From a mind-melting story from a master of suburban horror to a brush with all too real Iraqi war atrocities, from a collection of pulpy goodness that includes the inspiration for The Blob to a trip into the world of a famous serial killing cannibal to a classic of the ‘evil child’ sub-genre, this installment…
Blu-ray Review – 2LDK – Unearthed Films
Roommates Rana (Maho Nonami) and Nozomi (Eiko Koike) are actresses competing for the same role in an upcoming film. Nozomi is a softspoken and polite stage actress and this part will be her big film debut. Rana is a loud and opinionated former child star who ain’t freakin’ naïve about the film business. She needs…
Blu-ray Review – Monkey Kung Fu – 88 Films
Each armed with half of a wooden key, two criminals (played by Siu-Tung Ching and Chiu-Sing Hau respectively) escape from jail in search of a treasure left behind by a kung-fu master. The treasure is not gold, silver, or bitcoins. In fact, it’s an old manuscript on the monkey style of martial arts. Before they…
The Alienist: Angel of Darkness Blu-ray review
Based on the novel of the same name by Caleb Carr, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness is the second season of The Alienist television series that takes place in the late 1800s, 1896 and 1897 respectively. The series is directed by David Caffrey and Claire Kilner and features the same core cast in Dakota Fanning,…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Harrowing Night Stalking and Gothic Deep Ones
Welcome back, boils and ghouls to another installment in this delightful journey through the horror fantastique where in this segment we will look at what would happen if you put together Lovecraft’s Deep Ones with the notorious Lizzie Borden, a series of spooky monster adventures with intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak, a deeply sad and disturbing…
Tabletop Review – Libertalia – Winds of Galecrest – Stonemaier Games
Libertalia: Winds of Galecrest by Stonemaier Games Review by Ryan Miller Do you like pirates? How about sky pirates? How about anthropomorphic sky pirates? If you’re like me, at least one of those items are going to et your attention. Originally released in 2012 without the subtitle, this updated version of the game ditches the…
Blu-ray Review – Le Cercle Rouge – Criterion
Review—Le Cercle Rouge (Criterion, UHD) Author: Palo Sionoplia Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge is impossible to review; instead, one speaks of it in hallowed terms. Filmed on the heels of the Le Samourai and Army of Shadows, brilliant films in their own right, Melville’s penultimate film is the work of an artist at the peak…
Blu-ray Review – Lies and Deceit – The Films of Claude Chabrol
Review—Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol (Arrow Video) Author: Palo Sionoplia Films: Cop au Vin, Inspecteur Lavardin, Madame Bovary, Betty, Torment While Arrow’s first foray into the vast catalogue of Chabrol films focuses on late-career works helmed by the auteur in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the dueling motifs of lies and…
Blu-ray Review – Infinite Stratos – Complete Collection – Sentai Filmworks
Infinite Stratos is a 2011 anime series that has already had a Blu-ray release about a decade ago, followed by a sequel series. A third series is now on the horizon (8 years after the 2nd), and I assume that is the reason for this timely re-release. Infinite Stratos is based off a light novel…
Blu-ray Review – Somali and the Forest Spirits
Somali and the Forest Spirit is a series that I had some minor expectations for having heard somethings over the last year or so from friends. But I try not to be swayed by the court of public opinion (although everything I heard was very positive), so I went into this not viewing a frame….