Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk DVD Review: Love Will Tear Logan Apart
By Gordon S. Miller |
The six-issue miniseries Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk by writer Damon Lindelof and artist Leinil Francis Yu has been given the ...
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Frankenstein’s Army Blu-ray Review: For the Folks Back Home in Russia
By Critical curmudgeon |
In Richard Raaphorst's entertaining Frankenstein's Army, history is a fluid thing. Applying traditional logic, or perhaps what Alfred Hitchcock would ...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Masterfully Acted and Presented
By generaljabbo |
The 1960s Cold War era proved a fertile time for the spy movie genre. James Bond offered a glamorous, high-tech ...
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Star Trek: Into Darkness Blu-ray Review: The Wrath of Fans
By Steve Geise |
Remember how in the original Star Trek film series the even-numbered movies were the best? Apparently the current revisionist Abramsverse ...
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Sample This Movie Review: How One Song Sparked a Music Revolution
By Kit O'Toole |
Can a documentary about a song by an obscure band sustain interest for 85 minutes? Surprisingly yes, as proven by ...
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Movie Review: Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Harry Dean Stanton is a legendary character actor. If you watch movies with any regularity, you've ...
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Cavalcade (1933) Blu-ray Review: An Important Film from the Early Days
By Shawn Bourdo |
For the past year, I've been on a kick to discover and rediscover films of the 1920s and 1930s. I've ...
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Frankenstein’s Army DVD Review: Things That Go Bump, Boom, Chop, Slice, Ratatatat, and Stab in the Night
By Mark Buckingham |
After reviewing the nigh unwatchable War of the Dead, you'd think me a fool to want to watch another World ...
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Me and My Gal DVD Review: A Pre-Code Delight from Raoul Walsh
By Dusty Somers |
Oh boy, it's another mixed blessing from the burn-on-demand department, that simultaneous lifter and dasher of cinephile hopes and dreams. ...
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Good Ol’ Freda Movie Review: The Beatles’ Former Secretary and President of Their Fan Club Tells Her Story
By Kit O'Toole |
Those who think that the onslaught of books and films constantly arriving on the market have told the Beatles' complete ...
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The Frozen Dead (1966) DVD Review: Pre-Hip Unhip Nazi Zombies
By Luigi Bastardo |
Throughout the annals of filmdom, there has been an trait wherein filmmakers aspire to live up to the old adage ...
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines DVD Review: An Interesting Detour
By Greg Barbrick |
By 1950, it appears that Fritz Lang had gone from being one of the most innovative and daring directors in ...
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My Father and the Man in Black Movie Review: Beautifully Moving
By Darcy Staniforth |
My Father and the Man in Black is the beautifully moving documentary by Jonathan Holiff about his father Saul Holiff. ...
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Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man (Director’s Cut Special Edition) DVD Review: A Must for Fans
By Greg Barbrick |
Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) is credited with writing 22 episodes of the original Twilight Zone (1959-1964). That number is only about ...
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To the Wonder Blu-ray Review: Another Malick Masterwork
By Dusty Somers |
The Film Terrence Malick's second film in three years hasn't been met with quite as much enthusiasm as its predecessor, ...
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The Accursed [aka The Traitor] (1958) DVD Review: Early Christopher Lee? Sold!
By Luigi Bastardo |
Every once in a while, something gets pried out from within cracks of time. In the instance of The Traitor ...
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Post Tenebras Lux Movie Review: From Darkness to Light, From Beauty to Madness
By Critical curmudgeon |
The thunder rolls often in Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux ("light after darkness"), a film that seems almost destined to ...
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The Devil’s Backbone Criterion Collection DVD Review: Hell Is for Children
By Luigi Bastardo |
During the mid '90s, my fascination with all things foreign and artsy-like led me into the welcoming arms of two ...
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Love Me Tender Blu-ray Review: Introducing Elvis Presley the Actor
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although a long-time movie devotee and a fan of Elvis Presley's music, I was rather surprised by the realization I ...
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From Up on Poppy Hill Blu-ray Review: The Son Also Rises
By Steve Geise |
Goro Miyazaki is in a tough position. As the son of beloved living legend Hayao Miyazaki, and a budding anime ...
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection DVD Review: The Shadow Chronicles Collector’s Edition and Love Live Alive: A Robotech Sequel and A Long, Long Clip Show
By Kent Conrad |
Robotech was the introduction to an entire generation to the wonders of anime (at the time called Japanimation), and (perhaps ...
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Short Term 12 Movie Review: Intimate and Secretive
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Amanda Salazar The setting is a small group home for foster kids. They are troubled teens that are ...
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Epic Blu-ray Review: Heart of Darkness
By Steve Geise |
I don't ever pay attention to MPAA ratings on animated films, because why bother? After decades of reliably mild animated ...
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The World’s End Movie Review: A Perfect Blend of Action, Comedy, and Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
The World's End left me in such an elated state after watching it that in addition to deciding it was ...
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The Muppet Movie: The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: How Things Got Started
By Gordon S. Miller |
Celebrating its nearly 35th anniversary, an intentionally sillier designation than 34th, the Walt Disney Company has recently released The Muppet ...
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Blu-ray Review: A Flash in the Pan
By Rons Reviews |
Look, here's the deal: if you have to travel through time, or to another dimension, to tell your story, you're ...
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The Big City Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Girl Power
By Steve Geise |
Prior to The Big City, director Satyajit Ray had never tackled a contemporary project, choosing to focus on explorations of ...
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Charulata Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Indian Film, European Sensibility
By Steve Geise |
This is not a Bollywood film, at least not in the accepted modern-day definition of the term. Half a century ...
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Babette’s Feast Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Tale of Love, Life, and Food
By Luigi Bastardo |
Gabriel Axel's multiple award-winning film Babette's Feast takes place almost entirely in a tiny, remote, 19th century village somewhere near ...
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To Be or Not to Be (1942) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: You’ll Get a ‘Terrific Laugh’ Out of This One
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In 1942, the U.S. hadn't entered World War II and audiences were unaware of the horrific ...
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Shoah Criterion Collection DVD Review: Superb Release of Haunting, Tragic Film
By Kent Conrad |
Shoah is a film about trains. Inside its nearly 10 hours of running time, the image and movement of the ...
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I Give It a Year (2013) Movie Review: In Which Funny People Save a So-So Story
By Michelle Prather |
There are romantic comedies with premises so trite they morph into tragedies, others so saccharin you leave the theater with ...
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Paradise: Love Movie Review: Ulrich Seidl’s Grim Arcadia
By Critical curmudgeon |
The first film in Austrian director Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy is the fascinating and troubling Paradise: Love. Initially, Seidl had ...
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Hatchet III Blu-ray Review: The Proper End to a Trilogy
By Mark Buckingham |
Back in 2006, Adam Green set out with Hatchet to recapture the 1980's campy gory horror vibe established by iconic ...
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Frank Zappa: A Token of His Extreme DVD Review: FZ TV Circa 1974
By Greg Barbrick |
In 1974, Frank Zappa recorded a concert for television titled A Token of His Extreme. It was intended as a ...
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The Beasts Are on the Streets DVD Review: Live-Action Hanna-Barbera Mayhem!
By Luigi Bastardo |
From the earliest days of cinema, filmdom's original filmmakers - those brave, experimental individuals who would pave the way for ...
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The Thin Red Line Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Impressive Movie
By Shawn Bourdo |
There's something to be said about be prolific. Take Alfred Hitchcock's work for example - there are runs of three-four ...
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The Ice Storm Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Person’s Body Is His Temple
By Critical curmudgeon |
There is a moment in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, now available on Criterion Collection Blu-ray, where the 14-year-old Mikey ...
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Mitchell (1975) DVD Review: Uncut, Uncensored, and Uncouth – The Way It Should Be!
By Luigi Bastardo |
After quickly rising out of the mists in an uncredited bit in Cool Hand Luke in 1967, Texas-born character actor ...
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Niagara (1953) Blu-ray Review: A Decidedly Different Marilyn
By Dusty Somers |
The FilmIt sometimes seems like director Henry Hathaway wasn't sure if Niagara was a lugubrious melodrama or a white-knuckle thriller, ...
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Trance (2013) Blu-ray Review: Suspenseful and Surprising
By Lorna Miller |
Danny Boyle is one of the few directors who garners instance attention for any new film. His history of interesting ...
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Bus Stop (1956) Blu-ray Review: Marilyn Monroe Finally Goes to Acting School
By Luigi Bastardo |
Fifty-one years after her tragic death, Marilyn Monroe has managed to land a number of personas in the public eye. ...
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Prince Avalanche Movie Review: A Meditative Study of People
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Director David Gordon Green has been hot or cold with the critics (and audiences the last ...
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Combat Girls DVD Review: Looking for a Place to Happen
By Critical curmudgeon |
An alarming, ceaselessly compelling motion picture from Germany, Combat Girls touches on a subject often left behind and treats its ...
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Robert Williams: Mr. Bitchin’ Movie Review: A Love Letter to the Man and His Work
By Darcy Staniforth |
Where to begin writing about this documentary is like asking where to begin when you look at one of Robert ...
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3:10 To Yuma (1957) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The High Cost of Living
By Gordon S. Miller |
Though the story of a lone man standing up for what is right is a common Western motif, Delmer Daves' ...
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Twixt Blu-ray Review: Imagined in a Dream, Should Have Stayed in Bed
By Mat Brewster |
It should probably tell the viewer something that Twixt - a film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and ...
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Laura (1944) Blu-ray Review: The Sum Is Better than Its Parts
By Mat Brewster |
Laura is a murder mystery in which it really doesn't matter who actually committed the murder. It is a love ...
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Babette’s Feast Criterion Collection DVD Review: Eye- and Mouth-Watering Delights
By Mat Brewster |
About once a month, we host a Foreign Film Night at our house. We invite a few friends over, we ...
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The Gangster (2012) Blu-ray Review: Ambitious but Flawed Gangland Epic
By Kent Conrad |
Classic gangster movies followed a specific arc, probably best codified in the original Scarface (1932) - the audience follows the ...
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