This Blu-ray release from Olive Films (www.olivefilms.com – www.facebook.com/olivefilms) will be available for purchase on June 25th, 2019. Anyone out there remember those beach party movies of the 60s? Well, they were breezy, laid back little low-budget comedy excursions from…
Every once in a while, there’s an eccentric, unique little art-house movie out of Sundance or another independent film festival that develops a buzz and gains a great deal of publicity. This year, that title was The Last Black Man…
Denys Arcand is a French-Canadian filmmaker who has over the years written and directed several Oscar-nominees (Jesus of Montreal, The Decline of the American Empire) and one Best Foreign-Language Picture Oscar-winner (The Barbarian Invasions). His films tend to be small,…
The Toy Story series marks a landmark of sorts, helping establish Pixar animation studios as a major production company and providing early examples of meticulously crafted stories with appeal for both children and adults. The first trilogy of movies were…
The Raft opens June 21st at Digital Gym in San Diego. As many readers know, there are plenty of great documentaries out there that bring true stories to light that would either not get the attention they deserve or be…
Hello once again and welcome to another look at highlights arriving on Blu-ray and DVD. It’s another busy week with some big movies and interesting independent fare to check out. Readers should also note links which will lead to full…
This Blu-ray from Arrow Academy will be available for purchase (www.arrowvideo.com – www.facebook.com/ArrowVideo/) on June 18th. When you spend most of your days and nights watching features, it eventually becomes difficult to pick out your absolute favorites. Still, for this reviewer…
Most late-night shows look like smoothly produced and effortless exercises in entertainment, bringing stand-up and celebrity guests together and speaking about latest projects and topics of the day. Of course, it’s an immense amount of work for the host and…
Independent cinema icon Jim Jarmusch has provided viewers with plenty of stellar features over the years, including Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man and Paterson (among many others). The Dead Don’t Die is the latest effort from the filmmaker,…
First debuting in 1971, hard-nosed private detective Shaft has entertained audiences for decades, not only in the first trilogy of films (not to mention a brief TV series), but also a 2000 remake that introduced the next generation in the…