Category: new to home video
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 9/12/23. Anyone who spends an above average amount of time thinking about horror movies–or reading and listening to other people’s thoughts on them–is familiar with the idea that horror and...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 8/22/23. A group of friends travel to a remote house for what should be a relaxing weekend, only something’s a little off, and before they know it things escalate into...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 8/15/23. “No hay banda!” the master of ceremonies memorably declares in David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. “There is no band!” What he is referring to directly, and Lynch somewhat more obliquely, is that...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 7/11/23. Jalmari Helander’s Sisu is the kind of movie you might catch the characters in a Quentin Tarantino movie watching. That is by no means intended to be a slight. On the contrary, with...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 6/27/23. Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please is not a musical (though it does have a great score). But, right from the jump, it sure feels like one. A gang of greasers dance...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 1/31/23. In the opening moments of David Cronenberg‘s Crimes of the Future, we see a capsized cruise ship abandoned and half-submerged in coastal waters. In the following scene, we see a small...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 1/17/23. As of Spin Me Round, I’ve now only seen two of Jeff Baena‘s five feature films (the other being 2017’s The Little Hours). But I’m starting to get a handle on what...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/29/22: It’s become increasingly clear that no movie will suffer from having Aubrey Plaza in it. That’s not to say she’s never been in a bad movie–remember that Child’s Play reboot?–but she’s never made...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/22/22: Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Medusa opens with a solo interpretative dance performance to Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Cities in Dust” until, a couple minutes in, the camera pulls back to reveal...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/8/22: It’s a fact, overlooked or denied by most of your more superficial film critics, that it’s possible for a bad screenplay to be saved by good direction and filmmaking....