Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Babes in Toyland (1961)
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
A Day in the Country
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
- Excerpt: …does exactly what a short film should: it draws its audience into its setting, orients them to the situation, and then leads them to a certain revelation or question, its compactness allowing for the storyteller to be simultaneously more direct and more ambiguous.
Hitler’s Children
- Excerpt: Home-grown Nazi horrors and doomed romance as Nancy Drew’s fertility is threatened by the Fuehrer.
Miracle on 34th Street
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Two Men in Town
You Can’t Take It With You
Recent Home Video Releases
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Wake Up And Kill
Jordan M. Smith @ IONCINEMA.com
Other Reviews from 2014 and earlier
Black Christmas
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Black Christmas’ – The Original Christmas Slasher
Broken Lance
Dolls
Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
Fatherland
Gremlins
Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: I think kids should be made to watch Gremlins as a rite of passage. “Take care of your dog or he’s going to eat you.”
Hitler’s Children
Love at Large
Manos: the Hands of Fate
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …if applied consistently, incompetence can be a style.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: But don’t think it’s merely a retelling by Jerry Juhl to get children loving Dickens because there’s a lot to love for adults too—especially those who grew up with Henson and know these characters like the back of their hands. This wasn’t simply a money-grab and its artistic merit definitely speaks for itself.
Nightmares (1983)
Prison (1987)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: A low-budget chilling jailhouse ghost story drama.
Twice Upon a Time
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: The mix of a crazy dream/fairytale plot with luminous cutout animation that often evokes surrealist collage landscapes—the cartoon characters might find themselves inside a clock that looks lie a Leonardo da Vinci notebook page, on a frozen beach with body parts sticking out of the sand, or attacked by office supplies—makes ‘Twice Upon a Time’ a one-of-a-kind oddball adventure.
