The Goldfinch Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful but Messy Underachievement
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Every few years, a book comes along that everyone reads. Every book club picks it as ...
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The Fan (1981) Blu-ray Review: Bloody ’80s Stalking Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
The Fan was made in 1981. It's about a deranged man who kills people. He uses a special weapon to do ...
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I’ll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours of Lynyrd Skynyrd DVD Review
By Jade Blackmore |
I'll Never Forget You: The Last 72 Hours Of Lynyrd Skynyrd is the second recent documentary about Southern rock band Lynyrd ...
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Knives and Skin Movie Review: A Wonderfully Hazy Suburban Nightmare
By Matthew St.Clair |
When looking at just the title for Knives and Skin, one might understandably expect a fair amount of violence to be ...
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63 UP Movie Review: The Best Reality Show of All Time
By Steve Geise |
Decades before we were deluged with a never-ending stream of “reality” TV shows, a British TV crew selected a group ...
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All About Eve Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: All the World’s a Stage
By Steve Geise |
Best Picture Oscar winners don't always age well, but as All About Eve approaches its 70th anniversary, it's every bit as entertaining ...
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Jake Speed Blu-ray Review: When Indiana Jones and Brendan Fraser Aren’t Available, Call Jake Speed
By Mat Brewster |
My mother likes to call the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies “a poor man's Indiana Jones.” What she means is that both series ...
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Now, Voyager Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Superior Tearjerker
By Davy |
With her saucer eyes, unparalled intensity, and unbridled non-vanity, Bette Davis has been and still is regarded as one of ...
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The Fare Blu-ray Review: Groundhog Day in a Cab
By Mat Brewster |
A taxicab driver named Harris (Gino Anthony Pese) gets a call to pick up someone in the middle of nowhere. ...
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The Kominsky Method: The Complete First Season DVD Review
By Rons Reviews |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the DVD reviewed in this Blog Post. The ...
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Funan Blu-ray Review: A Genocide Through the Eyes of One Family
By Mat Brewster |
In the mid to late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia as one of the most brutal regimes in modern ...
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Doctor Who: The Complete Specials DVD Review: A Grand Farewell
By Gordon S. Miller |
In what is essentially an abbreviated series (which in the States we call a "season"), the four stories that comprise ...
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Queen & Slim Movie Review: A Poetic Form of Protest Art
By Matthew St.Clair |
Among the various music videos that director Melina Matsoukas has made, the one for “Formation” by Beyonce is easily one ...
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Prophecy Blu-ray Review: Bear Loaf
By Rock London |
It was not supposed to turn out like this. For years, the Pitney lumber mill in Maine soaked its river-borne ...
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TV Review: Hellier: Season 2
By Darcy Staniforth |
Last year, Season 1 of Hellier debuted on YouTube and quickly won over fans and critics alike. The ten episodes of Hellier: Season 2 ...
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The Circus Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Tramp Plays the Big Top
By Gordon S. Miller |
Made between his classic films The Gold Rush and City Lights, Charlie Chaplin's The Circus presents an entertaining outing for the Tramp who once again ...
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Stephen King’s Storm of the Century (1999) DVD Review: Intriguing Premise at Snail’s Pace
By Kent Conrad |
TV made sense as its own thing until about 20 years ago. Nowadays, what constitutes TV is so sprawling and ...
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Thor Movie Review: God of Boring
By Mat Brewster |
Before I became a bonafide fan of the MCU, I watched their movies whenever I got around to it. Sometimes ...
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Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered DVD Review: Episode for Episode, Quite Possibly the Funniest Sitcom
By Gordon S. Miller |
Written by and starring Monty Python’s John Cleese and his wife Connie Booth, who became his ex-wife before the second ...
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Hitch Hike to Hell Blu-ray Review: Put Your Thumb Down and Run
By Mat Brewster |
If you are a fan of Netflix's excellent series Mindhunter, then you may feel a sense of familiarity with Howard (Robert Gribbin), ...
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Road Games Blu-ray Review: A Rear Windowesque Road Movie
By Davy |
The Ozploitation era during the early '70s throughout the '80s had unleashed films with modest budgets, horror/comedy/action elements, nudity (mostly ...
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AFI Fest 2019 Review: The Apollo
By Gordon S. Miller |
Roger Ross Williams's The Apollo opens with a performance in progress as Joe Morton reads to an audience at the theater and ...
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Blu-ray Review: Musical Parody Mostly Amusing
By Kent Conrad |
Comedy, like horror, is largely critic-proof, because the power of the genre lies in an immediate emotional reaction. You get ...
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Blinded by the Light Blu-ray Review: A Sweet Coming-of-Age Story with a Great Springsteen Soundtrack
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Glen Boyd On first blush, producer/director Gurinder Chadra's Blinded by The Light can come across as a little cheesy - ...
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The Farewell Blu-ray Review: Family Matters
By David Wangberg |
When someone is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the automatic assumption is that the person should know what they have ...
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Doctor Who: The Sun Makers DVD Review: Death and Taxes
By Gordon S. Miller |
Doctor Who is a long-running British science-fiction television series featuring the Doctor, a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey whose adventures ...
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Concert Review: Art Alexakis – The Wayfarer, Costa Mesa, CA – 11/15/19
By Darcy Staniforth |
I've been an Everclear fan since the beginning. I have all the albums, a ton of rare singles, and even ...
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Charlie’s Angels (2019) Movie Review: A Heavenly Sequel Stuck in Purgatory
By Matthew St.Clair |
The latest sequel in the Charlie's Angels franchise acts as both a continuation of the original story and an attempt at world ...
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Radioflash Movie Review: A Mere Concept-Driven Post-Apocalyptic Story
By Matthew St.Clair |
In today's techno-driven environment, Radioflash feels rather timely. In fact, it opens with our main character Reese (Brighton Sharbino) playing a virtual-reality ...
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AFI Fest 2019 Review: Queen & Slim
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Melina Matsoukas and screenwriter Lena Waithe, both of whom are also producers on the project, made an impressive feature-film ...
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AFI Fest 2019 Review: The Planters
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Making a movie requires patience, money, time, and a huge amount of effort. Most movies will ...
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The Dead Center Blu-ray Review: Mostly Effective Psychological Horror
By Kent Conrad |
A spiral is integral to The Dead Center's imagery and story. A spiral appears on the photographs of a body from ...
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-ray Review: I Think They Wilted
By Mat Brewster |
I have this memory in which my mother gives me a copy of V.C. Andrews' 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic. ...
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Charley Varrick Blu-ray Review: No Country For Walter Matthau
By Mat Brewster |
When I think of Walter Matthau, which is more often than you'd think, I think of him as a comic ...
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles Blu-ray Review: Historical Animation Paired with a Dichotomy-Filled Story
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Though not always the case, animated movies have a presumption of innocence, providing a movie-going experience ...
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Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting DVD Review: A Golden Celebration
By Gordon S. Miller |
Sesame Street: 50 Years and Counting, available on DVD and as a digital download, celebrates the most successful children's entertainment ...
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Feast of the Seven Fishes Movie Review: A Genuine Italian Christmas
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank In the next few months, Christmas movies will constantly be on television and in the theaters. ...
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Ford v Ferrari Movie Review: Bale and Damon Rev Up This Engine
By Matthew St.Clair |
If Ford v Ferrari had come out in the 1990's or 2000's, it would've been a guaranteed box-office success. In today's tentpole ...
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Blu-ray Review: A High-Quality, High-Definition Experience
By Gordon S. Miller |
The folks behind the Fast & Furious franchise took two of their most bankable actors, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham to lead ...
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Woman in Hiding Blu-ray Review: Worth Looking For
By Mat Brewster |
It is funny how when you discover something you'd never noticed before you suddenly start seeing it everywhere you look. ...
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Dreamworks Ultimate Holiday Collection Blu-ray Review: Holiday Specials for a New Generation
By Todd Karella |
As my friends and family can attest, Christmas is my favorite time of year. Not only do I decorate the ...
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Ringu Collection Blu-ray Review: Ghostly Revenge, Again and Again
By Kent Conrad |
Horror as a genre tends to go through brief periods of inspiration, followed by long slogs of imitation. If you're ...
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It Always Rains on Sunday Blu-ray Review: A Slice of Post-War London
By Mat Brewster |
A man breaks out of prison and returns to the home of his former fiancee. They were set to be ...
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Willie Movie Review: A Sports Hero’s Story Worthy of Recognition
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank We've all heard of Jackie Robinson. He changed baseball forever. He changed sports forever. He is ...
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The Man Between Blu-ray Review: Out of The Third Man’s Shadow
By Mat Brewster |
It is difficult not to compare The Man Between, Carol Reed's 1953 thriller to a film he made four years earlier, The ...
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The Cure: 40 Live – Curætion-25 + Anniversary Blu-ray Review: A Black Ruby Jubilee
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Cure: 40 Live collects two outstanding concerts performed in the summer of 2018 as founder Robert Smith, bassist Simon Gallup ...
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Seven Days to Noon Blu-ray Review: A Very Good Drama
By Mat Brewster |
The atomic bomb not only helped win World War II and fueled the Cold War for years after it, but ...
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Queen of Hearts (2019) Movie Review: Trine Dyrholm Guides This Effective Melodrama
By Matthew St.Clair |
Queen of Hearts, Denmark's Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film, is indeed a slight parable to Alice in Wonderland. However, ...
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Terminator: Dark Fate Movie Review: History (and the Franchise) Repeats Itself
By Gordon S. Miller |
Terminator: Dark Fate occurs in a timeline three years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and ignores Rise of the Machines, Salvation, ...
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Polyester Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: John Waters’ First Big-Budget Film
By Jade Blackmore |
Polyester, John Waters' first big budget, mainstream film, was released by in 1981 by New Line Cinema. Its $300,000 budget ...
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