Movie Reviews
Lights Out Blu-ray Review
When the lights are on, there’s nothing there. When the lights are off, there it is. Lights on, nothing. Lights off, something. Lights on, safe. Lights off, terror. Thi...
100 Streets Blu-ray Review
“Here’s my theory: the moments of change, they’re what give your life its shape, its form. But it only takes one of them to define you and that will be the only thi...
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
INSIANG (1976) They are the slums of Manila, where children play and live in the streets, markets blend together, animals roam like residents. It is in a small shanty tha...
Bull Durham Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
No religion matches baseball, and there is no church as holy as that as the church of baseball. Buddha, Allah and Vishnu, after all, could never hit above .250, let alone...
My Brilliant Career Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
In an isolated farmhouse, Sybylla Melvyn moves about, barely attentive to the dust storm brewing and the animals being herded to safety. Her attention is on words she has...
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
In Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER, Cybill Shepherd’s Betsy quotes a Kris Kristofferson song: “He’s a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walk...
The Gangster Blu-ray Review
Teenagers and like-minded twentysomethings gather at the movie theater, puffing away at cigarettes, sporting hip shades and slicking back their hair like all the girls li...
Drift Blu-ray Review
There are a couple of reasons surf movies don’t come around too often and don’t sell tickets like, say, baseball movies. One is that most viewers couldn’t name a si...
The Grandmaster Blu-ray Review
“Don’t tell me how well you fight or how great your teacher is or brag about your style. Kung fu, two words: vertical, horizontal. Make a mistake, horizontal. You win...
The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray Review
The Grand Budapest Hotel has seen grander times. In 1985, it was merely a building that a select few would recall. In 1968, the few guests that stayed there kept to thems...