Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2022 Film Reviews
The Abdication (1974)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: The Abdication is not a sequel to Queen Christina. It is, however, a dull film that treats its characters as another element of its lush production.
Betty Page Double Feature (1954)
- Excerpt: Irving Klaw became the king of what was known in post-World War II American as fetish art, commissioning or creating and distributing dirty movies and photos and even some illustrated chapter serials.
Breaking Away (1979)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Review
- Excerpt: Breaking Away is a beautiful film that celebrates the underdog and will have you cheering on our characters despite yourself.
Dangerous (1935)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Review
- Excerpt: Dangerous, if remembered at all, is for (Bette) Davis’ Oscar win. While the film is a little dated and creaky, it is passable.
Devil’s Due (2014)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The entire ordeal is ultimately bleak and unpleasant to sit through much more than it is scary. Parts of it work, but the horror meat and potatoes content ranges from perfunctory to disappointing.
The Final Conflict (aka Omen III: The Final Conflict) (1981)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Sometimes unintentionally hilarious, The Final Conflict has some beautiful imagery amidst the sometimes-odd acting and story.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Mark, Mary + Some Other People (2021) (2021)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: As much as I enjoy and admire Marks’ filmmaking style, I absolutely hate this story.
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Mr. Baseball is good only in showing us the peculiarities of Japanese baseball.
Nightwatch (1994)
Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Bornedal does well to save his funds for a final act that starts to piece together the truth (it’s all pretty much in the open for you to guess) and pit heroes against villains for a showdown that risks a surprisingly heavy body count.
The Omen (1976)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Menacing without being graphic, effectively creepy and well-crafted, The Omen is a fine example of true horror.
The Sea is Watching (2002)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: Although not of the caliber of Kurosawa movies, “ The Sea is Watching” is still a very competently written, shot, directed and acted film that manages to shed light in an aspect of the Japanese society of the samurai era that is not exactly common in the country’s cinema.
Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
- Excerpt: Silvia Richard’s screenplay for Secret Beyond the Door (from a story by Rufus King) is poetic to a fault…
Time of the Heathen (1961)
Year Without A Summer (2010)
Panos Kotzathanasis @ Asian Movie Pulse
- Excerpt: There is such a thing as a film being too personal, and this definitely applies here, with the non-Malaysian viewer probably having issues identifying the symbolisms found particularly in the first part, while the locality of the setting makes it difficult to empathize with the characters. At the same time though, the overall atmosphere and the job done in the visuals result in a movie that ‘demands’ to be appreciated with the senses rather than logic, and will definitely appeal to fans of slow, utterly art-house cinema.
