The Rolling Stones: Under Review 1975-1983 DVD Review: Focuses on First Years with Ronnie Wood
By writeonmusic |
Generally speaking, the music the Rolling Stones recorded and released in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s is not considered ...
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Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2: An Artful Bloodbath
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mary K. Williams Back during the filming of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman cooked up a ...
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Finding Nemo Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: The Art of Letting Go
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released in theaters in 2003 and now available on Blu-ray, Finding Nemo is the fifth feature produced by Pixar. Critically ...
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The Qatsi Trilogy: (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi) Criterion Collection DVD Review: Fans Should Be Very Pleased
By Greg Barbrick |
When Koyaanisqatsi (1983) came out, my girlfriend at the time talked me into seeing it with her. She was very ...
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Dreams of a Life Movie Review: The Tale of Joyce Vincent
By Critical curmudgeon |
Written and directed by Carol Morley, Dreams of a Life is a stunning documentary that tells a story that could ...
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Beasts of the Southern Wild Movie Review: Magical But Hard to Swallow
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I hate to be the one person to continuously chastise films that are receiving critical acclaim, ...
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From Dusk Till Dawn Movie Review: Genre-hopping and Gore
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mule There is no reason to expect anything other than a hyperawareness of the very artificiality of the ...
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The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985) Collector’s Edition DVD Review: Still Good for Fans; An Intro to Twain for Newbies
By Mark Buckingham |
I'm pretty sure that at some point growing up, I saw 1985's The Adventures of Mark Twain, but I don't ...
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Four Rooms: The Man From Hollywood Movie Review: Tarantino Doesn’t Do Much with It
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz A look at Quentin Tarantino's body of work wouldn't be complete without a lesser-known writing/directing effort ...
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Ted Blu-ray Review: Pretty Damn Funny
By Chad Derdowski |
Do you enjoy programs featuring anthropomorphic animals hanging out with their loser best friends, drinking and doing drugs while making ...
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From Dusk Till Dawn Movie Review: Half Action Movie, Half Vampire Movie. Guess Which Half Sucks?
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz It was the best of films; it was the worst of films. Okay. So it isn't ...
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Wagner & Me Movie Review: Stephen Fry Gets Real About His Favorite Composer
By Michelle Prather |
If you're a devoted Fryphile, you'll gladly park yourself on the couch to take in anything Britain's most beloved gentleman ...
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Ruby Sparks Movie Review: Not Much Spark Found in It
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez Ruby Sparks should have been a home-run film considering it's directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie ...
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Ice Age: Continental Drift DVD Review: Drifting into Murky Waters
By Steve Geise |
Scrat’s back for more frosty adventures, but unfortunately so are the rest of those other boring characters. As anyone who ...
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Iron Sky Blu-ray Review: What Happens When Moon Nazis Tangle with Sarah Palin
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by Finnish filmmaker Timo Vuorensola, Iron Sky nails down all the blockbuster tropes in a ludicrous tale that actually ...
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Saxon: Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie DVD Review: About as Rock and Roll as it Gets
By Greg Barbrick |
Saxon were one of the premier bands of the short-lived, but glorious New Wave of British Heavy Metal, (NWBOHM) which ...
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Unforgivable Movie Review: More Turns Than a French Soap Opera
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by André Téchiné and based on a novel by Philippe Djian, Unforgivable is kind of an odd duck. It ...
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True Romance (1993) Movie Review: The Tarantino Touch: Violence, Gore, and Humor
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mule True Romance (1993) directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino has all the hallmarks of ...
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Paul McCartney: Live Kisses DVD Review: A Thoroughly Enjoyable Document of an Artist’s Labor of Love
By Kit O'Toole |
Earlier this year, Paul McCartney satisfied a longtime ambition of recording an album of standards. Though other rockers have released ...
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Savages (2012) Blu-ray Review: Oliver Stone Makes a Torture Porn Flick
By Luigi Bastardo |
At the very beginning of Oliver Stone's Savages, we are greeted to the sight of Taylor Kitsch's bare ass in ...
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Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements DVD Review
By Kit O'Toole |
During the documentary Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements, one critic describes the band with one simple phrase: ...
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The Doors: Live at the Bowl ’68 DVD Review: It Sounds Amazing
By Chad Derdowski |
The Doors' 1968 show at the Hollywood Bowl has long been considered one of the band's finest performances. Sadly, there ...
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Blu-ray Review: A Nostalgic Look Back at the ’80s
By Lorna Miller |
It's been many years since I'd seen Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and will admit that I haven't missed it ...
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Trilogy of Life Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Three Films, Countless Tales
By Critical curmudgeon |
Italian filmmaker, poet, philosopher, writer, and sometimes actor Pier Paolo Pasolini has certainly generated his fair share of controversy. He's ...
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The Adventures of the Wilderness Family DVD Review: The Defining Moment of an All but Dead Subgenre
By Luigi Bastardo |
Following the events of a seemingly-endless war in Vietnam and the horrid realization that mankind was emitting excessive waste into ...
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Lili DVD Review: When Is a Musical Not a Musical?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Question: When is a musical motion picture actually not a musical, despite the fact that it contains every cinematic musical ...
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AFI Fest 2012 Review: The Central Park Five: One the Most Important Films of the Year
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on her book The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding, Sara Burns, her husband David McMahon, ...
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La Jetee / Sans Soleil Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Stay for the Stills, Run from the Motion
By Steve Geise |
Director Chris Marker's two most well-known works have been compiled into one Criterion release, but only one of them is ...
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Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2 Review: A Very Entertaining Roster
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originating as a division of Lucasfilm in 1979, Pixar Animation Studios has gone onto the become one of the industry's ...
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California Solo Movie Review: A Formerly Famous Musician Faces His Demons
By Jade Blackmore |
California Solo, the latest film from director Marshall Lewy (Blue State), is about a musician's journey of self-discovery and redemption. ...
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Astonishing X-Men Blu-ray Collection Review: Joss Whedon Teams Up with Marvel Superheroes
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released under the Marvel Knights Animation banner, the Astonishing X-Men Collection Blu-ray presents the four motion comics adapted from the ...
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Weekend (1967) Criterion Collection DVD Review: For the True Cinephile
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I probably shouldn't have jumped at the first opportunity to review a film like Weekend (or ...
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Culinary Masterpieces: Special Edition Box Set Review: Appetizing Flicks
By Greg Barbrick |
The four films collected in the new Culinary Masterpieces box set provide an alluring glimpse into the world of high-end ...
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Brave (2012) Ultimate Collector’s Edition Review: Mothers and Daughters and Bears, Oh My!
By Gordon S. Miller |
Pixar breaks their tradition of stories featuring male lead characters with their 13th animated feature, Brave, a story about a ...
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection DVD Review: A Totally Tinsel Way to Spend Christmas
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez In 2009 ABC put out a Christmas special that blended the wit and animation of Pixar ...
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Bugs Bunny Superstar DVD Review: More Cartoon Than Documentary
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe By the mid-1970s, the Warner Bros. animation studio was long past its golden days, having peaked ...
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The Muppet Christmas Carol 20th Anniversary Blu-ray Review: It’s Not Easy Being Scrooge
By Shawn Bourdo |
I have to give some full disclosure before we get too far into my review of the 20th Anniversary release ...
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Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment Movie Review: Is the Kibbutz Kaputz?
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno As the invention of kibbutz breaches the 100-year mark, we find here a testament in film ...
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Blu-ray Review: Most Righteously Recommended, Dude
By Luigi Bastardo |
The year was 1989. It was an awkward twelve months all around, especially for a discomfited tween such as myself ...
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Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines DVD Review: Who Needs Originality When You Have Direct-to-Video?
By Luigi Bastardo |
A nearly-forgotten Canadian rock band from the '80s called Eight Seconds once declared in a tune "Your voice is for ...
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Dawn of the Dead (2012) Movie Review: Tunes, Tabs, and Tie-dye
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mike Bruno Dawn of the Dead is a documentary trying to explain the phenomenal impact of the Grateful Dead ...
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Dreams of a Life DVD Review: A Beautiful Yet Flawed Dream of a Lonely Life
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Kristen Lopez I applaud director Carol Morley for what she's crafted with her documentary Dreams of a Life. ...
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The Watch Blu-ray Review: The Don’t Watch
By Steve Geise |
Remember how funny many of Saturday Night Live's Digital Shorts were? Remember the ones that weren't, such as most of ...
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Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable DVD Review: Astonishing Cassaday
By Steve Geise |
I forgot how much I love John Cassaday's artwork. While writer Joss Whedon was the unquestionable star of the Astonishing ...
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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story DVD Review: Despite My Complaints, I Still Recommend It
By Chad Derdowski |
There is a moment during With Great Power…The Stan Lee Story in which Stan, retreading a well-worn adage regarding the ...
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The Sessions Movie Review: An Astonishingly Frank and Compassionate Film
By Critical curmudgeon |
The Sessions is one of the best films of 2012. Directed by Ben Lewin and based on the experiences of ...
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Woody Herman: Blue Flame DVD Review: An Impressive Story
By Greg Barbrick |
Although I was born long after the big-band era, I have an abiding appreciation for the music. One of the ...
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The Eagle (2011) Movie Review: Romans, Seal People, and an Epic Quest
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mule The Eagle is directed by Kevin Macdonald and stars Channing Tatum (Marcus), Jamie Bell (Esca), Donald Sutherland ...
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Rashomon (1950) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Restoration Shows Improvements, Not Perfection
By Steve Geise |
If you're reading this review, chances are you're fully familiar with this classic film and just have two questions: how's ...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
By Michelle Prather |
John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), the highly anticipated follow-up to Midnight Cowboy (1969) is an honest, often somber, account of what lovers will ...
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