The Lawyer (2020) Movie Review: Builds a Solid Case
By Matthew St.Clair |
Given how The Lawyer is about two men who form an instant connection as they take part in online dating, it offers ...
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The Sign of the Cross Blu-ray Review: Saints and Debauchery in a Pre-Code Epic
By Mat Brewster |
Claudette Colbert naked in a bath filled donkey's milk. Well, topless at least. And the milk was powdered cow's milk ...
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Blu-ray Review: Slick ’90s Horror Anthology
By Kent Conrad |
The anthology movie seems like it is always going out of style, and yet it seems to crop up again ...
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Cry Freedom Blu-ray Review: A Fight for Justice
By Mat Brewster |
As our culture continues to shift towards something like equality, it is difficult sometimes to watch and critique older films ...
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There’s Always Tomorrow Blu-ray Review: A Nuanced Portrayal of a Man Grown Bored with His Life
By Mat Brewster |
Twelve years after making the perfect film noir, Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwcyk starred in another movie about a married ...
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The Flash (2014): The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray Review: The Stakes Have Gotten Higher but the Fun Has Gotten Smaller
By Mat Brewster |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided Mat Brewster with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this post. The opinions ...
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Toni Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Influential French Drama
By Mat Brewster |
In 1934, acclaimed French director Jean Renoir left the studio in Paris and headed for the countryside in the south ...
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Town Bloody Hall Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Verbal Battle of the Sexes
By Davy |
Documentaries, more than any other category of film, successfully (or sometimes unsuccessfully) captures reality at its most uncomfortable means. Whatever ...
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Tender Mercies Blu-ray Review: A Gentle, Beautiful Film
By Mat Brewster |
Two men brawl over a bottle of whiskey in a run-down old motel room. One man falls, or is possibly ...
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The King of Staten Island Blu-ray Review: Judd Apatow Has Made His Most Realized Work
By Davy |
There have been so many coming-of-age movies about young people growing up, dealing with the pressures of life, love, family ...
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Angela Winkler Is Sensational
By Davy |
In today's uncivilized world where humanity comes second (or dead last) to politics and where the police take the law ...
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Book Review: Joe Alves: Designing Jaws by Dennis Prince
By Gordon S. Miller |
Special make-up effects artist and The Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero, who cites Steven Spielberg's Jaws as an inspiration for his becoming a ...
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Chemical Hearts Movie Review: Teenage-romance Turns Contemplative
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar Three minutes into Chemical Hearts, you understand that the film is twisting the teenage-romance genre. It places ...
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Coup 53 Movie Review: Transmutes Intricacy into Intrigue
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar The facet of documentary filmmaking that excites me most is the aftermath of the release. ...
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All I Desire Blu-ray Review: Can Barbara Stanwyck Go Home Again?
By Elizabeth Periale |
Kino Lorber's KL Studio Classics has released All I Desire, from 1953, a romantic melodrama featuring Barbara Stanwyck, from the producer/director ...
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Life Is a Long Quiet River Blu-ray Review: It Could Use a Few Noisy Rapids
By Mat Brewster |
A nurse, Josette (Catherine Heigel), is in love with Doctor Mavial (Daniel Gélin), whom she works for. He continues to ...
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Raid on Rommel Blu-ray Review: Raids Other Films for Ideas
By Mat Brewster |
As an American of 40 some odd years of age, I'm ashamed to admit I don't know that much about ...
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DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Fifth Season Review: So Much Fun
By Mat Brewster |
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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Batwoman: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: The Arrowverse Finally Goes to Gotham
By Mat Brewster |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this article. The opinions ...
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Backlash (1956) Blu-ray Review: Searching for Gold and Daddy
By Mat Brewster |
A woman rides up to a man digging in the dirt in what appears to be an abandoned camp out ...
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Bloodstone Blu-ray Review: Indiana Jones and the B-Movie Knock-Off
By Mat Brewster |
Arrow Video continues to release HD versions of the film of Greek director/writer/producer Nico Mastorakis, and I am here for ...
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Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story Movie Review: Yes, Sir. I Do Like It
By Darcy Staniforth |
Do you know what rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, and over your neighbor's dog? Do you know who ...
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Pretending I’m a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story Movie Review: A Retrospective Lead-in to an Anticipated Remake
By Mark Buckingham |
With the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake dropping in a couple weeks (September 4, 2020 to be exact), what ...
Read More Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies Movie Review: A Flesh-filled Journey that Lacks a Critical Eye
By Darcy Staniforth |
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies is the new documentary that chronicles the storied history of nudity in American ...
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Book Review: Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists by Various
By Mark Buckingham |
I took the opportunity to review Alien: 40 Years 40 Artists because I'm an Alien nut, then realized I don't really know anything about ...
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The Eagle and the Hawk Blu-ray Review: World War I Was Hell
By Mat Brewster |
Over the last few months, I've watched three World War I films (All Quiet on the Western Front, Paths of Glory, and ...
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Before the Fire (2020) Movie Review: A Timely Thriller that Flames Out
By David Wangberg |
There's a lot that happens in the opening moments of Before the Fire that immediately feels tense and eerie, given the current ...
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Sukiyaki Western Django Blu-ray Review: The Good, the Bad, and the Quentin
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Takashi Miike rose to international fame around the turn of the century with a string of audacious cult classic ...
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Hiroshima Blu-ray Review: Unrelenting Terror
By Mat Brewster |
The sky is a pale blue. Big, white clouds float by. It looks peaceful. It won't for long. This is ...
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Lucky Grandma Blu-ray Review: Don’t Mess with Grandma
By Elizabeth Periale |
After her husband's death and an auspicious fortune-telling reading, chain-smoking, cranky Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin - Joy Luck Club, Casino Royale) ...
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Black Rainbow Blu-ray Review: A Spiritual Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
What happens when your fake medium act turns real? When you've been pretending to see visions of dead people in ...
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She Dies Tomorrow Movie Review: Meditation on Impending Doom
By Kent Conrad |
The premise is in the title: She Dies Tomorrow. She knows she's going to. She's certain of it. So certain ...
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Old Boyfriends Blu-ray Review: Girl Trip
By Elizabeth Periale |
Diane Cruise (Talia Shire) is a psychiatrist who doesn't seem to have any sense of herself in Old Boyfriends (1979), presented with ...
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The Quest (1986) Blu-ray Review: Sit This Adventure Out
By Mat Brewster |
Fresh off the enormous success of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Henry Thomas, the fresh-faced star of that film must have been offered ...
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Zombie for Sale Blu-ray Review: A New Take on an Old Genre
By Mat Brewster |
One would think the zombie movie would be completely played out by now. There have been countless films about the ...
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Ride Your Wave Blu-ray Review: Touching Romance Becomes Ghost Story
By Kent Conrad |
For the first half hour of Ride Your Wave, it seems like Masaaki Yuasa was tackling something he'd only ever flirted ...
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Audie Murphy Collection Blu-ray Review: War Hero Becomes a Movie Star
By Mat Brewster |
Towards the end of the tenth and final episode of Band of Brothers, HBO's acclaimed miniseries that follows Easy Company from ...
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Wonder Woman: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Warner Bros. Brings Us Exactly What We Need
By Rons Reviews |
In 1975, America found itself in strange times. The president had resigned, we had experienced an energy crisis, and Archie ...
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Summerland Movie Review: A Satisfactory Lesbian Drama
By Matthew St.Clair |
After starring as Vita Sackville-West in Vita & Virginia, Gemma Arterton continues her small niche of starring in lesbian period dramas ...
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Tony Curtis Collection Blu-ray Review: Charming
By Mat Brewster |
Reason #473 that I love boutique labels such a Kino Lorber: they allow us to dig into various genres and ...
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Carole Lombard Collection I Blu-ray Review: An Early Glimpse of the Queen of Screwball Comedy
By Elizabeth Periale |
Kino Lorber Studio Classics have released a Blu-ray collection of three pre-Code films featuring Golden Age of Hollywood star Carole ...
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Castle Rock: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: A Stronger Stephen King Feel to It
By Lorna Miller |
Having read numerous Stephen King books and loving so many movies based on them, I was really excited for the ...
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Blu-ray Review: A Suspenseful Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is an exciting, action-packed film that goes beyond being just a sequel to 2011's Captain ...
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Dream Demon Blu-ray Review: Newly-Unearthed ’80s Horror Fantasy
By Kent Conrad |
An obscure British release from 1988 that never made it to the states theatrically, Dream Demon's major problem is that it ...
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Worst Cartoons Ever! DVD Review: They Stink!
By Gordon S. Miller |
[It was a tradition Friday nights at San Diego Comic Con to visit Jerry Beck's long-running panel, Worst Cartoons Ever!, ...
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Most Wanted (2020) Movie Review: A Middling Crime Drama with Identity Crisis
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Ram Venkat Srikar Daniel Roby's Most Wanted (also known as Target Number One) begins with Daniel Léger (Antoine Olivier Pilon) a ...
Read More The Whistlers (2020) Movie Review: Barely a Peep
By David Wangberg |
One of the review pull quotes I originally saw for The Whistlers noted that it was like something the Coen Brothers would ...
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Book Review: Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director by Peter Tonguette
By Jack Cormack |
Director Peter Bogdanovich is neither misunderstood nor unappreciated, I think. His claim to fame as a movie brat (though he might ...
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Blu-ray Review: W.C. Fields’ Last Star Turn Delivers Laughs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is W.C, Fields last outing as the star of a film. He also ...
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Taste of Cherry Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Not to Everyone’s Taste
By Steve Geise |
Abbas Kiarostami's understated film won the prestigious Palme d'Or Award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, leading to its initial ...
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