Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
A bout de souffle
- Excerpt: Like all Godard, there is a serious if not angry heart underneath all of the fun and games.
Angst
Black Caesar
Breaker Morant
The Devils
Don’t Look Back
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
Eaten Alive
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
- Excerpt: It may seem a strange choice of settings for a Disney animated musical, but Victor Hugo’s 1831 gothic novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame forms the basis for one of Disney’s greatest animated features.
The Legacy
The Mouth Agape
Under the Sun of Satan
Recent Home Video Releases
Diary of a Lost Girl
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
The Hunger
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Mosquito
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Other Reviews from 2014 and earlier
The Beast
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Jean Marias’ Beast was a noble gentleman in a fur suit, but this anonymous Beast is a beclawed burlesque rapist.
Force Majeure
- Excerpt: A well-paced, involving, thought-provoking film but one marred slightly by a cynical and negative view of humanity.
House (1977)
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
Lisa
Lisa and the Devil
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Lisa and the Devil’ – Mario Bava’s Surreal Ghostly Slasher Mashup
The Mind Reader (1933)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Nutty Professor
- Excerpt: Hollywood frequently turns a blind eye towards issues of weight and the tolerance of those individuals who struggle to control it. The Nutty Professor unintentionally becomes the exemplification of those problems.
