While going on a blind date, Carol (Anne Archer), becomes a witness to a brutal mob hit. Thinking that she can avoid any trouble, she decides to hide out in her brother’s cabin in Canada. Carol doesn’t know that the man with the hitman was actually an infamous Mob Boss. A Los Angeles district attorney…
Massacre Mafia Style (Grindhouse Releasing) Blu-ray Review
I like to think of Duke Mitchell, not as a filmmaker, not as an actor, or a crooner, but as a mid-20th Century Renaissance Man. Mitchell was a Sinatra style crooner in the early portion of his career, before a producer paired him with Jerry Lewis clone Sammy Petrillo for a night club act. Although,…
Mary Poppins: 50th Anniversary Edition (Disney) Blu-ray Review
Mary Poppins is a film whose VHS tape I wore through quite easily as a child, and whose DVD (coincidentally purchased exactly 10 years ago this month as the 40th-anniversary edition) I have watched at least once a year with my own kids. Disney has just released the 50th Anniversary edition Blu-ray, which while not…
Metamorphosis/Beyond Darkness (Scream Factory, Blu-ray) Review
Metamorphosis stars Gene Lebrock as Dr. Peter Houseman, a scientist who believes he has achieved a way to cure death by tapping into the evolutionary memory of DNA. Frustrated by the small-mindedness of his colleagues, he experiments on himself to prove his theories. As his science becomes more and more mad, his relationship with university…