Here are our latest reviews of films for home viewing.
Pre-2024 Film Reviews
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre (2002)
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A highly entertaining adaptation of a comic book that shouldn’t work so well in live action, which respects its source of inspiration but also presents its own ideas.
The Eagle (1925)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The Eagle was a critical and commercial hit: Valentino’s reputation rebounded, while Brown took a major step towards the MGM prestige that would define the remaining decades of his career.
Happily (2021)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: What the film ultimately suffers from most is widening its lens from the central couple to the whole friend group, who are more filler than fully drawn.
Kinuyo Tanaka Directs (1953-62)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Mikey and Nicky is “a gangster movie” in only the broadest sense.
Wall Street (1987)
Dan Stalcup @ The Goods: Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Where the film finds personality is in its texture, offering a fascinating time capsule rendered in maximalist craft.
Westfront 1918 (1930)
- Excerpt: There’s no glory in this kind of warfare, just filth and fatigue and the constant possibility of death. Or maybe that should be the constant probability of death (and the probability is a whole lot greater than 0), because if you don’t die from an enemy bullet or a shell, you might be killed by friendly fire or disease or just lose your mind and remain in the world of the living only by the most basic of definitions
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