Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2011 and earlier.
The Art of the Steal
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Bloody Sunday
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Although originally produced for British television in 2002, Paul Greengrass’s vivid depiction of a violent turning point in the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland was released in theaters in the States.
Capsule Reviews: Entry #8
Danny King @ The King Bulletin
City of God
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “City of God” epitomizes the rich potential of cinema to tell richly textured tales, here of a vast, desperate, community of peasants consumed by an endless cycle of violence.
Class Relations
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
DVD Review: The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
The Emperor’s New Groove & Kronk’s New Groove
Fantastic Voyage
First Family
- Excerpt: When First Family isn’t inspiring yawns, it instead stokes one’s frustration. There is nothing more disappointing in a movie than watching a cast like this one give its best efforts to a screenplay completely lacking in quality business–except maybe a writer who sacrifices wit for cheap gags and intelligent satire for high concepts.
For Your Eyes Only
Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
The Great Gatsby
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Widely trashed by a cabal of critics who didn’t know a good film when they saw it, Jack Clayton’s 1974 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel beautifully captures its romantic essence and caustic social indictments.
Hell Comes to Frogtown
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Werid Movies
- Excerpt: If you’re a thirteen-year-old boy, it’s the awesomest movie ever made; if you’re not, you may still find enough good-natured ridiculousness to keep you watching…
Lilo & Stitch and Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
Moonraker
Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
My Man Godfrey
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Hasn’t lost an ounce of its thematic resonance even after all these decades.
A Night to Remember (1942)
- Excerpt: This genial giggler is directed by Richard Wallace (Lombard’s Man of the World, the 1947 Sinbad, the Sailor), and the journeyman provides a serviceable level of style. The story is quickly paced, with most of the energy coming from the main stars.
Phantasm II
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Prom Night (1980)
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: A special movie. Not by any means a great one; only barely and inconsistently a good one.
Safety Last!
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Of the great silent film comedians, Harold Lloyd stood apart from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton by virtue of his everyman approach to physical comedy.
Shaft
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Chronologically, Ossie Davis’s elaborate buddy comedy “Cotton Comes to Harlem” marks the beginning of the Blaxploitation era. But Gordon Parks’s “Shaft” (1971) is the movie that put the movement on the map.
The Silence (1963)
Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: No matter how you break it down Superman IV is a disaster.
Superman Returns
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Superman Returns (is) neither sequel or reboot or re-imagining of the story of the Last Son of Krypton. Instead, Superman Returns is this odd hybrid that never decided exactly what it was going to be.
