Starring Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls is considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law made her a and a rare sight on the big screen in recent…
Shot in black and white, and steeped in realism, director Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (“Hate”) is often thought of as France’s answer to Boyz N’ the Hood. Showing gun fights, riots, police brutality, and gang warfare, this sprawling urban drama…
Released just prior to Thanksgiving 1981, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker came and went with little fanfare, despite having a paperback tie-in novel on the stands several months before it appeared in theaters. It was quickly repackaged on VHS by HBO…
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is an eerie reminder of 2020—fear, social distancing and death all around—despite being released nine years before the Covid pandemic gripped the world. Unlike most films about epidemics that simply create chaos and run with it, Soderbergh…
For information on the film, see our 2012 review of Kino’s Blu-ray. Shot on 35mm film, Scarlet Street is presented in the 1.37:1 aspect ratio with HDR10 and Dolby Vision. Featuring a new 4K master from a 16-bit 4K scan…
The first of what was originally planned as a series of horror films made with Clive Barker, who is credited with the story and (with James Caplin) the screenplay. Underworld (AKA Transmutations) is best looked at as a 1980’s oddity…
Based on the real-life effort from the kids of Elmore City, Oklahoma, to overturn a law in their town banning public dancing, Footloose is about more than rowdy high school kids wanting to show off their cool moves. Though driven…
Arriving on the heels of several The Silence of the Lambs clones that littered the early 2000’s, Suspect Zero isn’t a bad film, it’s just not a particularly original one. It’s another grisly cat-and-mouse thriller where the good guy is…
Sandwiched between Rudy and Friday Night Lights, Brian Robbins’s dramedy Varsity Blues has established itself as a well-respected, lively look at life as a high school football player. Packed with popular rock tunes and a cast of names that have…
If I were to make a list of the worst trailers ever, John Woo’s Face/Off would be on it. The clip turned me off so much, I avoided the film in theaters. It was only after countless recommendations from friends…