DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Classic films are often ahead of their times. L’Avventura is living proof of that statement because the mysteries in Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterwork are still being discussed and unveiled. The language of the film is still being decoded. Reviled, loathed, and heavily  ...

Based on the popular television serial, Hammer Studios produced a trilogy of science fiction gems featuring the talents of Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1950s and 60s.  Their first film, The Quatermass Xperiement brought them a box office hit and a major film distributor.  It also ...

The 80s were certainly the era for sequels galore and drew a road map for how Hollywood would produce movies into the future. The franchises spawned, by and large, in that era still exist today. One of the only comedic franchises that proved in its early entries to be a  ...

Adios, Matt Smith.  Hullo, Peter Capaldi!  Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series (but, really, 34th) starts and ends with a celebrated bang involving a dinosaur in London and the return of The Master (or should that be The Mistress?).  The character of Clara Oswald  ...

Front Line Assembly sampled it.  Magician Criss Angel recreated one of its more dangerous illusions.  Only now, almost 20 years later, can the definitive version of Lord of Illusion - a film that is more of an artifact for a 1990s time capsule than a film in and of itself - be  ...

It seems that Marvel Studios can do no wrong, doesn’t it? I mean they bravely come out swinging a few years ago with a roster of characters that the average movie goer doesn’t know, and interweave a multi-film narrative into a multi-billion dollar earner that trounces all  ...

Up until this week, this Roger Corman-produced slasher/comedy was long overdue on blu-ray. It was originally made in 1982 on a shoestring budget and featured as many boobs as it did grizzly power-tool murders. Directed by Amy Holden Jones (who turned down editing  ...

Yes, it’s true that Sabotage is profane, gory, mean-spirited, and violent as hell. In fact, it may very well be one of the most violent mainstream films in decades. It’s like the love child of a grind house slasher and a Sam Peckinpah western. And it’s also true that Arnold ...

Here’s an Under the Skin viewing tip: know that Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who inhabits the skin and clothing of a human female, scours the Scottish Highlands luring unsuspecting male hitchhikers into her nondescript panel van before seducing them to a nearby location  ...

Never before in the history of motion pictures have the changes that happen inside the female body when a girl gets her first period been explained so clearly then in Ginger Snaps, a female-led werewolf movie from the early part of the 1990s. Oh, sure, the werewolf  ...

Marketed as the first film to feature old action dogs Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger together as top-billed stars in the same film, Escape Plan is not the high-octane action thriller we were led to believe. Ironically however, neither is it the compelling ...

Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is baaaaaaaaack! From truck commercials to actual news takeovers, Anchorman 2 might possible be one of the most overhyped sequels to come around since the Ghostbusters discovered pink slime bubbling beneath the streets of ...

Leonardo DiCaprio comes roaring back – and boy, does he roar – from his lifeless turn in this past Spring’s humdrum The Great Gatsby with a booming performance in The Wolf of Wall Street, which also represents somewhat of a return to form for Martin Scorcese, whose ...

"Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in," screams Al Pacino in The Godfather III.  I now know how he feels.  Honestly, the only way to begin a review of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is with that famous non-haunted quote.  Why? Because ...

The old-school vibe that haunts George Clooney’s Monuments Men is leaving some critics and audiences absolutely cold as stone.  There are a lot of slow fades and a lot of dissolves and plenty of Frank Capra-like charm as curators, architects, and art historians scour Europe  ...