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matt-hough Demolition DVD Review Fine acting and a genuinely interesting story get unwieldy but occasionally sensitive treatment in Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition. [review] Click here to read the original article.

matt-hough Elementary: The Fourth Season DVD Review Season Four turned out to be a stronger season for Elementary than the previous one with a brilliant string of cleverly concocted mysteries and a really interesting set of story arcs for the show’s main characters. [review] Click here to...

matt-hough Sierra Baron DVD Review While no great shakes as a western of the 1950s, Sierra Baron doesn’t really get a fighting chance to impress on DVD with such a harmfully destructive use of pan and scan for a Cinemascope movie which destroys widescreen compositions and reduces the impact...

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todd-erwin Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume Two DVD Review Shout! Factory's re-issue of Rhino's long out of print second volume of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes is short on bonus features, but brings back two classic episodes and the first compilation of shorts from the series...

matt-hough Henry Levin’s Holiday for Lovers takes a handful of talented, well-known actors and wastes them in a pointless domestic comedy travelogue, its narrative through line and eventual outcome as predictable as the rising and setting sun. [review] Click here to read the original article.

matt-hough Mister Scoutmaster doesn’t reach the heights of hilarity or satire that it might have attained with better writing and crisper direction. Still, it’s a pleasantly sentimental hour and a half with one of the Hollywood Golden Age’s most eccentric personalities. [review] Click here to...

matt-hough The Legend of Custer proves itself to be a worthy western adventure, and this extended pilot movie in feature film form suggests the series might have had more to offer than its measly three-month run suggests. [review] Click here to read the original article.

matt-hough Chicken Every Sunday DVD Review Chicken Every Sunday is nostalgic Americana of rather minor significance. Unlike something masterful like Meet Me in St. Louis or Life with Father, the movie works its simple charms well enough without bombast but with no great effectiveness...

matt-hough Fighting Back doesn’t really feature star names or a riveting story of an ex-con out for a better life, but it features an adorable canine co-star who easily steals the show from all of the other actors. [review] Click here to read the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Oh, Men! Oh, Women! DVD Review Oh, Men! Oh, Women! offers a star lover’s dream cast, but the merriment contained when three former suitors for the same girl lay their cards on the table seems forced and mostly unsatisfying. [review] Continue reading...

matt-hough has published a new article. Year of the Comet DVD Review A romantic caper film that’s lighter on the caper and the romance than it should have been, Peter Yates’ Year of the Comet offers charming parts for its two young leads but trips heavily when its footing should be light as...

neil-middlemiss has published a new article. Altered Minds DVD Review Originally titled The Red Robin, Altered Minds’ journey to the screen (big and small) was a long endeavor. Considered a 2013 production, the origination of the film dates back to 2007/8, and early shot footage was used to...

matt-hough has published a new article. The League: The Final Fantasy DVD Review After six previous seasons on the air, FXX’s The League enters its final quarter with another thirteen wildly erratic but only occasionally... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Change of Heart DVD Review The last feature to star Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell together, Change of Heart may be a product of its era with its concentration on the... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. On the Threshold of Space DVD Review The baby steps necessary to prepare the United States to enter the space race via its NASA Mercury program are recounted in eye-opening detail in... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Fury at Furnace Creek DVD Review As a Fox contract player, Victor Mature appeared in every possible genre of film produced at the studio though westerns didn’t usually feature his most... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (Criterion) DVD Review Unsettling and prescient about its own era and also our own in numerous frightening ways, The Manchurian Candidate remains a remarkable... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. My Gal Sal DVD Review My Gal Sal delivers the kind of old-fashioned entertainment that marked all of Fox’s best musicals of the 1940s. Rita Hayworth is at her... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Too Busy to Work DVD Review Too Busy to Work offers us the Will Rogers we expect in a movie: funny, easy-going, and with a masterfully understated way with words. [review] Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. You're My Everything (1949) DVD Review A kind of smorgasbord selection of tidbits from the vaults of 20th Century Fox, Walter Lang’s You’re My Everything may score points for the... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Dreamboat DVD Review As a comedy, Dreamboat is just OK with the plot and its subplot following pretty much the expected outcomes, but it really had the chance to be... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Teenage Rebel DVD Review Though its title might suggest a sleazy exploitation programmer cranked out by American International or Allied Artists, Edmund Goulding’s [I]Teenage... Continue reading the original article.

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matt-hough has published a new article. Mr. Moto Takes a Chance DVD Review For three years at the end of the 1930s, 20th Century Fox produced a series of very successful B-unit thrillers featuring the Oriental undercover agent... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Archer: The Complete Season Six DVD Review Things pretty much return to the normal if outlandish world of espionage for the nitwit undercover operative gang on the sixth season of one of TV’s... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. The Power of One DVD Review An angry, visceral dissection of eighteen years of a young white boy’s life amid the violence and bigotry of apartheid is the focus of John G.... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Untamed DVD Review A sprawling epic set in South Africa during the early years of European settlement, Henry King’s Untamed is a bit untamed itself condensing a... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. These Thousand Hills DVD Review Richard Fleischer’s These Thousand Hills is a western that has a little more on its mind than cattle herding, lynch mobs, or pretty gals,... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. The Siege at Red River DVD Review During his long career in show business, Van Johnson appeared in many romantic comedies, drawing room dramas, war movies, and musicals, but he rarely... Continue reading the original article.