Homevideo Review

  • HomeVideo Review My Neighbor Totoro / Howl’s Moving Castle 

    Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasias will delight adults and children alike.

    May 22, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Crimewave

    Fans of the collaborating auteurs can now catch up with their ill-fated crime comedy on DVD and Blu-ray.

    May 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Hey Good Lookin’

    An obscure Ralph Bakshi animated film depicts 1950s New York with appealing roughness.

    April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Hemel

    The sexual adventures of a lonely 23-year-old are more sophisticated than the Euro-softcore they might suggest.

    April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Howdy, Kids!! A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup / Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon, Vol. 1

    A pair of new TV sets offer entertainment from bygone eras.

    April 10, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Panic In The Streets

    Director Elia Kazan kicked off a brilliant ’50s run with this stylish noir about a plague threat in New Orleans.

    April 10, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Dirk Gently

    A BBC Four series captures the spirit of Douglas Adams’ irreverent comic mystery novel.

    April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Badlands

    Terrence Malick’s masterful debut extracts the haunting mythology from the lurid Charles Starkweather-Caril Ann Fugate killings.

    April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Monsieur Verdoux

    Charles Chaplin reinvented himself with this post-WWII serial-killer comedy.

    March 27, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • HomeVideo Review GLOW: The Story Of The Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling

    This abridged version of the Gorgeous Women Of Wrestling’s story only hints at the dysfunction in the league.

    March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Phantasm II

    This sequel reaffirmed Don Coscarelli’s interest in creating oddball genre pieces for an imagined cult audiences.

    March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Tristana

    Catherine Deneuve seeks revenge on her unsavory gentleman guardian in Luis Buñuel’s complex provocation.

    March 20, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • HomeVideo Review Timerider

    Fred Ward as a time-traveling dirt-bike rider? B-movie heaven.

    March 20, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Naked City: 20 Star-Filled Episodes

    From 1958 to 1963, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, and more passed through this often-lurid crime show.

    March 13, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • HomeVideo Review Ministry Of Fear

    Fritz Lang’s dark history in pre-WWII Germany informs this noir-tinged paranoid thriller.

    March 13, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • HomeVideo Review Chronicle Of A Summer

    The idea of “cinéma vérité” was put to the test in this groundbreaking 1961 French documentary.

    March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series

    Hanna-Barbera teamed with Martin Short for one of the most unusual cartoons of the ’80s.

    March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Cujo / The Running Man

    The rush of mid-’80s Stephen King adaptations left the quality-control button unmanned.

    March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review On The Waterfront

    For its politics and performances, Elia Kazan’s union drama remains a vital cinematic touchstone.

    February 27, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Ballad Of Narayama

    The ritual of leaving the elderly on a mountain to die underpins this kabuki-influenced Japanese drama.

    February 27, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Thief Of Bagdad

    Douglas Fairbanks’ lavish silent-era spectacle made its charismatic star the main attraction.

    February 20, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Die Hard: 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Collection

    The new Die Hard Blu-ray collection makes it easy to track how a scrappy, standout action feature became a tired, overwrought franchise.

    February 20, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Tales Of The Night 

    French animator Michel Ocelot (Kirikou And The Sorceress) returns with more gorgeous, earnest bits of folklore.

    February 13, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Boy In The Plastic Bubble

    A young John Travolta plays a teenager stuck in a Habitrail in this delicious slice of ’70s TV-movie hokum.

    February 13, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Tin Drum 

    Günter Grass’ metaphorical novel about Nazism isn’t suited to adaptation, but Volker Schlöndorff gave it a shot.

    February 6, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning

    The latest Van Damme/Lundgren sci-fi/action sequel seems primed for a cult following.

    February 6, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Duellists

    Ridley Scott’s lush debut feature follows two honor-bound officers in Napoleon’s army locked in a perpetual vendetta.

    February 6, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • HomeVideo Review The Jackson 5ive: The Complete Animated Series

    Rankin/Bass’ Saturday-morning cartoon about the Jacksons painted an ironically sunny picture.

    January 30, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • HomeVideo Review Deadly Blessing

    A lesser-known Wes Craven slasher delves into the world of Amish fanaticism.

    January 30, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • HomeVideo Review Beauty Is Embarrassing

    A profile of multi-talented Pee-wee’s Playhouse alum Wayne White is a bit too admiring.

    January 30, 2013 | 12:00am -