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Raging Fire is a more subtle attempt at a layered Hong Kong tale

August 19, 2021Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

Raging Fire is the last Hong Kong thriller from the late director Benny Chan… continue reading

★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Action, Ben Lam, Crime, Donnie Yen, Foreign, Henry Prince Mak, Ken Lo, Nicholas Tse, Patrick Tam, Qin Lan, Raging Fire, Simon Yam, Tak-Bun Wong, Well Go USA

Disney’s Cruella is bloody brilliant

May 27, 2021Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Dare I say ‘Cruella’ is a cinematic masterpiece?… continue reading

★★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Comedy, Crime, Cruella, Emily Beecham, Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Walt Disney Pictures

Poirot and Marple get the Kino Lorber Blu-ray treatment

April 9, 2021Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Agatha Christie’s top sleuths solve murders on the Nile, under the sun and in Jolly Olde England… continue reading

shop HOTCHKA affiliates Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, Crime, Death on the Nile, Diana Rigg, Drama, Elizabeth Taylor, Evil Under the Sun, Kino Lorber, Mystery, Peter Ustinov, The Mirror Crack'd

Kajillionaire is an odd movie about grifters, loneliness & family

September 26, 2020Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘Kajillionaire’ shows us a quirky struggle of trying to break free from familial constraints… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Comedy, Crime, Debra Winger, Drama, Evan Rachel Wood, Focus Features, Gina Rodriguez, Kajillionaire, Richard Jenkins

Director David Ayer reaches a new low with The Tax Collector

August 12, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

The overall tone and directing seemed like something that would hit Cinemax as a limited series… continue reading

★, Home Viewing Action, Bobby Soto, Cheyenne Rae Hernandez, Cinthya Carmona, Crime, Drama, George Lopez, Jose Conejo Martin, Lana Parrilla, RLJE Films, Shia LaBeouf, The Tax Collector

Capone tells an interesting story, but lacks direction

May 19, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

With Josh Trank writing, directing, and editing the film, it is hard to think that he will reach the same level that he did with ‘Chronicle’… continue reading

★, Home Viewing Biography, Capone, Crime, Drama, Kyle MacLachlan, Linda Cardellini, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy, Vertical Entertainment

The Kitchen is a lackluster film but looks great on Blu-ray

May 1, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

The three female leads are fantastic actresses but the writing for their characters hardly provides anything likable… continue reading

★, Home Viewing Action, Brian d'Arcy James, Common, Crime, Domhnall Gleeson, Drama, Elisabeth Moss, James Badge Dale, Margo Martindale, Melissa McCarthy, The Kitchen, Tiffany Haddish, Warner Bros. Pictures

Just Mercy is an emotional film with a stellar Blu-Ray release

April 18, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

After watching this film, I was surprised that Jamie Foxx wasn’t nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards… continue reading

★★★, Home Viewing Biography, Brie Larson, Crime, Drama, Jamie Foxx, Just Mercy, Michael B. Jordan, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Rafe Spall, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Warner Bros. Pictures

Blaxploitation comes to Blu-ray with Cleopatra Jones

April 14, 2020Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

The 1973 film looks better than ever thanks to the Warner Archive… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Action, Antonia Fargas, Bernie Casey, Cleopatra Jones, Crime, Esther Rolle, Shelley Winters, Tamara Dobson, Thriller, Warner Archive, Warner Bros. Pictures

The Nude Bomb is a hit on Blu-ray

March 25, 2020Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

Agent 86 comes to the big screen for the first, and last, time but Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray is something special… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Andrea Howard, Comedy, Crime, Dana Elcar, Don Adams, Kino Lorber, Mystery, Norman Lloyd, Pamela Hensley, Sylvia Kristel, The Nude Bomb, Universal Pictures, Vittorio Gassman

Richard Jewell Review :: Richard Jewell hits home video and you need to see it

March 21, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

Paul Walter Hauser gave one of the better performances from last year… continue reading

★★★, Home Viewing Biography, Crime, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Olivia Wilde, Paul Walter Hauser, Richard Jewell, Sam Rockwell, Warner Bros. Pictures

Motherless Brooklyn Review :: Motherless Brooklyn impresses on Blu-ray

March 19, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

Edward Norton’s passion project wasn’t a hit but it is worth a look… continue reading

★★★, Home Viewing Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Bruce Willis, Cherry Jones, Crime, Dallas Roberts, Edward Norton, Ethan Suplee, Fisher Stevens, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Leslie Mann, Michael Kenneth Williams, Motherless Brooklyn, Mystery, Warner Bros. Pictures, Willem Dafoe

Parasite is dangerous, emotional, hilarious and hits you everywhere

February 17, 2020Jeremy Fogelman Leave a Comment

‘Parasite’ is the latest troubling morality tale from filmmaker Bong Joon-ho… continue reading

★★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Chang Hyae Jin, Cho Yeo Jeong, Choi Woo Shik, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Lee Sun Kyun, Neon, Parasite, Park So Dam, Song Kang Ho

Birds of Prey packs a punch

February 7, 2020Chuck Duncan Leave a Comment

DC gets another one right… continue reading

★★★, Movie Reviews, Movies Action, Adventure, Ali Wong, Birds of Prey, Chris Messina, Crime, DC Comics, Ella Jay Basco, Ewan McGregor, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rosie Perez, Warner Bros. Pictures

1973 TV movie The Girl Most Likely To… looks great on Blu-ray

February 4, 2020Justin Moore Leave a Comment

Kino Lorber spiffs up the 1970s darkly comic TV movie… continue reading

★★, Home Viewing Carl Ballantine, Chuck McCann, Comedy, Crime, Ed Asner, Fred Grandy, Jim Backus, Joe Flynn, Kino Lorber, Larry Wilcox, Reb Brown, Romance, Ruth McDevitt, Stockard Channing, The Girl Most Likely To...

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✦ IN CINEMAS ✦

    NOVOCAINE    ★★★
    MICKEY 17   ★★★
    WOLF MAN   ★✩✩
    NOSFERATU   ★★✩
    WICKED   ★★★
    JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX   ★★★
    BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE   ★★✩
    ALIEN: ROMULUS   ★★★
    DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE   ★★★
    BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE   ★★★
    FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA   ★★✩
    THE FALL GUY   ★★★
    ABIGAIL   ★★★
    DUNE: PART TWO   ★★✩
    THE BEEKEEPER   ★★✩
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✦ HOME VIEWING ✦

    KIKI'S FOURTH INGREDIENT  ★★✩
    NOT MY FAMILY: MONIQUE SMITH STORY ★★★
    THERE'S NO WAY OUT  ★★✩
    GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER ★★★
    JOSH'S THIRD SERVING  ★★★
    SHARI'S SECOND ACT  ★★✩
    WIFE STALKER  ★★★
    JENNA'S FIRST LOVE  ★★✩
    TRAPPED IN HER DORM ROOM  ★★✩
    PLAYING WITH FIRE  ★✩✩
    ROYAL-ISH  ★★✩
    TAKEN AT A BASKETBALL GAME  ★★★
    WHAT WOULD YOU KILL FOR?  ★✩✩
    THE LAST WOMAN WHO LIVED HERE  ★★✩
    I WAS OCTOMOM  ★★✩
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