The intriguing and occasionally terrifying Fire in the Sky shimmers with maximum menace on this Blu-ray edition.
As an exploration of the misogyny that drove Bundy’s crimes, Amber Sealey’s film mostly falls short of its potential.
The repetitious plot is more ritual than text as we watch yet another Liam Neeson avenger defy the will of younger, unscrupulous men.
Steven Soderbergh takes a macro approach to the scandal, though the results, with rare exception, are vexingly micro.
Though the film’s overarching narrative travels a well-tread road, it strikes a few potent grace notes along the way.
Twenty-six years after its release, it’s difficult not to watch Terminator 2: Judgment Day through a scrim of irony.
Robert Legato’s film is lifelessly composed of the usual tropes of horror films set in mental asylums.
Linda Hamilton gets so little due respect over the years for how much of the film’s midsection rides on her.
The film’s tired sentimentality aside, its general lack of empathy is most damning.
Shana Feste’s film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts.
Billy Bob Thornton’s ensemble Southern family dramedy fails to subvert its cutesy formula often enough.
Lost in the music, mustaches, and furniture of the early ’70s, this docudrama of a porn star’s exploitation isn’t nearly painful enough.
Director Seth Gordon knows not just where to point the spotlight, but when to relinquish the reins.
Gangster Squad is a perfect example of Hollywood hypocrisy.
It may be a slight spoiler to say that ABC’s new action drama, Last Resort, isn’t actually a show about a submarine.
The film is a precious banality best suited for 1950s television.
“The most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen,” reads the tagline on Rampart’s poster. These badge-defilers would beg to differ.
Even if Safe House turns especially silly in its final attempt at social justice, the film achieves something rare for a Hollywood action film: depth of purpose.
The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond is, like The House of the Devil, a throwback, though this is a decidedly bridge-and-tunnel experience.
Alien Trespass tries very hard to look like some discovered lost classic from 1957.