Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
7 Women
Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: John Ford’s 7 Women stands up with a crucially similar film released the same year, Robert Wise’s The Sand Pebbles, as the first work put out by Hollywood that feels assuredly like a metaphor for America’s deepening involvement in Vietnam.
Caught (1949)
- Excerpt: The tug-of-war for the lady’s affections touches on some very dark topics, and the bad things that Ryan does to his bride are very bad indeed, making for a disarming, potent tale about the extreme vagaries of the heart.
The Lost Moment
- Excerpt: Martin Gabel’s Henry James-adaptation The Lost Moment may be the actor’s only directorial effort, but it’s a fairly strong one all the same. Robert Cummings stars as a conniving publisher looking to secure the love letters of a long-departed romantic poet, sidling up to Agnes Moorehead, the aging recipient of those missives.
The Rise and Fall of “Legs” Diamond
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: The filmmakers make it clear that what’s coming, from Midway to the Atom Bomb, will be a calamity, and any time this Pandora’s box is opened is a grim one for humanity in general.
Recent Home Video Releases
FrackNation
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Monkey’s Paw
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Monster High: Clawesome Double Feature
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Unknown Known
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Less politically enlightening than its cinematic predecessor [The Fog of War], The Unknown Known succeeds instead in highlighting with a blacked out layer of comedy just how tenaciously arrogant Rumsfeld and his administrative cohorts truly were while they sent American troops to fight forces on the other side of the world who in the end did not actually possess weapons of mass destruction.
Vic + Flo Saw A Bear
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Vic + Flo Saw A Bear is a stark meditation on what it means to be middle aged and a grizzly genre film trapsing through the wilderness in the misbegotten skins of sexualized hi-drama queer cinema.
Wolf Creek 2
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
Bedtime Stories
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Belle of the Nineties
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Bend of the River
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Captain January
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: Captain January is a great introduction to the world of Shirley Temple.
Contamination
Curly Top
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: There’s potential in the narrative, but the inept script isn’t interested in taking it beyond convention.
Dial M for Murder
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1921)
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Full Metal Jacket
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Gang War in Milan
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Kissing Jessica Stein
- Excerpt: A sweet and sometimes funny romantic comedy from the turn of the 21st century, Kissing Jessica Stein is a likable movie that, for its time, had a rather admirable goal: to look at two women trying to have a same-sex relationship as a healthy, viable option. Ultimately, though, Kissing Jessica Stein shows its age. It hedges its bets and even seems slightly naïve in hindsight. Not bad, by any means, but frozen in time.
Lake Placid
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Robe
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Royal Wedding
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Song of the Thin Man
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: This series really comes off like a twenty-year marriage where the couple tries to break from their tired routine by meeting new people but eventually sticking to what’s comfortable.
Speed
Street Trash
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Thin Man Goes Home
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: It’s another breezy foray into the world of Nick and Nora, but the premise is tired…
Thirst (1979)
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
The Whip and the Body
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
