Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
42nd Street: Iconic Musical of Depression Era
Emanuel Levy @ www.EmanuelLevy.com
- Excerpt: 42nd Street, the 1933 Oscar nominee, may not be the best backstage musical but sure is the most iconic and best known of the early Depression era
Chimes at Midnight
Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Recent Home Video Releases
David Zucker and the Freeing of The Id
Carson Lund @ The House Next Door
- Excerpt: Zucker’s best instincts are those that seek to throw a wrench into every single received convention we expect from genre movies, to call attention to their workings not in a way that provokes thought, but in a manner that hijacks the audience’s attention.
Smooth Talk
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Other Reviews from 2014 and earlier
American Sniper
- Excerpt: Is it a celebration of slaughter or is it a powerful statement about America’s wars?
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Hell to Eternity
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Inside Llewyn Davis
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
The Last Run
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Downbeat but well-crafted crime thriller.
A Madea Christmas
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
Scream for Help
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Scream For Help’ – An Early Teen Horror Mystery From A Young Tom Holland
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy