Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2020 Film Reviews
Arsenic and Old Lace
- Excerpt: Even more than His Girl Friday or Bringing Up Baby it reinforces what a wonderful comic actor Grant was.
The Bat
- Excerpt: With a radio mystery feel to it, The Bat has more in common with Edgar Allan Poe’s detective stories than it does his tales of the macabre.
Bedtime for Bonzo
- Excerpt: As it turns out, Ronald Reagan was a better actor in the political arena than he was in movies. He’s out-acted in this one by a chimpanzee named Peggy, whose performance earned her a PATSY Award (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year) from the American Humane Society.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Excerpt: Despite the engaging premise, A Connecticut Yankee doesn’t have quite the same crackling energy and spitfire gags as Bob Hope’s costumed pirate romp The Princess and the Pirate (1944).
Donkey Skin
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Invoking Cocteau’s Orphic spirit, Demy wisely leans into the surrealism implicit in both fairy tales and musicals, and adds a dollop of Freudian frisson by picking incest as his theme.
Fancy Pants
- Excerpt: Their first film is still their best, but Fancy Pants isn’t far behind. And children will undoubtedly prefer Hope and Ball in Western getup and giddy-up to the duo’s earlier Damon Runyon racetrack comedy.
In the Mood for Love
- Excerpt: The World of Wong Kar Wai steps into UHD and, surprise surprise, it looks fantastic.
