Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Daybreak
- Excerpt: “Daybreak typically gets shoehorned, along with a handful of other collaborations between director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, into a filmic historical movement known by the oxymoronic catchall “poetic realism.” But, in many ways, it’s more productive to view this relentlessly dour and disillusioned masterwork as a feel-bad forerunner of film noir.”
Everlasting Regret
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Glory Guys
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Go Go Tales
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
It Happened One Night
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
Journeys From Berlin
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Killing
Stacia Kissick Jones @ Next Projection
The King of Comedy
Aaron Pinkston @ Battleship Pretension
The President
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Recent Home Video Releases
As the Light Goes Out
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Audrey Rose
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Christmas in Connecticut
The Compleat Al
Francis Rizzo III @ DVDTalk.com
- Excerpt: The almost-true story of how Al Yankovic became weird
The Complete Jacques Tati
Francis Rizzo III @ DVDTalk.com
- Excerpt: The French comedy legend as writer and director
The Complete Jacques Tati Collection
Demons 2
- Excerpt: “Looking spectacular on Synapse’s otherwise barebones Blu-ray, Demons 2 trades in its predecessor’s penchant for wall-to-wall gore in favor of surreal shocks and quasi-Cronenbergian craziness.”
Iceman
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Ornette: Made in America
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
Possessed (1947) on Blu-ray from Warner Archive
Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
UHF
Francis Rizzo III @ DVDTalk.com
- Excerpt: Weird Al’s cinematic highlight
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
Ninja Champion
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: It’s a chopped-up chopsocky that will drive you mad if you try to understand it on a logical level; it can only be championed as an exploitative explosion of idiotic id.
Phase IV
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Phase IV’ – The One And Only Movie Directed By The One And Only Saul Bass
Why Be Good? (1929)
Stacia Kissick Jones @ She Blogged By Night
The Wizard of Gore
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …despite its pretensions towards making us question the nature of reality, ‘Wizard’ really only makes us question our decision to watch a crappy H.G. Lewis gorefest.
