Tag: 5 Star Video

Danny Kaye leads the gorgeously restored and superb musical comedy from Hollywood's Golden Age, The Court Jester.

The storied franchise makes the leap to 3D CD animation with fantastic results in this big-budget theatrical movie, Lupin III: The First.

At times comical, campy, and absurd, Buried Alive still cleverly finds a sharp metaphor for a changing social dynamic.

While overburdened with schmaltz and coated nostalgic, Cinema Paradiso finds new meaning amid a changing movie marketplace.

Unrelenting in exposing Japan's social ills, Black Rain looks at not only the physical tragedy of Hiroshima, but the mental and isolation terrors too.

Inventive in execution, Tenet tells a classic story filled with familiar themes, but visually dressing them in wild sci-fi theories.

While carrying controversy along with it, Mulan successfully embellishes the feminist themes with a stronger reality base.

Daughters of Darkness is a seminal lesbian vampire thriller with stylish direction, starring Delphine Seyrig as the seductive Countess Bathory.

V for Vendetta's world only gained in relevance over time, but its centrist, even fatalistic perspective never finds a solution.

Antagonizing moral critics with a child protagonist, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter poses an interesting cultural transition point for the genre.

Introducing adult Jason Vorhees to the world, Friday the 13th: Part 2 is aimless and illogical slaughter without a plot.

Psycho breaks with perceived norms circa the early 1960s, lashing out against a more open culture emerging from Puritan values.