Here are our latest reviews of films for home viewing.
Pre-2023 Film Reviews
1984 (1984)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: 1984 has excellent performances, including a farewell from one of best actors never to reach his full potential.
Cabaret (1972)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Weimar Germany was never so decadent and doomed as it was in Cabaret, a brilliant musical with standout performances.
Minding the Gap (2018)
- Excerpt: …you may feel like you’re watching a reverse spin on Stephen King’s It, where only one friend escapes the cursed town and makes something of his life while the remainder stay behind and stuck.
Mrs. Brown (1997)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It remains a memorable and frequently funny comedy, which only begins to fall apart during its third act.
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: The first installment may be the one that started it all—well, at least in the movies—and the one that popularized Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin, turning him into a comedy icon. But it’s the second part that I find most consistently funny, and the one with the best third act.
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s, unfortunately, the most disappointing installment in the trilogy. However, that doesn’t mean the film lacks hilarious moments or interesting performances. It’s simply impossible not to notice that the final product isn’t on the same level as its predecessors.
Paris is Burning (1990)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Jennie Livingston takes into the demimonde of fierce queens who throw shade to their rivals in Paris Is Burning, capturing the decadence and tragedy of this formerly hidden subculture.
The The Savage Eye, The Glass Ceiling, Morgiana, Butterfly Kiss (1960, 1971, 1972, 1995)
Still Alice (2014)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I cannot shake the idea that Still Alice was going to get Julianne Moore her long-awaited Oscar no matter how good or bad her performance was.
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, puts these two titans of American literature as friends, rivals, and what one was to the other.
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