A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman DVD Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman, which is based on the 1980 memoir A Liar's ...
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The Avengers (2012) Movie Review: A Good Action Movie
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan In this modern era of blockbuster cinema, where movies based on comic book superheroes, The Avengers ...
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Bully (2011) Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Approach to a Complex Issue
By Critical curmudgeon |
At the end of Lee Hirsch's Bully, we're told that "Everything starts with one." This is a reference to the ...
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Blu-ray Review: Supes vs. Bats, We All Win
By Steve Geise |
Warner Bros Animation's concluding adaptation of Frank Miller's classic comic book series (Part 1 review) contains the fight every superhero ...
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Pina Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Striking Elegy for an Artistic Giant
By Dusty Somers |
The Film Wim Wenders' gorgeous and touching tribute to modern dance pioneer Pina Bausch is a film birthed out of ...
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2013 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts Review: From Mediocrity to Absolute Perfection
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ben Platko I have seen a lot of short films. Many of them were mediocre at best, steeped ...
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Following Criterion Collection DVD Review: Glimpse a Genius Just Finding His Voice
By Shawn Bourdo |
In 1999, a 28-year-old Christopher Nolan couldn't possibly have seen himself directing such big budget films like Inception and The ...
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The Artist Movie Review: A Good Film, but Best Picture Worthy?
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan It is an unusual factoid that the only two silent films to win Best Picture at ...
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Compliance DVD Review: It’d Be Awful If It Weren’t True
By Mark Buckingham |
Compliance chronicles a day in the life of Becky (Dreama Walker), who went to work at her fast-food job like ...
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After Kony: Staging Hope DVD Review: The Play’s the Thing
By Darcy Staniforth |
The war in Northern Uganda has been getting a lot of attention in the media as of late. It probably ...
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Meskada Movie Review: Small Town Crime Drama with Less Punch Than It Could Have Had
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mule Meskada (2010) written and directed by Josh Sternfeld is a small town crime drama that aims to ...
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Peter Pan (1953) Diamond Edition Blu-ray Review: The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up Turns 60
By Gordon S. Miller |
Peter Pan is the 14th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, notable for being the last to feature ...
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Three Stars DVD Review: A Pretty Good Documentary
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Written by Chris Morgan The world of the restaurant business and food has become much more prominent in the realm ...
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2013 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts Review: Davids vs. Goliaths
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ben Platko Animated short films are often relegated to film festivals, and as a result go almost unnoticed. ...
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YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip DVD Review: Worth Watching
By Darcy Staniforth |
This documentary follows three friends, Mark Dixon and husband and wife, Ben and Julie Evans, who decide to go on ...
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Two-Lane Blacktop: Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Monte Hellman’s Masterpiece
By Luigi Bastardo |
As anyone who has ever experienced a truly awkward moment of puberty is well aware, growing up is an inevitable ...
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Boris Karloff Triple Feature DVD Review: Pleases Die-Hard Fans
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Warner Archive continues to put out intriguing DVD collections meant to entice die-hard fans. Their latest, ...
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home Movie Review: A Well-done Emotional Film About a Family
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Jeff, Who Lives at Home talks a lot about signs. Both in terms of omens and ...
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Following Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Christopher Nolan’s Memorable Debut
By Gordon S. Miller |
Before creating his own following with the sensational Memento, Christopher Nolan made his feature-film directorial debut with Following. It is ...
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Ivan’s Childhood Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: War is Hell, but Looks Superb
By Steve Geise |
On the surface, this film might not seem to offer much enticement for viewing considering its decidedly downbeat subject matter ...
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The Tin Drum Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Schlöndorff’s German Fable
By Critical curmudgeon |
A dazzlingly dark and often very funny fable, The Tin Drum is a terrific motion picture. The 1979 film by ...
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End of Watch Blu-ray Review: Or, Training Day 2
By Mark Buckingham |
At its core, End of Watch is a gritty buddy cop movie. Lots of buzzwords leap out of the packaging ...
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Frankenweenie (2012) Blu-ray Review: A Technically Impressive Animated Endeavor
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on his 1984 live-action short of the same name, Tim Burton's feature-length, stop-motion Frankenweenie finds the story about holding ...
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 Blu-ray Review: A Great Adaptation of Frank Miller’s Work
By Gordon S. Miller |
The year 1986 is considered a landmark for comics because of the debuts of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns ...
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The Impossible (2012) Movie Review: Impossible to Sit Through
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I'm going to be incredibly blunt in this review: I hated The Impossible. It's been described ...
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Lapland Odyssey DVD Review: Karukoski’s Jussi-winning Comedy is a Middling Affair
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski, Lapland Odyssey is a pretty standard guy movie wrapped up with a cute bow. ...
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The Tin Drum Criterion Collection DVD Review: Familial Insanity Mirrors Nazi Germany
By Greg Barbrick |
For a film that won both the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, The Tin ...
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House at the End of the Street Blu-ray Review: Not Befitting of the Talent It Attracted
By Mark Buckingham |
House at the End of the Street starts out strong. You witness the murder of two parents by their deranged ...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Criterion Collection DVD Review: See the Master of Suspense Invent Himself
By Mat Brewster |
In 1934, Alfred Hitchcock was not considered the great director we know him as today. Nor was he the Master ...
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Cosmopolis Blu-ray Review: Cronenberg and DeLillo are a Perfect Match
By Dusty Somers |
The Film Another triumph for David Cronenberg, Cosmopolis sees the director further extending the definition of a “Cronenberg movie” with ...
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War of the Dead Blu-ray Review: It Forgot to Make Me Care
By Mark Buckingham |
When a marketer finds it necessary to promote a movie based on the fact that it is “the most expensive ...
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56 Up Movie Review: Still Going Strong After Nearly 50 Years
By Steve Geise |
For nearly 50 years now, a group of ordinary English citizens have been participating in an ongoing sociological study that ...
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Inglourious Basterds Movie Review: Liquid Modernity and Alternate History
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Written by Mule Inglourious Basterds (2009) directed by Quantin Tarantino stars Mélanie Laurent (Shosanna Dreyfus), Christoph Waltz (Col. Hans Landa), ...
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Osombie DVD Review: Good Dumb Fun
By Mark Buckingham |
Remember that time a dumb action movie got a great metascore on Metacritic or average review on IMDB? Yeah, me ...
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V/H/S DVD Review: Definitive Proof as to Why Beta Was Better
By Luigi Bastardo |
Some of you may remember a point in the history of home video wherein amateur filmmakers who had managed to ...
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The Flying House Project DVD Review: A Travesty of Animated Proportions
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe Early 20th-century artist and cartoonist Winsor McCay is not exactly a household name, at least in ...
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Butter (2012) DVD Review: Destiny Carves a Smooth Path
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno When Butter first came out, it got slammed by most critics, so let me state once ...
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The Good Doctor Blu-ray Review: I Cannot Understate How Unexciting This Is
By Mark Buckingham |
The Good Doctor tells the story of Martin Blake (Orlando Bloom) who seeks to be the titular good doctor, but ...
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Gandu DVD Review: A Daring Bengali Film Low on Substance
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by Q (Qaushiq Mukherjee), Gandu is an interesting but not entirely convincing Bengali film. It arrives packed with danger, ...
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Killer Joe Movie Review: Gritty and Deep Fried
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez The NC-17 is coming back with a vengeance between this year's Killer Joe and last year's ...
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Lawless Blu-ray Combo Pack Review: Rarely Reaches Above the Conventions of Its Genre
By Chad Derdowski |
Inspired by Matt Bondurant's 2008 biographical novel The Wettest County in the World, musician and composer Nick Cave wrote the ...
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Purple Noon Criterion Collection DVD Review: A Treat for the Eyes and a Test for the Nerves
By Jade Blackmore |
Purple Noon (Plein Soleil), Rene Clement's 1960 film based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, is more brooding ...
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The Night of the Devils (1972) Blu-ray Review: Still Good, 40 Years Later
By Mark Buckingham |
If there's one thing that scary movies have taught us, it's that if someone's car breaks down in the middle ...
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Grindhouse Movie Review: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, and Friends Recreate the Experience
By Gordon S. Miller |
The word "grindhouse" used to refer to the old, run-down theaters that showed double bills of B-movies. Back before there ...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild Blu-ray Review: An Acquired Taste
By Steve Geise |
Director Benh Zeitlin‘s film is this year's Little Indie That Could, a micro-budgeted, challenging art house effort that defied long ...
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This Is Not a Film Movie Review: Maybe Not a Film, but a Masterpiece Nonetheless
By Dusty Somers |
Jafar Panahi's defiant, playful, mundane, formally adventurous and consistently surprising This is Not a Film is one of the greatest ...
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Bernie (2012) Movie Review: A Happy Film About Life, Death, and Murder
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In the opening moments of Richard Linklater's film Bernie, the title character played by Jack Black ...
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Purple Noon Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Talented Mr. Delon
By Steve Geise |
Remember The Talented Mr. Ripley? Director Anthony Minghella's 1999 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's crime novel helped launch Jude Law to ...
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Exotica Movie Review: ‘What is It About a Schoolgirl?’
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mule Exotica (1994), a Canadian contemporary of Pulp Fiction, written and directed by Atom Egoyan, revolves around the ...
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Jackie Brown Movie Review: Yes, This is Quentin Tarantino’s Best Movie
By Dusty Somers |
A new Quentin Tarantino movie is generally a cause for excitement, even if the filmmaker is often his own worst ...
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