The Mountain (2019) Movie Review: Worth Exploring
By David Wangberg |
I'm not familiar with any of Rick Alverson's previous efforts, such as The Comedy and Entertainment. But if there's something to be learned ...
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Doctor Who: The Krotons DVD Review: Better Than Its Reputation
By Mat Brewster |
The Krotons, the fourth serial from the sixth season of Classic Doctor Who has a lot going for it. It is one ...
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The Lion King (2019) Movie Review: Purrs Rather Than Roars
By Matthew St.Clair |
Given the iconic status of the 1994 animated classic The Lion King, there may be some panic over whether the new ...
Read More Fathom Events Presents Glory (1989): An Intense Civil War Film
By David Wangberg |
In recent years, the war genre has mostly shown viewers the events of what happened during World War II or ...
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Batman Begins Movie Review: A Hero Reborn
By Gordon S. Miller |
Eight years after the damage done to Batman from the one-two combination of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin by ...
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Outfest 2019 Review: Sell By Is Directly Accessible and Rather Progressive
By Matthew St.Clair |
Sell By may be queer themed since it centers around a homosexual couple coming to grips with their turbulent relationship. Yet, ...
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The Milky Way (1969) Blu-ray Review: Surrealistic Satire
By Mat Brewster |
h About an hour into Luis Bunuel's surrealistic drama The Milky Way, two men, a Jesuit and a Jansenist, argue over ...
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Death in the Garden Blu-ray Review: Well Worth Watching
By Mat Brewster |
After befriending Salvador Dali and finding success in the surrealist movement with films like Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or, Luis Buñuel was ...
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Hellboy (2019) Blu-ray Review: Will Certainly Find Its Audience over Time
By Chad Derdowski |
I was tempted to start this review by talking about how the filmmakers had an uphill climb when rebooting Hellboy, as ...
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A Faithful Man Movie Review: Rom-Com Written with Impressive Finesse
By Matthew St.Clair |
Louis Garrel's sophomore directorial effort A Faithful Man is certainly loyal to particular romantic-comedy traditions. It's both traditional and a slight deconstruction ...
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Space: 1999: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Ahead of Its Time in More Ways Than One
By Rons Reviews |
It was September 13th, 1999, when an explosion of nuclear waste blew the moon out of orbit and sent the ...
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Doctor Who: The Three Doctors Special Edition DVD Review: Three Times The Fun
By Mat Brewster |
It has been said before, but having The Doctor regenerate was a stroke of genius. In the beginning of the ...
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Shazam! (2019) Blu-ray Review: DC Makes a Marvelous Movie
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although it's the seventh movie in Warner Brothers' DC Extended Universe series, David F. Sandberg's Shazam! comes across like it ...
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The Old Man and the Sea (1990) DVD Review: Anthony Quinn Gives an Excellent Performance
By Jade Blackmore |
Anthony Quinn gives a riveting performance as the elderly fisherman Santiago, who has gone 84 days without catching a fish, ...
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Book Review: Superman: The Golden Age Dailies 1947-1949 by Alvin Schwartz, Wayne Boring, et al.
By generaljabbo |
Superman remains one of the most beloved and collected superhero characters of all time. Some of the rarest Superman collectibles ...
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Book Review: The Art of Godzilla: King of the Monsters by Abbie Bernstein
By Gordon S. Miller |
Abbie Bernstein takes readers behind the scenes with pre-production concept artwork and on-set photography from director/co-writer Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of ...
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High Life (2019) Blu-ray Review: Out of This World
By David Wangberg |
If 2001: A Space Odyssey had more of a horror aspect and were to get slapped with an R rating, it might ...
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Pretenders with Friends Blu-ray Review: A Hits-Heavy, Star-Studded Concert
By Gordon S. Miller |
Decades Rock Live! was a VH1 Classic television series that gathered bands and guests to play a concert at Trump Taj ...
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Resurrecting the Champ Blu-ray Review: The Story of the Fight Many of Us Face for Acceptance
By Rons Reviews |
I love those evenings when you come home late, plop down in front of the TV, start clicking around, and ...
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The Dick Cavett Show: Inside the Minds of… Volume 2 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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Earthquake (1974) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
By Gordon S. Miller |
Producer/director Mark Robson's Earthquake was a star-studded disaster movie that the '70s was known for. Unfortunately, the famous folks go to waste ...
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You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown Deluxe Edition DVD Review: The Tortoise and the Hare by Way of Charles Schulz
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Peanuts television specials You’re a Good Sport, Charlie Brown and You’re the Greatest, Charlie Brown have been remastered and ...
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Road to Rio Movie Review: Hypnotizing Hilarity
By Gordon S. Miller |
Road to Rio (1947) is the fifth in the series and the first entry that sees the trio of Bob ...
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The Illusionist (2006) Blu-ray Review: Full of Tricks and Treats
By David Wangberg |
There was a time in which both Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and Neil Burger's The Illusionist played at the theater at which I worked. ...
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Midsommar Movie Review: A Luminous Hellscape
By Matthew St.Clair |
When Ari Aster made his feature film debut with Hereditary, it was a demented portrait of grief and anxiety covered in ...
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Spider-Man: Far From Home Movie Review: Living in a Post-Endgame World
By David Wangberg |
Serving as an epilogue to Avengers: Endgame, and also the final installment of Marvel's Phase Three set of feature films, ...
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Dances with Wolves Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable, Albeit Unsurprising, Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Thanks to Shout Factory, the theatrical cut of Dances with Wolves finally made its debut on Blu-ray as part of a three-disc ...
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Matinee (1993) Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Joe Dante’s Love Letter to B-movies
By Gordon S. Miller |
Matinee opens with Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman), a William Castle-type producer in a trailer for Mant, a movie about a ...
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The Dick Cavett Show: ‘And That’s The Way It Is…’ 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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Yesterday (2019) Movie Review: Oh-Blah-Di, Oh-Blah-Da
By David Wangberg |
Danny Boyle's Yesterday imagines a world in which all the people, living all around the world, had never heard of John Lennon, ...
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Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart Blu-ray Review: One Story Cut Twice
By Mat Brewster |
Throughout the 1940s, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a series of films that are considered some of the greatest ...
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The Chambermaid (2019) Movie Review: A Wonderfully Facile Character Study
By Matthew St.Clair |
On the surface, it doesn't seem like The Chambermaid is about much. It's about a maid named Eve (Gabriela Cartol) who works ...
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Universal Horror Collection, Volume 1 Blu-ray Review: Bela Lugosi Versus Boris Karloff
By Mat Brewster |
The year 1931 saw the release of both Dracula and Frankenstein. Both became absolute classics of the horror genre, cornerstones for the long-lasting ...
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch Criterion Collection Review: Visually Stunning and Aesthetically Engaging
By Darcy Staniforth |
In 2001, writer, director, and star John Cameron-Mitchell and composer and lyricist Stephen Trask took their cutting-edge musical Hedwig and the ...
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Swing Time Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Fine Film
By Gordon S. Miller |
Swing Time is the sixth of ten films that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared in together. It has great songs ...
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Double Face Blu-ray Review: Could Have Used a Face Lift
By Mat Brewster |
I am officially on the record (more than once as anyone who has actually followed my writing in these pages ...
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BAMcinemaFest 2019 Review: De Lo Mio Is a Sincere Directorial Debut
By Matthew St.Clair |
There's always that old saying about home being where the heart is. The family drama De Lo Mio revolves around that traditional ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through the Mirror by Tipton, Tipton, et. al.
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the Star Trek franchise, there is a parallel universe dubbed the "Mirror Universe" where the evil Terran Empire, which rules through ...
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Frankenstein Created Woman (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Hammer Created a Gothic Tale of Revenge
By Gordon S. Miller |
Frankenstein Created Woman is the fourth film in Hammer Films Frankenstein series and has been released on Blu-ray by Scream Factory. Instead of ...
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Night of the Creeps Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Blood, Guts, and Laughs
By Mat Brewster |
It is fascinating to me when artists incorporate the culture of their formative years into their current work. Think about ...
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The Dick Cavett Show: Inside the Minds of… Volume 1 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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Mississippi Burning Blu-ray Review: How Can We Sleep When Our State Is Burning
By Mat Brewster |
I gotta tell you, dear reader, that I wasn't real excited sitting down to watch this new Kino Lorber Blu-ray ...
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Under the Silver Lake DVD Review: A Mind-Bending Ode to Hollywood and the Noir Genre
By David Wangberg |
David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake had been pushed back so many times before A24 decided to quietly release it in ...
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The Girl Most Likely To… Blu-ray Review: Very Dark, Very Funny
By Elizabeth Periale |
They sure knew how to make TV-movies back in the day. In The Girl Most Likely To… Stockard Channing (Grease, Six Degrees ...
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She-Devils on Wheels Blu-ray Review: I Just Don’t Get It
By Rons Reviews |
So, when She-Devils on Wheels came across my desk for a potential review, I will admit that the title had me somewhat ...
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The Quiet One Movie Review: Explores Ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman’s Life Through His Media Archives
By Jade Blackmore |
It's been 26 years since Bill Wyman quit the Rolling Stones for civilian life in 1993, and the documentary The Quiet ...
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Killing Eve: Season Two Blu-ray Review: Missing Phoebe Waller-Bridge
By Mat Brewster |
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the new It Girl. Not because she is attractive and trendy (though she is both) but because ...
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Yakuza Law Blu-ray Review: Gory Fun Yakuza Anthology
By Kent Conrad |
Yakuza Law is not even in the top-five craziest movies made by Teruo Ishii, and in it, a man rips out ...
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Men in Black: International Movie Review: A Neuralyzing Experience
By Matthew St.Clair |
To quote Emma Thompson's character, Men in Black: International feels like a case of deja vu dismissed just as quickly. It features ...
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The Silent Partner Blu-ray Review: An Underseen Gem
By Mat Brewster |
An average, ordinary, unambitious bank teller who lives alone, works on chess problems by himself, and collects tropical fish discovers ...
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