Oshima’s sophomore feature was one of the first successes of the Japanese New Wave.
Region 1 audiences will have to make do until a Criterion-like dove comes to their rescue.
Walt Doggy Dogg’s canine love story came to the movie screens (and now your home theater) fixed, although you’ll probably still get heartworm.
Peter Watkins’s Munch gives good face. New Yorker’s uncharacteristically fine video transfer will have you deigning to lick his lips for him.
Three hours plus is a high price to find out that not every European TV miniseries can reach the heights of The Best of Youth.
Finally, a movie to bring lovers of bad soap opera and aficionados of golden showers and scatting together at last.
If you think Pedro Almodóvar is too deep, this kiddie-pool Spanish dud is for you.
The extras may be recycled, but Hitchcock’s view of fragile normalcy is seminal viewing.
This late-period Hitchcock deserves better packaging, but a masterpiece is still a masterpiece.
This 1949 Ealings Studios comedy remains an interesting dissection of the pathologies of the British class system.
Family Plot is a minor but worthwhile swan song for Hitchcock.
A poor Hitchcock film with one set piece perfect for anthologies.
Ercoli walks in high heels. Buy this DVD if that’s your sort of thing.
Zathura is a film most families should be able to get behind.
Hey, Paramount. The 45th anniversary is the sapphire anniversary.
What should have been a distinctively Korean tale of wartime terror will feel like familiar stuff to hardened horror film vets.
Bring home the Legend.
The audio is surprisingly lush, with Peter Falk’s farts resonating dynamically across the entire sound stage.
Rent-heads will shriek for joy when they encounter the supplemental materials available on this two-disc DVD edition.
Strictly for fans of Sprint commercials.
Despite the generally poor digital transfers, the set is still worth owning for Toriphiles and music video aficionados.