Wicked has many cameos from Broadway stars including Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, plus many of the touring company stars too. One theater legend who didn’t get a cameo is Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda wasn’t involved with Wicked on stage but...
A Real Pain has been on my mind all year since I saw it at Sundance. After its October theatrical release, it is now available for digital purchase. Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin star as cousins on a Holocaust tour...
The original Kickboxer is on 4K now as an Amazon exclusive steelbook 25th anniversary edition. Where doest he time go? It feels like I just discovered Van Damme movies on VHS. The first one I’d see in a theater was...
I’m not as up on Argento as I should be as a horror fan. Of course, I saw Suspiria and Phenomena because it had Jennifer Connelly. So I might not have all the context for these early ones. Argento hosts...
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie may be his wildest premise. It’s not a surprise twist because it tells you at the beginning Josh Hartnett plays The Butcher. He’s taking his daughter to a concert and the pop star (Saleka Shyamalan)...
Eureka Entertainment, via Arrow in the U.S., released three Shaw Brothers spy movies in this collection. Modern day movies were rarer but not unheard of for the Shaw Brothers. The Golden Buddha, Angel with the Iron Fists and The Singing...
I got Drag Me To Hell after it came out around Halloween but still in time to review it before Christmas. Sam Raimi’s last full horror movie, though he certainly included elements in Doctor Strange, remains a hoot, relentlessly escalating...
Jackie Chan’s Project A movies came out in 4K in October, but as a devotee of Hong Kong movies I couldn’t let the year end without taking a look at the collection. The first film was a landmark in establishing...
I’ve been so happy the Criterion Collection has been adding Hong Kong cinema classics to the collection. Of course, in the laserdisc era they were the ones to bring John Woo’s The Killer and Hard Boiled to U.S. collectors, but...
What the ‘90s thought the future would be is a fascinating subgenre to me. Most are Blade Runner knockoff dystopias like Highlander 2 and Freejack, but Demolition Man went the opposite way! Everything’s peaceful and lush, but it sucks! The...