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Over the last few decades, Highlander, Russell Mulcahy’s 1986 fantasy cult movie, has received more home video releases than Connor MacCleod has taken heads from immortals in sword fights. But Lionsgate’s recent 4K update, now available in a handsome new package, opens the door for the obvious eye-roller: There can…
Last year, the Motion Picture Association tallied the number of consumers worldwide with subscriptions to streaming services as of 2020. The final count stopped at a cool 1.1 billion. That, to use a brainy technical term, is a lot of consumers. That MPA report isn’t exactly surprising. There’s a good…
The most important detail anyone needs to know about Shout! Factory’s 4K steelbook treatment of Sam Raimi’s seminal 1992 horror-comedy masterpiece Army of Darkness is this: It’s the best home video release the movie has ever gotten, and possibly ever will get. Even if you’re merely a casual fan, you…
Every day, another disaster. Every day, a fresh calamity. Every day, a brand-new reason to think about building a doomsday shelter. It is exhausting living in unprecedented times, especially when new unprecedented developments pop up as if they’re competing with the last unprecedented development. The world is resilient and so…
You can learn a lot from watching a bad movie. Taking a note from The Princeton Review, watching a bad movie instructs you what not to do if you want to make a good movie. A bad movie can also remind you what it is that you appreciate about the…
Few things are as enjoyable and adrenalizing as martial arts films, whatever their make and model. Sometimes, plot is a necessity for stringing together cool fights. Sometimes, it’s as much of a pleasure as the cool fights. There’s nothing wrong with coasting along in anticipation of the next round of…
“The book is always better than the movie,” goes the crusty old precept about book-to-movie adaptations. In a certain percentage of cases, this may be true. In others, it may not. For the most part, books and the movies based on them are rarely better or worse than one another.…
It’s the fashion among cool kids not to care about the Oscars until Oscar nominations are announced, then to stop caring again after being mad on Twitter for a day, and then to start caring once more when the Academy Awards actually play. That’ll wear a person out fast. The…
Behind every smile, there's teeth, and behind Antony Starr's teeth is sheer psychotic authoritarian terror. If there's a lesson to take from The Boys, Amazon's S-tier adaptation of Garth Ennis' A-tier comic book, it's that when the world gives you Superman, you give Superman a proper nurturing upbringing instead of filling…
Alright: That’s a wrap. 2021 is over. Done. Finished. There’s nothing else to hold your breath on this year apart from the ball dropping, unless you’re in a store without a mask and you think you can make it without inhaling for as long as it takes to grab bagels…
You’re about to sit down with your family for Christmas dinner and spend a long (or, depending on your relationship with them, really long) weekend with them eating too much food and running out of ways to keep yourselves entertained. Streaming being the untamed landscape that it is, with curation…
COVID tried to kill the movies. It’s still trying to kill the movies. But COVID’s best efforts have yet to succeed. Because lo and behold, there are still movies coming out, whether in theaters, on VOD, or both. And some of those movies are really damn good, like 9 of…
What is The Northman? Iceland's Black Panther? Elevated Conan the Barbarian? A violent fever dream a'la Valhalla Rising? It's a Robert Eggers movie, that's for sure, and Eggers, having made two bona fide New England horror masterpieces, The Witch and The Lighthouse, gets to write his own ticket. Focus Features appears to…
With our lives in stasis over the last 20 months, we’ve all had a chance to pause, think about what matters, and, on the lighter side, discover or rediscover new hobbies and passions. The need for good books as well as time to read them can’t be emphasized enough. As…
Giving the music enthusiast in your family the gift of more music is the easiest way to their hearts (and ears), but think outside of the streaming services and MediaMonkey libraries; find gifts that speak to their love of a good tune instead of getting them more good tunes. Need…
