Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD from 2010 and earlier.
(500) Days of Summer
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: The rise and fall of a romance has rarely been as well and as realistically portrayed as it is here, even with a musical number in the mix.
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …bypasses the rational portion of the frontal cortex and directly stimulates the portion of the brain that responds to misogynist daydreams and deformed mutants in closets.
Broken Blossoms
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
The Crushed Film Festival presents: Far From Heaven
Sarah D Bunting @ Tomato Nation
A Design for Living
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
The Gold Rush
Alan Bacchus @ Daily Film Dose
Dan Lybarger @ KCActive.com
- Excerpt: Having seen the film several times, I never cease to be amazed at what Chaplin could do with a seemingly simple shrug or a glance.
Heat Wave
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
Inception
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Despite all claims to the contrary, Inception is a film that’s quite easy to follow and understand.
Jaws
Alan Bacchus @ Daily Film Dose
John Paul Jones
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Most Dangerous Game
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried & Kriemhild’s Revenge
Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Whilst Metropolis, with its genetic heritage passed on through so much of science fiction that followed and its giddy, frenetic sense of technique, is the most famous of Fritz Lang’s films, Die Nibelungen has all of its virtues and none of its faults…As Metropolis is to science fiction, watching Die Nibelungen feels very much like encountering the ür-text of just about the entire canon of historical fantasy-adventure cinema.
Number, Please?
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Even hobbled as he is by a character he doesn’t entirely get, and Peter Hunt’s antagonistic direction, and the film’s annoying tendency to remind us of Connery… George azenby puts up a good fight.
Outland
John J. Puccio @ Movie Metropolis (formerly DVDTOWN)
- Excerpt: …not a great movie by any means, but a reliable one, with another solid performance from Sean Connery, who always makes a staunch, stalwart protagonist of truly heroic proportions.
Pay or Die
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Excerpt: Pay or Die marks something of a anomaly in Ernest Borgnine’s long career as being one of the very few films where he was both the top billed star and a romantic lead.
The Rape of the Vampire
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: …acts like it wants to be the ‘Un Chien Andalou’ of lesbian vampire movies; it can’t quite reach those lofty aspirations, but it does have fun trying.
Red Ball Express
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Red Psalm
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Red Scorpion
- Excerpt: History hasn’t turned it into a masterpiece, but there are now some fascinating wrinkles in the film that might not have been intended. Because it was produced by disgraced (and imprisoned) Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the movie is now loaded with an eerie unintentional laughter it didn’t have for its original viewers.
Run For Cover
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
Rush
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Se7en
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
The Seduction of Mimi
Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
Show People
Singin’ in the Rain
John J. Puccio @ Movie Metropolis (formerly DVDTOWN)
- Excerpt: …light, frothy, and charming, a complete delight from beginning to end. With the extra materials the Blu-ray sports, plus its high-definition sound and picture, it makes a tempting stab at number one.
The Space Children
Spawn
John J. Puccio @ Movie Metropolis
- Excerpt: As a movie, “Spawn” can’t make up its mind what it wants to be any more than its protagonist knows who he is or what he wants to be.
Tiny Furniture
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
Total Recall
Stephen Carty @ Flix Capacitor
Twins of Evil
Sean Axmaker @ Parallax View
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee