DVD Reviews

Raise your hand if you had Dev Patel on your bingo card as the next action movie star. Didn’t think so. Now, raise your hand if you also had him directing an action movie starring himself as an action hero. I didn't either ...

Say what you will about Liam Neeson’s late-career role choices, but there’s no question the guy knows his way around an action thriller. What felt like a desperate last gasp at career revival back in 2008 after taking the lead in Pierre Morel’s Taken, has actually set him up to be  ...

Alex Proyas’s supernatural action thriller is a masterful example of triumph over tragedy, both as a narrative, and (sadly) as a monument to its late star, Brandon Lee. Lee, in the final week of shooting the film, was accidently shot on set, filming one of his final scenes. With Lee’s family’s permission ...

A notoriously difficult film to make, the first to show off James Cameron’s obsession with the depths of the ocean. Lead actor Ed Harris still refuses to talk about it to this day. It’s one of three Cameron films that hasn’t seen a home media release in decades. The Abyss, like most of his flicks ...

If you dug the psychosocial dysfunction of HBO’s “White Lotus” or the theocratic dystopia of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” then Immaculate, the new film from director Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs) should also find a comfy place within the twisted recesses of your sick soul ...

Representing Ethan Coen’s directorial feature debut without his filmmaking brother Joel, Drive-Away Dolls aims to take viewers on a wild, comic road trip, yet ends up stranding us in the cinematic equivalent of a scenic overlook without the scenery ...

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has an opening for a security guard.  You interested?  Well, it turns out that this kid’s entertainment location ALWAYS has an opening for a security guard.  Why?  The poor suckers keep getting killed in violent and nasty ways.  Enter at your own risk because something  ...

Can you believe we have been waiting almost twenty-five friggen years for an upgrade on home media for this movie? Released in 1994, True Lies saw its last home media release in 1999 on DVD. Now, generations later, we get a new 4K scan of the flick from the camera negatives ...

What if someone were to take John Hughes’ Weird Science, a film about a couple of teenaged boys who literally make their dream woman, and turn it on its head with a female-centric take on the story? That’s exactly what Academy award-winning ...

Following the success of his ominous little movie short called Night Swim, which exploded on Youtube nearly a decade ago, filmmaker Bryce McGuire takes the premise to the big screen with a feature-length adaptation. Unfortunately, rather than the perfectly executed swan dive into  ...

FINALLY! After years having only Ridley Scott’s original masterpiece in the Alien series, we get what many (including me) consider one of the best sequels ever made. The wait is over, and there’s good and bad—all tied to the main man responsible for the classic: James Cameron ...

“Now, we all know Kerry's my favorite, then Kev, then David, then Mike. But the rankings can always change.” That’s Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany, TV’s Mindhunter) ranking his sons in The Iron Claw, the new film from A24 about the Von Erich family of professional wrestling. It’s worth pointing out ...

There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play.  Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown trench coat, is being chased through the dingy streets of south Chicago by homicide detective  ...

Norm son-of-a-Gunderson! Another re-release? Fargo, the 1996 Coen Brothers black comedy of down-to-earth Minnesota crime, gets remastered in its latest blu-ray release.   This is the film that granted The Coens (Joel directs; Ethan produces; both handle screenplay duties) Main Street  ...

Keanu Reeves is hands down one of the most likeable human beings in the public eye. His gentle ways and easy-going nature have cemented him into the zeitgeist of Hollywood legend. But in the 2010s, we must remember his leading man career was in a bit of a slump, having headlined a series  ...

“You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit, and you know it.” It’s the film that put the legendary Martin Scorsese on the map. And rightfully so. With its bare-bones, energetic filmmaking style, Mean Streets is a gangster flick that kicks you in the face with its ...

Welcome back to the days of high adventure!  Ripped from the pages of Robert E. Howard’s beloved pulp stories, 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and its sequel, 1984’s Conan the Destroyer, not only popularized a new subgenre – the sword-and-sorcery film – but also  ...

Razor-sharp.  This essentially describes the wit of Clue and this new 2023 4K upgrade of the classic comedy.  It’s the movie with three different endings, remember?  And, if you remember that, you also remember that you had to go to different theaters to see the different endings.  It was an ...

If the trailers for Wonka, Warner’s latest revisit of Roald Dahl’s 1964 children’s novel, did nothing to move your “scrumpdillyicious” meter, you aren’t alone. It didn’t tickle our sweet tooth either. Timothée Chalamet seemed all kinds of wrong for the part of Willy Wonka and we just  ...

In which the cult-approved Nicolas Cage fights off demonic animatronic mascots! He even dances in one key sequence as he gets ready for the ultimate battle against the last remaining heavy, ol Willy himself! I mean, seriously, HOW CAN YOU GO WRONG WITH THIS IDEA? ...

I think it’s safe to say that there are not many people out there who’ve been able to experience a lifelong friendship. Yes, everyone has friends. Friendships can last for a few months, a few years, or even a few decades. But it is quite rare that we see a friendship that develops in childhood and lives on  ...

Hong Kong action director stalwart John Woo transitioned to Hollywood movies in the 90s. His kinetic style, use of slow-mo, and many, many doves, quickly became an oft ‘homaged’ technique in the action genre from then on. But back in 1997, it was something revelatory. Combine that with the  ...

You ready for a fun, rollicking feel-good time at the movies? Well, this makes The Road look hopeful. You would have to be from space, or a right nit wit, to think a film based on a story from the master of horror, Mr. Stephen King, was gonna bring the light and fluffy. But there is a dog! No folks ...

James Cameron has acquired a well-deserved reputation as something of a Midas within the realm of films. It doesn’t seem to matter what topic he chooses to tackle, when they land on the silver screen, copious bank will manifest. He already had proved his metal through the 80s and early 90s ...

After director Renny Harlin Died-Harder, he became an in-demand action director, and who better to star in his new flick that action flick champion of the 80s, Sylvester Stallone. With a story about a besieged team of mountain rescuers, being forced to help a bunch of villains regain millions of ...

Seems the world can’t get enough of serial killer thrillers, no matter the decade. In the 90s, Morgan Freeman hit a home run in David Fincher’s Se7en, and would be offered many of its ilk in the following years. Whether business decision or serendipity, Freeman would be cast as Alex Cross ...

Cowabunga! Color me shell-shocked, my dudes and dudettes!  I freakin’ love Mutant Mayhem!  Featuring the voice talents of Nicolus Cantu, Brady Noon, Micha Abbey, Shamon Brown, Jr, Ayo Edebiri, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, and John Cena, this all-star ...

“It’s not a tumor!” Teaching isn’t for everyone.  That’s a fact.  I’m not sure it’s even for me and I have been doing it for 30 years now.  But when there’s a flick about a tough cop who must pose as a kindergarten teacher to find the whereabouts of the wife and child of a drug ...

Higher. Further. Faster.  And with a whole hell of a lot of Flerkens.  The sequel to Captain Marvel is fun, quick, full of some sweet action beats, and it is exactly what Marvel Studios needs when it comes to their output.  Hell, it is what we, the fans, need, too, as it sends a message loud  ...

Alexander Payne's latest venture, The Holdovers, is a captivating departure for the acclaimed director as he delves into the realm of period drama for the first time. With a stellar cast featuring the incomparable Paul Giamatti, the vibrant Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and the promising  ...