Popular horror novelist Steven Lessey (Stephen Young) seems to have it all. A picture-perfect family, a successive series of novels, and now a row of popular horror movie adaptations that he co-wrote. But now the pressure is getting too tight as he finds himself with writer’s block. Daydreaming to find the right idea that will…
The Amazing Spider-Man (Sony) Blu-ray Review
Did Spider-Man really need another origin story? Since 1963 the story of Spider Man’s origin has been told so many time it should be committed to almost anyone with a passing familiarity with superheroes or popular fiction. It was only a little over 10 years ago that Sam Raimi brought Spider Man’s origin story to…
All Good Things (Magnolia) DVD Review
The strange-but-true case of the disappearance of Katherine Durst, the wife of an emotionally unstable heir to a New York real estate dynasty who was long suspected of her murder but never convicted, has provided the inspiration for All Good Things, the first fictional film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. Jarecki came to prominence in…
52 Pick Up (Kino) Blu-ray Review
Harry (Roy Scheider) is a guy who seems to have it all. He has a beautiful wife, a spacious mansion, a classic Jaguar, and a high paying job. Unfortunately, he also has a mistress named Cini (Kelly Preston) and three blackmailers (John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Robert Trebor) that have a videotape of them in…
Alucarda (Mondo Macabro) DVD Review
Justine is a young woman whose parents have both recently died. This tragic turn of events has forced her into a convent, where she is put together in a room with Alucarda, another young woman with a tragic past. Alucarda and Justine quickly become friends, and that friendship actually blossoms into something quite a bit…
Alien Opponent (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
When white trash trophy wife Meghan Mazurski (Ashley Bates) is caught in a adulterous tryst with her himbo lover Braden (Cuyle Carvin) by her abusive and possessive husband Tom (Kevin Shea) she buries a hammer in dear ol’ hubby’s skull. At that point an alien spacecraft crash lands near where the murder occurred. When Tom’s…
Altin Cocuk (Golden Boy) (Onar Films) DVD Review
Before seeing Altin Cocuk my only exposure to the world of Turkish pop cinema was a VHS viewing of Turkish Star Wars(Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam) over a decade ago. I was a teenager at the time, and thought the whole thing was quite silly, but I enjoyed it. I never really thought too much about Turkish…
All In The Family: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
I was born years after all in the family went off the air. When I had started to catch episodes of the show Archie Bunker was a pop culture reference, and Sally Struthers was making attempts to help the needy in third world countries, by giving the viewing public the opportunity to help them for…
Alamo Bay (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
Welcome to Port Alamo, Texas, a small community of fishermen along the Gulf Coast. Tensions have been rising in the town for a long time over the influx of Vietnamese immigrants moving in and taking a sizable bite out of the local fishing trade. The latest arrival to Port Alamo is Dinh (Ho Nguyen), an…
Blu-ray Review – An Ideal Place to Kill (Mondo Macabro)
An Ideal Place to Kill aka Oasis of Fear stars Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti as Dick and Ingrid. A young hippie couple from Denmark who smuggle porn to Italy to pay for their lifestyle. When they overspend on their latest trip they sell Polaroids of Ingrid to finance their trip home. This runs them…