Hud is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the ways forward.
The Lady Hermit is an exemplary wuxia and one that deserves to find an audience for the way its quirks affirm its genre’s unique preoccupations.
Films like Hideaway reaffirm how much most movies withhold from us.
It comes out of the past coated in textured mud and blood, returning in a rapturous Blu-ray edition.
All About Eve looks into Broadway’s artichoke heart to ring an early death knell for classic Hollywood.
Disney’s animated classic finds its way into their unimpeachable Blu-ray catalog with all the walking bells and floating whistles.
The film is a revealing work about the American dream because it envisions it as a painful and seemingly never-ending process.
An unusually beautiful horror film that understands that adolescence isn’t one fixed state of past tense.
Refracted reflections take center stage in the film, a poetic overture on the power of senses and sensibilities.
An unadorned but felicitous release of one of the wittiest films of the 1980s.
The British auteur dismembered crippling social stigmas by highlighting their torment, humanity, and resolve for change.
Absolutely worth seeking out for diehard fans of the 1970s Hollywood renaissance.
Spielberg’s film is indeed a heartbreaker, but it’s one that has been calibrated to do so in every facet of the production.
A fine presentation of an absurd yet promising horror debut.
If Irréversible was Noé’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Enter the Void is his Pink Floyd laser show.
Murder, in Losey’s The Prowler, is the continuation of sex by other means.
Gorgeous, nightmarish, ethereal, and utterly insane.
Everything you could want to know about creating an ambitious, well-crafted rom-com in a mass-media whirlwind setting is supplied here.
Justified’s first season is further proof that FX is now a major contender for provider of quality dramas and is not to be missed.
The film’s second release on Blu-ray looks to be the essential version of Scorsese’s masterwork.
A good transfer of a masterfully made, if somewhat slight, film.