In 1963, Alfred Hitchcock terrified audiences with The Birds, a horror film about birds attacking humans. A little over a decade later, Steven Spielberg made people afraid to go in the water with the movie Jaws (1975), which stars Roy… Read More ›
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Dark rom-com “Splitsville” follows a quartet of friends interlocked sexually, metaphysically, and legally.
From Lord Alfred Tennyson’s 1850 poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” the lovelorn often quote (or have quoted to them) “I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never… Read More ›
“Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” takes the stage on home video.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues arrives with the kind of baggage only a decades-delayed sequel can carry. The original This is Spinal Tap (1984) didn’t start life as a blockbuster or even much of a mainstream success; rather, it built its… Read More ›
Ti West and Mia Goth’s “X” horror trilogy gets a fitting box set treatment from A24.
X, Pearl, and MaXXXine together form one of the most distinctive and ambitious horror trilogies of the modern era — films that dared to bring intelligence, style, and emotional heft back to a genre that had been drowning in soulless jump scares. These… Read More ›
Ari Aster’s incendiary, messy, modern western “Eddington” comes home courtesy of A24.
When it was announced that contemporary cinema’s most interesting enfant, Ari Aster, was developing a COVID-19 western, it did more than turn a few heads. Tackling one of the most uncertain and anxious times in recent memory seemed like an… Read More ›
You have the right to remain amused with “The Naked Gun” on home video.
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 ›
David Mackenzie’s gripping thriller “Relay” arrives on home video without any features.
With the ongoing, continuously exhausting debate that goes on in physical media/cinephile circles about streaming vs. owning a movie and that whole conversation, it is *always* a win when a movie, regardless of anything about the movie, gets a release… Read More ›
“Materialists” struggles to reconcile its themes leading to an unsatisfyingly stereotypical plot.
As someone who once lived in The Big Apple, I know a thing or two about dating within its whimsical-yet-chaotic parameters. From trying to have smooches on the subway to debating your dinner on the busy sidewalks of St. Mark’s,… Read More ›
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” arrives on home video, bringing the sum of all choices to a quiet conclusion.
For nearly 30 years, Tom Cruise portrayed Impossible Mission Force member Ethan Hunt on the big screen, choosing over and over to accept each new adventure to the delight of audiences around the globe. Even as the series hit some… Read More ›
“Bride Hard” steams itself into a mostly flat event.
On paper, certain movies have all of the ingredients that should prove to be a success. That includes a solid script, an engaging cast, and a capable director. Granted, that does not always mean it’s going to work out that… Read More ›
“Materialists” Blu-ray Giveaway
Writer/director Celine Song broke our hearts in 2023 with Past Lives and returned to theaters this year with another romantic drama, Materialists, possibly to do the same. If watching Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal in a love triangle sounds like… 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 ›
Danny and Michael Philippou’s “Bring Her Back,” a brutal essay on grief-induced madness, is now available on Special edition 4K and Blu-ray from A24.
Content Warning: The following home release review will include descriptions of child abuse and death, which may be difficult for sensitive individuals. Death is inevitable. At some point in our lives, we will all be touched by grief due to… Read More ›
Morality comedy “Death of a Unicorn” charges onward to home video.
How much do you need? Not want, but need. The basics of living include food, water, and shelter. In the times we live in, it may be fair to extend that further to include medical care and internet access (can’t… 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 ›
Enjoy the stunning cinematography “Rust” at home thanks to DECAL Releasing.
Reputation could make or break a film. While making what is arguably one of the greatest films of all time, Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola went through a plethora of production delays including casting switches, health problems with his lead… Read More ›
Horror comedy “Hell of a Summer” receives a decent home release edition for a subpar cinematic experience.
If there’s anything that cinema has taught us, don’t be a camp counselor. Either they have to build morale for a rag-tag group of kids coming from disparate backgrounds in order to help defeat an opposing camp, have to play… Read More ›
A24’s home release of “Warfare” maintains the intensity of the theatrical experience.
Warfare is now available on physical media thanks to A24, and it’s a release that absolutely deserves a place in any serious film collector’s library. As a film, Warfare is one of the most heart-stopping, emotionally jarring war movies in… Read More ›