a ...

The Big Heat Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 17, 2025

Based on William P. McGivern's serial in The Saturday Evening Post, later published as a novel, Fritz Lang's The Big ...

Final Destination Movie Review: A Wonderfully Grotesque Beginning

By Greg Hammond | Jul 17, 2025

James Wong’s Final Destination is now a quarter of a century old. In that time, the franchise has grown to ...

Two Political Thrillers by Henri Verneuil: I… for Icarus & Mille Milliards de Dollars DVD Review

By Steve Geise | Jul 16, 2025

This double-feature DVD collection compiles suspenseful but unrelated films from writer/director Henri Verneuil. It’s perfect for fans of ‘70s conspiracy ...

Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 1 Review: Something Old, Something New to Blu-ray

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 15, 2025

After four volumes of the Collector's Choice series, the Warner Archive Collection now presents Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 1, ...

The Blues Under the Skin Blu-ray Review: Trouble in Mind

By Steve Geise | Jul 12, 2025

Robert Manthoulis’s little-seen 1973 film is a curious combination of intimate music performances, documentary scenes of working-class poor, and scripted ...