DVD Reviews

Mystery still matters. Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day feels less like a new movie and more like running into an old friend you haven't seen in years—and then realizing halfway through the conversation how much you've missed them. ...

There are movies that look good in 4K, movies that look great in 4K, and then there is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, a pair of animated lunatic masterpieces seemingly designed to crawl ...

There are movie trilogies, and then there are three-film stretches that permanently fuck with the DNA of cinema. Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy belongs firmly in the latter camp. Watching A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars ...

There are hotels where you worry about bedbugs. There are hotels where you worry about whether somebody wiped down the remote. And then there is the godforsaken Irish inn in Damian McCarthy’s Hokum, where the ...

There was a stretch of time when Pirates of the Caribbean was absolutely fucking unavoidable. Jack Sparrow was everywhere. Halloween costumes. Theme parks. Happy Meals. Posters. Bad impressions at parties ...

John Carney has spent much of his career proving that music can do things dialogue simply can't. Whether it was Once, Sing Street, or Begin Again, his films understand that songs are often emotional shortcuts to truths people  ...

There’s a very specific kind of movie magic happening in The Sheep Detectives. The kind where you walk in expecting a quirky talking-animal comedy and walk out pondering mortality, grief, and whether clouds really   ...

You think you know the story. You don’t know shit. By 2012, horror movies had spent so much time winking at us that the genre was in danger of developing a permanent fucking facial tic. We knew the rules. Don't have ...

Cameron’s third outing in Pandora is a quandary to me. It is both a formulaic continuation of what we’ve seen before; spectacular vistas, amazing action, and heavy-handed messaging but it also plants the seeds of something truly compelling. All this centres ...

Bob Zemeckis pivoted into black comedy in the early nineties after his stellar run of Back to the Future sequels. With no less than Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and John McClane himself as his leads! This delicious ...

Twenty-seven years later, Sleepy Hollow hasn't lost an ounce of its dark magic. In fact, revisiting it on Paramount's gorgeous 4K SteelBook only reinforces something I've suspected for years: this may very well be Tim Burton's ...

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World doesn't arrive with speeches about destiny or bombastic declarations of heroism. Instead, it quietly pulls you aboard the HMS Surprise, hands you a coil of rope, and asks ...

There are fantasy films, and then there are events. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is one of those movies that doesn't simply invite you into another world—it throws the damn doors open and dares your imagination to keep up. ...

Rebirth? Hmmm, is it though? Last year’s re-restart of the Jurassic franchise certainly provides a new bunch of lambs to the slaughter, a new director and a new stab at box office glory (which it succeeded in  ...

Daniel Roher's Tuner is one of those wonderful little surprises that sneaks up on you. It begins as an intimate character study, slowly transforms into a nail-biting crime thriller, flirts with romance, and somehow manages  ...

TRON still feels like it crash-landed in 1982 from a future Hollywood still hasn't completely figured out. Watching it today is less about marveling at how accurately it predicted the internet and more about appreciating ...

Some sequels arrive to cash in on nostalgia. Others spend two hours reminding you why you fell in love in the first place. TRON: Legacy somehow pulls off both. Fifteen years after my original review, Joseph Kosinski's neon-drenched ...

“Who is the brainless meat puppet now?” Three years later, Evil Dead Rise hasn't lost a damn thing. If anything, the distance from the initial hype only reinforces what Lee Cronin pulled off here. Rather than trying to ...

Even if you've never seen Richard Fleischer's Soylent Green, you already know the ending. It's one of those rare movie twists that escaped the confines of cinema decades ago and became part of pop culture shorthand, quoted ...

There’s something deceptively simple yet downright unnerving about Exit 8, the latest film from director Genki Kawamura (April, Come She Will), who works alongside co-writers Kotake Create and  ...

Sam Raimi's spooky old cabin—isolated in the deep, dark, twisted woods of rural America—somehow exists outside of time. More than forty years after The Evil Dead first unleashed its demonic madness, that rotting shack ...

If rock 'n' roll had a creation myth, it would begin here. Before the sold-out stadiums, before the tales of excess became larger than life, before Led Zeppelin grew into a band that could level arenas with a single power chord ...

There’s a dangerous little idea at the center of Obsession: what if you could actually have the thing you thought you wanted most? Not a version of it. Not a compromise. The full, terrifying package. Turns out, that idea   ...

Anthony Maras clearly has a thing for pressure cookers. After the relentless intensity of Hotel Mumbai, his second feature, Pressure, once again traps us inside a room where every decision feels like it could alter   ...

Twenty years later, the heels are just as high, the stakes somehow higher, and yes—the coffee order is still bafflingly specific. The Devil Wears Prada 2 slips back into the office-place chaos of Runway Magazine like it ...

There’s so much to say about this bona fide classic. The cast. The director. The history. The relevance. The awards. I’m not sure where to start. But let’s give it a go. Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker I’ve always ...

1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abject failure (*cough: The Stand), no one has (as yet) touched it, or even broached remaking it ...

Superman Returns is the greatest Superman film of all time. Directed by Bryan Singer and starring Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, and Kate Bosworth, Superman Returns is fantastic in just about every way possible  ...

I've never been one of those people who worship at the altar of James Cameron. In fact, I can count the Cameron films I genuinely love on one hand: The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and ...

I'll be honest—before F1: The Movie, my knowledge of Formula 1 was pretty much limited to "those are the really expensive race cars that go insanely fast while glamorous people in sunglasses pretend this all looks perfectly normal  ...