DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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  ...

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  ...

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  ...

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  ...

Restored in sparkling 4K, the film’s jet‑set glamour finally looks as expensive as everyone keeps insisting it is. From champagne‑drenched parties to slapstick disasters that should’ve required medical attention, every frame pops with color, charm, and Henry Mancini’s earworm of a theme. It’s the birth  ...

The art of comedy… perfected by accident. Sometimes a movie feels like a memory, and Revenge of the Pink Panther is pure ’70s leftover VHS goodness: the hazy glow of late-night TV, the freeze-frames you swear you remember, and a soundtrack by Mancini that sounds like vinyl through  ...

Watching Eyes Wide Shut now feels less like revisiting a late-’90s curiosity and more like opening a time capsule that somehow knew the future would be uneasy. On its surface, it’s a slow, hypnotic marital psychodrama; underneath, it’s a film about power, access, and the things polite society ...

Ruben Fleischer, director Venom, Uncharted, and Zombieland is at the helm for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. It plunges us back into the world of globe-trotting illusionists with elaborate heists and twist endings that snap like a magician’s silk handkerchief. It should have been an easy, winning  ...

There are fantasy films… and then there is Excalibur — John Boorman’s operatic, mud-splattered, sex-and-steel fever dream of Arthurian legend. Now resurrected in jaw-dropping 4K by Arrow Video, this isn’t just a restoration — it’s a war cry. The grime glistens, the armor blinds, and every frame ...

When Zach Cregger unleashed Barbarian on an unsuspecting public back in 2022, he established himself as a filmmaker who delights in pulling the rug out from under his audience. With his latest film, Weapons, Cregger proves that Barbarian was no lucky first strike. With Weapons, he has   ...

One of the most compelling elements of F1: The Movie, the new film from director Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), is how it manages to appeal to both longtime fans of Formula 1 racing and to anyone who has never even heard of the sport - the latter of which perfectly   ...

Rumor has it that when the John Carpenter and Debrah Hill penned (and, once again, Michael Myers-less) script for Halloween 4 was turned down, the duo promptly sold their rights to all things Halloween to producer Moustapha Akkad.  Whether out of anger or suave financial smarts, the move meant  ...

"Yes, this is my second life." You Only Live Twice, in which director Lewis Gilbert takes the helm for the first of three Bond films [The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979)], is where extravagance and the need for a cinematic event hijacks spy-hard, cold war excellence and, thanks to ...