Freaked has been hard to see for many years. It got a DVD release 20 years ago, but since streaming took over it hadn’t managed to migrate to digital, until now. Drafthouse Films released Freaked for rent or purchase this...
Materialists was a game changer of a romantic comedy. Not only did it challenge the conventions of meet-cutes and love triangles, but it exposed the matchmaking industry for the commodification of human beings. That goes for expensive personalized services as...
This Korean western about three forces vying for a treasure map is action-packed, but in the period trappings of the ‘40s Manchurian landscape (even though it was filmed in Gobi). What’s remarkable is those are real horses chasing jeeps and...
I think we all knew The French Dispatch would join The Criterion Collection when it came out in a bare bones movie only Blu-ray four years ago. It only took two more Wes Anderson movies to get Dispatch in 4K...
Creepshow 2 was a VHS rental and HBO recording in my youth in the ’80s. Now on 4K UHD I can see what it would have looked like in theaters. Amid this collection of three horror shorts, “The Raft” is...
Peking Opera esd integral to Hong Kong cinema. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao came from the Peking Opera school so that’s two major filmmakers and three performers representing it. So it was the backdrop of this caper involving...
The selling point for M3gan 2.0 on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD or digital is the unrated version. The theatrical cut was PG-13 as was the original film, which included a bit more in its unrated version. The unrated cut is...
Just as James Gunn announced the Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow, his first film hits 4K UHD as well as Blu-ray and DVD. The 4K UHD captures the bright, colorful live-action comic book approach Gunn took to the relaunch of...
The 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music reminds me how many memorable songs are in the film besides the title track. “Do-Re-Mi,” “So Long, Farewell,” “Sixteen Going on 17,” “My Favorite Things” and even (a problem like) “Maria” are...
Stop motion on Blu-ray was already like you are there in the sets with the figures. 4K takes that and hones in the subtle details. The 20th anniversary of Tim Burton’s third stop-motion movie, and the only one he co-directed,...