Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is a sheer delight, a moving, provocative, often hilarious look at adolescence through the eyes of a girl named Kayla (Elsie Fisher). Told with a deft touch, the film is is a blemishes-and-all look at the...
David Lynch has been such an idiosyncratic filmmaker throughout his four-decade career that it should come as no surprise his autobiography would also be a bit unconventional. Room to Dream provides perhaps the most detailed look ...
In the home theater world, brands tend to inspire a lot of loyalty, especially when it comes to A/V receivers. Often, the brand of receiver you’ve used in the past will dictate what you buy in the future. What’s your preference?...
I recently went to a lot of trouble getting the best bass response from one subwoofer. In theory, adding a second subwoofer could improve my results even further. Not the way I did it, unfortunately.
Daniel Goldhaber’s Cam, written by Isa Mazzei, is a provocative, intelligent thriller that also happens to be extremely seductive. It toys with eroticism and exhibitionism but never veers into the salacious or exploitational, whic...
There are few things more pleasing than silliness done seriously, what the members of Spinal Tap famously dubbed the thin line between clever and stupid. When a movie falters in this tightrope act, it can be abysmal. It’s a rare f...
It looks like July burned off the last of its fireworks already. The month ends without much excitement on Blu-ray. Notable titles include one of the most critically divisive films of the year and the cheeseball directorial debut ...
In each successive Mission: Impossible entry, Tom Cruise tries to dazzle audiences with new and incredible action stunts, from climbing the world’s tallest building to dangling from various airplanes and helicopters in flight. Our...
Blindspotting is a big, brash, oft-brilliant film by Carlos López Estrada that sets Daveed Diggs up for cinematic superstardom.
Like The NeverEnding Story before it, Mission: Impossible continues to dominate the field of inaccurately named movies. Unlike The NeverEnding Story, Mission: Impossible keeps its high quality consistent into the sixth entry of th...
SteelBook art is so hit-and-miss these days that, even as a completist for certain collections, I’m left torn on whether to buy some new ones. I’m also resisting one I definitely do like for other reasons.
“He ain’t just some damn, dumb redneck anymore. He’s a… he’s a warrior! A warrior fightin’ for justice and the American way of life.” – “And he eats human corpses!”
