Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2022 Film Reviews
Descendants (2015)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: That leaves Descendants as the most straightforward of the post-High School Musical series, but not by much: It’s a sprawling, campy homage to the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon.
The Haunted Castle (1897)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The Haunted Castle, an 1897 film by Georges Melies, is a bit of an odd duck, but also another important milestone for the director… It may very well be the first ever narrative film remake.
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Would you believe the first horror movie in the history of cinema is a comedy? Seems implausible, like if you were to claim the first Paul Rudd movie was a slasher! (Oh wait.)
In & Out (1997)
- Excerpt: The great strength of In & Out is in individual moments more than the grand narrative arc, and if some of the attitudes on display are outdated today, that’s a hazard for any movie not written today (including Philadelphia).
King Kong Lives (1986)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: King Kong Lives is just short of being so bad that it’s good. It is more “so bad that it’s watchable if you want to laugh at how bad it all is”.
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: F. W. Murnau, one of the great silent era directors, captures Jannings’ character from both angles: we laugh at the doorman’s self-importance; and we weep when he loses what little he has and finds a hollow nothing in its place.
