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The World in His Arms Blu-ray Review: Swashbuckling Gregory Peck

By Mat Brewster | Jul 17, 2020

Last week I watched three films that are part of Kino Lorber's ongoing Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema collection. After ...

Marriage Story Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Emotionally Brutal and Full of Life

By Davy | Jul 17, 2020

I'm not an expert on marriage, but seeing many films about it, I guess I can at least say that ...

The Mad Fox Blu-ray Review: Kabuki-styled Cinematic Fantasia

By Kent Conrad | Jul 16, 2020

Tomu Uchida is not one of the big names of Japanese cinema in the West, even though he had been ...

Murder by Decree (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Fogbound

By Jack Cormack | Jul 16, 2020

Murder by Decree is one of the better Sherlock Holmes movies. Directed by Bob Clark, it features an all-star cast. Christopher ...

Book Review: Gramercy Park by Timothée de Fombelle and Christian Cailleaux

By Mat Brewster | Jul 15, 2020

On top of a tall building stands a woman. She keeps bees. She talks to them. She loves them. Across ...

This Island Earth Blu-ray Review: Highly Recommended for the Sci-fi Film Buff

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 14, 2020

Based on Raymond F. Jones's 1952 novel of the same name, which appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories as a trilogy of novelettes: ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IV Blu-ray Review: Too Much Melodrama, Not Enough Noir

By Mat Brewster | Jul 10, 2020

For Part IV of their Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series Kino Lorber Studio Classics is releasing three films from ...

The Old Guard Movie Review: An Insightful Thrill Ride

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 10, 2020

Unlike usual film adaptations of comic books, it's hard to necessarily label The Old Guard as a superhero film. It does feature ...

America as Seen by a Frenchman Blu-ray Review: A Fascinating Snapshot in Time

By Mat Brewster | Jul 9, 2020

I've been lucky enough to have done a bit of traveling in my life. I've lived in France, Belgium, and ...

Blood Tide Blu-ray Review: Fun and Monsters in the Greek Sun

By Mat Brewster | Jul 8, 2020

Can I consider myself a fan of a filmmaker after hating one of his films, liking another one, and kind-of ...

Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of Shinya Tsukamoto Blu-ray Box Set Review

By Steve Geise | Jul 8, 2020

If you've seen one Tsukamoto film, you definitely haven't seen them all, as evidenced by this amazing new box set ...

Relic (2020) Movie Review: Gritty Familial Horror with Supernatural Elements

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 8, 2020

Relic is a rare example of an atmospheric horror film that opts for sadness rather than scares. While it does present ...

Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo Movie Review: A Complex and Compelling Story

By Darcy Staniforth | Jul 7, 2020

As a culture, we love all kinds of stories. Stories of people coming from nothing to achieve great success. Stories ...

Inferno of Torture Blu-ray Review: Torsos, Tattoos, and Torture

By Kent Conrad | Jul 7, 2020

Inferno of Torture is the third of Teruo Ishii's ero-guro (erotic grotesque) films that have recently been released by Arrow Video. Orgies ...

Game of HAM Review: Outrageous Fun for Those Not Easily Offended

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 4, 2020

Much in the way that the makers of Cards Against Humanity created their “adult” version of Apples to Apples by putting a risque spin ...

The Flesh and the Fiends Blu-ray Review: Selling Corpses in Scotland

By Mat Brewster | Jul 3, 2020

For centuries the science of anatomy lagged behind other fields of study due to cultural norms and religious beliefs concerning ...

The Truth (2019) Movie Review: Truthfully Middle-Ground

By Matthew St.Clair | Jul 2, 2020

In a way, The Truth feels like a spiritual sequel to Clouds of Sils Maria. Another film distributed by IFC Films dealing with ...

Urban Cowboy Blu-ray Review: The Devil Should Have Gone Down to Texas Instead

By Jack Cormack | Jul 2, 2020

Urban Cowboy (1980) is one of those faddish films that has aged poorly. John Travolta plays Bud Davis, a country boy ...

Wild Palms Blu-ray Review: It’s No Twin Peaks

By Steve Geise | Jul 1, 2020

In the wake of the spectacular rise and fall of the original Twin Peaks, its network ABC was keen to produce ...

Narrow Margin (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: Strangers on a Canadian Train

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 30, 2020

Journeyman Peter Hyams performs triple duty (director, cinematographer, and screenwriter) on enjoyable albeit formulaic thriller Narrow Margin (1990), a remake of The Narrow ...

South Park: The Complete Twenty-Third Season Blu-ray Review: Maintaining Their Tegridy

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 28, 2020

Written and directed by Trey Parker, the twenty-third season finds the citizens of South Park continue to deal with current ...

Athlete A Movie Review: Moving Documentation of an Immense Tragedy and a Gargantuan Triumph

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 27, 2020

Written by Ram Venkat Srikar The greatest achievement of any great documentary is that it can actually change lives. Indirectly, ...

Suzi Q Movie Review: Looks at the Groundbreaking Career of Rocker Suzi Quatro

By Jade Blackmore | Jun 26, 2020

Australian director Liam Firmager spent four years working on Suzi Q, the definitive documentary of Detroit-born rock star Suzi Quatro, who rocketed ...

Book Review: Run-Out Groove: Inside Capitol’s 1980s Hits & Stiffs by Dave Morrell

By Kit O'Toole | Jun 26, 2020

In the 1980s, everything seemed bigger: the fashions, the drugs, the money, and even the sound of music. For Dave ...

House of Hummingbird Movie Review: A Coming-of-Age Story with Peculiar Wings

By Matthew St.Clair | Jun 25, 2020

The aptly titled House of Hummingbird follows 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hoo) as she tries to fly her way through life without a ...

Book Review: Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes by Lun Zhang

By David Wangberg | Jun 24, 2020

I was not even five years old when the events of Tiananmen Square took place in Beijing, China in 1989. ...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Burning Bright

By Steve Geise | Jun 23, 2020

Writer/director Celine Sciamma's latest film is both exhilarating and depressing: spellbinding because of its absolute excellence and disheartening because it ...

Disclosure (2020) Movie Review: Emotionally Informative

By Matthew St.Clair | Jun 22, 2020

Disclosure is a look at the way the trans community is represented in the media told through the voices of artists ...

Book Review: Superman: The Silver Age Sundays, Volume 2 (1963-1966)

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 21, 2020

Written By Chad Derdowski For more than 25 years, the Man of Steel fought for truth and justice in newspapers ...

The Cameraman Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Star Begins to Fade

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 20, 2020

Although a talented filmmaker, Buster Keaton wasn't a great business man and his box-office struggles caused him to sign on ...

White Fire, The Wind, and Why Don’t You Just Die! Blu-rays Review: Three from Arrow Video

By Mat Brewster | Jun 19, 2020

As the world continues to move towards consuming media through an increasing number of streaming platforms, there is a niche ...

The Short History of the Long Road Movie Review: A Subversive Portrayal of Adolescence

By Matthew St.Clair | Jun 18, 2020

The Short History of the Long Road is a simple, slice-of-life road movie that takes some jarring U-turns. What starts off as ...

Babyteeth Movie Review: Melancholia and Merriment Go Hand-in-hand

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 17, 2020

Written By Ram Venkat Srikar It's been a while since I shed a tear while watching a movie. With Babyteeth, though, I ...

Hot Docs 2020 Review: All That I Am

By Darcy Staniforth | Jun 17, 2020

Imagine being six years old and the stepfather who is supposed to provide for you and protect you, repeatedly violates ...

Friday the 13th (40th Anniversary) Steelbook Blu-ray Review: There Was This One Time at Camp Crystal Lake…

By David Wangberg | Jun 17, 2020

Confession time. The Friday the 13th franchise is one that I've largely ignored my whole life. Call it snobbery, call it what ...

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) Blu-ray Review: Love and Madness

By Kent Conrad | Jun 16, 2020

Morgan is going mad. Or maybe he was always a little mad, but it became too much and wasn't as ...

7500 Movie Review: Largely Free of Turbulence

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 15, 2020

Written By Ram Venkat Srikar Unlike other movies based on flight-hijacking - Air Force One, Passenger 57, Operation Thunderbolt, or say Non-stop - in which ...

Lonely Are the Brave Blu-ray Review: The Last Cowboy

By Jack Cormack | Jun 14, 2020

Based on Edward Abbey's novel, The Brave Cowboy, Lonely Are the Brave (1962) came and went without a fuss. Now known as Kirk ...

Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: A Must-Own for Animation Fans

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 14, 2020

When it comes to the work of legendary animation director Fred “Tex” Avery, the stories typically show order giving way ...

Pretty in Pink Blu-ray Review: A Pretty Influential Portrait of Teenage Culture

By Davy | Jun 14, 2020

Okay, let's just get this out in the open. The whole "boy falls in love with girl, girl falls in ...

An Unmarried Woman Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Bold and Groundbreaking

By Davy | Jun 14, 2020

As I mentioned in my Pick of the Week recently, the 1970s were a very pivotal time for women. There was the ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III Blu-ray Review: Gambling, Murder, and Back Alley Adoptions

By Mat Brewster | Jun 13, 2020

If you are a fan of film noir, I hope you've been paying attention to Kino Lorber, the boutique video ...

Mirador Movie Review: Captures the Ethos of Camaraderie

By Cinema Sentries | Jun 13, 2020

Written By Ram Venkat Srikar In Spanish, Mirador means "lookout." The word has multiple connotations. Alertness, observation, prediction, or a person assigned ...