Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Back to the Future
Emanuel Levy @ www.EmanuelLevy.com
- Excerpt: Back to the Future holds up extremely well as a movie grounded in the Reagan era as well as a tale dealing with universal fantasies of children about their parents
Recent Home Video Releases
Blasts from Hong Kong Past
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Man with the Gun
- Excerpt: The debut film by an early Orson Welles collaborator, Man with the Gun never transcends its stock western template, and the home-video treatment is correspondingly unremarkable.
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
The Phantom of the Opera
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Other Reviews from 2014 and earlier
island of lost souls 1932
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Miss Julie
- Excerpt: It does not ultimately work because it is badly written and overlong, but, for the moments where it grabs you, it is the real deal and Northern Irish cinema, if not European cinema in general, needs much more of this.
Outland
Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: Outland took up where Alien (1979) left off in fashioning a distinctive brand of realistic cinematic sci-fi…
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Repulsion
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Repulsion’ – Roman Polanski’s ‘Other’ Horror Masterpiece
