It’s common wisdom that all the good songs of Wicked (2003) are in the first half. But if the majority of songs in the anti-fascist melodrama of Act 2 were as silly and energetic as “Dancing Through Life,” the whole… Read More ›
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“The Curse of Frankenstein” terrorizes home viewers in glorious 4K UHD with an extensive amount of special features.
How many Frankensteins are too many Frankensteins, you may ask. The answer is there is never too much Frankenstein. Instead of having Oprah give everyone in the audience a car, everyone gets a Frankenstein movie. This release from Warner Brothers… Read More ›
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is released in 4K UHD for the first time to honor its 50th anniversary.
Kirk Douglas (Spartacus) saw a production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and set about trying to adapt it for film, however, it took so long in pre-production that not only did Kirk have to move on from the… Read More ›
“The Mask” first-time 4K UHD edition from Arrow Videos is S-ssss-ssss-sssss-smokin’!
It’s 2025 and comedian/actor Jim Carrey is a staple of pop culture. His take on the Grinch gets played by audiences looking to kick off the festive season (for those who celebrate) each winter; his version of Doctor Robotnik introduced… Read More ›
Boxing movie “Christy” polishes everything about Christy Martin’s story to a bland finish.
It is not impossible for a white, male director to tell great stories about identities they do not share. This year, PTA directed One Battle After Another (2025); two years ago, Scorsese delivered a masterpiece in Killers of the Flower… 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 ›
Pull the cord and be ready to get messy as “Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc” tears into theaters (and your hearts).
“Our love is like a red, red rose … and I am a little thorny.” – The Mask in The Mask (1994). The manga series Chainsaw Man created by Tatsuki Fujimoto began publishing as part of Weekly Shōnen Jump in… 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 ›
Should you heed the call to return to Bregna with the 20th anniversary 4K UHD steelbook of “Æon Flux”?
With the prevalence of streaming, it’s much harder for audiences today to discover something new. Sure, they can press play on something recommended to them or go through the trouble of digging around within a streamer’s options, but it’s not… Read More ›
Guillermo del Toro’s gothic drama “Frankenstein” is stronger in its pieces than as a singular patchwork.
A repeated fascination of filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s is “of monsters and men,” more specifically, the ways in which monsters and humanity dovetail into and deviate from each other until audiences can’t tell which is the true monster and which… Read More ›
Hungry Fantastic Four fans can satisfy themselves with “First Steps” on home video.
November 1st, 1961: Artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee release the first issue of their new series, The Fantastic Four, introducing the world to Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ben Grimm/The Thing. Later dubbed… 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 ›
Spawnie, Spawnie, he’s our man, if he can’t kill ’em, no one can – and he’s out on 4K UHD via Arrow Video.
Theatrical adaptations of comic books can vary in quality and levels of audience enjoyment. Fans always seem to be looking for a fantastic adaptation of the material and representation of the characters — the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Nolan’s Dark… 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 ›
Open Dialogue with “The Long Walk” actor Judy Greer.
Actress Judy Greer (The Descendants; 13 Going on 30; Halloween) joins Noel T. Manning II on Meet Me at the Movies interview spotlight to discuss her powerful role as Ginny Garraty in Lionsgate’s The Long Walk, the long-awaited adaptation of… Read More ›
Manga Breathing First Form — “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” reaches the first part of its three-part cinematic finale in the blood-soaked “Infinity Castle.”
Manga author Koyoharu Gotouge’s fantasy adventure shonen Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) first published in February 2016, introducing audiences to Tanjiro Kamado, a young boy living in Taishō era Japan with his mother and siblings, making their living as… Read More ›
The robust performances within escape room horror thriller “Locked” can’t enhance its shallow philosophy.
What would you do to right a wrong? What wrong would you do to make something right? Where is the line by which a good person becomes bad and what rationale do they provide to defend themselves? In truth, from… 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 ›
Catch a strong tail wind and grab the new 4K UHD edition of Peter Weir’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.”
November 2003 saw the release of director/co-writer Peter Weir’s (The Truman Show; Dead Poets Society) nautical wartime tale Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, an indirect adaptation of the stories from the Patrick O’Brian Master and Commander… Read More ›
When death is on your side, “All You Need Is Kill.” [Fantasia]
Live. Die. Repeat. Live. Die. Repeat. Live. Die. Repeat. Live. Die. Repeat. Before these words were linked to the Doug Liman-directed Edge of Tomorrow (2014), they belonged to Hiroshi Sakurazaka and his light novel All You Need Is Kill. Initially… Read More ›