Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2011 and earlier.
10,000 BC
Matthew Blevins @ Nextprojection.com
101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Not nearly as galling as it should be.
3 Bad Men
Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephiles
- Excerpt: John Ford’s 3 Bad Men from 1926 is an undeniably solid work of silent filmmaking that spins a warm, rousing tale of Western gallantry, dotted with rumpled frivolity and bittersweet moments
All The Vermeers in New York
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Ballad of Narayama
Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: A fascinating find – a moving portrait of aging and loss that uses theatre as a weapon for truth.
Batman: Black and White
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: No Joel Schumacher-scale misfire here — “Batman: Black and White” does just right by Bob Kane’s legendary guardian of the night.
Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film Collection: Best Pictures
Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
Boat People
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: This is a film that in 2005 was considered by the Hong Kong Film Association to be the eighth best Chinese language movie in the past one hundred years. At the time of its initial release, this was the film that brought Hui her first awards as a director.
Buster Keaton at MGM Triple Feature
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: …doesn’t necessarily boast Buster’s best material, but the films contained within hold many a laugh for students of old-school slapstick.
Days of 36
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Death Of A Salesman
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Doctor Who and the Dalieks
Dreams of a Life
Grand Hotel
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Ice Palace
Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: Stodgy, set-bound action and miscast actors don’t help the enervated, haplessly artificial proceedings. And yet, Ice Palace is moderately enjoyable; it’s not art, and it isn’t even really well-fashioned trash, but it is busy, corny, occasionally amusing in its badness, top-heavy with talents, and altogether attractively phony, in the best Hollywood tradition that occasionally illuminates aspects of reality.
The Invader
Phil Hall @ Film Threat
Jealousy is My Middle Name
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Martin Scorsese mentions Jealousy is My Middle Name in his preface to the book, Virtual Hallyu, about recent Korean cinema. He describes the film as, “subtle and emotionally complex”.
Man of Marble
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
My Beautiful Laundrette
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
On the Waterfront
Peter Pan
- Excerpt: Disney, classic and contemporary, on Blu-ray.
Runaway Bride
Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Julia Roberts delivers one of her best comic performances in this predictable romantic comedy.
Senseless
- Excerpt: While nothing out of the ordinary, Senseless is harmless as far as campus comedies go.
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
- Excerpt: …a decent chambara piece that’s just not the dark character study it should be.
Somewhere
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Sorry, Thanks
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Teknolust
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
White Zombie
- Excerpt: A middling indie success in pre-code Hollywood, and a cult hit that gained in reputation in the decades that followed, the infamous Bela Lugosi-vehicle White Zombie is newly restored for high-def and now available on DVD. Released in 1932, director Victor Halperin’s creepy horror film is perhaps most known for being the first major zombie movie, establishing a lot of what would later be genre clichés, including the slow-moving, brainless, vacant-eyed demeanor that would become the undead standard.
Wild at Heart
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Wings (1927)
- Excerpt: Don’t let its age fool you — “Wings” is no rickety antique. Wellman’ s aerial battle scenes remain impressive, even in the digital age.
