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WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN MARCH – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN MARCH: BABYGIRL, WOMEN WHO RUN HOLLYWOOD, FILIPINO HORROR, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Babygirl (A24): Overlooked by the Oscars, but nonetheless one of 2024’s most memorable and provocative films, this sophomore feature…
WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K IN FEBRUARY – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K IN FEBRUARY: WICKED, IN THE SUMMERS, YOU’RE NEXT, OSCAR MICHEAUX, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Wicked (Universal): So we’re about a year away from a lavish box set featuring both halves of this…
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I just watched CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD for the second time, as producer Kevin Feige and director Julius Onah came to my class at USC for a q&a following the screening… and you know what? I enjoyed it much more this go around. Somehow, knowing how all the pieces fit and who was responsible…
THE MOVIE GUIDE IS BACK—AND REINVENTED – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
With a change in format and a new platform, The Movie Guide is back: it’s a podcast that I co-host with a savvy Australian “journo” named Guy Davis. Every week Guy and I compare notes on a favorite film of the 1970s, 80s, or 90s for a half-hour of lively chatter. I first got in to podcasting…
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I am taking a deep breath as I write this, and apologize for the tardiness of this report. Award shows and ceremonies took a backseat to the terrifying wildfires that raged all over Southern California, which meant that many of these fetes had to be postponed and rescheduled. Finding new dates that were amenable to…
WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN JANUARY – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN JANUARY: THE SUBSTANCE, HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, NO HOME MOVIE, INCUBUS, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL The Substance (Mubi): One of the most talked-about films of 2024, Coralie Fargeat’s sophomore feature (following the…
NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS JANUARY 2025 – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
GIANT LOVE by Julie Gilbert (Pantheon) One doesn’t read most film books to savor the prose. This one stands out from the crowd because Gilbert is an exceptionally good writer. She is the great-niece of Edna Ferber, the subject of the book, and knew her well. I fell in love with Giant Love and devoured it over…
REMEMBERING DAVID LYNCH – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Some forty years ago I first met David Lynch in a setting that could have come from an episode of Twin Peaks: the now-defunct Studio City branch of DuPar’s, an all-American coffee shop where he had come to enjoy a well-crafted chocolate milk shake. He seemed to appreciate my enjoyment of seeing him at the cashier’s counter.…
I’M STILL HERE: AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I admire Walter Salles’ work, and I’m especially fond of his acclaimed features Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries. He has returned to his Brazilian roots for another exceptional narrative, I’m Still Here…but he hastens to explain that it’s not the story, or the book by Marcelo Rubens Paiva that impelled him to create this deeply empathetic picture. It…
UNSTOPPABLE – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Unstoppable is a mashup of an underdog sports movie and a domestic drama about a family terrorized by an abusive father. The worst thing I can say about it is that it is conventional, but since when is that a crime? A true-life story told in linear fashion with a superior cast still resonates in 2025,…
THE LAST SHOWGIRL – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The first feature film directed by Gia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis’s granddaughter, is a respectable but unmemorable vehicle for former Baywatch and Playboy pin-up Pamela Anderson. The script has been custom-tailored for her and she comes off well, but the film has only one note to play and that is revealed in the title. Anderson portrays a forty-ish woman…
STAN & OLLIE & CHARLEY & THE LITTLE RASCALS IN SILENT COMEDY CLASSICS – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
If you are a Laurel and Hardy devotee it’s probably old news that the second volume of beautifully restored shorts has been released on Blu-ray and DVD by Flicker Alley. Covering the year 1928, the second year of their official partnership, this two-disc set features such silent-comedy classics as THE FINISHING TOUCH, SHOULD MARRIED MEN…
A BIT OF CRUMPET WITH MARK SEARBY – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Everybody, at some point in their life, has seen an Alfred Hitchcock movie. He made so many iconic films throughout his career. He was, and still is, hugely influential in filmmaking.…
WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN DECEMBER – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU/4K IN DECEMBER: WALLACE & GROMIT, TERRIFIER 3, SEINFELD, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection (Shout Factory): Well, “complete” except for the brand-new W&G feature, Wallace & Gromit:…
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: MY FAVORITE FILM OF THE YEAR – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Biographical films are a minefield, but A Complete Unknown dodges every trap and emerges as my favorite movie of 2024. No one is more surprised than I, because I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan… but Timothée Chalamet delivers a compelling and convincing performance as the singular troubadour-poet. By not imitating Dylan’s distinctively whiny voice he even…
THE BRUTALIST – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Every rare now and then, a performance comes along that is so organic and natural that even though one is familiar with the actor all memories of his other work recede. That’s how I felt watching Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. It isn’t a matter of acting per se: he becomes Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian refugee trying to make…
MARIA – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The overuse of the word “iconic” has rendered it practically meaningless, but if it ever applied to a public figure it would be opera star Maria Callas. Director Pablo Larrain, having focused on two other notable women of the 20th century (Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Diana Spencer) has now turned his attention to the diva whose…
EMILIA PÉREZ: UNIQUE AND AMAZING – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Phrases like “game-changer” and “cutting-edge” can’t capture just how audacious and original Emilia Pérez is. I daresay it wouldn’t or couldn’t have been made, or even conceived, just ten years ago. (Maybe five…) I am determined to praise and discuss it without giving too much away. Here goes: Emilia Pérez is a crime thriller that boils over into melodrama,…
DAY OF THE FIGHT – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
What ever happened to genre movies? Hollywood thrived on westerns, musicals, gangster stories, hospital dramas, whodunits and the like until television consumed almost every category. The Day of the Fight isn’t trying to rewrite the playbook. It’s a boxing picture, and it hits most of the notes we anticipate…but that’s what makes it so satisfying. It gives…
BLITZ: UNLIKE ANYTHING WE’VE SEEN BEFORE – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Blitz is a powerful and somewhat disarming film about the longterm German bombing of London in 1940. One might be forgiven for expecting a kinder, gentler rendition of this horrific event because it’s told through the eyes of a 9-year-old boy. Guess again. Writer-director Steve McQueen spares us nothing in his recreation of the conditions before,…
A REAL PAIN – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Jesse Eisenberg has nothing to prove; he has already staked his claim as an actor, writer, and director. But A Real Pain digs deeper than he ever has before; even the film’s title has multiple meanings. The movie simmers and occasionally boils over. The end result is a satisfying brew (to stretch a metaphor). As a writer…
A BIT OF CRUMPET: WATERSHIP DOWN – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Think you’re a tough guy, huh? Real tough, yeah? You thought A Serbian Film was funny did you? Threads was a light-hearted documentary was it? Well, let’s see how tough you really are…
WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K IN NOVEMBER – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K IN NOVEMBER: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE; BOX SETS CELEBRATING CRITERION COLLECTION, HITCHCOCK, AND CAPRA; AND SO MUCH CHRISTMAS NEW RELEASE WALL Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment): Neither director Tim Burton nor sequels in…
BOGART: LIFE COMES IN FLASHES – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
My all time favorite film is Casablanca, so it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise that my favorite actor from Hollywood’s golden age is Humphrey Bogart. A new feature length documentary is about to debut called Bogart: Life comes in Flashes and while it has no startling revelations it does view him through a different…
NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS NOVEMBER 2024 – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
ZEPPO: THE RELUCTANT MARX BROTHER by Robert S. Bader (Applause) This is a revelatory book, achieved through painstaking research (see: Four of the Three Marx Brothers by the same author) and the participation of Zeppo Marx’s two sons and other family members and friends who were close to him. Getting close to Zeppo was no easy task,…
NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K DVD IN OCTOBER – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K DVD IN OCTOBER: ROBOT DREAMS, ABOUT DRY GRASSES, TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Robot Dreams (Decal Neon): This Oscar-nominated animated feature makes for a delightful watch for the whole family,…
‘CONCLAVE’ IS GRIPPING – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The election of a new pope is one of the world’s most recognizable rituals. Conclave spins its tale with confidence because director Edward Berger and screenwriter Peter Straughan (adapting Robert Harris’s novel) know that we in the world outside the Vatican don’t have a clue as to what conversations go on before we see white smoke…
ANORA: THE LATEST FROM SEAN BAKER – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Sean Baker is one of the brightest and most original filmmakers of his generation. He rates a place in cinematic history for being the first professional to shoot a feature film on an iPhone. That was Tangerine, which was set in and around a Hollywood donut shop. He is fascinated by people who live and sometimes…
THE OBLONG BOX – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Any horror film that brings together icons such as Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Gordon Hessler and Edgar Allen Poe should immediately pique the interest of fans of classic horror movies. Yet…
Trenque Lauquen and The Agitator – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Radiance Films are boutique Blu-Ray label out of the UK. They have been running several years now and their output has ranged from arthouse provocateurs to genre classics. It’s run by…
HIDDEN CITY – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. A name synonymous with premium quality British TV dramas is Stephen Poliakoff. Close My Eyes, Perfect Strangers and Dancing on the Edge are just three of Poliakoff’s much lauded work for British television.…
THE OUTCASTS – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Long forgotten films are two a penny. But what about films that rarely made it out of their own country? And even then when they were released in their native country…
THE APPRENTICE: A BIOPIC FOR OUR TIME – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The first thing you should know is that this biopic is not a hatchet job on the former President. It’s a smart, but not smart-alecky, dramatization of his evolution as an entrepreneur and public figure, under the tutelage of the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn. That relationship is at the core of this film,…
FOLIE INDEED: THIS TIME THE JOKE IS ON US – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
What a waste! The only folie (or delusion) in Joker: Folie à Deux is believing that I want to spend quality time with Arthur Fleck, the pathetic figure first played by Joaquin Phoenix in 2019. This time, he meets his match in a groupie (Lady Gaga) who joins him in performing a roster of tunes that…
NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K IN SEPTEMBER – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
The following article was written by my friend and colleague Alonso Duralde. You can learn more about him HERE. NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY/4K IN SEPTEMBER: ALL OF US STRANGERS, MENUS PLAISIRS, GREGG ARAKI’S TEEN APOCALPYSE TRILOGY, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL All of Us Strangers (The Criterion Collection): With previous films like Weekend and Lean On Pete,…
I’M JUST WILD ABOUT ‘THE WILD ROBOT’ – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I no longer feel an imperative to see and review every animated feature that comes along, but Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot is exceptional in every way. It embraces a wide range of emotions and somehow manages to keep cynicism at bay. My class of 20-somethings at USC adored it, and so did I. Sanders is by now…
HEADS UP: IT’S NATIONAL SILENT FILM DAY – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
What started out as a lark, or a novelty, has blossomed into an event of real significance: National Silent Film Day. Some participants are celebrating this Saturday, the 28th, and some on Sunday, the 29th. I could easily watch a silent film every day of the week but for people who have to be cajoled…
THE CRITIC – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Any film bearing that title and Ian McKellen in the leading role holds the promise of good entertainment, even the possibility of greatness. Add to that the credentials of the writer, Patrick Marber (Closer, Notes on a Scandal), director Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) and a top-notch supporting cast (Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Ben…
BRINGING RARE MOVIES AND MOVIE LOVERS TOGETHER – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
This past weekend was like visiting an oasis. It brought back memories of attending the annual Cinefest in Syracuse, New York, where every day was packed with screenings—and lots of chatter with like-minded friends in between. I proposed to the folks who run Quentin Tarantino’s New Beverly Theater in Los Angeles that we show a…
MERCHANT IVORY: A UNIQUE LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES – Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
I screened this documentary out of a misplaced sense of duty. After all, the filmmaking team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory made a number of exceptional films over many years’ time, and Ivory is still going strong at age 95. Attention must be paid, and good work celebrated. Stephen Soucy has done just that,…