Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2020 Film Reviews
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
Coming to America (1988)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Coming to America is a delightful romantic comedy with a dynamic Eddie Murphy performance (or rather, series of performances) that has not lost its power to entertain and delight.
Eden Is West (2009)
- Excerpt: Costa-Gavras has devoted his career to the relentless anatomy of the boot in all its styles and materials, under all its surfaces and allegiances and brand names. This isn’t a common thing to do.
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Part of the magic of the original trilogy lies in the fact that nothing like it had ever been done before in film history.
Lon Chaney: Before the Thousand Faces, Vol. 2 (2014-2017)
- Excerpt: An oubliette is a hole in the floor into which people could be dropped and forgotten, “oublier” being French for “to forget”. Metaphorically, the word evokes the state into which the vast majority of silent stars have been dropped today.
Twice Told Tales (1963)
James Plath @ Family Home Theater
- Excerpt: Those first two stories still play well if you can accept Price’s attempts to be semi-campy in a film that doesn’t seem to be pulling in the same direction.
