Rent It Up till now, Scream Factory’s release slate has been anchored almost entirely around ’80s horror flicks…y’know, movies that are part of iconic franchises, were helmed by some of the genre’s biggest names, or by all rights should’ve [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Highly Recommended A most welcome Blu-ray release, Hell’s House (1932) is an obscure, pre-Code film likened to similar penal system expos s that immediately followed it, notably I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) The Mayor of Hell (1933).
Highly Recommended What time is it? It’s…well, it’s about time is what it is. (See what I did there?) It was a long and mighty journey for the first season of Adventure Time to hack-‘n-slash its way onto DVD, and this Blu-ray release [click on the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. One of the reasons that Czech writer Vladislav Vancura’s 1931 novel Marketa Lazarova has long been considered a notorious challenge to translators is that its avant-gardism — its intentional …
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Another surreal trip from Quentin Dupieux Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Surreal films, dogs Likes: Jack Plotnick, Quentin Dupieux Dislikes: Closed-minded audiences Hates: Boring old movies The Movie Quentin Dupieux’s 2010 English-language debut Rubber is a striking film, telling the story of a homicidal tire with psychic powers, on a killing spree, as an audience …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Â At an age when most actors had long since stopped takingroles (or more likely, the phone had stopped ringing) Cary Grant wasstill making superbfilms. Â After making the excellentthriller Charade , Grant went to workon the WWII light comedy, Father Goose ,his second to last movie
Recommended The Princess and the Pilot Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution ThePrincess and the Pilot Read the entire review
Recommended The Movie: The 1933 romantic comedy Perfect Understanding , newly released on Blu Ray by the Cohen Film Collection, might best be described as a vanity project. Gloria Swanson performed double duty as actress and producer with this luxurious British production, resulting in an enjoyable yet quirky experiment. Swanson had a lot riding on Perfect Understanding .
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection , not the current Blu-ray edition under review. If one were forced (against one’s will, it would have to be) to pick and choose and split hairs among the near-uniformly excellent, inspired, and distinctive-visioned films of English writer-director Mike …
Highly Recommended THE FILM “This place isn’t haunted,” says a young man, Jo o (Gustavo John), to a potential condo buyer at one point in Brazilian writer/director Kleber Mendon a Filho’s vital, indelible debut feature-length picture, Neighboring Sounds . Jo o is putting his client’s mind at ease because of a suicide she’s heard tell of in this high-rise residential building , owned by Jo o’s …