I really liked Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase. This was a wonderful modernization of the teen sleuth for today’s kids. It’s empowering to show how Nancy (Sophia Lillis) puts the clues together in a deductive way that anyone else could aspire to if they just paid attention. It’s also Continue Reading
Clint Eastwood returned to the screen in his latest movie The Mule, loosely based on the true story of a 90-year-old drug mule for the cartels. It was a good role that took a lot of liberties with the true story but showed a man gaining some perspective very late Continue Reading
Bumblebee brought the Transformers series back to basics and was better for it. Getting our ‘80s on sort of harkened back to the way we experienced the Transformers as kids. What I really want to get is that Bumblebee VHS they joked about for April Fools. Hopefully it was pan Continue Reading
I finally see Robert Zemeckis’s first movie, the charming Beatlemania comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand, on Criterion Collection Blu-ray.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was the best Spider-Man movie since Sam Raimi directed them. There are plenty of Easter eggs and background jokes to get, and sophisticated animation to freeze frame, but mainly you’ll just want to watch this movie over and over again. On Blu-ray you get a whole Continue Reading
I was finishing my freshman year of college when The Craft came out. Even though I was a college boy I still related to high school characters, and I loved this Wiccan quartet. It was sort of that usual movie cliche of they’re supposed to be the awkward outcasts of Continue Reading
I am so happy Man’s Best Friend finally got a Blu-Ray release. I saw it in 1993 as a horror fan but was won over by its twisted take on the friendly dog movie. After K-9, Turner and Hooch and Beethoven, I loved seeing that genre with a killer dog. Continue Reading
Green Book won the Oscar for Best Picture two weeks ago. It’s not a bad movie, because Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali are so good as Tony Lip and Doc Shirley, they overcome sometimes oversimplified material. We may not be ready to settle the debate on whether or not it Continue Reading
Whoever has home video rights to MGM will keep releasing new editions of Rocky and Lionsgate will keep pumping out new editions of the Rambo films. Shout! Factory got their hands on Stallone’s 1986 cop movie Cobra. I was away at Sundance when the Blu-ray came out and then had Continue Reading
Kalifornia was not a movie I liked but disliked it in a memorable way. Weird asides like a truck stop patron peeing out of a tube and dogs humping made Kalifornia stand out. Brad Pitt certainly gave his all as an unhinged killer and Juliette Lewis as his abused girlfriend, Continue Reading
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