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Rashomon Criterion Collection DVD Review: The Best of the Best

By Greg Barbrick | Nov 6, 2012

Director Akira Kurosawa (1919-1998) was known as “The Emperor” of Japanese film for a few reasons. For those he worked ...

Red Dust DVD Review: A Hot Time in Old Indochina

By Cinema Sentries | Nov 5, 2012

Written by Brandie Ashe Dennis Carson (Clark Gable) has plenty of trouble: the rubber trees on his plantation in Indochina ...

Rudyard Kipling’s Mark of the Beast (2012) DVD Review: It’ll Make a Nice Coaster

By Mark Buckingham | Nov 3, 2012

There are two kinds of good horror movies. The first is the one that offers genuine scares, relying on excellent ...

Reservoir Dogs Movie Review: An Outstanding Debut

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 2, 2012

Before technology fragmented culture by increasing access, options, and the rate of change, the counterculture had a greater impact on ...

Rosemary’s Baby Criterion Collection DVD Review: A Masterful Film

By Greg Barbrick | Nov 2, 2012

There have been countless movies that were either so shocking, or just captured the zeitgeist of the culture so well ...

TIFF 2012 Review: The Bay

By Gordon S. Miller | Nov 2, 2012

When speaking after the Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness screening of The Bay, director Barry Levinson explained that the film ...

Paul Williams Still Alive Movie Review: Tells the Story of the Man More than the Songwriter

By Jade Blackmore | Nov 2, 2012

Director Stephen Kessler didn't idolize the usual guitar-toting rock star when he was a kid in Queens, NY. He idolized ...

Vamps (2012) DVD Review: Light on Laughs, Heavy on Nostalgia

By Cinema Sentries | Nov 1, 2012

Written by Kristen Lopez Director Amy Heckerling shaped my adolescence, as I'm sure she did many girls. Her two biggest ...

Flight Movie Review: Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Washington Soar, Script Crashes

By Steve Geise | Oct 31, 2012

After spending most of the last decade laboring over a string of motion-capture CG films I'd prefer to forget, director ...

Circle Jerks: My Career as a Jerk DVD Review: A Wonderful Documentary

By Darcy Staniforth | Oct 29, 2012

If you know anything about punk rock, you know the Circle Jerks. They were one of L.A.'s most seminal and ...

The Game (1997) Criterion Collection DVD Review: Edgy and Uneven, But It Grows on You

By Luigi Bastardo | Oct 27, 2012

There's nothing taking time out of your everyday boring routine to play a fun game with your friends. In the ...

Sound of My Voice Blu-ray Review: A Taut, Controlled Thriller

By Dusty Somers | Oct 26, 2012

The Film An impressively controlled and thoroughly transfixing thriller, Sound of My Voice is a film where almost nothing is ...

Take This Waltz DVD Review: Not as Good as the Trailer

By Cinema Sentries | Oct 26, 2012

Written by Trisha Stucker Margot (Michelle Williams) writes travel brochures and is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook ...

The Black Tulip (2010) Movie Review: A Cluttered, Lumbering, Simplistic Mess

By Critical curmudgeon | Oct 25, 2012

Directed by activist, director and actress Sonia Nassery Cole, The Black Tulip is Afghanistan's official entry for the 2011 Academy ...

The Slut Movie Review: A Provoking but Detached Film from Israel

By Critical curmudgeon | Oct 24, 2012

At the beginning of Hagar Ben-Asher's The Slut, a horse leaps over a fence, runs freely, and is eventually hit ...

The Robert Mitchum Film Collection DVD Review: A Gallant Line-up of Shamelessly Repackaged Releases

By Luigi Bastardo | Oct 24, 2012

In keeping up with their recent line-up of Film Collection releases (box sets featuring highlights from Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, ...

Quantum of Solace Movie Review: A Rebooted James Bond Takes Two Steps Backward

By Dusty Somers | Oct 24, 2012

The second Daniel Craig Bond film is a good reminder that despite a new actor, new visual aesthetic, and new ...

Les Visiteurs du Soir Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Medieval Tale of Love and Fate

By Luigi Bastardo | Oct 24, 2012

In late 1942, when the surreal French fantasy Les Visiteurs du Soir was first released in good ol' gai Paris, ...

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye DVD Review: Should be Titled Plastic Surgery Disasters

By Greg Barbrick | Oct 23, 2012

At its core, the tale of Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye is a heartbreaking love story. As everything the musical ...

The Ice House (1997) DVD Review: A Twisty Mystery Sporting a Young James Bond

By Mark Buckingham | Oct 22, 2012

In the U.S., it wouldn't surprise me to hear that people only know Daniel Craig as James Bond and possibly ...

Beatles Stories DVD Review: Tales Even Hardcore Beatles Fans May Not Know

By Michelle Prather | Oct 21, 2012

It's difficult not to be wary of new Beatles-related documentaries, especially considering some of the Netflix titles that appear alluring ...

The Raven (2012) Blu-ray Review: Quoth the Reviewer, Worth Watching

By Lorna Miller | Oct 21, 2012

I love murder mysteries; given my choice of any genre, this is what I will pick every time. To get ...

Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story Movie Review: An Enlightening Documentary

By Chad Derdowski | Oct 21, 2012

While I've been familiar with their name for some time, most often hearing it spoken with reverence, I can't say ...

Turn Me On, Dammit! Movie Review: Ghost World with a Libido

By Cinema Sentries | Oct 21, 2012

Written by Trisha Stucker How many teenage movies are about boys hoping to hook up with girls? Yeah, a lot ...

Casino Royale (2006) Movie Review: James Bond Gets a Reboot in a Remake and It’s Remarkable

By Mat Brewster | Oct 20, 2012

We were very big Remington Steele fans, my family and I. So much so that we still tell this story ...

People Like Us (2012) Blu-ray Review: Wait, This Isn’t the Sequel to Spies Like Us

By Luigi Bastardo | Oct 20, 2012

Family. Yes, there's nothing like your own flesh and blood to screw up your entire existence and make you never ...

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In the Mood for Love Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Astonishing Meditation on Longing

By Critical curmudgeon | Oct 18, 2012

Wong Kar-wai's wonderful, stunning In the Mood for Love sparkles on Blu-ray thanks to Criterion Collection. The 2000 film, nominated ...

Chernobyl Diaries Blu-ray Review: A Radioactive Turd

By Chad Derdowski | Oct 17, 2012

What's the worst that could happen when a group of vacationing teens decide to embark on a bit of “extreme ...

The Face of Fu Manchu DVD Review: Obey Fu Manchu or Hey, Nice Moustache!

By Critical curmudgeon | Oct 17, 2012

Designed strictly for lovers of pulp serials and potboilers, The Face of Fu Manchu is a dated Don Sharp joint ...

Down in the Flood DVD Review: Bob Dylan and the Band Examined in New Documentary

By writeonmusic | Oct 17, 2012

Bob Dylan had just rewritten his own rules and those of nearly every other popular musician as well by abandoning ...

Bait 3D (2012) Blu-ray Review: Sharks in a Supermarket

By Luigi Bastardo | Oct 17, 2012

Russell Mulcahy, ladies and gentlemen. Fans of a certain franchise about an immortal Scotsman who says "There can be only ...

The War Room Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Peek Behind the Campaign Curtain

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 16, 2012

While the campaigns for United States President seem to grow increasingly relentless with every cycle, especially in so-called battleground states, ...

The Forgiveness of Blood Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Nik Full of Angst

By Steve Geise | Oct 16, 2012

Remember Maria Full of Grace? Writer/director Joshua Marston's 2004 film about a Colombian drug mule garnered international acclaim and recognition ...