Video Views Extra: New Review of an Older Movie
U.S. Home Release Date: 2025-07-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Malcolm Washington
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins, Michael Potts, Skylar Aleece Smith
With impeccable period details, top-notch performances, and the text of one of the most lauded plays of the 20th century, this represents one of the stronger unsung late-2024 drops from Netflix.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-01-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, Valerie Harper
Viewed in 1984, "Blame it on Rio" was a bad movie. Viewed forty years later, the badness is overlaid by a strong creepiness factor.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-05-03
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Willard Huyck
Cast: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien
This was a bad movie when it was released. It is a bad movie today. And it will continue to be a bad movie long after this planet ceases to exist.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-05-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: William Malone
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Jeffrey Combs
It hurts to search for logic in the wreckage of a screenplay that feels like it was cut into tiny pieces and glued back together in some random order.
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: 2024-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Bill Froelich
Cast: Lori Lethin, Brendan Hughes, Alex Rocco, Scott Jacoby, Andy Romano, Maureen, Philip McKeon, George Clooney
A promising premise, once compromised by an inadequate director, inept actors, horrific dialogue, and a host of other problems, is unable to rise to the surface.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Cast:
"Staying Alive" is only about trying to breathe life into the then-fading career of John Travolta and making money off a recognizable title.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-07-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Ben Messmer, Stacy Chbosky, Ivar Brogger, Lou George, Michael Lawson, Samantha Robson
For all its skill at mimicry, it has nothing to say and no real story to tell. It’s as ephemeral as it is unpleasant – a rancid little curiosity whose impressions are easily flushed.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-10-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Robert Vincent O’Neil
Cast: Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, John Diehl, Steven Porter, Donna McDaniel, Graem McGavin
There are times when it can be fun to revisit a cheesy, poorly-made movie from another era, but this is not one of those instances.
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.