Halloween has passed, temperatures are dropping, and the kids are already putting together wish lists. Last year I really enjoyed seeing The Best Christmas Pageant Ever when it made its theatrical run, and welcomed the opportunity to revisit it and check out the new Blu-ray edition arriving for the 2025 holiday season. Based on the […] The post Home (Video) for the Holidays: THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER first appeared on Cinapse.

Criterion‘s new 4K edition of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me does not build in any major way on the features present in the previously released Criterion Blu-ray. The special features are all previously seen, including a book of excerpts from Chris Rodley’s Lynch on Lynch. There’s no groundbreaking new documentary, no new […] The post Criterion Review: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.

New on Blu-ray from Warner Archive is the excellent Intruder in the Dust, a thoughtful race drama directed by Clarence brown and based on the novel by William Faulkner. Progressive for its time, the film in one of the first great cinematic analyses of race relations in America. Claude Jarman, Jr. (best known as Jody […] The post The Archivist: INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1949) – An Unsung Treasure Worth Discovering first appeared on Cinapse.

Anyone who has visited Hollywood Boulevard knows it’s a memorable place, for all sorts of reasons. The people who make their way on this iconic stretch of road must have some interesting backstories. Forelock imagines one such tale that gets at the good, the bad and the weird of one of La La Land’s sketchiest […] The post Austin Film Festival 2025: FORELOCK first appeared on Cinapse.

“Memories are just moments that refuse to be ordinary.” The loss of Diane Keaton last month is still one that’s incredibly hard to process. I’m sure this is the case for many a cinephile. In this day and age, when people are living longer, 79 feels too young to die, especially if that person was […] The post A Tribute to Diane Keaton first appeared on Cinapse.

A nod to some awards hopefuls that deserve to be remembered in the coming weeks. Anytime I see a great movie that was released well before awards season gets underway, I’m always reminded of the FYC ads that appeared as part of the awards push for David Fincher’s Zodiac. That film, which was released in early […] The post THE FRIEND is the Awards Darling that Should Have Been first appeared on Cinapse.

“There’ll never be anything quite like radio!” When my parents decided in the early ’90s that we would be a road trip family, my father went out and bought a collection of cassette tapes that were compilations from the radio’s golden age, remastered and restored. It was the first time I had experienced Lucille Ball […] The post RADIOLAND MURDERS: Kino Lorber Honors George Lucas’ Forgotten Pet Project first appeared on Cinapse.

One of my favorite flavors of Documentaries as you’d probably expect are Docs about movies that go horribly off the rails. A prime example of this and another hidden gem from 1974 - Labor of Love is a...

Ian Kimble’s Dead Giveaway is a somewhat superficial and charming buddy blackout horror comedy that shows a little bit of chemistry goes a long way. I caught the film at the Philadelphia Film Festival...

Guillermo del Toro is a filmmaker after my own heart. And while that kind of personal statement is hardly a compelling basis for a review, it's definitely the truest and most important assessment I co...

Georges Franju's beautiful body horror masterpiece come to 4K UHD Elegant, superbly gorgeous, and at times shockingly graphic, Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face is a singular achievement in cinema....

Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contribute their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comm...

Dan Trachtenberg continues his hot streak of revitalizing this once floundering franchise Not too long ago, the Predator franchise was in the doldrums. A clunky 2018 effort helmed by Shane Black capped off a middling run, following the ill-fated efforts to pit these hunters against the Alien franchise in the mid-2000s. Step up Dan Trachtenberg […] The post PREDATOR BADLANDS Blows Open the Franchise Mythology and Has a Blast Doing It first appeared on Cinapse.

Easily one of my most anticipated films this year was Rosemead, a passion project seven years in the making from icon Lucy Liu. The moving drama based on real life events follows Irene (Liu) a mother who has only four months to live, and is forced to not only face the fact that her teenage […] The post PFF 2025: A Quick Red Carpet chat with ROSEMEAD’s Star Lucy Liu and Writer Marilyn Fu first appeared on Cinapse.

One of my favorite flavors of Documentaries as you’d probably expect are Docs about movies that go horribly off the rails. A prime example of this and another hidden gem from 1974 – Labor of Love is a peek into a tiny Chicago production where in order to capitalize on the pornoshiek trend, the producers […] The post PFF 2025: DEMON LOVER DIARY is the Best Horror Movie Doc you’ve Never Seen first appeared on Cinapse.

Ian Kimble’s Dead Giveaway is a somewhat superficial and charming buddy blackout horror comedy that shows a little bit of chemistry goes a long way. I caught the film at the Philadelphia Film Festival and it stars Ruby Modine as Jill, who just wants to go to brunch with her bestie Lia (Mikaela Hoover) , […] The post PFF 2025: DEAD GIVEAWAY is Bawdy Good Time! first appeared on Cinapse.

The first thing we need to recognize about Pumpkinhead is that in no significant way does he actually resemble a pumpkin. Ultimately this matters less than it should, but it’s still one of the many odd choices that come to define this would-be franchise, and this monster of the iconic name but curiously nonexistent stature […] The post REQUIEM FOR A PUMPKINHEAD first appeared on Cinapse.

Stick with me on this one; what if a horror film realized it was terrible at its job halfway through the runtime? That is the meta level The Next Generation is operating on. In the mid 1990s the horror genre was in a rough spot. After a decade of big marquee horror names, the genre […] The post In Defense Of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE NEXT GENERATION first appeared on Cinapse.

Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contribute their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comments are encouraged, as are suggestions for future picks. Join us as we share our two cents on films we love, films […] The post Revenge of the Remakes Wraps with the Most Interesting HALLOWEEN Sequel Ever Put to Film first appeared on Cinapse.

“Some producers don’t care about the story. It’s just an excuse to get a couple of quarts of blood on the screen. That’s not what scares. It’s a mood, a feeling, a whole ambiance.” For many horror fans, the name Dan Curtis conjures up nothing but good horror-filled times. The iconic director/producer was responsible for […] The post Kino Lorber Brings a Pair of Dan Curtis Classics to Blu-Ray with DEAD OF NIGHT & DAN CURTIS’ MONSTERS first appeared on Cinapse.

Reveling in the insecurities, fears, and peculiarities that draw desperate people together, Arturo Ripstein’s Deep Crimson is a perverse delight. Maybe delight isn’t quite the right word for a story fundamentally rooted in the nastier shades of humanity. Deep Crimson is upsetting through and through content-wise, but there is an underlying humanity running through the […] The post Criterion Review: DEEP CRIMSON [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.