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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Movie Review

Soars

Downhill - Movie Review

Downhill never overstays its welcome

Gretel & Hansel - Movie Review

A dark and moody little chiller

Goalie - Movie Review

There's an awful lot of heartache here to dive into.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Blu-ray Review

Just so darn sweet and engaging

Midway - Blu-ray Review

An embarrassing disservice

Motherless Brooklyn - Blu-ray Review

One of the most beautiful slogfests you’ll ever sleep though.

Terminator: Dark Fate - Blu-ray Review

It’s all been done before

New on Blu-ray

The Little Mermaid - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

With Disney’s current dominance at the box office, it is difficult to believe it, but they weren’t doing so well (theatrically) in the latter half of the 1980s. They had experienced, especially in the animation realm, a series of costly underperforming features and the sure thing that used ...

The Gentlemen - Movie Review

Details: Published: 24 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

Where have you been, Guy Ritchie? We’ve missed your language, your punch, your sleight of hand, and that self-referential swagger that defined your early days as a filmmaker. We got hardly any of that as you set out for more commercial ventures like Swept Away, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., ...

House by the Cemetery: Blue Underground 3 Disc Exclusive Limited Collector’s Edition (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 22 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films! Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetery is re-opened once again thanks to Blue Underground. ...

Beverly Hills Cop Trilogy (1984, 1987, 1994) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

The heat is BACK on! Long before Detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) hit the streets in pursuit of crime and criminal activity there was plainclothes Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) bringing his rather chaotic (and hilarious) brand of law and order to the colorful streets of ...

Zombieland: Double Tap - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 October 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

The road trip through the zombie apocalypse continues with Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland: Double Tap, which comes some ten years after his Zombieland caught the front end of the zombie resurgence in the ‘90s and rode it into undead lore. ...

Waterworld (1995) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

The last decade of the 20th Century in movies saw the pinnacle of star-powered excess-driven extravaganzas peak with Kevin Costner’s Waterworld. One of the biggest stars in the world, at the time, he could write his own ticket, dictate all terms, and will anything he wanted into existence. That ...

The Lighthouse (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

Watching wickie Ephraim Winslow, who is already having visions of mermaids and tentacled monsters, fly into a momentary fit of rage, grab a one-eyed seagull, and then beat it religiously against a cistern until it is beyond dead might be one of the most memorable scenes in The Lighthouse, a ...

Bad Boys For Life - Movie Review

Details: Published: 17 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

What does a filmmaker do when attempting to revive a franchise that has lain dormant for more than a decade since the last entry? In the case of Bad Boys For Life, directors Adil and Bilall do what most other filmmakers have done: they adapt the story to fit a new cultural landscape, they riff ...

Gemini Man (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 October 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Rarely does conventional wisdom hold in Hollywood. Particularly with regards to the notion that less is more and that simplicity is superior to elaborate embellishment. Take, for instance Jerry Bruckheimer, the titan of TNT, who subscribes to the theory that if a candle is needed ...

Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

2004’s Hellboy was a well-received if unspectacular performer at the box office, and the studios were not in a hurry to spend on another one. Undeterred, Guillermo Del Toro pressed on pitching various iterations of what could be the follow up. Oh, and since he had some time to kill ...