Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Bang! Bang! You’re Dead!
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Birds
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The crow has long been an omen of death, but never have our fine feathered friends been so conspicuously thantatotic as in Alfred Hitchcock’s first true horror (as opposed to suspense) film.
Boyhood
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: Linklater and Coltrane portray being a boy with both glorious and downright uncomfortable authenticity. Boyhood is a one of a kind experience.
Bug (1975)
Countess Dracula
Deranged
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
The Fury
God Told Me To
Mysterious Skin
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …plays something like “Midnight Cowboy” with a touch of “The X-Files.”
Notre Musique
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Overlord
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
The Piano
Philip Concannon @ Mostly Film
Scream, Blacula, Scream
Squirm
Tim Holt Western Classics Collection: Vol. 4
A.J. Hakari @ Classic Movie Guide
The Trip to Italy
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: The Trip to Italy is just an assault of laughs, whether it’s duelling impressions, sketches or bickering. However, it’s in that vulnerable state, when your face is sore from laughter and your ears are reverberating with Michael Caine’s voice that Winterbottom torpedos you with emotional truths. The people you love should keep you grounded, tease you incessantly and dwarf your accomplishments; because they know it makes you better.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- Excerpt: X-Men: Days of Future Past is an extremely satisfying closure to this chapter of the X-Men universe.
You Only Live Once
Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
Recent Home Video Releases
Back in Crime
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Eastern Bandits
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: The exuberance of the opening scene eventually settles into a steady pace, but between the audacity of the characters, and Ynng’s visual stylings, the film remains intriguing.
Fate is the Hunter
Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: Released on the heels of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight 370, one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time, Twilight Time’s new Blu-Ray of Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter (1964), couldn’t have come at a better time.
Gang War in Milan
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Martial Arts Movie Marathon
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
2001: A Space Odyssey
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
The Angry Hills
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Blanche Fury
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Blue Sunshine
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Gold Diggers of 1935
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Intimate Lighting
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Monsters
Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
Second Glance
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Second Glance is an evangelical version of It’s A Wonderful Life. It’s a film that I do enjoy, but I also am not blind to its faults.
The Sheepman
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Stunt Man
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Peter O’Toole knew enough about directors to be able to play them. If he had to work with directors as power-crazed as Eli Cross in The Stunt Man, he managed to survive some really deranged moments.
Them!
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
