Category: new to home video
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 12/3/24: Alex Kendrick’s The Forge is a terrible movie. Normally, I would not be quite so blunt but, after twenty years of trying to see the good in Kendrick’s films, I simply...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 10/29/24: In the world of science fiction, there’s no shortage of “body snatcher” movies and it’s easy to see why. There’s something deeply unnerving about the idea of having our...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 7/30/24: The First Omen, the sixth film in a nearly-fifty-year-old film series, on the face of things, has no reason to be exceptional. All the objective things you can read...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 5/21/24: Coup de Chance is Woody Allen’s 50th, and potentially final, theatrical film, and one would hardly say his most original. Revisiting themes of luck, misfortune, guilt, and violence, comparisons to Crimes...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 5/7/24: On its most superficial level, David Redmon and Ashley Sabin‘s Kim’s Video is a kind of fan movie. In recounting the history and the strange story of the aftermath of the legendary New York...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 3/26/24: Kitty Green’s narrative debut – 2019’s The Assistant – was one of the most striking independent films of the past five years, portraying a complex series of systems and personal compromises...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 3/12/24: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite, Dogtooth) has never been one for subtlety, though at least he can look to novelist Alasdair Gray for giving him a character named God who...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 2/27/24: Nicolas Cage has a problem. I am not referring, here, to Paul Matthews, the character he plays in the new film Dream Scenario, though we’ll get to him in short...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 2/20/24: Even at the start, the vacation is not going well – Leon (Thomas Schubert) and Felix (Langston Uibel) are meant to spend a week or so at the latter’s...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 1/30/24: There are few things more unpleasant than a movie with immense promise coming up as empty as John Woo’s Silent Night does. Woo, one of the masters of action cinema, makes...
