Don Coscarelli outdoes the humor of John Hughes in what feels like a more honest version of the gleeful sadism in Home Alone.
Anchor Bay went all out on making Phantasm III look great, and skimped on the extras (for anybody who cares).
Re-Animator is best known for its audacious handling of sex, violence, and humor.
Packed with bonus features, Re-Animator is lovingly brought back to life by Anchor Bay.
Some may complain that his work is too esoteric, but it’s unsettling, because it it’s more familiar than we’d like to admit.
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse is more homage than reinvention of schlock.
Christopher Walken started out as a dancer, and he manages to bring that sense of movement into his performances.
This endearingly hokey low-budget B movie comes with a high nostalgia factor from the Reagan era.
A bare-bones DVD that feels slapped together.
As a living, beating heart about a populace living through a time of upheaval and confusion, Ken Loach’s film is mediocre.
This two-disc set is sure to keep Gilliam’s few Tideland fans buzzing for some time.
Throughout, Schumacher can’t get his tacky sense of style out of the way.
All the syrup makes the cardboard taste better.
The more we learn about the bogeyman, the less terrifying he becomes.
Trouble Every Day aches with spiritual dread.
A Scanner Darkly looks sweet, but it’s scarcely penetrating.
At one time, Phil Hall navigated between the worlds of public relations and film criticism, two professions that could not be more dissimilar.
Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom’s film is paved with dubious intentions.
Rosenbaum continues to write long-form pieces during a time when most professional critics are increasingly marginalized.
Given the nature of the film, the image and audio is almost too good, but the film’s laughs still resonate through the spic-and-span treatment.