Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Pre-2020 Film Reviews
Betty: They Say I’m Different (2017)
Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: On February 9, 2022, pioneering funk singer/songwriter Betty Davis died at the age of 77. British director Philip Cox’s 54-minute documentary Betty: They Say I’m Different (2017) records what he found in an impressionistic fashion that uses psychedelic and poetic imagery and Betty’s own words to illuminate the core of her unbreakable identity.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: All this sounds like it could be unbearably self-conscious art exercise from stoned hippies, but it’s unexpectedly fascinating. It’s the “coup” staged by the crew, who take it upon themselves to film their own spirited private discussions where they wonder what the hell Greaves is up to, and why he seems to be playing at being incompetent, that ignites the film.
They All Come Out (1939)
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Effectively uses documentary techniques to tell a feel-good fictional story.