Month: May 2020

Ant-Man (Disney/ Marvel) Blu-ray Review

   Paul Rudd stars as Scott Lang an ex-con who is newly released from prison. He has a masters degree in electrical engineering, but because of his criminal record he can’t even maintain a job at Baskin Robbins. He has a daughter who his wife will not allow him to have access to until his life…


Mondo Erotico (Around the World in 80 Beds) (Goya Collection) Blu-ray Review

     Jess Franco died a little over one year ago now in April of 2013, as one of the last remaining auteurs of early EuroCult cinema it was a tragic loss, but being in his mid-80’s, and having been in declining health for sometime it was hardly unexpected. If one is to find a silver lining…


4D Man (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray Review

Dr. Tony Nelson (James Congdon) has finally discovered a device that will move through the 4th dimension. This causes any object to pass through another. At first this seems too fantastic and most of his colleagues laugh his theories off. Tony soon has to find another job when one of his experiments starts an electrical…


Animal (Scream Factory) Blu-ray Review

Something vicious is hunting a group of close friends in the belly of an ominous forest. A getaway weekend that was suppose to be fun and relaxing has now turned into a nightmare with no way of waking up.  Trapped inside an abandoned home with three other survivors, a deadly apex predator stalks to kill…


An American Hippie in Israel (Grindhouse Releasing) Blu-ray Review

Mike (Asher Tzarfati), a Vietnam veteran from New York, came back from the war to embrace the lifestyle of a free-spirited hippie wandering the world. Arriving in Tel Aviv, Israel, Mike hitches a ride with beautiful stage actress Elizabeth (Lily Avidan) and the two hit it off right away. They eventually end up back at…


Ashanti (Severin) Blu-ray Review

David Linderby (Michael Caine) and his wife Anansa (Beverly Johnson) are both doctors who work for the  United Nations. Their latest assignment takes them to an African village to inoculate the villagers. While David is engaged with photographing a tribal dance Anansa decides to go skinny dipping in a nearby river.  After she emerges from…


The Amityville Trilogy (Scream Factory) Blu-ray review

The Amityville series has been one of horror cinema’s most persistent and questionably enduring franchises. It all began with the 1977 novel by Jay Anson that was supposedly based on a true story, though it has long been debunked. Nevertheless, the original Amityville Horror has spawned sequels, unofficial spin-offs, pale imitations, countless parodies, and the…


Army of Darkness (Scream Factory) Blu-ray review

   Ashley J. Williams aka Ash (Bruce Williams) is a department store house wares clerk at S-Mart. He went on a vacation with his girlfriend/group of friends to a cabin in the woods, where an archaeologist had been translating an ancient occult text the “Necronomicon”. After Ash reads aloud from the book demonic deadites begin possessing…


Amour (Sony) Blu-ray Review

Michael Haneke’s Amour is a devastating and beautiful film from the Austrian auteur who brought us such amazing films as Benny’s Video, Cache, The Piano Teacher, and possibly most popularly Funny Games. This, is, of course, to be expected from Haneke’s films which are usually on some level equal parts disturbing, beautifully shot, and emotionally…


Hellriders (Vingear Syndrome) Blu-ray review

A young woman (Tina Louise) from Vegas is on a road trip when her car breaks down. She is soon menaced by a group of bikers known as The Hell Riders, whose only goal in life to cause chaos. She manages to escape to a small nearby town, but once there she discovers that the…