Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) | "
Now that the film is back in the stores, perhaps it can be rediscovered. Too bad that's all one can positively say about this feature-less DVD." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | The West Wing - The Complete Fourth Season (2002) | "
The set is a fine addition to the ever-growing legion of television programs hording the shelves at your local retailer." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 4, 2005 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Son of the Mask (2005) | "
Remarkably inept." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 18, 2005 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| F For Fake (1976) | "
F for Fake is one of the more wistfully humorous of Welles’s wrestlings with reality." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 18, 2005 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) | "
A documentary of quiet, introspective charm." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 10, 2005 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| Travellers & Magicians (2005) | "
A bit too creakingly stiff in its allegory, but the film's refusal to provide simple answers is touchingly appropriate." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 26, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Saddest Music in the World (2004) | "
An enjoyable DVD release of a wonderfully strange film." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 4, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| The Saddest Music in the World (2004) | "
Guy Maddin’s snow globe cinema, hermetically sealed in ghostly adoration of silent cinema, is well matched to this darkly comic fable." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1986) | "
While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It’s Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 4, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 63%
| It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1986) | "
Stretches the darkly comedic aspects of the trilogy to the breaking point." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| It Lives Again (1978) | "
While perhaps not as necessary a purchase as the release of It’s Alive, the two-for-the-price-of-one approach of this DVD is certainly appealing." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 4, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 44%
| It Lives Again (1978) | "
The second and third parts of Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive trilogy are by turns silly and sublime." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| It's Alive (1974) | "
If not as packed with extras as one may have hoped, this It’s Alive DVD is a much-welcomed event." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 3, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| It's Alive (1974) | "
One part allegory on familial tensions and one part commentary on environmental and biological poisoning." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2004 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 85%
| The Black Cat (1934) | "
The Black Cat’s impressionist wasteland is composed of equal parts severe allegory and pulp poetry." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2004 |
Fresh
| N/A | Batman: The Animated Series - Vol. 1 (1992) | "
Given the rabid love so many fans have for the show, this set will undoubtedly fly off the shelves.
" — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jul 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| N/A | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970) | "
The lack of extras may be something to write to Warner Bros. about but not something that should dissuade a fan from picking this one up." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 28, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| N/A | Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed! (1970) | "
One of the finest of the seven entries in Hammer’s Frankenstein cycle." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) | "
A must! Taste the Blood of Dracula is not only one of best in the Christopher Lee Dracula series but one of Hammer’s best overall productions." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 28, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 60%
| Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) | "
Taste the Blood of Dracula is unusual in that it keeps Dracula somewhat on the sidelines." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Panic Room (2002) | "
The DVD provides enough substantive insight into the contemporary Hollywood filmmaking process." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 14, 2004 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| Monsieur Verdoux (1947) | "
The film is not only an account of the moral slippage of one man but the record of a far larger, seemingly uncontrollable escalation." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 20, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| Robot Stories (2004) | "
Concerned with detailing the various interactions of an unsettling, fragile humanity with its own technology." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2004 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Torque (2004) | "
Director Joseph Kahn's Torque is inoffensively diverting—it's neither a work of inspired genre genius or mere manipulative commercial trash." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 12, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Paycheck (2003) | "
The possibilities of Dick’s premise are never really exploited, just used as the framework for limp action set-pieces." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| The Triplets of Belleville (2003) | "
The city of Belleville is like some nocturnal amalgam of Paris and New York, on the edge of a vast sea and of the world itself." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 59%
| Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) | "
There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 5, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 11%
| Timeline (2003) | "
The attempt to stay true to a historically minded adventure by maintaining a strangely subdued tone in terms of action just doesn’t work." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 76%
| Bad Santa (2003) | "
Bad Santa tries to be as vulgar and offensive as possible so that it might somehow justify the inevitability of its own happy ending." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 23, 2003 |
Rotten
| N/A | Three's Company - Season 1 (1977) | "
If you’re a fan of the show, then the disc will be worth buying, especially when it inevitably goes on sale." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Nov 20, 2003 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 56%
| Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003) | "
The lunacy isn’t inspired and the film never imitates the sharp comedic wit so frequently on display in the works of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Chuck Jones." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Indiana Jones - The Adventure Collection (1981) | "
Just to have the films on DVD is enough to give the set an overall positive rating." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 29, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 37%
| Scary Movie 3 (2003) | "
The humor is confined to watching protagonists smack around the film’s monster and listening to a lot of “whites and blacks are different” jokes." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2003 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 72%
| Runaway Jury (2003) | "
A supremely smug experience, Runaway Jury begins as a thriller and ends as a tract that doesn’t even have the decency to be well made propaganda." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 98%
| The Fog of War (2003) | "
Morris allows McNamara the dignity of his memories, yet never allows the viewer to forget the deeply troubling moral questions bound to those memories." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 2, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 35%
| Wonderland (2003) | "
Save for its basis in historical reality, there is little that is original in the visualizing of Wonderland’s underbelly tour of compromised lives." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 1, 2003 |
— | Rotten 37%
| Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) |
Click here to read article — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Sep 28, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Rundown (2003) | "
Johnson is a natural action hero, a point presumably made rather cheekily by way of an early cameo from none other than Ahhnold himself." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 25, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) | "
Star Trek: Nemesis DVD review" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 24, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 30%
| Underworld (2003) | "
The film takes the fetishization of the vampire in contemporary pop culture quite literally." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Blair Witch Project (1999) | "
For anyone who enjoyed the film and seeks to immerse themselves even further into its fabricated world, the DVD is_near indispensable." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 17, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| The Ring (2002) | "
The Ring on DVD" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 16, 2003 |
— | Fresh 91%
| Oklahoma! (1955) |
Click here to read article — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 22, 2003 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Two Evil Eyes (1990) |
Click here to read article — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Jun 22, 2003 |
— | Fresh 91%
| Oklahoma! (1955) | "
"A compelling musical"" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 10, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Two Evil Eyes (1990) | "
"Horror fans have reason to celebrate the release of George Romero and Dario Argento’s Two Evil Eyes on DVD at long last."" — ReelTalk Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 10, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | "
Beneath the campy comedic gestures and genre spoofing, which are quite enjoyable in themselves, there is an often neglected serious side to Rocky Horror." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted May 26, 2003 |
— | Rotten 48%
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) |
Click here to read article — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Apr 7, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) | "
As adaptations of literary works go, the film must rank as one of the finest." — ReelTalk Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEW Posted Apr 4, 2003 |
— | Rotten 17%
| House by the Cemetery (1984) |
Click here to read article — ReelTalk Movie Reviews Posted Mar 16, 2003 |
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