Matt Hough
Another Woman Blu-ray Review
Mid-life crisis hits many of us full-on and very hard, and that’s certainly the case in Woody Allen's Another Woman, an outstanding production that presents several characters wrestling with the restlessness and dissatisfaction that can come to those...
Matt Hough
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Blu-ray Review
Perhaps the first ever pop opera with through-sung dialogue amid a sprinkling of haunting melodies, Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a special kind of musical treat.
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Matt Hough
How to Steal a Million Blu-ray Review
The third collaboration between director William Wyler and star Audrey Hepburn, How to Steal a Million might not have the poignant effervescence of their Roman Holiday, but it’s a light and airy comic caper film with just the right touches of...
Matt Hough
The Fortune Cookie Blu-ray Review
Writer-director Billy Wilder’s view of human nature takes on an even sourer tone in his 1966 comedy The Fortune Cookie.
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Matt Hough
The Resurrection of Gavin Stone Blu-ray Review
Dallas Jenkins’ The Resurrection of Gavin Stone is a completely predictable if not unengaging faith-based comedy-drama.
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Todd Erwin
The Founder Blu-ray Review
Michael Keaton was was largely ignored by the Academy for his role as Ray Kroc in The Founder , which was a shame, as it is probably his best performance of his career. The film is a fascinating story of how the McDonald brothers revolutionized the food...
Matt Hough
Blackbeard's Ghost Blu-ray Review
Robert Stevenson's silly, rambunctious fantasy comedy Blackbeard's Ghost continues the good-natured spirit of Walt Disney's family comedies of the 1960s even if the movie's premise sometimes doesn't paint its characters with much intelligence and...
Matt Hough
Ocean Waves Blu-ray Review
Something of an experiment with younger filmmakers under the Studio Ghibli banner, Ocean Waves is an animated feature originally made for television, a teen drama veering away from the often fantasy-laden worlds created by the great Japanese animator...
Matt Hough
Sleepless Blu-ray Review
Relentless action scenes don’t count for much when the plot is a jumble and the nearness to reality is too far away to be ascertained, and that’s what you’ll get with Baran bo Odar’s Sleepless.
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Richard Gallagher
Ride the High Country Blu-ray Review
Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country, one of the cinema's classic westerns, is now available on Blu-ray with a gloriously stunning transfer from the Warner Archive.
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Matt Hough
Split Blu-ray Review
M. Night Shyamalan has written and directed a psychological thriller Split that harkens back to the tremendous impact his early films The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable had on audiences.
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Matt Hough
Return from Witch Mountain Blu-ray Review
A mildly entertaining sequel to one of the studio's bigger hits of the 1970s, Return from Witch Mountain offers the expected Disney-flavored comedy and thrills in a fairly diverting adventure.
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Matt Hough
The Bye Bye Man Blu-ray Review
Horror film reapers come in all shapes and sizes, but the one concocted for Stacy Title’s The Bye Bye Man must rank as one of the less gruesome ones.
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Richard Gallagher
36 Hours Blu-ray Review
36 Hours is an engaging thriller with an attractive cast, outstanding cinematography, and an ingenious premise.
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Matt Hough
Paterson Blu-ray Review
Paterson is another of writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s quiet character tone poems: measured in pacing, deliberate in thought and the kind of movie that draws you in before you realize it’s working its spell on you.
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Matt Hough
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Blu-ray Review
For those (like me) who were extremely dissatisfied with the three prequel movies which now exist as Episodes 1, 2, and 3, Rogue One feels like the prequel that Star Wars: A New Hope always deserved.
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Matt Hough
Baby Boom Blu-ray Review
A light romantic farce that goes everywhere you expect it will and goes nowhere you expect it won’t, Charles Shyer’s Baby Boom is a pleasant time passer with just enough of a message to it that it won’t be a turn off to anyone in its audience.
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Matt Hough
Peyton Place Blu-ray Review
A tender, evocative small town drama with incisive character studies delivered by a clutch of outstanding actors has been somewhat miraculously extracted from Grace Metalious’ scandalous best seller in Mark Robson’s Peyton Place.
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Matt Hough
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Blu-ray Review
David Swift's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying emerges as a bright, funny, and slick Big Business satire 1960s style with wryly tuneful songs and enjoyably engaging performances.
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Richard Gallagher
World Without End Blu-ray Review
World Without End, said to be the first 1950s sci-fi film to be presented in CinemaScope, is an above-average example of the genre and has been beautifully brought to Blu-ray by the Warner Archive.
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Matt Hough
Lifeboat Blu-ray Review
Filled with a sparkling cast of actors representing every possible strata of society beset by a seemingly insurmountable problem, Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat offers the pure pleasure of watching a master director at work.
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Matt Hough
What's the Matter with Helen? Blu-ray Review
The shock machine that brought notoriety and riches to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte was running a bit low on inspiration by the time of Curtis Harrington’s What’s the Matter with Helen?
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Matt Hough
A Monster Calls Blu-ray Review
A beautifully layered and poignant episode in the life of a pre-teen having to come to grips to some of life’s sometimes unfair and yet inevitable truths, J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls is a wonderfully expressive and imaginative fantasy drama...
Matt Hough
Miss Sloane Blu-ray Review
The cutthroat world of political lobbying comes into disturbingly clear and incisive focus in John Madden's Miss Sloane.
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Matt Hough
Compulsion Blu-ray Review
The notorious 1924 trial of killers Leopold and Loeb, disguised somewhat as cinematic historical fiction, gets something of an unusual treatment in Richard Fleischer’s Compulsion.
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Matt Hough
Monster High: Electrified Blu-ray Review
Young fans of the Monster High series by Mattel will undoubtedly enjoy the latest installment Electrified even if their parents will likely not find much here to hold their attention.
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Matt Hough
Multiple Maniacs Blu-ray Review
Made during his “early, dirty” period when bad taste was always the goal and subversion the overriding watchword, John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs is an underground cineaste’s filet mignon.
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Matt Hough
A Kind of Murder Blu-ray Review
Another enigmatic Patricia Highsmith novel brought to the screen, Andy Goddard’s A Kind of Murder works for about two-thirds of its length, falling apart near the end but filled with the shadowy people, motives, and unhappiness that mark all of the...
Matt Hough
Sing: Special Edition Blu-ray Review
Illumination Entertainment’s Sing is a well-crafted, fun musical romp with the expected laughs and sentiment for which the studio has become known.
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Richard Gallagher
Edge of Eternity Blu-ray Review
Edge of Eternity is an above-average thriller which features spectacular CinemaScope views of the Grand Canyon and an exciting climax. It is now available on Blu-ray from Twilight Time with an excellent transfer from Sony.
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