Tomorrow Never Dies Movie Review: Enter The Dragon
By Steve Geise |
I've seen all of the Bond movies. I've read all of the original Fleming novels. And yet, this DVD is ...
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Rock of Ages Blu-ray Review: Overstuffed Rock That Lasts Ages
By Steve Geise |
Sherrie and Drew are destined to meet and fall in love. She's just a small town girl, livin' in a ...
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Produced by George Martin Blu-ray Review: A Stroll Down Melody Lane with Britain’s Most Lauded Music Maker
By Michelle Prather |
This January, Sir George Martin CBE turns 87. The reserved, seemingly guarded young man with movie-star looks and ears that ...
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GoldenEye Movie Review: The Best, Though Most Conservative, Modern James Bond Film
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ben Platko I am far too young to remember most Bond movies opening, and GoldenEye is no exception. ...
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Licence to Kill Movie Review: Reconsidering the Revoking
By Gordon S. Miller |
Licence to Kill is the 16th installment in the James Bond franchise and was the second and ultimately final appearance ...
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Lola Versus Blu-ray Review: Films About Breaking up Are Hard to Do
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Amanda Salazar Lola Versus is a breakup comedy disguised as something edgy and different that doesn’t quite cut ...
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel DVD Review: Well Worth a Visit
By Lorna Miller |
I admit that I loved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel before I watched it. The preview brought me to tears ...
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The Babymakers Blu-ray Review: Finally, A Lifetime Movie Made for Men
By Mark Buckingham |
The guys behind the comedy team Broken Lizard (Jay Chandrasekhar, Erik Stolhanske, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter) have a ...
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Surviving Progress DVD Review: How to Temper a Double-Edged Sword
By Mark Buckingham |
Surviving Progress takes a look at the advancements human beings have made over the last few thousand years, what our ...
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The Living Daylights Movie Review: It’s Not Easy Being the New Guy, Especially When You’re the New Guy’s Substitute
By Luigi Bastardo |
As anyone who ever found themselves making that awkward transition from one school to another during their years spent in ...
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Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender Blu-ray Review: Queen’s Frontman Gets the Royal Treatment
By Chad Derdowski |
One of the most unique voices in rock music and arguably the greatest front man to grace the stage, Freddie ...
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Snow White and the Huntsman Blu-ray Review: A Visual Spectacle, But Not Quite a Classic Reborn
By Mark Buckingham |
It’s been many years since I saw the Disney incarnation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, so the first ...
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The Delta Force Blu-ray Review: Chuck Norris Negotiates Peace in the Middle East
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Cannon logo appears with Alan Silvestri’s synthesizer score playing underneath, it signals viewers are about to watch an ...
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Total Recall (2012) Movie Review: Get Your Ass To, Well, Britain, I Guess
By Mark Buckingham |
There are a few iconic things that come to mind when someone mentions Total Recall (1990) — Mars, over-the-top effects, ...
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Diplomatic Courier DVD Review: A Sturdy, if Unremarkable Cold War Thriller
By Dusty Somers |
It’s not particularly stylish and there’s little subtext to Henry Hathaway’s 1952 Cold War espionage drama Diplomatic Courier, but it ...
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Weekend (2011) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Moving, Deceptively Complex Film
By Dusty Somers |
The Film When I first saw Andrew Haigh’s Weekend last year during a blitz of awards-season catch-up, I appreciated its ...
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A View to a Kill Movie Review: I Want My MTV
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz Okay. Confession time. I specifically chose to review A View to a Kill (1985), the fourteenth ...
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Holy Flying Circus DVD Review: A Pythonesque Look at the Controversy Surrounding Life of Brian
By Greg Barbrick |
Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuted on the BBC way back in 1969. To call it “ground-breaking” is an understatement. The ...
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Children of Paradise Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cinematic Paradise
By Steve Geise |
At first glance, this film might seem like a poor candidate for greatness, or even relevance in our era. It’s ...
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Never Say Never Again Collector’s Edition DVD Review: Sean Connery Plays His Most Famous Role One Last Time
By generaljabbo |
The year 1983 was strange, but interesting for James Bond fans. It saw the release of Octopussy, starring the then ...
Read More Lonesome (1928) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Sometimes, Happiness is Just a Neighbor Away
By Luigi Bastardo |
There’s nothing like a little alone time to give you some perspective on your situation in life — especially when ...
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Zombie A-Hole DVD Review: A Worthwhile Throwback to Less-Than-Serious Horror Movies of Yore
By Mark Buckingham |
Having recently reviewed Richard Griffin’s The Disco Exorcist, I initially mistook Dustin Mills’ Zombie A-Hole as having been a creation ...
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Oslo, August 31st DVD Review: A Brilliant, Thoughtful Piece of Art
By Critical curmudgeon |
When one feels that life is passing him or her by, it can be unbearable to see those who “have ...
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Born to Be Bad (1950) DVD Review: A Cinematic Mystery Solved
By Will McKinley |
Part soapy potboiler, part society noir, Nicholas Ray's Born to Be Bad is, in the bowdlerized version released by RKO ...
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Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer DVD Review
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Lisa McKay The fine film lovers at the Criterion Collection recently released a two-disk set containing the first ...
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The Game (1997) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Fast-paced Thrill Ride
By Lorna Miller |
David Fincher is one of my all-time favorite directors. He instantly captured my attention with Se7en; I had never seen ...
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Octopussy Movie Review: Can’t Live Up To Its Name
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a kid, my family and I would spend a couple of weeks with my dad's clan in ...
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TIFF 2012 Review: Storm Surfers 3D: A Marvelous Adventure
By Gordon S. Miller |
Australians Tom Carroll and Ross Clarke-Jones are well-known figures in the world of surfing. Carroll, age 49, had a Hall ...
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About Cherry Movie Review: Could Have Been About So Much More
By Darcy Staniforth |
About Cherry is a film about Angelina (Ashley HinShaw) a pretty girl who likes boys in bands and comes from ...
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For Your Eyes Only Movie Review: At Least the Title Track is Good
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Nazarewycz For Your Eyes Only (1981) marks the twelfth installment in the James Bond franchise, and the ...
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Sacrifice (2010) DVD Review: Not Worth Your Time Sacrifice
By Steve Geise |
Highly esteemed director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) spins an intriguing revenge yarn in his latest film but is undone ...
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Battle Circus DVD Review: Bogart Plays M*A*S*H Doctor
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe The description for 1953’s Battle Circus, now available on made-to-order DVD through the Warner Archive, labels ...
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Moonraker Movie Review: Even an Established Film Franchise Can Bow to a New Trend
By Luigi Bastardo |
After 33 years, what is honestly left to be said about Moonraker that hasn't already been touched upon? I certainly ...
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The Spy Who Loved Me Movie Review: One of the Franchise’s Best
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the prologue to The Spy Who Loved Me, author Ian Fleming claimed it was a manuscript by a Canadian ...
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The Foxes of Harrow DVD Review: Drags to the Point of Tedium
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Brandie Ashe When it comes to antebellum costume pictures, the inarguable standard-bearers are Jezebel (1938) and Gone With ...
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H.P. Lovecraft’s The Whisperer in Darkness Blu-ray Review: We’re Lucky to Have It
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Max Naylor Everyone enjoys H.P. Lovecraft. That is to say, I think there’s something universally appealing about Lovecraft’s ...
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The Man with the Golden Gun Movie Review: All That’s Gold Does Not Glitter
By Gordon S. Miller |
Roger Moore made his second appearance as James Bond in The Man with the Golden Gun, which saw the secret ...
Read More Quadrophenia Criterion Collection DVD Review: Dressed Right For a Beach Fight
By generaljabbo |
Though much of the music listened to by the so-called mods and rockers in mid-1960s England gets played on the ...
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SpokAnarchy! DVD Review: An Excellent Documentary
By Greg Barbrick |
Spokane, WA is about as unlikely a place I can think of to have developed a thriving punk scene in ...
Read More Ali: The Man, The Moves, The Mouth DVD Review: Pulls Too Many Punches
By Rons Reviews |
Ali: The Man, The Moves, The Mouth is full of the same content we have seen in every other documentary ...
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Weekend (2011) Criterion Collection DVD Review: An Intimate Portrait of New Love
By Michelle Prather |
Weekend is a quiet, but candid, glimpse of how a seemingly fleeting attraction between two people with distinct identities can ...
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Queen: Greatest Video Hits DVD Review: Talent, Style, and Grace on Display
By Greg Barbrick |
If ever there were a band suited to the format of music videos, Queen were it. Even though there were ...
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Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: 116 Minutes of Vileness
By Gordon S. Miller |
Salò is the most repulsive film I have ever seen. So much so that I completely understand the censorship it ...
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Lonesome Criterion Collection DVD Review: Groundbreaking Cinema That Should Not Be Missed
By Greg Barbrick |
Paul Fejos (1897-1963) directed something of a “lost” classic with Lonesome (1928). The Criterion Collection have just released a digitally ...
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Live and Let Die Movie Review: Do You Ever Really Forget Your First (Bond)?
By Shawn Bourdo |
In the last 50 years, most people have seen at least one James Bond film. Mine happened in 1973 at ...
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Quadrophenia Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: We Are the 5.1 Mods
By Steve Geise |
Even if you’ve seen this film before, you’ve never seen it like this. Boasting a complete restoration including a new ...
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For All Mankind Criterion Collection DVD Review: A Great Source of Inspiration
By Gordon S. Miller |
Using the 16mm footage recorded during the nine manned Moon flights between December 1968 and November 1972, director Alan Reinert ...
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty DVD Review: Entertaining and Educational
By Rons Reviews |
In Life Begins at Eight-Thirty, which references the time the curtain goes up on Broadway, Ida Lupino plays Kathy, a ...
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Trek Nation Movie Review: The Search for Dad
By Rons Reviews |
In attempt to find out more about the father he lost at 17 and the science-fiction empire he built, Rod ...
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Bonsai DVD Review: Surprisingly Low on the ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’
By Critical curmudgeon |
Directed by Cristián Jiménez and based on a novel by Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, Bonsái is an affectionate film about ...
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