Sebastian Maniscalco brings a film based on his own life experiences to the screen in the Lionsgate release About My Father. Starring Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, and Kim Cattrall, this comedy is directed by Laura Terruso. On this… Read More ›
You think your job sucks? Imagine being Dracula’s bootheel. Thanks to Chris McKay’s Renfield, we no longer have to! If you happened to miss this horror comedy in theaters, it’s coming home on June 6th and Universal Pictures has kindly given… Read More ›
Moviegoers and Cinephiles today are privileged to receive insights into their favorite films through any number of Vanity Fair scene breakdowns, WTF Pod confessionals, and, despite studios’ best efforts, the Blu-ray special feature. Maybe this is why David Lynch, an… Read More ›
It would be difficult to find an American adult who hasn’t heard of Playboy. Since the magazine was first printed in the 1950s, Hugh Hefner’s infamous publication has become an American cultural staple and a generalized symbol for a young… Read More ›
He’s gone head-to-head with Mr. Wick, played motorball with Alita, the Battle Angel, and taken on the one and only Machete. Martial artist, stuntman, and actor Marko Zaror has a solid catalog and only added to it with his latest… Read More ›
For the second time, Elements of Madness will officially be covering the Tribeca Film Festival and we thought we’d offer up our recommendations of what to check out during the fest or what to keep an eye out for in… Read More ›
Shoni Imamura’s final film, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) has finally come to Blu-ray. The last work of this Japanese New-Wave master, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge finds office worker Yosuke Sasano, played by Koji Yakusho (Cure,… Read More ›
Today, director Sam Peckinpah’s Noon Wine released on DVD via MVD Entertainment Group. This film was broadcast on television and has not been seen since its original air date, but now you can own it for yourself! Thanks to MVD,… Read More ›
In 2001, no one could’ve imagined that in 2023 the 11th sequel of The Fast and the Furious would be hitting theaters. The original told the story of street racers who also moonlight as truckjackers, stealing VCRs for profit. Now,… Read More ›
Attention all Autobots! This message goes out to you! Paramount Home Video is bringing forth a new collection for steelbook nuts that collects all of the Bayhem and Bayhem-adjacent products in time for the release of Transformers: Rise of the… Read More ›
Crime stories are a staple in cinematic storytelling. These stories take the form of films like Internal Affairs (1990), Crime Story (1991), Heat (1995), and The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019). Sometimes, the individual films are standalones (Point Break… Read More ›
It says a lot about a film when it’s not even close to over and you’re already excited about the *idea* of a sequel, about what new story the characters could go on in this strange and exciting-yet-familiar world. As… Read More ›
It has been nearly 32 years since Ridley Scott introduced the world to Thelma and Louise, and having never visited this picture before, I had an idea of what I was getting myself into, but no idea the extent of… Read More ›
Robert De Niro has built one of Hollywood’s most unique filmographies. He has worked with great filmmakers like Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in America), Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown), and Michael Mann (Heat). De Niro’s… Read More ›
The stories we tell ourselves shape how we view the world. Sometimes the narrating voice is our own, unable to pull us up out of a self-defeating dive; other times, the voice is someone else’s, taking advantage of our vulnerability… Read More ›
In this edition of Meet Me at the Movies: Open Dialogue, Thomas Manning speaks with actor Simon Phillips as he discusses his experience on the new Netflix series FUBAR, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Monica Barbaro. Phillips also looks back at memorable… Read More ›
2020’s Becky was arguably the definition of a sleeper hit, garnering some acclaim through word of mouth and possibly solidified Lulu Wilson as an action star who can certainly hold her own. Did the 2020 movie need a sequel? In… Read More ›
From director Brad Watson (Hallows Eve) and actor Daniel Stisen (Last Man Down) comes The Siege, an action/adventure film in which alliances are forged and broken when a group of highly-skilled killers attacks a facility filled with assassins. The Siege lands on… Read More ›
I generally try to keep politics and state of affairs out of my reviews because the review should focus on the sole product itself and not how the industry around it is changing and effecting the content or the distribution… Read More ›
Universal decided to take a swing for the fences and make some relatively low budget horror movies. With movies such as The Black Phone (2021), Violent Night (2022), M3GAN (2022), Knock at the Cabin (2023), and now Cocaine Bear, all… Read More ›