Since 2017’s The Outlaws, actor Ma Dong-seok (a.k.a. and credited here as Don Lee) has led what would become the Crime City series, an action crime series that borrows from Korean headlines for the foundation of each film. Each film… Read More ›
Films To Watch
Bring home three of a kind to a full house with the “Ocean’s Trilogy” on 4K UHD for the first time.
Remakes are almost always met with the same reaction upon announcement: “why?”. To many, remakes are a sign of laziness on the part of studios, opting to lean-in on what audiences know or have a relationship with rather than taking… Read More ›
Jazz and animation flow in animated powerhouse “BLUE GIANT” on home video via Shout! Studios.
Adaptations are growing in number more and more these days in entertainment. If there’s not a cinematic version of a book, show, or comic, there’s a television one. Often times, these tales involve beings of incredible strength or speed, of… Read More ›
Noboru Nakamura’s “The Shape of Night” is the latest Shochiku studio release by Radiance Films.
Trigger Warning: The Shape of Night contains an exploration of sex work, the narrative of which may prove difficult to endure for those who’ve suffered sexual assault. In 1929, Japanese film studio Shochiku was established, transitioning from the theatrical arts… Read More ›
Head back to 1996 with a 2K restoration of the Jet Li action classic “Black Mask” via Eureka Entertainment.
Despite living in an age where thousands of films are available at the touch of a button, there’re still far too many films that are either difficult-bordering-on-impossible to stream, thereby making physical media the best way to access what you… Read More ›
“Challengers” is a Movie Star Grand Slam!
A backwater tennis court, a “challenger” tennis tournament, in Rochelle, New York. Mike Faist (West Side Story; The Bikeriders) as Art and Josh O’Connor (La Chimera; Cinderella) as Patrick are battling on this small-town court. Zendaya’s (Dune Part Two; The… Read More ›
What harm could a little “Hanky Panky” do?
It all starts with an idea. Then, if you’re lucky, that idea blossoms into a complete story that can then be transformed from words on a page into a fully-staged production. For all the films released in a week every… Read More ›
“The People’s Joker:” And the Emancipation of One Vera Drew.
Yellow Smiley offers me X Like he’s drinking 7-Up I would rather drink six razor blades Razor blades from a paper cup He can’t understand, I say too tough It’s just that I’ve seen the future and boy it’s rough… Read More ›
“Monster” brings our global, idiotic anxiety about teachers home on Blu-ray.
Monster (2023) was one of the best films of last year that no one saw, as is typical of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (Shoplifters; Nobody Knows) films as of late. It’s also part of a worrying trend and aftershock of American politics… Read More ›
“The Roundup: No Way Out” on home video is the only way you want Det. Ma paying you a visit.
2023 provided a proper glut of delicious action flicks. In addition to the obvious theatrical blockbusters like John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, we also got Sisu,… Read More ›
You’ll like the movie “I Like Movies” quite a lot.
“I like movies” is not just something I tell people at parties, it’s also the title of Chandler Levack’s debut feature film. If you’re someone who reads pieces like this review, this is a film with something to say about… Read More ›
“Infested” grants audiences a parting gift of a life-long phobia. [The Overlook Film Festival]
Horror movies usually tend to fixate on fears to engage their audience or do something truly horrifying and disturbing. The latter are typically easier to digest since they’re easier to shake off as they’re not exploiting something the audience may… Read More ›
Ariane Louis-Seize’s “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” blends melancholic drama and teenage angst in an exploration of the human condition through a vampiric lens. [The Overlook Film Festival]
Photosensitivity Warning: In several key sequences, flickering lights are used to convey enhanced emotions which may prove problematic for sensitive viewers. In undergrad at UNC at Asheville, during a lower-level English course, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was read and discussed as… Read More ›
The on-disc bonus features may be bare, but the action in “Baby Assassins 2” is anything but.
The slacker comedy comes in many shapes and varieties. You’ve got rom-com Mallrats (1995), straight comedy Friday (1995), dramedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and comedic thriller The Big Lebowski (1998). Each one uses the slackers at their center to… Read More ›
The play’s the thing when it comes to comedic documentary “Grand Theft Hamlet.” [SXSW]
The pandemic did a lot of things to the citizens of the world in the early years, the least of which was take thousands of lives. Those who remained in those initial months and years dealt with physical isolation, financial… Read More ›
More than sew-sew, comedic thriller “Sew Torn” will leave you in stitches. [SXSW]
“For want of a nail …” Choices upon choices upon choices are what bring you to this review at this moment in your life. Maybe you signed up for notices when a new one publishes from EoM, maybe you follow… Read More ›
Violent, spaghetti-Western-inspired “The Bounty Hunter Trilogy” gets a first time Blu-ray release by Radiance Films.
The lone wolf archetype is a figure that has lived on in many samurai and action spectacles — the man who walks alone and walks a fine line of morals and principles, fighting for the common good, and the common… Read More ›
Fresh out of the oven, “Riddle of Fire” serves up a unique, grand adventure.
There is something inherently special about writing and directing your first feature film, I would have to assume. Having never crossed that bridge myself, but consuming a plethora of films throughout my life, there is always something special, at least… Read More ›
Broadcasting live in theaters and coming to Shudder this Spring in a battle for your soul, it’s “Late Night with the Devil.”
If you are a fan of the horror genre, then you are probably very familiar with the name, David Dastmalchian. In the last year alone, he’s exploded off the screen in films like The Last Voyage of the Demeter, The… Read More ›
Ned Benson’s time travel rom-com “The Greatest Hits” is profound in its use of grief and trauma. [SXSW]
Photosensitivity Warning: The visual elements used to convey transitions appear as an anamorphic lens-like flare similar to refraction of light that may prove trigging to photosensitive individuals. Memory is greatly tied to our senses. Tastes, sights, smells, and sounds all… Read More ›