Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
The African Queen
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: There is something delightful in seeing two great actors play to and against type.
Belle de Jour: Bunuel’s Masterpiece
Emanuel Levy @ www.EmanuelLevy.com
- Excerpt: Belle de Jour is Bunuel”s most accessible and populr film, a highlight of his career as well as landmark of Surrealist Cinema
Cinema Paradiso
Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Cinema Paradiso es una película tierna, nostálgica, y divertida.
A Hard Day’s Night
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The spirit embodied by Lester’s Beatles was welcoming, and it wasn’t about chronological age: it was about choosing “parading” over propriety.
Phantom of the Paradise
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Made in the heart of the midnight movie craze, when directors were free to take (relatively) big budgets and take crazy chances with them, De Palma included a number of stylistically off-balance scenes that surely would have been excised, to ‘Phantom”s detriment, in a less forgiving film era.
Sweet Smell of Success
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Sweet Smell of Success is an angry film, brilliant, but highly cynical, reflecting the moral morass that the characters in this demimonde of nightclubs and backroom deals to get a line in a newspaper column work in.
Recent Home Video Releases
Elmer Gantry
- Excerpt: KL Studio Classics certainly took a leap of faith with Elmer Gantry!
Man Hunt
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
The Beast Must Die
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘The Beast Must Die’ – A Classic Werewolf Movie With A Twist
Crime Against Joe
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dollman
Patrick Bromley @ F This Movie!
Hi Diddle Diddle
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
High Tide (1947)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Klute
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Ms. .45
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
- Excerpt: More interesting than your typical rape-revenge exploitation cheapie.
Pickup
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Pink Flamingos
Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
The Price of Fear
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
