Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2020 Film Reviews
Amour Fou (2014)
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: Hausner’s film offers an amusing look at the petty passions of the haute bourgeoisie, but as she did with Lourdes, Hausner builds a sense of horror that mirrors the rising passions of a world in flux.
The Crime of the Century/Double Door (1933/1934)
Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s fortunate to have as its star the magnificent Anna May Wong.
Flower Drum Song (1961)
- Excerpt: In general, Hollywood had no problem with yellowface casting in the 1950s and 1960s, and to some extent the practice carries on today. That makes it all the more remarkable that almost all the Asian roles in Flower Drum Song are cast with Asian (although not necessarily Chinese) performers.
The Guilty/High Tide (1947)
Jigsaw (1961)
Jude (1996)
- Excerpt: …Winterbottom and screenwriter Hossein Amini imagine Jude’s story as largely the result of individual decision-making, while their surroundings resemble a scrubbed-up living history museum…
Top Gun (1986)
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Cold War propaganda that is weirdly apolitical. Sunny, breezy homoeroticism that is surely unintentional. What a hoot this is! Mostly not in a good way, but its impact on pop culture cannot be denied.
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (2014)
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: he film records in great detail Euromaidan, a protest movement that began in November 2013 in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), lasted three months, and cost 125 lives, mainly of unarmed protesters, in less than 48 hours.
