Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
The Conformist
Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: If Bertolucci’s screenplay, adapted by the director from a novel by Alberto Moravia, is complex and fascinating, it is the visuals of this movie that make the most enduring impression. The cinematography is by the great Vittorio Storaro.
From Dusk Till Dawn
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …a curious failure that has been surprisingly overrated by people who remember the vampire-stabbing fun of the pre-dawn finale, but forget the incongruous and unpleasant pre-dusk sequences.
Goldfinger
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “Goldfinger” set in stone the formula for what would become cinema’s longest running and most reliably entertaining franchise. Regardless of how many installments have come since, “Goldfinger” retains its reputation as the best of the bunch.
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Gene Fowler’s little universe proliferates with ingenious fragments of surrealist destabilisation, which often pack a sneaky thematic wallop.
Madeinusa
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: A drama that’s slow to start, but which gradually drags you in with its rich, imaginary synthesis of pagan and Christian traditions, and with the fate of its quietly sad and oddly named adolescent protagonist.
Recent Home Video Releases
1941
- Excerpt: With commentary from co-writer Bob Gale
Billion Dollar Brain
- Excerpt: Ken Russell’s bracing Billion Dollar Brain gets a solid, if unspectacular, transfer (and little in the way of extras) from Kino Lorber.
Crazy Dog
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
La Dolce Vita
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: An undisputed masterpiece of modern cinema that saw Fellini shift from neo-realism to something much more thematically rich and narratively weird, La Dolce Vita showed us the 1950s “good life” at it’s most unscrupulous and commented on our fantastical obsession to know the inner lives of those in the public eye, and yet we cannot help but celebrate its accomplishments by partaking in exactly what it disparages. As always, life imitates art, no?
La Dolce Vita
Nightbreed – The Director’s Cut
- Excerpt: Clive Barker’s vision is finally realized
Venus in Fur
- Excerpt: Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur is a deceptively simple two-hander. Superficially, the film seems to unfold as a textbook study of role reversal (that staple of the psychodrama) in the tragicomic mode.
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
Evilspeak
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Kapo
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Legend of Suram Fortress
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Mahjong
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Miss Lovely
Kathy Gibson @ Access Bollywood
The Mysterious Doctor
Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: Cheap, brief, daft, and blissful fun for old B-movie spelunkers, The Mysterious Doctor is jerry-built pulp fiction from the midst of WW2, combining mild horror spun from already long-hoary story tropes and regulation wartime messaging.
The Night of Generals
Stacia Kissick Jones @ ClassicFlix
Night Warning
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Complete Series
M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
Portrait of Jason
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Possession
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
The Queen of Spades
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Shock
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Shock’ – An Entirely Different Kind Of Vincent Price Movie
