February 19th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
There’s a movie somewhere in here that could have been an intimate, affectionate view of a Midwestern subculture. Craig Brewer is inspired by Greg Kohs’s 2008 documentary about Milwaukee tribute performers Mike Sardina and Claire Stengl, two working class entertainers who fall in love while orbiting the state fair impersonator circuit. Mike, a Vietnam veteran […]
January 12th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Academy Award® nominees Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman) and Kate Hudson (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Almost Famous), in her Golden Globe® and Actor Award® nominated role, bring adoration and vulnerability to Focus Features’ inspirational love story SONG SUNG BLUE, arriving exclusively on digital* platforms to buy or rent on January 13, 2026, and on Blu-ray™ and […]
December 2nd, 2020 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Paramount Presents is fast becoming a favorite catalog collection for me. Some releases are out of the box while others are lovingly reissued in a more deluxe way. While sometimes the features leave a little to be desired, often the new masters make the discs well worth the purchase. With Eddie Murphy’s classics Trading Places […]
July 12th, 2018 by Gerard Iribe
A harrowing drama set during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvador is a one of director Oliver Stone’s most underrated films, a thrilling and violent look at the chaos of war as seen through the lens of an amoral photojournalist. In 1980, young men, women and children are being brutally killed in a bloody civil war […]
December 8th, 2017 by Brandon Peters
Twin Peaks was a true cult sensation. The short lived show is probably the biggest such television program since the original Star Trek. It only had life for 2 seasons and almost 30 episodes. Fandom never died on the show, it delivered a film prequel by Lynch himself and was one of the few televisions […]
November 29th, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
I’ve had a tough time processing Wonder Wheel. It has nothing to do with writer/director Woody Allen as a person or even the idea of analyzing multiple “awards season” movies at the same time. It has a lot more to do with the familiarity of Allen’s ideas matched to his choices as a visual filmmaker. […]
May 13th, 2011 by Gerard Iribe
What is a “cougar,” besides being a large cat of the feline variety that will rip you to shreds? Well, as defined in the latest edition of the Urban Dictionary; An older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man. The cougar can be anyone from an overly surgically altered […]