Video Views Extra: New Review of an Older Movie
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-04-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Rob Lowe, Julie Warner, Dan Aykroyd, Brian Dennehy
The late comedian Chris Farley is magnetic and charismatic throughout but most of the rest of the film is simply wretched.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-03-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jason London, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, Wiley Wiggins, Michelle Burke, Anthony Rapp, Adam Goldberg, Rory Cochrane, Shawn Andrews, Milla Jovovich, Joey Lauren Adams, Matthew McConaughey
This film was made to celebrate a lost culture, and those who were part of it, or are merely curious, will find a path into the past through it.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-02-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disturbing Images)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Madeleine Gavin
Cast: Seungeun Kim, Soyeon Lee, Hyeonseo Lee, Jinhae Roh, Jinpyeong Roh, Yonggil Roh
Uses a combination of guerilla footage and interviews to create a vivid portrait of what it means to live inside and attempt to escape from North Korea – all without resorting to recreations and/or re-enactments.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-01-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker
Has all the serpentine curves one expects from a well-executed caper/heist film but avoids any turns that are so over-the-top that they tip the whole thing into self-parody.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-01-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Mild Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, William Zabka, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, Randee Heller
A sweetness and innocence to the story avoids entering saccharine territory by incorporating darker themes into the sports/high school movie mix.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-11-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Torture, Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: John Pieplow
Cast: Dee Snider, Kevin Gage, Elizabeth Pena, Brett Harrelson, Linda Cardellini, Robert Englund, Amy Smart
Most everything about Strangeland, from the writing to the acting to the camerawork to the editing, is Grade Z in quality – not just uncomfortable and off-putting but downright incompetent.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-11-14
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Documentary
Director: George Butler, Robert Fiore
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno, Mike Katz, Serge Nubret, Franco Columbu
A cheesy curiosity upon its release, it has become a valuable historical record because of the lasting cultural impact of its central figure.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-11-07
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, Macdonald Carey, Wallace Ford
Although a bona fide classic, the story so implausible that it holds together only because of the directorial skill of Hitchcock and the top-notch work of actors Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-10-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Scary Images)
Genre: Horror
Director: John Irvin
Cast: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Patricia Neal
With the exception of a few jump scares, this is not especially scary, and the book-to-movie condensations cause the occasionally incoherent plot to feel rushed.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-10-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Kiefer Sutherland, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander
A story that starts with promise and seems to be going somewhere devolves into a formulaic disappointment.