This year’s Wuthering Heights adaptation was an engaging, relatable telling of the classic. Modernized enough via music and sexuality, the volatile romance now comes home in vivid 4K up close in your living room. Indeed, the film is built around...
I was surprised to remember Blue Thunder was John Badham’s first action movie. I think of him as the solid action director of movies from Stakeout to Drop Zone but before the helicopter movie he directed dramas. Blue Thunder holds...
I was never as versed in Sonny Chiba as I am in the Hong Kong martial artists. I watched the Street Fighter movies after True Romance, and I’ve since caught up on Karate Bullfighter and some of the other collections...
Pixar’s latest has a good environmental about cohabitating with animals. Of course, they do it with sci-fi and humor. Even though there’s a joke about how it’s totally not like Avatar, Beavertar would be a good name for it. Mabel...
This was one of my favorite midyear movies that just does the job. I remember seeing it alone in a theater in a weeknight in college and it’s nothing new but man, it works. Kurt Russell got totally jacked to...
As a kid I had no sense that Innerspace was not successful. It was the latest Spielberg produced movie so I wanted to see it. I didn’t know what innerspace was and I can acknowledge I didn’t really know it...
This Van Damme movie must’ve been a hot ticket upon its February 4K release because my copy just arrived. It was Van Damme’s first twin movie, the birth of his niche. When the two Van Dammes fight each other, it...
I missed Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die in theaters earlier this year so I was looking forward to catching up with it at home. Unfortunately, it really did not work for me. That happens sometimes. This time travel action-comedy...
I saw the Jessica Alba remake but never the original until now. What a unique hybrid of Asian horror, giving a Hong Kong/Thailand twist to the sort of ghost stories that were popular in Japan. J-Horror was about malevolent ghosts...
When Sleepers opened in 1996, I was still working at a movie theater. Actually, I was home from college but still working at the movie theater. Sleepers opened on two screens because it was a big ticket movie. I miss...