Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Recent Home Video Releases
Argo: Extended Edition
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: Affleck adds about nine minutes of footage to the film, almost all of it dealing with Tony Mendez’s family life…. The additions fill out the character of Tony Mendez and what’s on the line for him personally as he undertakes yet another covert mission.
Byzantium
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: Byzantium is rich with metaphor and sexual politics, almost overwhelmingly so. It’s a Gothic tale with a twist of conspiracy and a radically different take on vampirism as ancient earth force tightly controlled by a male cabal who treat the transformation like a birthright.
Don Jon
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Insidious: Chapter 2
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Sound of Music Live!
Phil Hall @ Film Threat
- Excerpt: You’ll want to “climb ev’ry mountain” to get away from this mess!
Spinning Discs: In With the New
- Excerpt: Reviews of new DVDs and Blu-rays.
Static – 3D
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Upside Down
Norm Schrager @ Meet In the Lobby
- Excerpt: …takes on the genre with the swoony rush and sloppiness of a lovesick preteen.
Other Reviews from 2011 and earlier
Beauty of the Devil
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: René Clair’s playful take on the Faust legend stirs whimsy into the classic tragedy of a scholar who sells his soul to the devil.
The Big Gundown
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Black Swan
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: Henry King is one of the sturdiest of Fox’s directors and has a strong hand when it came to shaping movie stars to character parts… but was consistently better with brawny action within a dramatic scenes than with the flamboyant set pieces that define a swashbuckler like this.
Caesar Must Die
- Excerpt: Caesar Must Die is an interesting exercise, toying with the fourth wall and creating a fictional world within a real-life location in a way that blurs the line between documentary and crafted narrative.
Catch Me If You Can
Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Gran Spielberg y gran DiCaprio.
Compliance
Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Compliance nos cuestiona acerca de lo que puede pasar cuando obedecemos ciegamente a la autoridad
Cry of the City
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: Imagery and style aside, what makes this such classic noir is the world of corruption and betrayal and desperation.
Faust (2011)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Hanging for Django
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Himalaya
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
House on Straw Hill
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Il Sorpasso
Jock Cinema: The Klansman
Sarah D Bunting @ Sports On Earth
The Message
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Nightmare City
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Pet Shop Boys’ Avant-Garde, Anti-Thatcher Refrain: It Couldn’t Happen Here
Glenn Dunks @ Glenn Dunks, Writing
- Excerpt: A look at the Pet Shop Boys’ ill-fated, rare 1988 experimental anti-Catholic, anti-Thatcher, AIDS wasteland musical.
Predator
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Shout at the Devil
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Throne of Blood
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Young America
- Excerpt: Frank Borzage’s 1932 motion picture Young America is an interesting take on the street urchin drama, casting the rebellious delinquent as a misunderstood do-gooder with an overly strident moral relativism.
