Popeye (1980) Blu-ray Review: A Strange Little Miracle
By Mat Brewster |
That Popeye got made at all is a small wonder. That it is really quite wonderful is nothing short of ...
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The Shop Around the Corner Blu-ray Review: An Example of Ernst Lubitsch’s Genius
By Davy |
I don't have to tell you that legendary director Ernst Lubitsch remains one of the pioneers of the romantic-comedy genre ...
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Young Man with a Horn Blu-ray Review: Birth of the Cool
By Steve Geise |
Kirk Douglas was a force in Hollywood for so many decades that it's easy to forget that he was a ...
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Trading Places Blu-ray Review: A Comedic Look at Nature vs. Nurture
By Gordon S. Miller |
Paramount has recently released John Landis' Trading Places, a funny role-reversal story that's a throwback to the screwball comedies of ...
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Dear Santa (2020) Movie Review: A Lesson in Miracle
By Darcy Staniforth |
The United States Post Office has had quite a challenging year. Leadership changes, cutbacks, setbacks, and financial woes are just ...
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Zappa Movie Review: A Compelling Look at One of History’s Most Intriguing Musicians
By generaljabbo |
From director Alex Winter of Bill and Ted fame comes Zappa, a deep dive into the life and career of ...
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Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan Movie Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
Do you listen to the Pogues? If your answer is "no" or "I'm not sure", as the holidays are upon ...
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Weathering with You (Limited Collector’s Edition) 4K Ultra HD Review: Prettier Colors, More Insight
By Kent Conrad |
Whatever misgivings I had about 2019's Weathering With You when I reviewed it a couple of months ago in its initial ...
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The Golden Child Blu-ray Review: A Classic Callback to When Films Were Fun
By Todd Karella |
Once upon a time, in a century past, during a decade called the Eighties, there was a legendary man who ...
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Ammonite Movie Review: Winslet and Ronan Get Lost at Sea
By Matthew St.Clair |
Similar to director Francis Lee's feature debut God's Own Country, Ammonite is an incredibly minimalist romance set against the backdrop ...
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Chernobyl (2019) 4K Ultra HD Review: Harrowing, Horrifying Disaster Story
By Kent Conrad |
Chernobyl is a horror story with two monsters. One is technological, the other is human. The human horror caused the ...
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Saturday Night Live: The Early Years: The Best of Seasons 1-5 DVD Box Set Review
By Steve Geise |
This new box set cherry picks 33 complete episodes from the first five years of Saturday Night Live, acting as ...
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Saul and Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band Movie Review: A Vital Journey
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar Saul and Ruby's Holocaust Survivor Band makes for an excellent companion piece to The Lady in Number ...
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Dolly: The Ultimate Collection 19-Disc DVD Review: The Queen of Country Conquers TV
By Gordon S. Miller |
The first four volumes of Dolly: The Ultimate Collection from Time Life contains a massive amount of TV appearances across 19 discs ...
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The Irishman (2019) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Welcome Addition to Martin Scorsese’s Filmography
By Gordon S. Miller |
Martin Scorsese's epic The Irishman makes a fitting bookend to his gangster films as one mobster tells his story while ...
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The Pirate Blu-ray Review: Choppy Seas Lead to Treasure
By Steve Geise |
On paper, this classic musical has everything going for it. Headlined by the top-tier star pairing of Gene Kelly and ...
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Happiest Season Movie Review: A Vital Holiday Rom-Com
By Matthew St.Clair |
One way to describe co-writer/director Clea DuVall's Happiest Season is that it serves as a heartfelt holiday gem as satisfying as ...
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Book Review: Serpentine by Philip Pullman
By Greg Hammond |
Serpentine, by Philip Pullman, is the latest entry into the author’s much lauded His Dark Materials. Coming in at fewer ...
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Book Review: The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, edited by Una McCormack
By Greg Hammond |
The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, by Una McCormack, is the third book in a series of planned Star Trek “autobiographies” ...
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Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind DVD Review: Something Very Special
By Gordon S. Miller |
Named after Canadian troubadour Gordon Lightfoot's 1970 breakout hit in the United States, Martha Kehoe and Joan Tosoni's biographical documentary ...
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Jungleland Movie Review: Packs a Nearly Rigorous Punch
By Matthew St.Clair |
The newest fighting drama Jungleland feels like a cross between The Fighter and Of Mice and Men. Like the former ...
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I Spit on Your Grave Collector’s Edition Review: Mainly for Hardcore Fans of Cult Horror Film
By Davy |
If you discuss some of the most controversial films ever made, Meir Zarchi's 1978 still-divisive, cult-classic I Spit on Your Grave ...
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Daughters of Darkness (1971) 4K Ultra HD Review: Mysterious, Sensuous Vampire Story
By Kent Conrad |
On the first level, Daughters of Darkness is a film about a newly married couple who encounter an intriguing, if overly familiar ...
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Dating Amber Movie Review: Well-Acted and Painfully Frank
By Matthew St.Clair |
Dating Amber is easily the first coming-of-age queer story I've seen to give me such severe PTSD. Seeing the two ...
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Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Review: 26 Thrilling, Boys’ Adventures
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally running from September 18, 1964 - March 11, 1965, Jonny Quest is an animated, science fiction/adventure series from Hanna-Barbera Productions. It ...
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Where She Lies Movie Review: ‘It Was a Different Time’
By Darcy Staniforth |
There is a point in the new documentary, Where She Lies, where one of the interviewees uses the phrase, “It was ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry by Dan Curry and Ben Robinson
By Greg Hammond |
In Star Trek: The Artistry of Dan Curry by Dan Curry and Ben Robinson, the reader is constantly reminded that ...
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Stargirl: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: A Stellar Season
By Gordon S. Miller |
Disclaimer: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Cinema Sentries with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The ...
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown Deluxe Edition DVD Review: Only One Special Gets My Vote
By Gordon S. Miller |
You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown is the eighth Peanuts television special. It first aired in October 1972 before the U.S. Presidential election and ...
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5-Movie Collection from the Written Works of Stephen King Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
This collection packages five Paramount movies based on the writing of Stephen King. They are David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone (1983) based ...
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The Hit Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Gem of Film by Stephen Frears
By Davy |
The action film always comes with cliches, meaning that they usually contain car chases, explosions, and non-stop action. Sometimes these ...
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Kindred (2020) Movie Review: A Nearly Surface-Level Chiller
By Matthew St.Clair |
This year, we have a clear trend of eerily similar horror films about women dealing with gaslighting and fighting for ...
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The Plot Against America DVD Review: A Bland ‘What If’ Drama
By David Wangberg |
Based on Phillip Roth's novel of the same name, David Simon's adaptation of The Plot Against America takes a look at an ...
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Burt Sugarman’s The Soul of The Midnight Special: Volume 1 (1973-1976) DVD Review: A Soulful Nostalgia Trip
By Kit O'Toole |
Long before MTV, if you wanted to see your favorite artist perform their latest hits, you had limited choices: see ...
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Cold Light of Day (1989) Blu-ray Review: Portrait of a British Serial Killer
By Kent Conrad |
Obscure, cheap, short, and brutal, Cold Light of Day is a surprising discovery of British cinema. Shot on 16mm, the occasionally extremely ...
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Parasite (2019) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Rich Fam, Poor Fam
By David Wangberg |
One of the hardest things for a filmmaker to do is blend multiple genres together and do it so seamlessly. ...
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The Deeper You Dig Blu-ray Review: A Terrific Low-budget Horror
By Mat Brewster |
In a small, dark bar, in a small New York hamlet, Kurt (John Adams) eats a grubby little dinner and ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: My Psychedelic Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
(L-R): Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith in MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY. Photo Credit: Joanna Harcourt-Smith/Courtesy of SHOWTIME. My Psychedelic Love ...
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The Gunfighter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Price of Fame
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set in the Southwest Territory of the 1880s, a Texan named Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) was known the fastest gun. ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: Belushi
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set to air November 22 on Showtime, R.J. Cutler's Belushi is a standard biographical documentary that tells the regrettably all-too-familiar ...
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The Mothman Legacy Movie Review: For an Audience New to the Legend
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you grew up in a town that has local legends, you no doubt grew up hearing the stories that ...
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Graveyards of Honor Blu-ray Review: Grim Yakuza Renegade Dramas
By Kent Conrad |
Both Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike were unlikely survivors in their different eras of Japanese cinema. They both were highly ...
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AFI Fest 2020 Review: Wolfwalkers
By Gordon S. Miller |
Made by the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s Wolfwalkers is the third in Moore's Irish ...
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By Darcy Staniforth |
Do you remember where you were when you learned that your life had just changed forever? Perhaps it was when ...
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The Captains Collection Blu-ray Review: Exploring Star Trek with William Shatner
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Captains Collection is a four-disc set from Shout Factory! that presents four Star Trek-related documentaries written and directed by William Shatner ...
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The Forty-Year-Old Version Movie Review: A Winningly Profound Directorial Debut
By Matthew St.Clair |
The benefit of artistic expression is that it allows artists to vent their frustrations. Whether it’s through a script, a ...
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Warning from Space Blu-ray Review: Starmen Waiting in the Sky
By Kent Conrad |
All science fiction is dated. Even the most up-to-the-minute, forward-looking piece of work is still a work of its time, ...
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Claudine Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Ahead of Its Time
By Davy |
In the 1970s, the blaxploitation genre of film exploded, and it was usually centered on stories of masculine black men, ...
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Batman: Death in the Family Interactive Movie Review: Ready Viewer One
By Gordon S. Miller |
A sequel to the animated film Batman: Under The Red Hood, which I previously reviewed, Batman: Death in the Family is an animated film ...
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Totally Under Control Movie Review: Timely and Timeless
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar The obligation while reviewing documentaries that has always challenged and fascinated me is to create ...
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