Julius Avery’s Overlord mines enough deeply cathartic tropes – revenge drama, invasion thriller, escapist war film, revivification romp – that the film was always going to lean towards being either a scattershot and aimless ...
It’s a pity that The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story takes a fascinating character like Lisbeth Salander and turns her into a generic hacker action star. The character’s trauma and her surviva...
Though the title doesn’t go into plot details, The Grinch is specifically about that green grump trying, once again, to steal Christmas. In the second feature-length adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ classic children’s bo...
Even in our current state of near-constant wartime, many victims of war still haven’t had their stories told on screen. We got a hint of what it’s like to be a modern war correspondent in 2016’s Whiskey Tango Fox...
Best Buy has been cranking out new Blu-ray and Ultra HD SteelBook announcements at a steady clip recently. Some of the latest include a couple of hit movies still rocking out in theaters, and one that’s struggling to crack a...
For decades, no one thought that Orson Welles’ final film, The Other Side of the Wind, would be finished, let alone shown publicly. Welles shot the movie between 1970 and 1976, but never completed the thing before he died in...
As if the current Criterion Collection sale weren’t enough to bleed your wallet dry, Barnes & Noble started a new Arrow Video sale this week to run simultaneously! You didn’t need to eat at all this month, did you...
The Walking Dead delivered its much-hyped final episode for Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) this week. I can’t say I’m too surprised that it turned out to be the most disappointing and frustrating episode of the season so...
November gets off to an incredible start as one of the biggest movies of the year hits Blu-ray. I know, I can hardly believe that we’ve hit the end of the Sharknado franchise either!
Considering how regularly Hollywood makes bio-pics of famous musicians, it’s disheartening how few of them are actually any good. As the new Queen bio Bohemian Rhapsody tries to rock you, let’s look at some other music...
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is a mainstay in contemporary Christmas seasons. I can’t think of a ballet company that doesn’t perform it, or a person who isn’t somehow aware of the music. It’s part of ...
Before talking about Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria redux, we should probably be honest about what made Dario Argento’s original a classic for fans of the horror genre. First, above all, is the music, that incessant prog r...
