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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...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 12/19/23: Before writing reviews, before podcasting, before film school… There was a time in my life, a time called childhood, when I lacked the vocabulary and the sophistication to really...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 12/12/23: Big-budget science fiction is filled with gearheads bereft of emotional urgency. They serve well a modern audience uninterested in storytelling, constantly posting gray-toned CGI comps several degrees removed from...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 11/21/23: According to the text onscreen at the beginning of the film, Hlynur Pálmason‘s Godland is inspired by a collection of 19th century photographic plates discovered in the Icelandic wilderness, apparently taken by...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 10/31/23 Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh Mission: Impossible film – just about everyone knows what we’re in for here, and unusually, that’s not a detriment. Despite some minor variation, especially across...
Check out our reviews of what’s new to home video 10/17/23 If one of the many benefits of watching movies from all across the globe is getting a view of lands and people in countries you’ve never visited then a...
