One Man’s Trash: The Vault
Whatever you’re doing right now, stop! There’s a James Franco movie on Netflix about a haunted bank vault!
From Silents to the Seventies: Harper
Harper is a 1960s throwback to the great film noirs of the 1940s. While there’s a lot to like about it, this hard-boiled mystery starring Paul Newman and a cast of Hollywood heavyweights never quite lives up to the classic m...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 23rd, 2018 – The Holid
‘Twas release day on Christmas, and you’d be a fool; If you expected new Blu-rays this week… ‘cept perhaps a repackaged Deadpool.
Weekend Roundtable: Going Solo
This week, Justice League superhero Aquaman and Transformer Bumblebee each break out with solo movies. For our Roundtable, we consider other fictional characters famous for being part of teams that might get their own standalone s...
Second Act Review: How J.Lo Can You Go?
Pitching Second Act as a romantic comedy is dead wrong, as it is neither. The romance is barely a phantom presence within a plot that wildly spasms from one neatly contrived thread to the next, and the only comedy comes from a plu...
Welcome to Marwen Review: The Uncanny Valley of the Dolls
Welcome to Marwen doesn’t sit right with me. Though a technical marvel, the tonally irresponsible film tries to turn a real-life tragedy into an uplifting tale, and manages to miss all of the right emotions in the process.
Yet Another New Audio Format: IMAX Enhanced Makes Its Debut
As if home theater audio weren’t already confusing enough with the plethora of sound formats available on Blu-ray and Ultra HD, the IMAX Corporation has now introduced another proprietary format, called IMAX Enhanced. What&#...
From Silents to the Seventies: Village of the Damned
Still creepy after all these years, Village of the Damned epitomizes the type of top-notch, low-budget horror film that unnerved audiences in the 1950s and ’60s. It’s just disturbing enough to give us nightmares today&...
Bumblebee Review: Believe the Buzz
Travis Knight, lead animator for Laika Entertainment, turns out to be an inspired choice to tackle the Transformers prequel, Bumblebee. Where Michael Bay’s vision expanded this toy-to-TV franchise to increasingly over-the-to...
Mary Poppins Returns Review: More Sugar than Medicine
The title of Mary Poppins Returns perfectly encapsulates just what you’re going to get from this sequel to Disney’s live-action/animation classic. Unapologetically nostalgic, Rob Marshall’s new musical feels like...
From Silents to the Seventies: Point Blank
Having recently subjected myself to Exorcist II again, I felt it important to watch a good John Boorman movie afterwards. The 1967 crime thriller Point Blank is a refreshing reminder that, despite a couple of notorious flops, the ...
Aquaman Review: A Fish Khal Drogo
James Wan’s Aquaman benefits greatly from lowered expectations. The very notion of this character getting a big-screen solo effort always seemed kind of silly. Entourage took the piss out of the watery superhero years ago, a...