Our mini-reviews of “The Final Run,” “Custom,” “Whisper of the Witch” and more of this week’s on-demand treasures and trash.
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The rapturous response to “Mortal Kombat II”’s red-band trailer is evidence that the original 1995 adaptation’s maximalist approach is how you bring such a game to the big screen.
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Dan O’Bannon’s offbeat entry into zombie horror (released 40 years ago) throws in wild humor, punk aesthetics, and cranial desire to create a stew of delightfully odd gross-outs and scares.
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Time goes by so slowly in this middling effort from Olivier Assayas.
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The imaginative collaboration between director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and writer Joss Whedon got the sci-fi/horror series back on track after a disastrous third installment.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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Werner Herzog’s documentary, released 20 years ago, is attempt to understand a man who wanted to become an animal — but it becomes an exploration of the complex relationship between the documentarian and his subject.
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Although they were each stars in their own right, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell briefly shone as a comedy team in neglected films like “We’re in the Money,” released 90 years ago this week.
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When Akira Kurosawa made this Russian co-production 50 years ago, his career (and life) was at a low point— and yet he came up with one of his most unusual and affecting pictures.
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Amy Berg directs this astonishingly intimate documentary about one of the greatest rock vocalists ever.
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Thirty years ago this summer, the uber-popular teen comedy genre took on some sci-fi trappings, with fascinating results.
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Our mini-reviews of “Birthrite,” “The Girls Are Alright,” “That Alien, Sound,” and more of this week’s on-demand treasures and trash.
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