Purchase at MovieZyng.com  by clicking the image above AWAKENINGS captures the spirit of early 1990’s New York filmmaking in a way few films of that moment did. Even though the story takes place in 1969 and 1970, the production feels steeped in the atmosphere of the city in which it was made: the outer boroughs, the institutional buildings, the scuffed linoleum floors, the light falling through aging hospital windows. Penny Marshall shot in real locations throughout Brooklyn

The Americas: Complete Limited Series 4K UHD can be purchased at MovieZyng.com  by clicking the image above. Review by John Larkin After years spent behind a camera and staring at timelines, scopes, and screens, I didn’t realize how much distance I’d put between myself and the living world those images are meant to reflect. THE AMERICAS, narrated by Tom Hanks, reconnects me to something essential. Watching it in 4K feels less like consuming content and more like being reminde

Blu-Ray Review by John Larkin Purchase at MovieZyng.com  by clicking the image above This year I have been immersed in nature in a way I never expected. After spending so many years with my head down in books, movies, and laptop screens, I finally started lifting my eyes toward the natural world again. That shift has changed me. It has refreshed me and helped me process many of the daily stressors that were piling up. In that spirit, the release of OVER MAINE: THE COMPLETE CO

By Jay Glennie – Insight Editions, 2025 Review by John Larkin Purchase on Amazon by clicking the image above! It’s no secret that we’re very pro Tarantino here at Films in Review. In turn, it’s no secret that Tarantino’s been very pro Films in Review himself. He’s spoken often about how much the original magazine meant to him, how he devoured it growing up, and how it shaped the way he thought about film criticism and movie history. On the Video Archives Podcast, he’s mention

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in NO COUNTY FOR OLD MEN (2007) by John Larkin Every Halloween, the conversation turns to the familiar faces of terror: the monsters, slashers, and masked killers who have come to define the genre. But this feature takes a different path. These are performances that unsettle on a deeper level, where fear does not stem from prosthetics, reputation, or myth, but from the raw presence of the human being on screen. It is the way an actor inhabits a

Purchase at MovieZyng.com by clicking the image above. Review by John Larkin I first encountered THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN one crisp autumn night many years ago on Turner Classic Movies. I was struck by how refined it felt for a horror film. The lush production design, candlelit sets, and painterly compositions immediately pulled me in. It wasn’t just an old monster movie; it was something elegant and hypnotic. Over the years it has become inseparable from the Halloween seas

Purchase at MovieZyng.com by clicking the image above! Blu-Ray review by John Larkin Much the way THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE are comfort food for me during Halloween and Christmas, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM is my go-to comfort whenever I need to laugh. CURB and SEINFELD are my two favorite comedy shows, not by coincidence, since they both come from the same creative mind. Larry David’s world is built on neuroticism, misanthropy, and awkward honesty, mixed

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Review by John Larkin James Gunn's interpretation of the classic comic book character and story is wildly entertaining and delightfully...

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by John Larkin I had the immense pleasure of attending a truly special evening at The Bedford Playhouse in Bedford, NY, for a screening...

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Review by John Larkin CONCLAVE is available to rent/purchase on Digital Platforms and is available on 4K UHD February 11, 2025 As a...