Tetsu (Hideki Takahashi) and Kenji (Kotobuki Hananamoto) are brothers, very different in temperament but bonded by blood. Tetsu is a hardened yakuza hitman who finds himself on the other end of a Yakuza altercation, but is saved by more sensitive and artistic Kenji, leaving Tetsu’s attacker dead. They are both forced to skip town for…
I Remember Mama Blu-ray review
George Stevens’ I Remember Mama is considering to be one his biggest achievements in the director’s career. The 1948 drama was based on John von Duten’s play, which was based the novel by Kathryn Forbes which was called Mama’s Bank Account. The film has a mighty fine cast with Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Sir…
Viva La Muerte! [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
A young boy named Fando watches as his father is executed by firing squad after the Spanish Civil War under the Franco dictatorship. He comes to discover that it was his mother who actually turned his father in due to their conflicting political ideologies. The film follows Fando as his imagination conjures up bizarre and…
Exhuma [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Exhuma begins when a well-to-do Korean-American family solicits help from a geomancer and his team of shamans to aid in discovering why their infant is in constant unrest, hospitalized and crying non-stop. The world-weary geomancer (Choi Min-sik of Oldboy and I Saw the Devil) discovers that the source of the disturbance is at an ancestral…
My Love Affair with Marriage [MVD Visual] Blu-ray Review
Zelma has been taught from a young age that falling in love with the right man and giving everything she has to him in as womanly a way as possible is the key to her long-time happiness. But as hard as she tries, Zelma constantly grapples with her inner self and society’s perception of who…
Journey into Fear Blu-ray review
Norman Foster’s Journey into Fear was a movie that had never been on DVD or Blu-ray domestically until just recently the Warner Archive Collection gave it the first ever release on disc. It was available on VHS and laserdisc back in the day and a DVD was released overseas and that was it until now!…
Conflict Blu-ray review
Screen legend Sydney Greenstreet and the iconic Humphrey Bogart appeared together in five films. Only one of those films had Bogart playing a villainous role, with Greenstreet playing a noble character and that film is the classic Warner Brothers Film Noir, Curtis Bernhardt’s Conflict. In addition to being a Film Noir, Conflict it is also…
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza, originally appearing as a stage play in the 1920s and being adapted to film several times since then, is the story of a wandering samurai named Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura) who works for gangsters in exchange for shelter for the night. They give him a bed and food, and he agrees to kill…
Intensely Independent: The Micro-Budget Films of Blake Eckard [Synapse] DVD Review
In Bubba Moon Face, we follow Horton Bucks (Tyler Messner) who returns to his hometown in northwest Missouri after his mother’s death. He’s broke with no car and resorts to crashing on his brother Stanton (Joe Hammerstone)’s couch. While dealing with their mother’s funeral, Stanton’s fuck buddy Sabetha (Sylvian Geiger) shows up with a baby…
Creature with the Blue Hand / Web of the Spider Blu-ray review
Legendary German actor Klaus Kinski is a household name when it comes to cult, Euro-sleaze, foreign crime and horror films. Early in his career he had roles in many Edgar Wallace krimi films made in Germany. Later, he became a top-star in many Spaghetti Westerns, American horrors and other assorted German thrillers and cult movies…