Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2022 Film Reviews
Banana Split (2018)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Although Banana Split has some crucial flaws, it is buoyed by some even more important strengths. And the two most important of those strengths can be tied to one person: Hannah Marks.
Blow-Up (1960)
Diego Salgado @ Split Screen [Spanish]
Bound (1996)
- Excerpt: The Wachowskis finally take their place in The Criterion Collection with this week’s release of their debut feature in a gleaming new transfer.
Brothers from the Walled City (1982)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Although definitely over-the-top equally in terms of violence, story and melodrama, “Brothers of the Walled City” is definitely a very entertaining movie, which manages to combine all its elements in a way that keeps it intriguing from beginning to end.
Common Law Wife/Jennie Wife Child (1963/1968)
- Excerpt: Angry old men, sexy strumpets, moonshiners, corrupt sheriffs, and dumb farmhands populate them thar hills in these two low-budget ’60s hicksploitation films.
Deadpool (2016)
- Excerpt: The film ultimately goes down pretty smoothly thanks to the fact that it’s barely 100 minutes and never more than a few lines from a joke.
Love’s Whirlpool (2014)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: “Love’s Whirlpool”, apart from deserving a watch for the cast only, is equally sensual, contextually intriguing, and well shot, in an overall excellent movie altogether.
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The film is ultimately less than the sum of its parts, both because of its discordant structure of two mostly unrelated halves, and because there’s a certain sparkle and passion missing, especially, as noted, in the second half.
Never Open That Door/If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952)
- Excerpt: The family is the source of neurosis, and any hint of an allegedly happy ending in these three tales must happen over someone’s dead body.
