I Married a Witch Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Veronica Lake Bewitches, Bothers, and Bewilders
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Halloween may be over, but any time is a good time for a new Halloween classic ...
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Paradise: Faith Movie Review: The Power of Christ Is Compelling
By Critical curmudgeon |
Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Faith is the second film in the Austrian director's Paradise trilogy. It comes on the heels of ...
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The Johan Falk Trilogy DVD Review: Flawed but Fun
By Mat Brewster |
B-movie producer Roger Corman somewhat famously used to tell his directors that they could make his movies anyway they wanted ...
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Sex Kittens Go to College DVD Review: Oh, Dear God, Please Make It Stop!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Ah, the wonderful world of exploitation. After studios and filmmakers such as AIP and Roger Corman began to make hip ...
Read More La Notte Criterion Collection DVD Review: They Don’t Make ‘Em Like This Anymore
By Mark Buckingham |
La Notte is definitely a film from a different era where plots were not entirely clear until the third act, ...
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Monsters, Inc. Blu-ray Review: Monsters Get Scared Too
By Lorna Miller |
Released in November 2001, Monsters, Inc. was the fourth feature-length feature film by Pixar Animation Studios. While it was a ...
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Mindwarp (1992) / The Other (1972) Blu-rays Review: Happy Halloween from Twilight Time
By Luigi Bastardo |
Holding up to the classic cry of "Trick or treat!" youngsters are apt to beckon homeowners to handfuls of candy ...
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Nightmare Honeymoon DVD Review: Can I Get an Annulment Over Here?
By Luigi Bastardo |
As events near and far forever altered the world throughout the '60s and '70s, the well-known face of cinema began ...
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Movie Review: Bad Is Right
By Gordon S. Miller |
Bad Grandpa finds Johnny Knoxville branching out on his own from his onscreen Jackass pals, like a musician putting out ...
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Aftershock (2012) Blu-ray Review: A Disaster / Horror Film that Wants to Be More, but Fails Miserably
By Mat Brewster |
In 2010, a massive earthquake struck Chile. Writer/director Nicolás López was there and one of the things that struck him ...
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Rifftrax Live! Night of the Living Dead Review: A Flesh-Feast of Hilarity
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez George Romero's Night of the Living Dead has entered the pantheon of pop culture as the ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color Movie Review: A Compelling Story About Love and Life
By Gordon S. Miller |
Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color is a beautiful, coming-of-age story set over the course of about 10 years ...
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Only God Forgives Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful, Blood-Spattered Disaster
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Before you ask, the answer is no; I didn't believe Only God Forgives was going to ...
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On the Riviera Blu-ray Review: Double the Danny Kaye!
By Greg Barbrick |
There was a time when Danny Kaye was one of the top entertainers in the world. Although Bob Hope and ...
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Killing Season (2013) Blu-ray Review: More Like Retiring Time
By Luigi Bastardo |
For every motion picture performer, there comes a time when all that matters is a quick and easy paycheck. It ...
Read More A Band Called Death Movie Review: …For the Whole World to See
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Perhaps you have heard the rough outline of the documentary A Band Called Death, as the ...
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Pacific Rim Blu-ray Review: One of 2013’s Best Blu-rays
By Gordon S. Miller |
Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is an impressive tribute to the monster movies of Ray Harryhausen and Ishiro Honda, who ...
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Hidden in the Woods DVD Review: Hell Is Other People
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by Patricio Valladares, Hidden in the Woods is a grimy but somewhat silly exploitation film from Chile. While this ...
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Embrace of the Vampire (2013) Blu-ray Review: Better Than the Original, Which Isn’t Saying Much
By Mat Brewster |
When I heard there was a remake of the 1995 erotic vampire flick, Embrace of the Vampire, I had but ...
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Murder University DVD Review: Cyanide Capsule Sold Separately, Unfortunately
By Mark Buckingham |
Murder University wasn't satisfied with just being bad. Oh no. It strove to be so horrendous that I'm still a ...
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Embrace of the Vampire (1995) Blu-ray Review: Would Be Forgotten Were It Not for Alyssa Milano’s Assets
By Mat Brewster |
Pardon me while I get pervy. In my day if one wanted to see celebrity nudity one had to work ...
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Tarzan (1966): The Complete Second Season DVD Review: Wither Ron Ely
By Luigi Bastardo |
As the old saying goes, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." When motion pictures first came ...
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The Fly (1958) Blu-ray Review: A Classic Reborn in HD
By Mark Buckingham |
Between The Fly (1958) and The Fly (1986), you couldn't have two films that take more different approaches to the ...
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The Tin Star (1957) / Nichols: The Complete Series DVD Reviews: Lawmen of a Different Color
By Luigi Bastardo |
In the annals of the western, there is perhaps no greater character than that of the local sheriff. Sometimes he's ...
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Birth of the Living Dead Movie Review: Timely Revisiting of Horror Classic
By Kent Conrad |
At the risk of sounding hipsterish, I'm sick of zombies. Zombies are so done. When I was a young Night ...
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William Powell at Warner Bros. DVD Review: The Early Adventures of a Thinner Man
By Luigi Bastardo |
Everyone needs a role model. Especially when they're growing up. As a young lad, I found myself at odds with ...
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I Married a Witch Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Low on Magic, High on Fumes
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by René Clair, I Married a Witch is low on magic and high on fumes. Its major selling feature ...
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Eyes Without a Face Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Mesmerizing, Poetic Film
By Mat Brewster |
In the 1950s French critics and cultural purveyors thought that horror films were beneath them. Monsters and gore were not ...
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The Croods Blu-ray Review: A Fun Family Film That Needed a Little More Originality
By Todd Karella |
The story is about a family of cavemen. Over the years, they have seen their friends and neighbors killed off ...
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali Movie Review: Entertaining and Informative
By Rons Reviews |
This documentary from director Bill Siegel has depth rarely seen as he goes beyond Ali's legal issues and delves into ...
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Escape from Tomorrow Movie Review: Could Have Used More Imagination
By Gordon S. Miller |
Escape from Tomorrow tells the story of Jim White (Roy Abramsohn), whose trip to Walt Disney World with his family ...
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The East (2013) Blu-ray Review: Anarchy in the USA?
By Luigi Bastardo |
First, there was Gregory Nava's El Norte in 1983. Next, Victor Erice followed suit by delivering El Sur unto us ...
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I Married a Witch Criterion Collection DVD Review: Truly Bewitching
By Greg Barbrick |
Forget Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched; the most beautiful witch of all time is Veronica Lake in I Married a Witch ...
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La Cage aux Folles Criterion Collection DVD Review: Classic French Farce Bliss
By Luigi Bastardo |
Eighteen years before the enjoyable-but-ultimately-uncalled-for remake, The Birdcage hit theater screens across the world, La Cage aux Folles first introduced ...
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Going Underground (2013) DVD Review: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter-Culture
By Kit O'Toole |
In 1960s England, an underground art movement greatly influenced worldwide pop culture. Emerging from 1950s nuclear disarmament protests and the ...
Read More Room 237 DVD Review: Shining a Light on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
By Gordon S. Miller |
Rodney Ascher's outstanding documentary Room 237 has come to home video, allowing viewers to comb over the film as the ...
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3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman Criterion Collection DVD Review: The Definitive Journey
By Greg Barbrick |
When Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1946, he was recognized as the ...
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Iron Man 3 Blu-ray Review: Would Make Tony Stark Proud
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Iron Man film franchise has been quite the success story, earning nearly $2.5 billion at the box office. That's ...
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In the Fog Movie Review: Unwavering Morality from Sergei Loznitsa
By Critical curmudgeon |
Sergei Loznitsa's In the Fog is a compelling, careful drama about guilt and honour in the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union. Because ...
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ThanksKilling 3 DVD Review: What the Hell Did I Just Watch?
By Mark Buckingham |
When a friend asked what I thought of ThanksKilling 3, after unscrewing the puzzled look off my face, I said, ...
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La Cage aux Folles Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: “Utter Hell” to Make, Pure Heaven to Watch
By Critical curmudgeon |
Director Édouard Molinaro considered the making of his La Cage aux Folles as "utter hell," but it's hard not to ...
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The Earrings of Madame de … Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Direction of Max Ophuls Dazzles Like a Diamond
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Max Ophuls' penultimate film The Earrings of Madame de ... is a classic French '50s melodrama that rivals its ...
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The Devil’s Backbone Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: One of Guillermo del Toro’s Most Personal Films
By Lorna Miller |
Guillermo del Toro is one of the most interesting directors currently making films because of his unique vision and style. ...
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A Letter to Three Wives Blu-ray Review: A Bit of a Trifle, but an Enjoyable Trifle
By Dusty Somers |
The FilmA mildly clever conceit, a very capable cast and the sure-handed direction of Joseph L. Mankiewicz make A Letter ...
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Slacker Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Formally Fascinating, Warmly Hilarious Film
By Dusty Somers |
The FilmRichard Linklater's Slacker is a film that sounds like a doodle on paper, a fun little experiment from the ...
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The Odd Angry Shot Blu-ray Review: The Occasionally Aggressive Movie
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the various horrors in Southeast Asia were rarely ever touched upon by any significantly major movie studios during the ...
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Autumn Sonata Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Utterly Sad and Nearly Perfect
By Mat Brewster |
Our monthly Foreign Film Night is typically very sparsely attended. This is not unexpected as one cannot plan for a ...
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Hands of a Stranger (1962) DVD Review: Different Take, Same Ol’ Story
By Luigi Bastardo |
From the opening shot of Hands of a Stranger, one gets the distinct impression that the director of this low-budget ...
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An American Hippie in Israel Blu-ray Review: The Rocky Hebrew Picture Show
By Luigi Bastardo |
At first glance of the title, An American Hippie in Israel seems like some sort of joke. And indeed, it ...
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Hands of the Ripper Blu-ray Review: Jack the Ripper’s Bastard Daughter Goes Psycho!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Oh, it never fails, does it? You grow up in squalor, the young teenaged ward of a nefarious phony séance ...
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