Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
The Night of the Hunter
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Although cinephiles may weep for all the movies Charles Laughton never made, in a way it is appropriate that “Night of the Hunter” is his only directorial effort. It cements this masterpiece’s singularity and highlights its legendary qualities.
Night Train (Pociag)
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Newly restored Polish classic examines travelers on an overnight train to a seaside resort. Emotions seethe, but the film does not seem anxious to give up its secrets—like any group of strangers sharing a space by necessity, no one is presented as an open book.
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
The Shining
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
A Woman Under the Influence
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Spectrum Culture Online
Recent Home Video Releases
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
The Attorney
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Cousin Jules | Blu-ray Review
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Benicheti’s debut remains his only credited complete feature, yet between those seemingly silent forty years Benicheti busied himself with not only the technical aspects of film production while working in labs, but also behind the camera, lensing a lengthy little list of cinematic shorts in various mediums, many in 3D, not to mention that he was also tapped to teach documentary film production at Harvard and went on to work in the school’s Jefferson Laboratories of Experimental Physics and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, supposedly tinkering with a humanoid automaton. Credits be damned, the guy was certainly no slouch, and the one film now known once again is a formalistic masterwork of early experimentation within the documentary form.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: For all its subtly warm and faintly romantic interactions between Kerr’s pure hearted nun and Mitchum’s nearly solid gold soldier, John Huston’s Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison falls short of the strikingly similar odd couple entertainment that came just before it in The African Queen. Downplaying the comedic for a more realistically low key slow burning melodrama, the film never finds the balance between gravitas and sentimentality to rise to the virtuosic poignancy Huston seemed to be attempting.
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
Asylum (1972)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Babe: Pig in the City
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Bloodsucking Freaks
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Death Wish 3
Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
Mado
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Night of the Comet
Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Since You Went Away
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
