Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review - Close-Up 2
Posted Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 0:23am
D. K. Holm explores a revolutionary new approach to film studies, and interviews two of its practitioners…
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Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, The First Films of Samuel Fuller
Posted Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 at 0:54am
D. K. Holm catches up with the career of Samuel Fuller, thanks the new Eclipse DVD set of the director’s first three films…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4, Part One
Posted Monday, August 6th, 2007 at 0:02am
D. K. Holm takes a preliminary look at film noir and the FILM NOIR CLASSIC COLLECTION VOL. 4, in the first of a five part series…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Hot Fuzz, James Ellroy: American Dog, Rebus: Set 2, Starter For 10
Posted Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 0:05am
D. K. Holm immerses himself in crime, both serious and comical, with reviews of HOT FUZZ, REBUS, JAMES ELLROY: AMERICAN DOG, and for the heck of it STARTER FOR 10, all on DVD…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review - Premonition
Posted Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 4:28am
D. K. Holm had a feeling that he wouldn’t like PREMONITION as much as Sandra Bullock’s other recent films…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review - Foyle’s War Set 4, Da Vinci’s Inquest Season 1
Posted Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 at 4:55am
International crime is the theme of the day as D. K. Holm looks at FOYLE’S WAR SET 4 and DA VINCI’S INQUEST SEASON 1 on DVD.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Going Under
Posted Monday, July 16th, 2007 at 0:26am
D. K. Holm succumbs to GOING UNDER, the new Blue Underground DVD about the S&M scene…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review - Ace in the Hole
Posted Monday, July 9th, 2007 at 0:06am
D. K. Holm gets a sneak peak at the long awaited DVD of Billy Wilder’s ACE IN THE HOLE…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - Live Free or Die Hard
Posted Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at 1:37am
The latest sequel to one of the greatest movies ever made is at hand: D. K. Holm assesses LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review - This is Tom Jones: Rock ‘n’ Roll Legends
Posted Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 0:06am
D. K. Holm is dancing in the streets, for THIS IS TOM JONES has finally come to DVD…
Noctural Admissions: 2007 Season TV Roundup - The Hoarse Whisperers
Posted Monday, June 25th, 2007 at 0:06am
D. K. Holm celebrates the work of those great TV soft talkers, the Hoarse Whisperers…
Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review - Reclaiming History
Posted Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 1:58am
It’s a nightmare on Elm Street all over again as D. K. Holm looks at Vincent Bugliosi’s RECLAIMING HISTORY and its treatment of Oliver Stone’s JFK…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - A Mightly Heart and Evening
Posted Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 1:42am
D. K. Holm goes into a laughing jag over two of the worst films of the year so far, A MIGHTY HEART and EVENING…
Nocturnal Admissions: TV Review, The Sopranos
Posted Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 3:35am
D. K. Holm catches up with the SOPRANOS finale, and wonders why Tony gets a pass doing virtually the same thing as the much-criticized Alec Baldwin…
Nocturnal Admissions: TV Review, three Laws and Order
Posted Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 at 4:46am
D. K. Holm once again examines a television coincidence: different shows with the same plot…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review If ….
Posted Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 at 4:41am
D. K. Holm takes a look at the new Criterion edition of Lindsay Anderson’s IF…, about school rebellion.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review The Good Shepherd, Breach
Posted Monday, June 18th, 2007 at 0:05am
Spy films and the ’70s preoccupy D. K. Holm as he looks at recent DVD releases of THE GOOD SHEPHERD and BREACH, and he interviews FBI agent Eric O’Neil about the capture of spy Robert Hanssen that was adapted into the latter…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - Paris, je t’aime
Posted Sunday, June 17th, 2007 at 23:58pm
It turns out that D. K. Holm hates PARIS PARIS, JE T’AIME in the summer…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Sweet Movie
Posted Monday, June 11th, 2007 at 0:23am
D. K. Holm takes a look at two controversial films from the early 1970s WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM and SWEET MOVIE, now out on DVD…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - Hostel Part II
Posted Friday, June 1st, 2007 at 2:13am
D. K. Holm decides that maybe a trip to Slovakia isn’t such a good idea after seeing Eli Roth’s brilliant sequel HOSTEL PART II…
Nocturnal Admissions: TV Review, How I Met Your Mother v. Rules of Engagement
Posted Friday, May 4th, 2007 at 1:30am
Same Old Same Old: D. K. Holm explores what happens when TV runs out of ideas…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review - Night at the Museum, Pulp
Posted Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 0:12am
D. K. Holm takes a look at two wholly different Mickey Rooney films, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and PULP…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - Grindhouse
Posted Thursday, April 5th, 2007 at 1:51am
It’s here, the movie we’ve all been waiting for. And here, too, is D. K. Holm’s take on the latest work of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review - Beowulf
Posted Monday, April 2nd, 2007 at 0:46am
D. K. Holm takes a look at one of the best DVDs so far this year, a one man show about BEOWULF…
Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review - In The Studio
Posted Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 1:09am
D. K. Holm takes a tour of several contemporary cartoonist’s working spaces via Todd Hignite’s new interview book…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - Zodiac
Posted Monday, March 12th, 2007 at 1:49am
D. K. Holm catches up with David Fincher’s ZODIAC, one of the best films of the year so far.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Peter Pan
Posted Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 3:26am
D. K. Holm takes a trip down nostalgia lane thanks to Disney’s new special edition DVD of PETER PAN…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review - Ghost Rider
Posted Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 2:01am
D. K. Holm takes a long, dull ride with the GHOST RIDER…
Noctural Admissions: Movie Review Hannibal Rising
Posted Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 2:06am
Thomas Harris isn’t quite done with Hannibal Lecter yet, and D. K. Holm assesses the results in HANNIBAL RISING…
Noctural Admissions: Movie review Smokin’ Aces
Posted Friday, February 2nd, 2007 at 5:57am
D. K. Holm makes a spirited defense of Joe Carnahan’s new film, SMOKIN’ ACES…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Green for Danger
Posted Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 0:02am
D. K. Holm takes an advance peek at Criterion’s forthcoming disc of the fine British thriller GREEN FOR DANGER…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Unknown, Prey, The Gathering
Posted Friday, January 26th, 2007 at 2:00am
D. K. Holm takes a look at the body of work of Bridget Moynahan (UNKNOWN, PREY) and a film with Christina Ricci (THE GATHERING)…
Nocturnal Admissions: Thoughts on Children of Men and Apocalypto
Posted Monday, January 15th, 2007 at 4:03am
D. K. Holm ponders some interesting similarities between CHILDREN OF MEN and APOCALYPTO…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Bandidas
Posted Friday, January 12th, 2007 at 4:58am
Oh, by the way, there’s a new movie out starring both Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz. Never heard of it? Neither had D. K. Holm, who reviews the DVD.
Noctural Admissions: 2006 Season TV Roundup
Posted Thursday, January 11th, 2007 at 1:10am
D. K. Holm looks out over the expanse of the 2006 - 2007 television season from its mid-point.
Noctural Admissions: Movie News, Kim Morgan and ClickStar
Posted Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 0:25am
ClickStar is the new movie downloading site that features the writings of on line critic Kim Morgan, which D. K. Holm hereby celebrates.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Monsters and Madmen
Posted Monday, January 8th, 2007 at 5:05am
D. K. Holm dives into four horror and sci-fi films from the Criterion Collection, including two rarities starring Boris Karloff.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review The Covenant
Posted Friday, January 5th, 2007 at 0:52am
D. K. Holm is afraid of what’s happening to Renny Harlin in films such as THE COVENANT, now out on DVD.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Jet Li’s Fearless
Posted Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 at 0:36am
D. K. Holm catches up with Jet Li’s “last” martial arts film FEARLESS.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, MI3: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition, Mission Impossible 1: The Complete First TV Season
Posted Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 at 0:32am
D. K. Holm gets a double dose of MISSION IMPOSSIBLE with this look at DVDs of MI3 and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TV season one…
Noctural Admissions: Holiday Movie Roundup
Posted Friday, December 22nd, 2006 at 1:56am
D. K. Holm plows through a host of holiday and awards season releases, on his way to the egg nog.
Noctural Admissions: Movie News, Living Room Theaters
Posted Thursday, December 14th, 2006 at 1:14am
D. K. Holm ponders the impact of the new theater chain speacializing in digital projection, Living Room Theaters.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Alias: The Complete Fifth Season
Posted Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 1:25am
D. K. Holm doffs a hat and sheds a farewell tear for the final season of Alias, now out on DVD in two versions.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review and giveaway, Miami Vice
Posted Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 at 1:46am
D. K. Holm goes to the well again for another refreshing drink of Miami Vice, now out on DVD.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review Homicide: Life on the Series: The Complete Series
Posted Monday, December 4th, 2006 at 1:08am
D. K. Holm emerges from complete immersion in the 35-disc set of Homicide: Life on the Series: The Complete Series .
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review, Deja Vu
Posted Friday, November 24th, 2006 at 0:30am
D. K. Holm catches up with DEJA VU, and in fact thinks he’ll go see it again.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review, Casino Royale
Posted Saturday, November 18th, 2006 at 17:43pm
Holm, D.K. Holm assesses the new film with Bond, James Bond.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review and giveaway, Boston Legal: Season Two
Posted Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 12:29pm
D. K. Holm revels in the verbal antics of BOSTON LEGAL’s second season, now out on DVD, and also offers an additional box set in a free giveaway to one lucky reader.
Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review, Spy: The Funny Years
Posted Monday, November 6th, 2006 at 0:10am
D. K. Holm takes a nostalgic trip to the magazine rack by delving into the new anthology, SPY: THE FUNNY YEARS.
Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review, A Good Year: A Portrait of the Film
Posted Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 0:10am
D. K. Holm hasn’t seen the movie A GOOD YEAR, but he’s read its movie tie book.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review, The Departed, Part 3
Posted Monday, October 23rd, 2006 at 4:18am
For a third (and final?) time, D. K. Holm revisits THE DEPARTED.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, CSI: NY: Season Two
Posted Friday, October 20th, 2006 at 3:24am
D. K. Holm catches up with season two of CSI: NY, the junior member of the CSI family.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Scrubs Season 4, My Name is Earl Season 1, The Office Season 1
Posted Friday, October 13th, 2006 at 2:58am
It’s marathon TV time as D. K. Holm catches up with new DVD sets of SCRUBS,MY NAME IS EARL, and THE OFFICE.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review, Art School Confidential and Bad Santa: Director’s Cut
Posted Thursday, October 12th, 2006 at 4:03am
It’s a Terry Zwigoff Tuesday with the DVD release of ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL and a new (?) BAD SANTA, reviewed by D. K. Holm.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review, The Departed, Part 2
Posted Monday, October 9th, 2006 at 1:19am
Now having seen The Departed, D. K. Holm can finish his thoughts on Scorsese’s latest film.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review - Notes Toward a Review of The Departed
Posted Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 at 3:06am
D. K. Holm hasn’t seen The Departed yet, but that doesn’t keep him from having opinions about it.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review and Giveaway, Point Break: Special Edition
Posted Monday, October 2nd, 2006 at 4:11am
Surf into the past with the new Point Break special edition, which D. K. Holm reviews, and try to win one of five DVDs.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Brian Clemens’s Thriller
Posted Friday, September 29th, 2006 at 20:29pm
D. K. Holm catches up with the British suspense series, Thriller, written by the genius behind The Avengers, Brian Clemens
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Gunnar Hansen interview
Posted Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 23:50pm
After a long absence, D. K. Holm revisits The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and interviews Leatherface.
Nocturnal Admissions: Book Reviews, Nicole Kidman and Ava Gardner: “Love is Nothing”
Posted Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 3:23am
D. K. Holm swoons over new books about two of his favorite starlets, Nicole Kidman and Ava Gardner.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Reviews, Stay Alive and Silent Hill
Posted Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 2:43am
The gaming world gets the movie treatment, again, in DVDs of STAY ALIVE and SILENT HILL, with D. K. Holm to report on the results.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Stick It
Posted Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 4:50am
Missy Peregrym finally returns to the screen in Stick It and D. K. Holm catches up with it on DVD.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Taps
Posted Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 at 4:44am
D. K. Holm takes a journey into the past of Tom Cruise and Sean Penn in the new special edition DVD of Taps.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review, Hollywoodland and The Black Dahlia
Posted Friday, September 15th, 2006 at 4:38am
D. K. Holm explores the seamy underside of Los Angeles as shown in two recent movies, HOLLYWOODLAND and THE BLACK DAHALIA.
Nocturnal Admissions: TV Review, Storm leaves Rock Star
Posted Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 0:55am
D. K. Holm waves goodbye to Storm Large, the only reason to watch ROCK STAR: SUPERNOVA.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, House, Season 2
Posted Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 0:14am
D. K. Holm goes for a check up with the second season of House on DVD, and season three’s premiere.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Commander in Chief, Part 2
Posted Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 7:00am
D.K. Holm looks at Geena Davis’ brief term in office…
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Desperate Housewives: The Complete Second Season
Posted Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 at 22:36pm
D. K. Holm takes a second trip down Wisteria Lane with all its Desperate Housewives to see what all the fuss is about.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Seven Samurai
Posted Monday, September 4th, 2006 at 2:33am
Criterion has reissued an updated edition of SEVEN SAMURAI and D.K. Holm is there to evaluate it.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Reviews - Fox Film Noirs and Double Indemnity
Posted Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 0:42am
D. K. Holm takes a trip down memory lane with a new batch of films noir, including Double Indemnity
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Just My Luck
Posted Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 0:30am
D. K. Holm ponders the Nine Lives of Lindsay Lohan.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review and director interview, Head Trauma
Posted Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 0:28am
D. K. Holm reviews the new horror film and interviews the director, Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast).
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Radioland Murders
Posted Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 0:26am
Join us now in the land of yesteryear when George Lucas tried to make a funny with Radioland Murders and D. K. Holm tries his best to laugh along with it.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales
Posted Thursday, August 31st, 2006 at 12:56pm
D. K. Holm cleanses his conscience with an emersion in Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Kisses and Caroms
Posted Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at 4:21am
D. K. Holm gives a look to a new truly indie film, KISSES AND CAROMS
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier
Posted Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 6:39am
D. K. Holm goes up river once again with Martin Sheen, F.F. Coppola and the rest with the latest release of APOCALYPSE NOW.
Nocturnal Admissions: Quiz
Posted Monday, August 21st, 2006 at 5:58am
How about a monday morning APOCALYPSE NOW quiz? Do you love the smell of prizes in the morning?
Nocturnal Admissions: Critical Condition
Posted Friday, August 18th, 2006 at 3:52am
D.K. Holm examines the case for the endangered status of the almighty film critic…
Noctural Admissions: Books , The Man Who Heard Voices
Posted Friday, August 4th, 2006 at 3:28am
D.K. takes on a tale of one director’s pathetically immense sense of self-importance.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, The Prisoner
Posted Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 3:28am
Call him No. 7: D.K. Holm has just spent the last few days a prisoner of that great old show THE PRISONER, now re-released in a new DVD set.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, A Canterbury Tale, The Tales of Hoffman
Posted Friday, July 28th, 2006 at 17:21pm
D.K. takes a look at a pair of new criterion releases.
Noctural Admissions: Movies, Miami Vice
Posted Thursday, July 27th, 2006 at 0:13am
D. K. Holm navigates a minefield of “Passholes” in order to enjoy Michael Mann’s MIAMI VICE.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, Asphalt Wars, Scorpius Gigantus
Posted Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 23:55pm
D. K. Holm tries out two new Corman releases on DVD, ASPHALT WARS and SCORPIUS GIGANTUS.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, Dumbo: Big Top Edition
Posted Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 6:09am
D. K. Holm notes that the new edition of DUMBO doesn’t fly.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, Glory Road
Posted Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 6:06am
D. K. Holm takes a GLORY ROAD DVD to nowhere.
Noctural Admissions: Movies, My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Posted Friday, July 21st, 2006 at 4:52am
D.K. takes this one on a blind date.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, Road House Deluxe Edition and Road House 2
Posted Friday, July 21st, 2006 at 4:42am
Thanks to a new deluxe edtion, D. K. Holm falls in love with that 1980s bar room classic Road House all over again.
Noctural Admissions: DVD, An Early Frost
Posted Thursday, July 20th, 2006 at 2:43am
D.K. spins the very special 80’s TV movie AN EARLY FROST.
Noctural Admissions: DVDs, Wilders Some Like it Hot and Stalag 17
Posted Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 at 11:24am
D. K. Holm revels in the latest DVD release of Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hotand Stalag 17
Noctural Admissions: Books, The The Famous Movie Monster Art of Basil Gogos
Posted Friday, July 14th, 2006 at 3:19am
D. K. Holm wallows in the nostalgia of Basil Gogos’s art for FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND thanks to a new book on the artist.
Nocturnal Admissions: TV; Storm Large on Rock Star: Supernova
Posted Thursday, July 13th, 2006 at 1:17am
Stop the Wordpresses! D. K. Holm has a crush on Storm Large of ROCK STAR. He may be just like everyone else in America, but in this case he has a reason.
Nocturnal Admissions: Book Review, Pretend We’re Dead
Posted Friday, July 7th, 2006 at 4:30am
D. K. Holm takes a look at a top notch and groundbreaking new book on the horror genre, Annalee Newitz’s PRETEND WE’RE DEAD.
Noctural Admissions: Reflection, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Posted Friday, July 7th, 2006 at 1:51am
D. K. Holm spent the Fourth of July infused with patriotism while watching MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON for the upteenth time.
Nocturnal Admissions: DVD Review, Equinox
Posted Thursday, July 6th, 2006 at 2:21am
Some long, lost evil dead are alive and well in EQUINOX, which D. K. Holm catches up with on DVD.
Nocturnal Admissions: Movie Review - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Posted Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 3:12am
D. K. Holm walks the plank on behalf of the public with this early review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Nocturnal Admissions: Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man
Posted Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 2:46am
Leonard Cohen may be your man, but LEONARD COHEN: I’M YOUR MAN is not your film, at least in D.K. Holm’s humble opinion.