Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2010 and earlier.
Boogie Nights
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
Children of Paradise
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Devil’s Needle and Other Tales of Vice and Redemption
- Excerpt: Kino brings together three early examples of exploitation films under the banner of The Devil’s Needle and Other Tales of Vice and Redemption. The three silent movies, released originally between 1913 and 1916, profess a social conscience but wrap their cautionary tales in heightened melodrama.
Dororo
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …offbeat enough to catch your eye, and lovely enough to keep it trained on the screen. And hey, in what other movie can you watch a samurai kill a winged demon while flamenco music plays?
A Few Good Men
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
Glitter
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Too washed-out and worthless to even be so bad it’s good.
Histoires du Cinema
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Hocus Pocus
I Was Born, But…
Innerspace
Jaws
- Excerpt: Review of the JAWS and JERSEY SHORE SHARK ATTACK Blu-rays.
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
- Excerpt: Scamp’s Adventure takes two of the approaches that pervaded the studio’s direct-to-video output of the time, both focusing on the youthful offspring of lead characters and flipping an idea from the original film.
Les Vampires
- Excerpt: Long before there were “comic book movies,” and indeed, some time before comic books really became what they are today, French filmmaker Louis Feuillade was making silent film serials that predicted the best of true comic book storytelling…Now considered one of the crowning achievements of early moviemaking, Les Vampires is a salacious crime picture, full of twists and turns and a deliciously freeform sense of storytelling.
Lisztomania
Dusty Somers @ Cinema Sentries
The Lodger
Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
Lonesome
Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
Man On Fire
Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
Million Dollar Baby
Dustin Freeley @ Movies About Gladiators.com
Once
- Excerpt: Five years later, I still find myself smitten by the story of a guy, a girl, and the beautiful music they make.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Pocahontas & Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
- Excerpt: An epic film that uses history to tell a romance must tread carefully and the hokiness of such a design stands out all the more when instead of an epic you have a standard kid-friendly Disney animated film upholding all of the form’s hallmarks: a short runtime, brisk pacing, infectious songs and wacky animal sidekicks.
Post Mortem
Joshua Brunsting @ CriterionCast
La Promesse
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
- Excerpt: Whenever self-important reviewers such as myself complain about the preponderance of blockbusters and their dominance over ticket sales at multiplexes, it’s because there are films like La promesse that, with a tiny budget and a persistence of vision, communicate so much more that most massive special effects spectacles ever could.
Dusty Somers @ Cinema Sentries
Red Beard
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Red Shoes
The Rescuers & The Rescuers Down Under
- Excerpt: If there was no such thing as Disney animated films outside of this one, it’d be hailed as a special kind of entertainment. When placed in the long tradition that began with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, however, and compared to such works as Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, and The Jungle Book, The Rescuers seems considerably more ordinary and unspectacular.
Route Irish
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
The Royal Tenenbaums
School of Rock
John J. Puccio @ Movie Metropolis
- Excerpt: It’s great fun. It’s like one of those inspirational sports movies where you want to stand up and cheer at the end.
Snowman’s Land
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Something’s Gonna Live
Kenneth Morefield @ 1More Film Blog
- Excerpt: A good documentarian who had access to these men could not help but making a fulfilling and instructive art process story, extracting valuable tidbits about the production history of some of Hollywood’s most beloved films.
Strangers On A Train
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
They Made Me a Fugitive
Tokyo Story
Adam Batty @ Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second
- Excerpt: It is perhaps appropriate that Kojun Saitō’s beautiful and iconic score sets the tone for the picture that follows. Saitō’s opening overture is one of the few genuinely extravagant elements of Yasujirô Ozu’s Tokyo Story, with the soaring piece of music almost at odds with the restrained nature of the rest of the film.
Touch Of Evil
Adam Batty @ Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second
- Excerpt: To liberally borrow from the title of the Louis Malle film, Orson Welles’s Touch Of Evil is a film which is balanced between two ‘lifts to the scaffold’.
