Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Arizona Dream
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Werid Movies
- Excerpt: Quirkiness magnified to a metaphysical level.
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: [VIDEO ESSAY] Brecht meets Douglas Sirk and Joseph Mankiewicz (“All About Eve”) in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s delectable adaptation of his five-act stageplay, an exploration of a lesbian triangle of role-switching polarities between dominance and submission.
Dreaming in Technicolor: Rope
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Next Projection
Far from the Madding Crowd
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt:[VIDEO ESSAY] Visually lush and powerfully acted by a quartet of England’s finest actors, John Schlesinger’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” is admirable in spite of its scattered narrative focus and flaws in its direction.
The Freshman
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
Immortal Love
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
The Milky Way
Mathieu Li-Goyette @ Panorama-cinéma [French]
Recent Home Video Releases
Friday Foster
Island of Death
The Pillow Book
Scarecrows
Society
Sugar Hill
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: In his commentary, Maslansky provides a few moments to his first credited film as producer, Castle of the Living Dead, as well as his most prestigious film, The Russia House.
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
Berberian Sound Studio
Sarah Ward @ Televised Revolution
Carlos
Sarah Ward @ Televised Revolution
Cupcakes
Sarah Ward @ Televised Revolution
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
The Host
Sarah Ward @ Televised Revolution
The Man with the Golden Gun
Marty
Sarah Ward @ Televised Revolution
Redskin
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
These Final Hours
Sarah Ward @ Televised Revolution
The Wicker Man
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Pays Tribute To The Late Great Christopher Lee With ‘The Wicker Man’
Yesterday Was a Lie
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Full of half-sketched abstract ideas about Jungian psychology, Surrealist aesthetic theory, quotes from T.S. Eliot, and fringe quantum physics, which makes it seem like it was written during a semester where the writer has yet to decide on a major.
