Jenny (Suzy Delair) is a young hopeful singer who wants to make it big in the theatre. Her singing talents are limited but she isn’t let this get in her way. She flirts and seduces popular people around the industry. This makes her husband and accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier) jealous. He discovers that Jenny is…
Enter The Fat Dragon (2020) (Well Go USA) Blu-ray Review
Supercop Fallon Zhu (Donnie Yen) just can’t stay out of trouble. Everywhere he goes there is a new crime, robbery, or attempted shootout. This starting to drive his girlfriend Chloe (Niki Chow) crazy. She is a successful actress, who keeps getting insults from journalists and fans for her being labeled “The worst actress” and getting…
Curse of the Puppet Master (Full Moon) Blu-ray Review
Dr. Magrew (George Peck) is a scientist with some unusual ideas about transforming people into other beings. He finds the case of living puppets and decides to turn a human into a puppet creation. He has to keep this a secret from his daughter Jane (Emily Harrison), as he searches for a test subject. He…
Blu-Ray Review – The Kiss of the Vampire (Scream Factory)
At a funeral in small village, an old man interrupts the vicar and horrifies the gathered mourners by plunging a spade into the coffin. But it is the woman’s scream from inside the grave and the bubbling pool of blood from the broken coffin lid that sends them all running. Meanwhile, after their new-fangled horseless…
RIP: Ennio Morricone
July 6th, 2020, we lost a legend today. The great Italian composer Ennio Morricone has left us. But I won’t dwell on the negative. The man left behind a wide legacy, wider then any epic landscape, with more iconic scores then I could possibly count. Morricone was classically trained and loved playing the trumpet. For…
Blu-ray Review – Dream Demon (Arrow Video)
Dream Demon is a film I have to admit I had not even heard of when it showed up in my mailbox. I did not do any research on the film prior to watching it, and honestly, have to admit I was none too excited to see it. But that all changed within the first…
Blu-ray Review – Django (Arrow Video)
With the exception of Sergio Leone’s films, spaghetti westerns have been severely underrepresented on Blu-ray. The tide is beginning to change with Blue Underground’s release of Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti western classic Django. Django is probably Sergio Corbucci’s best known film, and is very likely his best. Sergio Corbucci’s Django is one of the most grim…
Blu-ray Review – Come and See (Criterion)
Come and See is a 1985 Russian war film by Elem Klimov. I am a pretty big fan of the Russian cinema I’ve seen over the years, but I’ll admit the gaps in my knowledge of Russian cinema are quite large, and this is definitely one of those gaps. It seems most times when one…
Blu-ray Review – Rising of Shield Hero (S1 Parts 1 and 2, Funimation)
Rising of the Shield Hero is a 2019 anime series by Studio Kinema, who made one of my recent favorite anime series, Made in Abyss. Knowing this going in I was already excited. I know there are plenty of anime series that involve normal people entering fantasy universes so that tempered my expectations slightly, but…
Paracelsus Blu-ray review
During the 1940s in Germany, while films were being still being produced, most of them were German propaganda anti-American films due to World War II. The 1943 film, Paracelsus while made during the war, has the distinction of not being a German propaganda film, which was rare at the time. The film was one of…