Are we the family we’ve come from or the family we create? This is the major question at the center of the Graham and Parker Phillips-helmed Rumble Through The Dark, a drama adapted from the Michael Farris Smith March 2018… Read More ›
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Get even more Masaaki Yuasa bang for your buck with this five-film box set release from Shout! Studios and GKIDS Films.
Whimsical, musical, juvenile, comedic, romantic, adult, absurd — each of these singular words could easily describe the work of filmmaker/artist Masaaki Yuasa. Whether telling a “one crazy night” story or a rom-com or a time-traveling serial killer rock show, each… Read More ›
Second serving of “Chicken Run” misses some of the magic of the first.
There is something inherently interesting about movies that decide to make a come back after a significantly long break between entries. Sometimes this is because the story needs the time to breath, or the characters need the break to grow… Read More ›
Yo, Johnny! I see you in 4K as Studio! Studios releases “Point Break” in first-time 4K UHD.
There are movies which, whether you’ve seen them or not, no matter where your cinematic knowledge or pleasures come from, you have knowledge of and the understanding that the film is generally received well. Some of these movies are regarded… Read More ›
Explore Gareth Edwards’s dramatic sci-fi actioner “The Creator” more deeply via home video.
Writer/director Gareth Edwards has his celebrators and detractors due to past works like Godzilla (2014) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), which are not controversial to the general public but can be seen as such within their respective… Read More ›
“Kill Butterfly Kill” Blu-ray Giveaway
This month, Cauldron Films is set to release a new 4K restoration using the surviving elements of the IFD Films crime thriller Kill Butterfly Kill. But it’s not just a 4K restoration, it’s a two-disc release that includes bonus features… Read More ›
“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” is mandatory fun you can have while running with scissors at home during a bad hair day thanks to Shout! Studios.
“Life is like a parody of your favorite song. Just when you think you know all the words: surprise, you don’t know anything.” – Grizzled Narrator, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story It’s so incredibly easy to take a musician like… Read More ›
Sony Pictures re-releases Rob Reiner’s “Stand by Me” in a limited edition 4K UHD Blu-ray combo steelbook.
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” When it comes to premiere tales of horror in the modern era, novelist Stephen King is among the first names mentioned. His novels and short stories alike… Read More ›
Have yourself a “Merry Little Batman” and start a new family adventure tradition.
For decades now, when it came to comic book movies and Christmas, there was only one film that fit the bill, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns (1992). It’s a film that introduced audiences to cinematic versions of Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer)… Read More ›
Regulators! Mount up for this 35th anniversary first-time HD and 4K UHD edition of “Young Guns.”
“We regulate any stealing of his property. We’re daaaamn good, too. Mr. Tunstall’s got a soft-spot for runaways, derelicts, vagrant types. But you can’t be any geek off the street. You gotta be handy with the steel, if you know… Read More ›
Paul King’s “Wonka” reminds that kindness and generosity don’t make one weak, they make the world collectively strong.
“If we’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” – Paddington in Paddington (2014). There’s this strange belief that in order for something to be great or successful, it must be exclusive. That, for whatever reason, the scarcity of… Read More ›
Director Martin Bourboulon’s “The Three Musketeers – Part I: D’Artagnan” is a thrilling adventure that’ll incite an immediate desire for “Part II.”
What you think of when you hear “Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers” is dependent on your age. Since 1916 with director Charles Swickard’s cinematic adaptation, Dumas’s swashbuckling tale of loyalty, friendship, religion, and revolution has seen so many cinematic versions,… Read More ›
Like Alice, the latest “Resident Evil” collection returns with a worthy upgrade.
In a series of purposely timed events, Sony Pictures has decided to re-release the 4K edition of the Resident Evil collection (the Milla Jovovich live action movies) in a package of sleek looking steelbooks housed in a steel house nearly… Read More ›
See ripped hacker Hemsworth in 4K, and “Blackhat” Director’s Cut in 2K via Arrow Video.
You’ll believe a computer nerd can be handsome and ripped. Or maybe you won’t. It’s Michael Mann’s (Thief, Heat) Blackhat (2015), and it’s finally releasing in 4K UHD from Arrow this Tuesday, November 28th. But more importantly, the 2K Director’s… Read More ›
Enjoy the 1996 Graboids in all their 4K glory in Arrow Video’s restoration of “Tremors 2: Aftershocks.”
There can be an argument made that since the beginning of film there was always going to be the inherent other side of prestige and relative opposite of the term “good” because there is always an audience for something dumb… Read More ›
Director John Woo ensures the nearly dialogue-less “Silent Night” is also a very Holey Night.
2003, director John Woo unleashed the sci-fi action thriller Paycheck starring Ben Affleck (Air), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair), Aaron Eckhart (Rumble Through The Dark), and Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) unto the world. It should have been… Read More ›
Yang Bingjia’s blind swordsman tale “Eye for an Eye” thrusts its way onto home video thanks to Well Go USA.
There’s a long history of the blind swordsman in storytelling, though the style of action-oriented martial arts films are often referred to as within the subgenre called “zatoichi,” itself a reference to the title character of a Kan Shimozawa story… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “Silent Night” actor Joel Kinnaman.
Today, Joel Kinnaman speaks with Noel T. Manning II about why Silent Night was the most challenging, and demanding film of his career, the difficulties in prepping for a film character with no dialogue, and why Noel & Joel should take… Read More ›
The 4K release of “The Fugitive” is worth the pursuit.
30 years ago, the running came to an end. Again. This time, on the silver screen, not the TV one. It was Harrison Ford (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars) vs. Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black, No Country… Read More ›
“Crocodile Island” DVD Giveaway
Who says creature features are limited to just one period of the year? Not Well Go USA as they are set to release co-directors Xu Shixing and Simon Zhao’s Crocodile Island on home video November 21st. Thanks to Well Go, EoM… Read More ›