Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
A Child is Waiting
Count Yorga, Vampire
Downhill Racer
Downhill Racer
Harold and Maude
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
- Excerpt: Harold and Maude is a classic tale of outsiders, a black romantic comedy of misfits.
Ikiru
Ikiru
The Lady from Shanghai
Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: Its saving grace is a fantastic climactic exchange inside an amusement park’s hall of mirrors that’s become legendary in noir history. But even its escalating intrigue of shattered glass portraits jumping from one to the next until the first character falls from bullet is a shadow of its true self.
Touch of Evil
Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: Credit Welles for one of his career’s best performances while also keeping the complicated plot cogent. From the breathtaking opening shot of a bomb timer spun before following the car housing it through customs to the edge-of-your-seat finale of tape-recorded confessions and knee-jerk murder, Touch of Evil rightfully earns its top spot in the annals of film noir.
White of the Eye
Recent Home Video Releases
DVD Review: ‘Czechoslovak New Wave Collection: Volume II’
- Excerpt: For Forman, the tension arises in watching a young woman trying to be just that in a dictatorial milieu; in Nemec’s film, a septuplet are scathingly shown to submit to a domineering host at a dinner party; Menzel meanwhile examines the middle classes as they labour under re-education in the post-war years. All three films begin with a little flirting.
Zombie High
Other Reviews from 2014 and earlier
A Faithful Heart: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon at 15
- Excerpt: A revisit of the martial arts/romance film on the event of its 15th anniversary.
Foxcatcher
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Heartburn
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: The food-sex jokes come off half-baked.
Latin Lovers
The Lost Missile
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Says Goodbye To Robert Loggia With ‘The Lost Missile’ – The Launch Of A Legendary Career
The Mask
The Theory of Everything
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
