Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Airplane!
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Much of “Airplane!’s” success can be attributed to its casting of well-established older television actors in eccentric roles. Most of them were dramatic actors that had never done comedy before.
Airport
The Americanization of Emily
Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Season 1
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Body Bags
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Bringing Out The Dead
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Cinerama Holiday
A.J. Hakari @ Classic Movie Guide
Death Occurred Last Night
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Der Bomberpilot
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Distant
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Fall of the House of Usher
Brett Gallman @ Oh, the Horror!
The Fastest Guitar Alive
Fearless
A Flintstone Christmas Collection
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Free and Easy / Estrellados
Hallucination Strip
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: This was the first film Bud Cort made, almost five years after Harold and Maude. Even with facial hair, Cort’s wide eyes and baby face hadn’t changed much since his onscreen fling with Ruth Gordon.
High School Musical: China
Kill Bill Volume 2
Dustin Freeley @ MoviesAboutGladiators.com
- Excerpt: Ten years ago, Tarantino provided closure on the Bride and her tale of revenge.
The Lonely Man
- Excerpt: Henry Levin’s 1956 western The Lonely Man is a lost treasure of the prairie. This surprising, emotional cowboy drama stars Jack Palance as the feared gunman Jacob Wade, a mean customer who returns home after years on the run to discover his wife is dead and his son a sensitive child full of hate for the old man who ditched him.
Marie Antoinette
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Mary Poppins
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Master of the House
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Metropolis
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Although it ends with an overwrought climax, topped off with a laughably banal cliché that unites the workers with their greedy overlord, “Metropolis” is filled with stunning archetypal imagery and grand-scale spectacle.
Moonrise
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection
A.J. Hakari @ Classic Movie Guide
The Pleasure Seekers
- Excerpt: Charming performances makes The Pleasure Seekers worth a look, but this remake of Three Coins in the Fountain is otherwise dull and lacking in legitimate romance.
The Public Defender
The Reign of Naples
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Riot In Cell Block 11
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Shawshank Redemption
Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Shawshank is brimming with moments where the human soul triumphs over adversity in the most inspiring way.
South Seas Adventure
A.J. Hakari @ Classic Movie Guide
Stranger on Horseback
Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: Portending the narrative backbone of Joseph H. Lewis’ Terror in a Texas Town (1958), Stranger on Horseback pits a rational outsider against a delusional community, chronicling the attempts made by the outsider to shake the town out of their groupthink.
Tim Holt Western Classics Collection: Vol. 1
A.J. Hakari @ Classic Movie Guide
Totem
Touch of Evil
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Unholy Three (1925 and 1930)
A.J. Hakari @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
War of the Gargantuas
A.J. Hakari @ Attack from Planet B
Who’s That Knocking At My Door
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Who’s That Knocking At My Door
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
William Powell at Warner Bros.
A.J. Hakari @ Classic Movie Guide
Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
Recent Home Video Releases
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
In Your Eyes
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Joss Whedon wrote and produced a sweet little supernatural romance for your geeky pleasure, and you don’t even have to pirate it: he released it instantly on Vimeo.
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
Here Comes the Devil
A.J. Hakari @ Attack from Planet B
Radioland Murders
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Spectrum Culture Online
SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!
Waking the Dead
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: This film, though fairly conventional in its attitudes, can awaken the romantic in all of us, but especially those of us who have lived in heady times and loved with all our hearts.
