Reviews
INSIDIOUS: OUT OF THE FURTHER Review: Non-Essential Entry Over-Promises and Under-Delivers
After an all-too-brief, three-year hiatus, the highly profitable Insidious series returns with its sixth, far-from-final entry, Insidious: Out of the Further. Co-created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell as a counter to the graphic, ultra-violent blood-and-gore Saw series they...
JACOB'S LADDER: The Haunting Nightmare Comes Home on 4K UHD
'Jacob's Ladder' and 'The Devil's Rejects' get the Lionsgate Limited treatment with new 4K releases.
HOT SPOT Review: Memorable Visuals, But Not Enough Story or Noomi Rapace
Andrzej Konopka and Noomi Rapace star in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska's sci-fi thriller.
DER FAN Returns with a 4K Restoration Vengeance
It’s been a long time since I’ve heard hushed whispers of the subversive German thriller, Der Fan. Written and directed by the late West German provocateur Eckhart Schmidt, this film was never banned formally, more so shunned due to both...
John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD Gets a Beautiful 4K Release from Imprint Asia
John Woo's classic 'Bullet in the Head' and the horror film 'Face to Face' are new from Imprint Asia.
MUTINY Review: Statham Hews to Formula in Human Trafficking Thriller
Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, and Adrian Lester star in the action thriller, directed by Jean-François Richet.
TONY Review: Linklaterian Warmth Wafts in on a Summer Breeze in Matt Johnson's Bourdain Biopic
Canadian prankster Matt Johnson grows up in a delightful coming-of-age origins story of Anthony Bourdain.
IT ENDS Review: Striking a Deep Chord
Alexander Ullom's existential thriller stars Mitchell Cole, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Phinehas Yoon.
FRANZ Review: Embracing an Incomplete Life
Director Agnieszka Holland's film is a biopic of the iconic Franz Kafka, portrayed by Idan Weiss.
THE MAGIC FARAWAY TREE Review: Wholesome Family Adventure Movie Will Make You Look Up From Your Phones and Into the Real World
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy star in Ben Gregor's magical children's film.
COYOTE VS. ACME Review: Retribution for a Long-delayed Comedy
What rescues 'Coyote vs. Acme' is the filmmakers' respect and appreciation for the Warners heritage.
SAFE 4K Review: Making Ourselves Sick
Directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, it's an extremely good movie I'd like to never watch again.
MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT Review: Michael Mann's Masterpiece Receives a Much Anticipated 4k Upgrade
[For now, at least, a lucky, privileged few can catch Manhunter: The Final Cut, StudioCanal’s 4k restoration of filmmaker Michael Mann’s masterpiece, as it tours arthouses, rep houses, and other assorted houses around the country.] Released in the summer...
Sylvester Stallone's DAYLIGHT Finally Sees the Light of Day on 4K UHD
Plus more action releases on 4K from Kino Lorber: 'K2,' 'Enter the Ninja,' 'Revenge of the Ninja,' 'Ninja III: The Domination,' 'Runaway Train.'
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Review: Willem Dafoe Cuts Imposing Figure as Tyrannical Greek Oligarch
When Patrikios (Christos Stergioglou), onetime/longtime physician to Marcos Timoleon (Willem Dafoe), an Aristotle Onassis-inspired Greek titan of industry and all-around oligarch, casually suggests the latter’s resemblance behavior-wise to Marlon Brando’s title character in The Godfather, Marcos laughs, instead suggesting the...
THE RIVALS OF AMZIAH KING Review: Crime and Comedy Collide in Oklahoma
Matthew McConaughey stars in the new film by Andrew Patterson ('The Vast of Night'), introducing Angelina LookingGlass and featuring Kurt Russell.
Now Streaming: REACHER Returns
Alan Ritchson reprises the role of Lee Child's itinerant justice warrior, this time in Philadelphia.
KUNG FU SOCCER Review: Stephen Chow's Dreadful All-Female Sequel Deserves a Straight Red Card
Twenty five years after scoring a resounding critical and commercial hit with the martial arts sports comedy Shaolin Soccer, Hong Kong film industry legend Stephen Chow unleashes an absolute howler of a sequel that fails to replicate anything that made...
HELLCAT Review: No Direction Home
Dakota Gorman and Todd Terry star in writer/director Brock Bodell's thriller.
THE WRONG GIRLS Review: Stoner Caper Hits the Laughs and Love
Frankie (Kristen Stewart) was once a star engineering student at Stanford, until the pressure made her flunk out. Molly (Alia Shawkat) is an amazing and inventive chef whose personality is not suited to the high-pressure stakes of the contemporary restaurant...
