Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
- Excerpt: It’s a very fun romp through the wild and wacky world of witchcraft, so jump on the bed and let’s go!
Bonnie and Clyde
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Equal parts true-crime exposé, dysfunctional love story, and Depression-era think piece, the picture underscores American police departments’ longstanding proclivity for short cuts to justice, i.e. murder.
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Drive
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Ghost in the Shell
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: … less exploitative and far more thoughtful than most of its kin… an invigorating animation for the mind and eye.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Fierce in its condemnation of America’s racist military attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed a quarter of a million Japanese citizens, “Hiroshima Mon Amour” bridges a gap between death and life via a doomed love affair that helps heal two emotionally damaged people from different races.
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Even by modern cinema’s jaded standards, “She Wolf of the SS” remains a powerfully sexy, campy, blood-soaked, and fetishistic tour de force.
Maurice
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
Vertigo
- Excerpt: Vertigo is a film about passion and love and trying to overcome the past, though all of these themes are problematized – the film is rarely as simple as it looks…
Recent Home Video Releases
Purani Jeans
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
Salvador
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
The Slave
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 40th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Dark Sky Films has issued a 40th anniversary, 4K scan DVD/blu-ray combo collector’s edition release of the film and it is, in a word, remarkable.
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
The Battery
- Excerpt: The freshest and most original zombie movie to come down the pike in a dog’s age. Don’t let it slip under your radar.
A Bay of Blood
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘A Bay Of Blood’ – Mario Bava’s Prototype For The Golden Age Slasher
The Black Castle
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Black Rock
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Byzantium
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Guest in the House
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Judex
Don Lewis @ Film Threat
Melancholia
Nightcap
Pieta
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
Poltergeist
João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
