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• Adam Sandler’s “Click” skips into 4K with upscaled visuals and audio but with only legacy special features

  By justin waldman on June 27, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  The year is 2006, and audiences have noticed Adam Sandler is trying to do more than just his usual brand of comedy, branching into projects like Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Spanglish (2004), and, to an extent, Big Daddy (1999). So when… Read More ›

• Filmmaker Kirill Sokolov makes his Hollywood debut with darkly comic actioner “They Will Kill You” on home video.

  By Douglas Davidson on June 27, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Writer/director Kirill Sokolov made the leap from shorts to features with the 2018 darkly comic actioner Why Don’t You Just Die! in which an idiot is convinced by his girlfriend to kill her police detective father. A spin on several… Read More ›

• Susan Sarandon and James Spader’s chemistry in “White Palace” is well preserved on the Blu-ray release into the Retro VHS/Rewind Collection.

  By AJ Friar on June 26, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  The Blu-ray release of White Palace from Mill Creek Entertainment’s Retro VHS/Rewind Collection offers us a hidden gem within a fascinating point in the filmographies of James Spader (Secretary) and Susan Sarandon (Bull Durham). Spader was coming off a string of memorable performances… Read More ›

• With a jump to the left and a step to the right, filmmaker Allison Berg’s “Time Warp” is a love-wrapped declaration to fix our hearts. [Tribeca]

  By Douglas Davidson on June 26, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  “Fix your hearts or die.” – A popular quote created by storyteller David Lynch, adjusted from a line Lynch delivers within Twin Peaks: The Return It’s a rare thing when a piece of art fails its way into global success…. Read More ›

• “Ponderosa” leaves audiences unsatiated. [Tribeca]

  By justin waldman on June 26, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  There is something to be said about a movie that swings for the fences but only ends up at first base. There is something admirable about going for something unnerving, uneasy, and straight-up weird, and just missing the mark. Having… Read More ›

• “Night After Night” is a thriller dessert blend of genres and influences. [Chattanooga Film Festival]

  By AJ Friar on June 25, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Night After Night is an indie horror fan’s fever dream. Just as he did in his earlier directorial effort, I Trapped the Devil (2019), which impressed genre audiences, Josh Lobo proves that atmosphere and tension can be just as effective… Read More ›

• Lav Diaz’s “Magellan,” a challenging, slow piece of cinema with a magnetic Gael García Bernal performance, comes home via Criterion Premieres.

  By Blak Cinephile on June 25, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Lav Diaz (Venice 70: Future Reloaded), a director proclaimed as a strong practitioner of slow cinema, decided that, for his next film, he would bring his visual, hypnotic talents to the life of a legendary explorer. Part of The Criterion… Read More ›

• “Fabric” tears through you as a strong 15-minute short. [Tribeca]

  By justin waldman on June 25, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  There is nothing more difficult and pressuring than trying to balance your day-to-day life and infatuation while trying to be professional in a tense situation. Having its world premiere in the Shorts section of Tribeca Film Festival 2026, the question… Read More ›

• Who needs friends when Wes Craven’s final “Scream” entry is available on 4K UHD?

  By Douglas Davidson on June 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  It begins as it always does: someone alone receives a menacing phone call, has their life threatened, and then ends up on the wrong end of a blade held by a killer wearing a Ghostface mask. By the third entry… Read More ›

• Documentary “Stolen Kingdom” pieces together over 30 years of significant theft from Disney theme parks.

  By Dalin Rowell on June 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  In the spring of 1996, my grandfather won the lottery. Using my birthdate numbers as part of his winning ticket, he felt it was only right to ask me the one thing I wanted to do more than anything else…. Read More ›

• Time loop romance “Again Again” reforms the subgenre to ask hard questions of self and autonomy. [Dances With Films: LA]

  By Douglas Davidson on June 24, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  “I never meant to be so bad to you One thing I said that I would never do A look from you, and I would fall from grace And that would wipe the smile right from my face …” –… Read More ›

• Satirical crime thriller “Solo” gets a first-time 4K HD Blu-ray release with supportive archival materials from Radiance Films.

  By Douglas Davidson on June 22, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s not unusual for an actor to write and direct, a director to write and act, or some other configuration of the three (and sometimes all at once on the same project). Being versatile not only permits someone to find… Read More ›

• Documentarian Joe Kowalski’s “Micronations” explores the concept of sovereignty through humor, heart, and revolution. [Tribeca]

  By Douglas Davidson on June 22, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  What does it mean to be able to define your own borders? Borders themselves are a social construct, not geological. It requires a group of individuals to agree that one spot belongs to one party, while one an inch away… Read More ›

• Anime “Adolescence of Utena” gets a 2-day only theatrical rerelease from GKIDS Films.

  By Dalin Rowell on June 20, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Back in the early 2000s, a treasure trove of Japanese animation titles took over North American video stores. Featuring stories involving various fantastical adventures, one subgenre (thanks to the international popularity of Sailor Moon) began to slowly make a bigger… Read More ›

• When nothing matters, who wants to save “Our Effed Up World.” [Frameline Film Festival]

  By Douglas Davidson on June 20, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  Some would say that horror is having a moment — Obsession and Backrooms are both doing quite well with general audiences (as of the time of this writing), other high-quality works (I Saw The TV Glow; And Her Body Was… Read More ›

• Ellie Sachs’s rom-com feature debut “Lucy Schulman” challenges the form and function of the genre to tell a modern love story. [Tribeca]

  By Douglas Davidson on June 20, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  But I’ll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way But I would do anything for love But I won’t do that Oh, I won’t do that – “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t… Read More ›

• Mill Creek Rewind Blu-ray Giveaway

  By Douglas Davidson on June 19, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  While it may seem like physical media editions of films new and old are dwindling, new releases come available each month to pick up in brick-and-mortar locations, as well as online. One such distributor, Mill Creek Entertainment, offers titles with… Read More ›

• Indie darling Edward Burns steps back on the scene with the uneven “Finnegan’s Foursome”, a comedy about loss, family and moving on. [Tribeca]

  By Blak Cinephile on June 19, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  Returning to Tribeca Film Festival, indie darling filmmaker/actor Edward Burns (She’s the One) arrives with the golf-based comedy Finnegan’s Foursome, having its world premiere in the Spotlight Narrative section. Burns is no stranger to the Tribeca festival, his previous films… Read More ›

• “Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection” brings titles together from different studios to create a portrait of the man behind the magic.

  By Joel Winstead on June 19, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  Putting together a masterwork of Spielberg’s biggest hits and career-defining moments, and boiling it down to eight films, feels ripe for interpretation and taste. The Spielberg Collection, in particular, was produced in partnership with Paramount Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures… Read More ›

• 1963’s “Charade” gets a 4K digital restoration via The Criterion Collection.

  By justin waldman on June 18, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the earliest Criterion films, spine #57, Stanley Donen’s Charade (1963), is finally is getting a 4K upgrade and has never looked better. While we will go in depth on how this new 4K restoration looks, special features, and… Read More ›

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