Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (Ernest et Célestine: Le voyage en Charabie) (2022) [Blu-Ray]

Posted on April 11, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Now Available from Shout! Factory and GKIDS.

I’ll be the first to admit that I had no idea what “Ernest & Célestine” was or that it had its own series, as well as a feature film. The good thing about “Ernest & Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia” is that you don’t really have to go back and see the previous material to understand what’s happening. Basically, it’s all so beautifully animated like a moving storybook and is the tale of the love between a big bear and a small female mouse. Named Ernest & Célestine, there is a story of friendship but there’s also an unspoken true love that’s very punctuated in the final scene of the film.

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McBain (1991) [Blu-Ray]

Posted on April 10, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Now Available from Synapse Films.

Not enough people discuss the glut of post-Vietnam movies made in the 1980’s and “McBain” is one of the many. There were either the acclaimed prestige pictures like “Deer Hunter” or the more exploitative and cheesy films like “Rambo.” Glickhaus’ “McBain” falls in to the latter category where it watches a lot like a post-Vietnam big film version of “The A Team” or “The Wild Bunch” to where Christopher Walken leads a ragtag bunch of men to avenge their best friend.

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Bittertooth (2023)

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Emilie Black

Bittertooth is available exclusively on Mometu.

A true crime podcasting due with wildly different backgrounds get involved in solving a local serial killer case. As they disagree on the approach, things take a turn for the bloodier.

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The Roundup: No Way Out (2023)

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Emilie Black

On Blu-ray and 4K UHD April 9, 2024, from Capelight Pictures

Taking place 7 years after the first film, this sequel takes the loved-against-all-odds detective and sets him up with a new band of misfits to investigate a murder.

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Ada (2019)

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

Now Available for Rent or Purchase.

Released in time for International Women’s Month, Steven Kammerer’s “Ada” is a wonderful and beautifully acted tale of one of the world’s unsung heroes. Kammerer uses his short format to tell the tale of Ada Lovelace, a well beyond her time genius who envisioned the plans for the first ever computer program in the 1840’s. Her notes were later discovered by Alan Turing used as inspiration for the very first computer.

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The First Omen (2024)

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Felix Vasquez

It’s been a very long time since we’ve seen a return to Richard Donner’s original supernatural series. The original “The Omen,” which was a response to the fame of “The Exorcist” has managed to live on as a horror gem in the ilk of “The Exorcist.” It’s ripe with storytelling potential and shockingly, “The First Omen” takes us back in to this world with near perfect success. If you had told me that “The First Omen” would be a weird, creepy, and memorable horror prequel a year ago, I’d have been as skeptical as ever. I doubted that “The Omen” really had anywhere left, especially after the painfully underrated “The Awakening” in 1991.