Send Help was a total hoot with a reversal of the corporate and natural order. The clever script also gave license to Sam Raimi’s sense of humor with a few scenes of Evil Dead style humor, particularly the plane crash...
The Substitute is my favorite teacher movie. Inspirational teachers are great, but sometimes you just need one to beat the crap out of the bad kids. Specifically coming after Dangerous Minds, the most egregious phony Hollywood pap, The Substitute was...
We know Avatar looks great in 4K. Those vivid colors of Pandora were made for this technology. Avatar: Fire and Ash visits new Na’vi and returns to the skies and seas of Pandora. It is an immersive soundscape too. Air...
I saw Killers of the Flower Moon in theaters and Apple TV+ has good 4K but there’s nothing like physical media with no buffer. 1920s Osage comes to vivid life with full street scenes in Criterion Collection’s edition. Scorsese’s three...
Robert Redford passed away last year just before the 50th anniversary of this film. I actually just got to see it in a theater doing a Redford tribute and it was great to experience All the President’s Men as people...
I was really exicted for Jena-Claude Van Damme to work with Tsui Hark, and their first film, Double Team, didn’t disappoint. Their follow-up, Knock-Off, wasn’t quite as outrageous as Coke machines in the Coliseum but it’s got its moments. The...
I’ll watch any Hong Kong movie so I don’t really need a hook. But Tony Ching’s directorial debut is a good one and a ninja movie from Hong Kong is an even sharper one. Ninjas were everywhere in the early...
Lone Samurai is a new release and a slow burn but once it ignites the second half is full of epic fights. After defeating the crew of an invading ship, the samurai Riku (Shogen) is shipwrecked on an island. He...
While we wait for the long awaited Spaceballs 2, MVD rereleased the short lived animated series on DVD. I had never seen it so it was fun to see. Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers and Daphne Zuniga did their voices. The...
The thriller of the holidays, The Housemaid, is now on digital 4K ahead of its March 17 physical media release. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t read any spoilers. The twists are really juicy. The lavish mansion where Millie...