“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 ›
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“Mercy Road” Blu-ray Giveaway
Back in October, director John Curran’s latest project, the high-octane thriller Mercy Road led by Luke Bracey, hit theaters and digital services. Filled with paranoia as Bracey’s Tom desperately tries to save his daughter from an enigmatic voice on the other… 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 ›
4K Home release of “Oppenheimer” explodes with special features as it flies off the shelves.
Honestly, what is there to say about Oppenheimer that hasn’t been plastered all over Twitter (currently rebranded to X) and Letterboxd ad infinitum? The last movie Christopher Nolan did without involvement from Warner Bros. Pictures was 1999’s Momento. During the… Read More ›
“Full Body Massage” Blu-ray Giveaway
Last month, Unearthed Films released the 1995 Nicolas Roeg drama Full Body Massage on Blu-ray for the first time. The bonus materials are meager, but if you’ve wanted to enjoy this particular Mimi Rogers/Bryan Brown tale in high-definition, then your… Read More ›
Chose to raise or call on VCI Entertainment’s Blu-ray restoration of dramedy “The Gamblers.”
You never count your money When you’re sittin’ at the table There’ll be time enough for countin’ When the dealin’s done – “The Gambler,” made famous by singer Kenny Rogers. When it comes to gambling, there aren’t many songs as… Read More ›
Xun Sero’s documentary “Mamá” covers a lot of ground in its simple premise of a mother/son conversation. [imageNATIVE]
When we’re children, we look to our parents for our needs. We rejoice when we get what we ask for, and we encounter terrible pains when we don’t. That pain can turn into resentment to the point where it festers… 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 kids are not alright: Shinji Sōmai’s “Typhoon Club” makes it’s Blu-ray debut from Third Window Films.
A typhoon’s coming… Typhoon Club (1985) that is! Arriving November 27th from Third Window Films, Shinji Sōmai’s youth cinema masterpiece debuts on Blu-ray. Note: This review is based on a pre-production check disc and will not cover any packaging or… Read More ›
Nikki Mejia puts forth a strong feature debut with “A Place in the Field.”
There are plenty of movies about road trips, self-discovery, and mental health, so to create something singular that stands the test of time and audience exposure is certainly a hard feat to achieve. Unfortunately, because there are so many movies… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “Killers of the Flower Moon” actor Lily Gladstone.
Lily Gladstone portrays Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon, and today on Open Dialogue, she speaks with Thomas Manning about the impact of community, the film’s wardrobe design, and why cinema like this is important for understanding native… Read More ›
Charming play-turned-film “Inky Pinky Ponky” is a star-making vehicle for co-writer/lead Amanaki Prescott-Faletau. [imagineNATIVE]
As children, there’re all kinds of games available to entertain and to instill a little competition. The trick is that some of those games can end up with some players feeling a little left out, especially when the point of… Read More ›
Open Dialogue with “Wish” actor Alan Tudyk.
Alan Tudyk is the embodiment of a million voices, and today on Open Dialogue Tudyk discusses the genesis of finding the voice of Valentino in the Disney film Wish. We also talk roadtrip ideas from Firefly, the best woodworking materials,… 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 ›
“The Unknown Country” arrives at its destination, your home.
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon, Certain Women) has had quite a year. She’s the front-runner for the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in a Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Hugo) film. She was marching with her union SAG-AFTRA… Read More ›
After cruising the festival circuit, filmmaker Tian Xiaopeng’s fantastical “Deep Sea” comes to berth in American waters.
“Animation to me is the purest form of art …” – Guillermo del Toro, director of Pinocchio There’s this strange perception of animation as lesser-than in terms of storytelling. Perhaps it’s due to generations of children who grew up with… Read More ›
Square up with Robert McCall once more in the home release of “The Equalizer 3.”
In 2014, if you asked me what I knew about a project called The Equalizer, depending on the time of year my answer would have been “absolutely nothing” or “I know it is the new Denzel feature where he reteams… Read More ›
Walt Disney Studios caps their 100th celebration with a very meta animated adventure, “Wish.”
2023 has been full of studio celebrations for their centennials and none have done it the way that Walt Disney Studios has. More than just redesigning their film intro-logo or releasing special edition home collections of all their films, Walt… Read More ›