Splitsville is the most I’ve laughed at a new release in a while. It’s compulsively funny, and often hits explosive heights during its numerous comedic set pieces. There’s a fight between the two of the leads within the first 30 minutes that is so funny that at some point I stopped laughing and just stared […] The post SPLITSVILLE: The Funniest Movie of the Year is Now on Blu-ray first appeared on Cinapse.

First time watch. Final act really makes this one. I am team Clovers all the way! Gabrielle Union owned this thing!

Beautiful and mysterious. Worked very well for me.

I thought this was fantastic. Celine Song speaks to me and finds profundity in human connection. Don’t think I’ve ever seen supporting actress Zoe Winters but she’s incredible here, and this is the be...

Exceptional and precisely the level of human storytelling I needed right now.

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.

“There are so many babies!”

“I don’t like operas. Movies are better.” Leave it to Criterion to release two of the most unconventional musicals in such proximity to one another. That’s just what they’ve done with their recent releases of 1964’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and 1978’s The Wiz, two musicals that re-wrote the rules of the genre during two […] The post Criterion Celebrates the Revisionist Musical with THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG & THE WIZ first appeared on Cinapse.