DVD Reviews

Children, in the old days — before AirTags, before read receipts, before your phone could tell you someone left your house at 3:17 a.m. — we feared the unknown. The unseen. The bump in the night. But David Robert Mitchell said: No, no, my child. You will fear the thing you can see. The thing  ...

Gore Verbinski’s The Ring is remembered for its iconic shocks — the well, the tape, the girl in the static — but its most unsettling moment arrives in near silence. After Rachel Keller watches the cursed videotape, she steps onto her apartment balcony and looks out over the city. Window  ...

Scene Breakdown: A diner at dawn. A casual conversation about robbing the place. Smash cut to surf rock and a title card that felt like a dare. Thirty years later, Pulp Fiction still opens like a mixtape handed to you by the coolest (and slightly dangerous) friend you knew in 1994. And now, thanks  ...

Cary Grant slides into To Catch a Thief cool as a cucumber, setting the breezy, sun-soaked mood for a caper that glides as effortlessly as he does along the Riviera and now, thanks to Paramount Home Media Distribution, the classic caper arrives on 4K which restores much of the lushness and detail  ...

Jay Roach has always had a knack for putting relationships under pressure—Meet the Parents, anyone?—but with The Roses, he trades awkward dinner parties for something sharper, darker, and far less forgiving. A reimagining of Warren Adler’s novel and the ...

If you grew up in the Gen X era, you probably remember that moment Dorothy opens the door into Technicolor Oz and your tiny brain just short-circuits. One minute you’re watching dusty Kansas in what looks like the filter from every family photo in the ’70s, and the next — bam — you’re in a  ...

“Forty-one years ago… they turned it up to eleven. Now, they can barely find the volume knob.” The loudest band in rock ’n’ roll history is back—whether the world asked for it or not. In Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the bandmates (sans drummer), stumble out of retirement, out of  ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to stare down a wolf in the freezing dark while reassessing every poor life choice you’ve ever made, The Grey is basically that sensation turned into a movie. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a grizzled, soul-tired marksman hired to keep wolves away from oil ...

Okay, let’s get this out of the way: Psycho Goreman is pure, unhinged joy. Directed by Steven Kostanski, it stars Nita-Josee Hanna as the wickedly clever Mimi, Owen Myre as her mischievous little brother Luke, and Matt Kennedy as the growling, terrifying, but somehow adorably enslaved alien  ...

Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, The Green Inferno) turns down the gore dial and cranks up the mischief with his sexy, twisted take on Peter Traynor’s 1977 exploitation flick Death Game. Knock Knock isn’t just a better film than its predecessor—it’s a home-invasion horror-comedy cocktail  ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Richard Stanley is back, baby!Buckle up, because I’ve just stumbled on my new cinematic obsession. Color Out of Space doesn’t just sit next to Mandy in the hall of high-strangeness—it casually shoves it aside with a meteorite-powered uppercut. This film ...

Four films. One box. Infinite torment. Mr. King, Clive Barker is STILL the future of horror, and Arrow Video knows it. Opening Quartet of Torment is like solving the Lament Configuration itself—equal parts thrill, dread, and collector’s ecstasy. The packaging is gorgeous, the restorations are sharp ...

The next time I have to come in here I’m cracking skulls.” Look, if you don’t already know The Breakfast Club, then congratulations: you’ve been living under a rock, probably the same one Judd Nelson crawled out from before lighting his first cigarette in detention. John Hughes’ 1985 teen angst ...

Let the Bat-hangover begin! Expectations were sky-high for Christopher Nolan. After the cultural one-two punch of The Dark Knight and Inception, audiences were primed for another mind-bending knockout. Instead, Nolan delivers a film that’s both epic and  ...

The Dark Knight didn’t just raise the bar for superhero movies—it threw the bar into the stratosphere and laughed as we tried to catch it. Ledger’s Joker still haunts the cultural psyche, proof that a comic-book villain can be terrifying, tragic, and oddly ...

Picture this: a crowded corporate boardroom, fluorescent lights buzzing, suits shifting uncomfortably in their chairs. Then — boom — a man’s head detonates like a watermelon at a Gallagher show. Veins bulge, eyes roll back, and the room erupts in panic. That single moment, the infamous cranial ...

Let’s face it, Batman Begins was a warm-up act. The film is quaint and, while it strips away the neon and batnipples from previous incarnations, feels clunky. Oh, it’s still essential viewing as it resets the genre, but it’s nowhere near perfect ...

Finally, all the absurdist tragedy that defined Gen X's formative years has been neatly packaged in a single, gleaming Blu-ray set. This isn't just a collection of animated shorts; it's a masterclass in failure, sarcasm, and jazz piano. Charlie Brown's perpetual misfortunes, Lucy's ruthless manipulation, and  ...

As much as I admire Anthony Perkins’ acting chops, Psycho IV: The Beginning is really only for those desperate to complete the full Norman Bates saga. It tries to do double duty—acting as both a prequel and a third sequel—but that’s about as ambitious as it gets. Beyond the novelty of seeing young Norman  ...

I sometimes wonder if there’s anything more terrifying for a filmmaker than being handed the keys to a beloved classic more than two decades after the original—especially when that classic happens to be Psycho. It’s the sort of assignment that could get a person laughed out of the room or institutionalized  ...

“Sometimes to love someone, you got to be a stranger.” The screen opens on a valley of ash, gray and lifeless; it’s like God forgot to pay the color bill. Hope? None. Joy? Dead. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a hangover at 7 a.m. Enter K (Ryan Gosling), trudging into a protein farm to retire a ...

The beloved Naked Gun franchise awakens from its 30-year retirement and straps on the ol’ sidearm with yet another comedic take on police procedurals that brings both nostalgic laughs and modern sensibilities to an old gag  ...

"I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science." You know the scene that really sets the tone in director Milos Forman’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest? McMurphy strolling into the ward like he owns the place—grinning, cracking jokes, instantly poking at Nurse Ratched’s perfectly ...

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence has built a career making kids suffer for our entertainment (The Hunger Games films, anyone?), and with The Long Walk he may have found his bleak masterpiece. Adapted from Stephen King’s first novel, this is a story where endurance isn’t  ...

I sometimes wonder if there’s anything more terrifying for a filmmaker than being handed the keys to a beloved classic more than two decades after the original—especially when that classic happens to be Psycho. It’s the sort of assignment that could get a person laughed out of the room or institutionalized  ...

You know that scene—I mean, you really know that scene—where Eric Draven stumbles back into what’s left of his apartment? Rain’s pouring in like the weather’s got a grudge, and The Cure’s “Burn” starts up, all moody and electric. The room’s trashed, heartbreak is everywhere, and Brandon Lee  ...

“They’re here.” That one line still sends chills down the spine. Suburbia is supposed to be safe, but when your dream home is built on a cemetery where only the headstones were moved… well, welcome to hell. At 4267 Roxbury Street in Simi Valley, the Freeling family—Steve ...

We all know the scene: Jason wakes up on a spaceship, stomps around like he’s confused about missing his shift at Crystal Lake, and then gets absolutely wrecked by Kay‑Em, the android. She unloads on him like she’s auditioning for The Matrix, blasting holes in his chest, kicking him across the  ...

Let’s start with the obvious: the scene in the house. You know the one. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is trying to act like she’s just a polite visitor in Bodega Bay, maybe sip her tea, maybe enjoy a quiet afternoon—and then the birds show up. And not politely. They’re at the windows, on the  ...

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C‑beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain. Time to die.” Blade Runner does not get any better than with this release ...