Here are our latest reviews of films for home viewing.
Pre-2023 Film Reviews
The Accused (1988)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: It is a shame that The Accused is if not forgotten at least not as well-remembered as (Jodie Foster’s) other Oscar-winning performance in The Silence of the Lambs. Gripping, moving and well-acted all around, The Accused is a film on an important subject.
Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (2013)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Anita is not as insightful about the subject as I had hoped.
Basquiat (1996)
- Excerpt: [Basquiat] iss most definitely a Julian Schnabel film and also a portrait of someone who may or may not be similar in character and manner to the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Beaches (1988)
Dogma (1999)
- Excerpt: 25 years later and Dogma is still one of the best films in the View Askewniverse!
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
- Excerpt: [Bob and his crew] see themselves as trickster characters triumphing over “the man” by which they mostly mean the cops and secondarily the “straights” who work at the pharmacies they keep robbing.
Man of Steel (2013)
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: An experience that is both fascinating and frustrating; intellectually stimulating (at times) and visually stunning, yes, but also messy and sometimes poorly conceived.
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: The Poseidon Adventure may not be the first disaster film with an all-star cast in it. However, I find it wildly entertaining, slightly kitschy but with some surprisingly moving moments too.
Serpico (1973)
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: If the film still works, it’s because it depicts a version of New York City that feels both different and similar to the one that exists today. […] More than fifty years might have passed, but the movie has lost none of its considerable potency.
Shall We Dance? (1996)
Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: The ensemble cast is delightful, expertly led by writer/director Masayuki Suô who brilliantly mixes complex character and cultural behaviors with physical movement both beautiful and hilarious…Koji Yakusho is tremendously appealing…
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: And now it is out in theaters again via a gorgeous 4K remaster, courtesy of Bleecker Street, ahead of the September 12 release of the sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. The original film will also come out on disc (4K UHD and Blu-ray) via Criterion on September 16.
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Rob Reiner’s 41-year-old cult classic This Is Spinal Tap still works as a quietly hilarious mockumentary of rock music and its stars.
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