Policeman: Drunk, Frank? Frank Drebin Jr.: A little, just enough to wake me up. – Frank Jr. (Liam Neeson) in The Naked Gun Audiences crave laughter just like they do thrills, chills, drama, and romance. But where there’s a deluge… Read More ›
Films To Watch
Gotta get back in time? Universal Pictures offers the classic “Back to the Future” trilogy in a variety of new 40th anniversary collections.
Time passes for us all. Through art, however, we’re able to return to moments that moved us. It being 40 years since the Robert Zemeckis-directed Back to the Future released, Universal Pictures is rolling out the red carpet best they… Read More ›
Guillermo del Toro’s black and white vision of “Nightmare Alley” finally gets a physical release thanks to The Criterion Collection.
In 2021, the world got to see Guillermo del Toro’s (Frankenstein) newest feature, Nightmare Alley, which he co-wrote with Kim Morgan (Seances) and adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel of the same name. While there was some divide on this… Read More ›
2025 Halloween Watch-List Recommendations
Halloween’s nearly here, so I’ve put together a brief list of 14 films covered this year that may help you plan the perfect home or theatrical experience for 2025. Additional information for each title can be found via its original… Read More ›
“Anniversary” masterfully utilizes misdirection and on-screen chemistry to deliver a full theatrical experience.
Anniversary is one of those rare movies that completely defies the expectations set by its own marketing. At first glance, it looks like your typical chick flick noir psychological thriller, the kind of film that might blend romance and mystery with… Read More ›
Want to survive Tina Romero’s “Queens of the Dead”? Touch. Grass.
Photosensitivity Warning: The climax features flashing lights in a strobing pattern that may prove triggering for sensitive viewers. Folklore surrounding zombies is varied between culture and time, but always tied to fear of the undead. At some point, it wasn’t… Read More ›
David Cronenberg’s neo-western “A History of Violence” joins The Criterion Collection with a 4K UHD edition nearly 20 years since its initial release.
Adaptations are nothing new. Whether it’s transcribing oral tales to print or print to the stage or stage to the screen, there’s a long tradition of this and it’ll likely continue for as long as audiences hunger for stories in… Read More ›
David Lynch’s dreamlike, painfully beautiful, and brutal “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” is available on 4K UHD & Blu-ray Combo edition from The Criterion Collection.
My mother and I never shared any common interests until the spring of 1990 when we were introduced to the world of Twin Peaks. Full of quirky characters who seemed trapped in time in the beautiful Pacific Northwest town of… Read More ›
GKIDS Films resurrects the first two tales in the “Rebuild of Evangelion” series with brand-new Blu-ray editions.
Photosensitivity Warning: The scenes involving Angels and/or Angels battling EVA Units, which make up a significant portion of the films, almost always involve flashing lights. Be prepared before watching. GKIDS Films gained home release control of Hideaki Anno’s polarizing and… Read More ›
Alex Winter’s misunderstood zany black comedy “Freaked” gets a 4K upgrade, courtesy of Drafthouse Films.
It’s good to be in the age of once-reviled films getting their just due of 4K restoration. Once a film with little to no release, Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 over-the-top shock comedy Freaked is being re-released thanks to… Read More ›
Walt Disney Studios invites Users to return to the Grid with 4K UHD editions of “TRON” and “TRON: Legacy.”
Greetings, programs. – Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) in TRON Good, bad, or indifferent — we are in an age of restoration. Between the wider acceptance of 4K UHD technology for home viewing in the last 12 years and a move… Read More ›
“The Bad Guys 2” delivers the goods in family entertainment and significant ponderings on legal system reform.
There’s a strange dearth of family programming hitting theaters. There are plenty of films for older teens, young adults, and older, but titles that you can take younger kids to are oddly absent. Even worse, the ones that do get… Read More ›
Celebrate 75 years of Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard” with a first-time 4K UHD edition.
Sunset Boulevard (1950) is often regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made, and after finally sitting down to watch it for the first time, I can honestly say that reputation is fully earned. Billy Wilder’s (The Apartment) masterpiece… Read More ›
Life is little more than “One Battle After Another.”
Too often these days it seems like we’re living on the dumbest timeline. Regardless of one’s politics, when hypocrisy is high, there is no other way to process it than believing our lawns crave Gatorade for the electrolytes. The government… Read More ›
Stop-motion gothic romance “Corpse Bride” will have you saying “I do” to its first-time 4K UHD edition.
Filmmaker Tim Burton means different things to different people thanks to his varied career in live-action and stop-motion (sometimes in the same picture) spanning more than four decades. From his first feature, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), to producing Henry Selick’s… Read More ›
Martial arts dramedy “Ghost Killer,” Kensuke Sonomura’s third film, is ready to join up with your home collection.
Those keeping track of modern martial arts action know the name Kensuke Sonomura between his work as a stunt director and as a director. If it hits hard, looks badass, and helps move the narrative forward, you can almost guarantee… Read More ›
“Friendship” arrives in an A24 Blu-ray digibook with gut-busting extras.
One of the funniest movies of 2025 is now available on home video with a beautiful collector’s edition from A24. Similarly to A24’s other editions (as of late) this beautiful digibook for Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship comes jam packed with some… Read More ›
Tokuzō Tanaka’s 1966 jidaigeki tale “The Betrayal (大殺陣 雄呂血)” receives a first-time Blu-ray edition from Radiance Films worthy of its influence.
Photosensitivity Warning: Occasionally black and white films will possess a flicker and its continuous presence within The Betrayal may prove disorienting to photosensitive viewers. One of the greatest mistakes in humanity is incuriosity, this notion that all you know is… Read More ›
The web series turned tv show now turned feature film “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” brings the familiar chaos of Johnson and McCarrol to the big screen. [TIFF]
Have you ever heard of the incredibly Canadian television show Nirvanna the Band the Show? No? It premiered on Vice in 2016 after being a web series in 2007. The show was about two friends who create a band called… Read More ›
Explore the multitudes of Charles Krantz in the home release edition of Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck.”
“I Contain Multitudes.” These three words are not just a Walt Whitman quote or the title of Act I within director Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King short story adaptation The Life of Chuck or the mantra that Chuck tells himself throughout… Read More ›