Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders DVD Review: Jon Pertwee Exits the Series
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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Arrow: The Complete Seventh Season Blu-ray Review: Nothing Can Keep Down the Green Arrow and His Team
By Todd Karella |
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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Straight Forward: Series 1 DVD Review: Should Have Taken a Curve
By Mat Brewster |
One of the worst parts of being a semi-professional reviewer is that you sometimes have to watch and talk about ...
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Movie Review: A Quiet Passion for Life, for Knowledge, and for Words
By Jade Blackmore |
The Pieces I Am, Timothy Greenfield-Sander's straightforward documentary about the late Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, consists (mostly) of ...
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Wizard World Chicago 2019 Review: It’s a Family Affair
By Chad Derdowski |
Another year has come and gone and as summer threatens to fade into the distance, and a new school year ...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Blu-ray Review: Long Live the King
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which takes its name (minus the exclamation point) from the re-edited American ...
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Peanuts 1970’s Collection Vol. 2 DVD Review: Great Laughs and Insight
By Gordon S. Miller |
This two-disc set completes the run of television specials that aired during the decade. Disc 1 opens with two previously ...
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Peanuts 1970’s Collection Vol.1 DVD Review: All Six Specials Are Very Funny
By Gordon S. Miller |
Picking up right where the 1960’s Collection left off, Disc 1 opens with Play It Again, Charlie Brown (1971), appearing ...
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The Flash (2014): The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Review: Slow It Down, Flash!
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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Ready or Not Movie Review: A Brilliantly Scathing Horror Satire
By Matthew St.Clair |
Getting married can be absolutely terrifying. It's not just scary because of the nuptials or the uncertainty of what lies ...
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Book Review: For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library, Volume Three (1986-1989) by Lynn Johnston
By Chad Derdowski |
From 1979 to 2008, Lynn Johnston showcased the joy and strife of family life in her award-winning newspaper strip, For Better ...
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Vita & Virginia Movie Review: Disappointingly Dry with Committed Lead Performances
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Vita & Virginia first opens, Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton) explains the gender roles expected within her time period. Despite being a ...
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The Dick Cavett Show: Baseball’s Greatest Hits: Pitchers DVD Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Dick Cavett Show was a talk show that aired on different TV channels, broadcast and cable, from 1968 to 1996. ...
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Tigers Are Not Afraid Movie Review: A Phantasmagoric Fairy Tale
By Matthew St.Clair |
Guillermo del Toro's singular vision remains so significant that it feels present in films produced by him or in this ...
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Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019 Movie Review: They Will Choose Farewell
By Gordon S. Miller |
In 2014, Rush (guitarist Alex Lifeson, vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee, and druumer Neil Peart) released R40, a collector's box set that ...
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Poms Blu-ray Review: Rah, Rah, Sis Boom Bah
By David Wangberg |
Based on the trailers alone, Zara Hayes' Poms could easily be dismissed as something that we've seen numerous times and won't try ...
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The Heiresses Movie Review: Three Central Performances Carry This Distant Drama
By Matthew St.Clair |
The Heiresses is a small indie that breaks slight new ground for lesbian cinema. In a queer subgenre filled with pictures ...
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Roxanne (1987) Blu-ray Review: Big Nose, Bigger Laughs
By David Wangberg |
Fred Schepisi's Roxanne is a film that, at first glance, may seem too contrived and too formulaic to differentiate itself from the ...
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The Banana Splits Movie Blu-ray Review: The Bananas Dole out Some Death
By Rons Reviews |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the Blu-ray reviewed in this Blog Post. The ...
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blache DVD Review: Returning a Chapter to Cinema History
By Darcy Staniforth |
As someone who spent time studying film in college, I was taught about the early pioneers of film like the ...
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Doctor Who: The Time Meddler DVD Review: Monk-eying Around with History
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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Alice, Sweet Alice Blu-ray Review: Has Surprisingly Aged Very Well
By Davy |
When it comes to horror cinema, I think 1970s horror stands at the top for me. Everyone, even those who ...
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Blinded by the Light Movie Review: An Immensely Triumphant Coming-of-Age Tale
By Matthew St.Clair |
Bruce Springsteen's music may be culturally specific with songs like “Born in the U.S.A.” describing the American experience. However, Blinded by ...
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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Deluxe Edition) DVD Review: A True Peanuts Fan Needs This in Their Collection
By Rons Reviews |
It’s Halloween and Linus is in the pumpkin patch anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. Sally is enamored ...
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Avengers: Endgame Blu-ray Review: Part of the Journey Is the End
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, which currently stands at 23 movies (now known as “The Infinity Saga”) is the biggest film ...
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He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown (Deluxe Edition) DVD Review: Showcases Two Different Sides of Snoop’s Personality
By Joe Garcia III |
Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts gang is back on DVD and as enjoyable as ever in this television special from 1968, ...
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Murdoch Mysteries: Season 12 DVD Review: A True Delight
By Mat Brewster |
I am an unabashed detective story/crime drama/mystery fan. Whether these tales are being told via novels, comics, movies, or television ...
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Wally Gator: The Complete Series DVD Review: Delightfully Silly, Don’t Y’know
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the Hanna Barbera Classic Collection, the Warner Archive Collection has released Wally Gator: The Complete Series. The two-disc ...
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The Reflecting Skin Blu-ray Review: A Brutally Surreal Coming-of-Age Gem
By Davy |
When it comes to youth, the rites of passage are always paved with dark uncertainty and a cerebral outlook on ...
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Book Review: Treasures Retold: The Lost Art of Alex Toth
By Chad Derdowski |
Not too long ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing Alex Toth's Bravo For Adventure as well as Genius, Animated: The Cartoon Art ...
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Batman: Hush 4K Ultra HD Review: The Bat, the Cat, and Villains Aplenty
By Steve Geise |
DC's animated films tend to be adaptations of their classic comic-book works, with this story in particular being one of ...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie Review: Terrifyingly Serviceable
By Matthew St.Clair |
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark may be a Guillermo del Toro production, yet his singular directorial vision still feels ...
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Peanuts 1960’s Collection DVD Review: The Set Is Quite a Gem
By Gordon S. Miller |
If you held out and didn’t buy the previous Deluxe Remastered Peanuts DVD releases that presented a couple of specials ...
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UglyDolls Sing-Along Edition Blu-ray Review: A Kids Movie, Through and Through
By Mark Buckingham |
There are two kinds of movies for children, as I see it. First, there are ones with subtlety and nuance ...
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What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Blu-ray Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
What We Left Behind, a riff on the title of the series finale "What You Leave Behind," finds Deep Space Nine showrunner ...
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The BRD Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Fassbinder at His Best
By Mat Brewster |
When World War II ended, Germany was due a reckoning. As a nation, they had to come to terms not ...
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The Good Place: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: A Great Show
By Mat Brewster |
While watching Season One of The Good Place - a series in which four not-so-good humans find themselves in the heaven-like Good ...
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The Dick Cavett Show: Inside the Minds of… Volume 3 DVD Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Dick Cavett Show was a talk show that aired on different TV channels, broadcast and cable, from 1968 to 1996. ...
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Movie Review: Keeping It in the Family
By Gordon S. Miller |
Considering the Fast & Furious franchise has generated over $5 billion at the worldwide box office, it's not a surprise ...
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The Best of The Carol Burnett Show: 50th Anniversary Edition 21-DVD Set Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Two years later and Time Life is still celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Carol Burnett Show, which debuted on September ...
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Snoopy’s Reunion Deluxe Edition DVD Review: These Two Specials May Cause a Peanuts Allergy
By Gordon S. Miller |
The previous Peanuts DVDs in the Deluxe Edition series have generally featured one classic and one clunker, but the collection ...
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The Leopard Man (1943) Blu-ray Review: Subtle, Underrated ’40s Chiller
By Kent Conrad |
Based on Cornell Woolrich's dark novel, Black Alibi, The Leopard Man was the first property Val Lewton wanted to develop when he became ...
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Doctor Who: The Animation Collection DVD Review: Four Doctors Are Better Than One
By Gordon S. Miller |
Doctor Who: The Animation Collection is a 2-disc set that gathers five previously released stories starring four Doctors. On Disc One, The ...
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Attack of the Robots (1966) Blu-ray Review: Eddie Constantine Lays His Cards on the Table
By Luigi Bastardo |
Crafted in the wake of Jean-Luc Godard's immortal Alphaville ‒ a deadpan French New Wave satire of contemporary espionage and sci-fi films ...
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Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997 Blu-ray Review: The Rise and Fall of a Franchise
By Gordon S. Miller |
Back before superheroes were all the rage at the box office, Tim Burton and his creative team brought Batman to ...
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Universal Horror Collection, Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: Atwill Employment, Mostly
By Luigi Bastardo |
The phrase "classic Universal horror" is most likely to get a vintage monster movie enthusiast to talk nerd shop about ...
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Wild Rose Movie Review: A Star is Born in Jessie Buckley
By Matthew St.Clair |
Anyone who's had a dream might often be told they can achieve it if they set their mind to it. ...
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Missing Link Blu-ray Review: Missing Story, Finding Artistry
By Steve Geise |
Missing Link is the latest film from the animation wizards at Laika, the tiny U.S. studio responsible for gems including Kubo and ...
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The Doors: The Final Cut 4K Ultra HD Review: Break on Through
By Steve Geise |
Although the movie is named after the band, it's really all about the rise and fall of Jim Morrison. The ...
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Once Upon A Time…in Hollywood Movie Review: Middle-Ground Tarantino
By Matthew St.Clair |
Quentin Tarantino's previous feature The Hateful Eight was a demonstration of both his strongest and weakest qualities as a filmmaker. His follow-up, ...
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