Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Black Cat, White Cat
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …the kind of script Leonard Elmore might have written if he’s been born a Bosnian gypsy.
Black Rain
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Man in the Dark 3D
- Excerpt: An entertaining B-grade noir, Man in the Dark may have started off as a gimmick picture to capitalize on 3D, but the 1953 thriller holds up as a sometimes strange, fast-moving crime narrative.
Man of Iron
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
The Naked Jungle
Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: The Naked Jungle is, for most of its length, squarely and as unabashedly as you could get in the ’50s, about sex.
Passing Notes…On Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets
Carson Lund @ In Review Online
- Excerpt: If The Big Shave, Scorsese’s microbudget short film from 1967, can be said to foreground the director’s defining concerns in miniature, can we say that Mean Streets lays a more comprehensive roadmap for the future, and if so, in what ways?
The Saragossa Manuscript
Sex Hunter
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Recent Home Video Releases
Justice League: War
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Other Reviews from 2011 and earlier
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Con la estructura de una canción de bluegrass, donde hay tiempos para bailar, esta película belga cuenta una historia de amor de forma original y sensible
Carnal Knowledge
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Carnal Knowledge is a dart aimed squarely at the confusions and conceits of the hairy ape that was the bourgeois American male during the 1950s and ’60s.
Maniac Cop (UK Import)
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Maniac Cop 2
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Night of the Demons
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Poltergeist
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: An interesting artistic collaboration . . .
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Sound and fury signifying nothing . . .
Poltergeist III
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The nay-bob of horror sequels.
The Suspended Step of the Stork
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Thief
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
- Excerpt: All of the macho stuff–the gunfights, the stealing–is superfluous; it all still comes back to character. The best material in Thief is what happens away from the job.
