DVD Reviews

There’s an old showbiz adage that says if you can’t stick the landing, at least make sure you fly spectacularly. Wicked: For Good, Jon M. Chu’s glossy follow-up to last year’s unexpectedly charming first installment, certainly flies — often, loudly, and with an avalanche of ...

Never has the phrase “truth is stranger than fiction” had more relevance than it does in Roofman, director Derek Cianfrance’s entertaining little crime comedy-drama. The film stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey “Roofman” Manchester, a charming, blue-collar, ex-military whose   ...

Rewatching Clueless in 2026 is like stepping into a parallel universe where teenagers communicated in full sentences, malls were temples, and no one had to worry about being immortalized in a viral fail compilation. Amy Heckerling’s sun‑drenched satire still sparkles, but now it plays like a  ...

Bones, there’s a thing out there.” And every five years or so, it seems I have to remind you that this movie is PERFECTION. Not “pretty good,” not “important to the franchise,” not “a noble misfire.” No. PER. FEC. TION. Gen‑X certified. Laminated. Filed under “Movies That Still  ...

If you want to understand Casino in one shot, start with the opening: De Niro in that immaculate suit, walking toward his car like a man who believes in order, control, and the power of a well‑managed casino — and then boom, the whole thing goes up in a fireball of betrayal and bad decisions. It’s  ...

Rewatching Planes, Trains and Automobiles always feels like catching up with two old friends who are somehow both doing great and absolutely falling apart. Steve Martin’s Neal Page is every overworked adult who’s ever tried to get home for the holidays and immediately regretted leaving the  ...

Before Silicon Valley discovered that the future could be mined, sold, and optimized, Steven Spielberg made Minority Report, a film that now plays less like speculative fiction and more like an uncomfortably accurate documentary about where power actually ...

There are movies you watch, and then there are movies that get welded into your nervous system. Full Metal Jacket has always been the latter for me — a film that hit Gen X right in that sweet spot between cynicism and reluctant awe. We grew up on the tail end of the Vietnam hangover ...

John Wick dropped in 2014, back when action movies were still trying to convince us that shaky‑cam fistfights counted as choreography. Then Keanu Reeves strolls in—mid‑career, mid‑life, mid‑everything—and suddenly the whole genre remembers it used to have standards. The premise is simple  ...

If Yorgos Lanthimos ever decided to host a TED Talk, it would probably start with a dead cow, end with bees, and leave the audience both horrified and applauding. His latest film, Bugonia, takes that exact energy — unhinged, hilarious, and oddly profound — and channels ...

Children, in the old days — before AirTags, before read receipts, before your phone could tell you someone left your house at 3:17 a.m. — we feared the unknown. The unseen. The bump in the night. But David Robert Mitchell said: No, no, my child. You will fear the thing you can see. The thing  ...

Gore Verbinski’s The Ring is remembered for its iconic shocks — the well, the tape, the girl in the static — but its most unsettling moment arrives in near silence. After Rachel Keller watches the cursed videotape, she steps onto her apartment balcony and looks out over the city. Window  ...

Scene Breakdown: A diner at dawn. A casual conversation about robbing the place. Smash cut to surf rock and a title card that felt like a dare. Thirty years later, Pulp Fiction still opens like a mixtape handed to you by the coolest (and slightly dangerous) friend you knew in 1994. And now, thanks  ...

Cary Grant slides into To Catch a Thief cool as a cucumber, setting the breezy, sun-soaked mood for a caper that glides as effortlessly as he does along the Riviera and now, thanks to Paramount Home Media Distribution, the classic caper arrives on 4K which restores much of the lushness and detail  ...

Jay Roach has always had a knack for putting relationships under pressure—Meet the Parents, anyone?—but with The Roses, he trades awkward dinner parties for something sharper, darker, and far less forgiving. A reimagining of Warren Adler’s novel and the ...

If you grew up in the Gen X era, you probably remember that moment Dorothy opens the door into Technicolor Oz and your tiny brain just short-circuits. One minute you’re watching dusty Kansas in what looks like the filter from every family photo in the ’70s, and the next — bam — you’re in a  ...

“Forty-one years ago… they turned it up to eleven. Now, they can barely find the volume knob.” The loudest band in rock ’n’ roll history is back—whether the world asked for it or not. In Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, the bandmates (sans drummer), stumble out of retirement, out of  ...

If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to stare down a wolf in the freezing dark while reassessing every poor life choice you’ve ever made, The Grey is basically that sensation turned into a movie. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a grizzled, soul-tired marksman hired to keep wolves away from oil ...

Okay, let’s get this out of the way: Psycho Goreman is pure, unhinged joy. Directed by Steven Kostanski, it stars Nita-Josee Hanna as the wickedly clever Mimi, Owen Myre as her mischievous little brother Luke, and Matt Kennedy as the growling, terrifying, but somehow adorably enslaved alien  ...

Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, The Green Inferno) turns down the gore dial and cranks up the mischief with his sexy, twisted take on Peter Traynor’s 1977 exploitation flick Death Game. Knock Knock isn’t just a better film than its predecessor—it’s a home-invasion horror-comedy cocktail  ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Richard Stanley is back, baby!Buckle up, because I’ve just stumbled on my new cinematic obsession. Color Out of Space doesn’t just sit next to Mandy in the hall of high-strangeness—it casually shoves it aside with a meteorite-powered uppercut. This film ...

Four films. One box. Infinite torment. Mr. King, Clive Barker is STILL the future of horror, and Arrow Video knows it. Opening Quartet of Torment is like solving the Lament Configuration itself—equal parts thrill, dread, and collector’s ecstasy. The packaging is gorgeous, the restorations are sharp ...

The next time I have to come in here I’m cracking skulls.” Look, if you don’t already know The Breakfast Club, then congratulations: you’ve been living under a rock, probably the same one Judd Nelson crawled out from before lighting his first cigarette in detention. John Hughes’ 1985 teen angst ...

Let the Bat-hangover begin! Expectations were sky-high for Christopher Nolan. After the cultural one-two punch of The Dark Knight and Inception, audiences were primed for another mind-bending knockout. Instead, Nolan delivers a film that’s both epic and  ...

The Dark Knight didn’t just raise the bar for superhero movies—it threw the bar into the stratosphere and laughed as we tried to catch it. Ledger’s Joker still haunts the cultural psyche, proof that a comic-book villain can be terrifying, tragic, and oddly ...

Picture this: a crowded corporate boardroom, fluorescent lights buzzing, suits shifting uncomfortably in their chairs. Then — boom — a man’s head detonates like a watermelon at a Gallagher show. Veins bulge, eyes roll back, and the room erupts in panic. That single moment, the infamous cranial ...

Let’s face it, Batman Begins was a warm-up act. The film is quaint and, while it strips away the neon and batnipples from previous incarnations, feels clunky. Oh, it’s still essential viewing as it resets the genre, but it’s nowhere near perfect ...

Finally, all the absurdist tragedy that defined Gen X's formative years has been neatly packaged in a single, gleaming Blu-ray set. This isn't just a collection of animated shorts; it's a masterclass in failure, sarcasm, and jazz piano. Charlie Brown's perpetual misfortunes, Lucy's ruthless manipulation, and  ...

As much as I admire Anthony Perkins’ acting chops, Psycho IV: The Beginning is really only for those desperate to complete the full Norman Bates saga. It tries to do double duty—acting as both a prequel and a third sequel—but that’s about as ambitious as it gets. Beyond the novelty of seeing young Norman  ...

I sometimes wonder if there’s anything more terrifying for a filmmaker than being handed the keys to a beloved classic more than two decades after the original—especially when that classic happens to be Psycho. It’s the sort of assignment that could get a person laughed out of the room or institutionalized  ...