One of best movies of year is now available at home. Even though winter break is essentially over, The Holdovers is still a touching movie for any time of year. Plus, it can make you nostalgic for the holidays, especially...
It’s hard to imagine there’s any new information on Titanic. It was well covered in 1997 and 1998 as it became a phenomenon, and in the ensuing years every time it was revisited. But one fun story on the new...
The Blue Jean Monster is a new one to me. If there’s a Hong Kong movie I haven’t seen, I want to, and this crazy Category III extravaganza from 88 Films didn’t disappoint. Shing Fui-On plays Joe, a cop killed...
The Inspector Wears Skirts is another lady cop action series from Hong Kong. I never knew how much it had in common with Police Academy. At least the first one is about training the special SKRT squad. Since the main...
Everyone remembers seeing The Red Balloon as a kid, either at school or on TV. The Criterion Collection gives us a chance to relive that and discover four other films by Albert Lamorisse. As remarkable as it is that he...
It’s been a treat watching stop-motion animated films like The Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline and Paranormal in 4K UHD. Movie screens already highlighted the detail of those worlds, but 4K especially brings it more intimately into your home. So, there...
Mercy Road is a thriller set entirely in a car from the hero’s point of view. I’m always interested to see if movies like this can pull it off, and Mercy Road definitely did. It’s a different sort of thriller...
The Wandering Earth was China’s big disaster movie and it held up against its American counterparts, superior in fact to lots of Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay output. The sequel goes the RRR route at nearly three hours. The Wandering...
As the third Exorcist movie on 4K UHD, The Exorcist: Believer looks more like most modern day digital movies. They added a saturated look to the prologue in Haiti, but most of the movie looks like the usual film, which...
Even though it was the beginning of the ‘90s, JFK is one of the seminal movies of the decade. It was Oliver Stone using his cinematic powers to put forth a conspiracy he believed. Whether the audience agreed or not,...