Prior to 2024, Oz Perkins was a somewhat niche indie filmmaker who had already built a nice little fanbase thanks to his early films The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015), which follows a young girl who may or may not be possessed… Read More ›
Home Video
True crime thriller “All the President’s Men” gets a 4K UHD release from Warner Bros. Pictures in honor of its 50th anniversary.
While it’s safe to presume that political ideologies have often led to disagreements and hard lines between classmates, colleagues, and family members to the point that countless stories will feature “black sheep” liberal relatives in conservative families or conservative characters… Read More ›
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s dramatic thriller “Cloud” gets a slim-but-deep home edition as part of the sublabel of Criterion Premieres.
It feels safe to say that capitalism had a solid run, but needs to step down. At this point, there’s nothing in this world that doesn’t feel commodified to the point that ethical consumption, let alone ethical existence, is an… Read More ›
HIKARI’s heartfelt dramedy “Rental Family” arrives to own via home video.
“… make you feel like family is who we include, rather than we were assigned to.” – Actor Brendan Fraser discussing Rental Family. The world can feel like a cruel and unforgiving place that isolates you at every opportunity. That… Read More ›
Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg’s third “Predator” adventure, “Badlands,” lands on home video packed with in-depth bonus materials.
Writer/director Dan Trachtenberg’s feature film debut, 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), not only helped reenergize the Cloverfield franchise, it established the filmmaker as one to watch. He’s since been handed the reigns to three different Predator-related projects and each one, unique… Read More ›
“Blue Moon” boasts a career-best performance from Ethan Hawke as Richard Linklater lovingly brings the 1940s to life.
Director Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague) has been actively communicating with the past, meaning he has released two films within the past year that pay homage to the figures behind classic films and musicals. Alongside Nouvelle Vague, a film about the… Read More ›
A complex love story brilliantly masked in a survival story and political thriller, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” receives a beautiful digital restoration, courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Two prisoners. Two different pasts. One love story that keeps them going. Set within the Brazilian military dictatorship, Héctor Babenco’s 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman (adapted by Leonard Schrader, based on Manuel Pieg’s 1976 novel) is about two… Read More ›
Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” gets a boost to 4K UHD as it enters The Criterion Collection
Life is like a dyad-god, both finite and infinite. Your life is finite because it ends, but Life goes on regardless of how you live yours. Few things narrow as quickly as the infinite possibilities of a newborn’s life, except… Read More ›
“Shelby Oaks” uses chilling found footage to solve a mystery of a missing YouTuber and is now available on Blu-ray from NEON.
Chris Stuckmann is a YouTuber, author, film critic, and filmmaker, who started his career posting short-form movie reviews on YouTube called “Quick Movie Reviews” in 2009. He eventually began making longer movie reviews as well as reviews of television shows,… Read More ›
Derek Cianfrance’s “Roofman” is far more character study than crime antics.
Director Derek Cianfrance is a filmmaker who is near and dear to my heart. His 2013 film The Place Beyond the Pines hit me on a deep emotional level with its themes of fatherhood and legacy. Even with its heavier… Read More ›
Reginald Hudlin’s feature film directorial debut and seminal teen comedy “House Party” receives a 4K UHD edition via The Criterion Collection.
“All my memories are movies.” – George Clooney as Jay Kelly in Jay Kelly (2025). As a child born on the cusp of 1981, I reside firmly on line between Gen X and Millennial, meaning that I can remember a… Read More ›
Gordan Chan’s folktale adaptation “King of Beggars” receives a 2K restoration from Eureka Entertainment.
Cinema borrowing from folktales is a natural fit given that folktales often elevate figures or events and cinema does this innately through projection. Who wouldn’t want to see the figures or events of lore cast upon a 40-foot screen or… Read More ›
“Vampire Zombies… from Space!” You read that right, now grab your popcorn!
There are movies you read the title for and think it’s something from Tropic Thunder (2008) (meaning a fake movie or a movie within another movie) and not something that could possibly exist. Then there are movies like Movie 43… Read More ›
Get a peek behind the creative intention of one of Bruce Springsteen’s most notable albums in director Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”
Adaptations are the bread and butter of entertainment, whether it’s “ripped from the headlines” episodes of some Law & Order spin-off to capture the zeitgeist or the story of an established celebrity. Going further are the adaptations of books which… Read More ›
Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting’s crime thriller “On the Run” gets a Region A release by 88 Films.
The only feeling better for a cinephile in learning that a film you dig or never got the chance to see is getting a physical release is learning that said film that’s out of print or region locked is getting… Read More ›
Martial arts thriller “The Old Woman with the Knife” possesses an engaging philosophical question under its blood-letting surface.
What makes a killer and what defines them as good or evil? One could argue that anyone can be a killer and that the taking of a life immediately diminishes one’s purity, but there is goodness is absorbing the malignant… Read More ›
Congratulations! Nacho Vigalondo’s sci-fi dramatic romance “Daniela Forever” arrives as a home release but with zero special features in-hand.
Congratulations. For a certain set of people, this singular word carries weight. This isn’t to say that it doesn’t for the general populous as receiving accolades or cheers often makes one feel elated, but, for a specific set, “Congratulations” correlates… Read More ›
Begin your karmic journey with the re-issued Blu-ray of “Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds.”
In 2017, director Kim Yong-hwa (The Moon) released the first of two (currently) films in the Along with the Gods series, The Two Worlds. Adapted from a webtoon by author Joo Ho-min, The Two Worlds borrows from the Buddhist belief… Read More ›
Paranoid insanity or cold reality? Find out the truth in the home edition of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Bugonia.”
In the last nine years, actor Emma Stone and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos have collaborated on five different projects — a short and four features — that have explored the ridiculousness of cruel friendship (The Favourite), of the human experience (Poor… Read More ›
Bring the latest adventure of the Grid home as Joachim Rønning’s “TRON: Ares” comes available to own.
In 1982, audiences were invited to go on a sci-fi fantasy adventure in which a programmer, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), determined to find proof he’d been cheated by a former co-worker, found himself digitally deconstructed and reconstituted within the very… Read More ›