Screen legends Frederic March, Cary Grant and Carole Lombard team-up in the 1933 World War I thriller The Eagle and the Hawk. This film took place just before Grant and Lombard’s careers would rise to stardom, while Fredric March had already reached new heights thanks to his roles in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and…
Backlash Blu-ray Review
Kino Lorber continues to explore the Western genre with its recent Blu-ray release of the 1956 film Backlash. Directed by John Sturges, Backlash is a vengeance story, but with a few twists along the way. Jim Slater (legendary actor Richard Widmark, Madigan, Kiss of Death) is out looking for the lone survivor of an Apache…
The Naughty Victorians Blu-ray
The Naughty Victorians is an erotic tale set in the Victorian era featuring Beerbohm Tree. In this film, society man Jack (Tree) delights in having sex with women that are tied up in various ways, and has built a home full of contraptions for various forms of bondage sex. His first “victim” is his fiancé…
Breezy Blu-ray review
Breezy is an American romance drama from 1973 and is legendary Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood’s third feature as a director. His previous films where he served as a director were Play Misty for Me and High Plains Drifter. With this film he leaves thrillers and Westerns behind for love. Breezy is the story of a…
UHD Review – New York Ripper (Blue Underground)
The late great horror journalist Chas Balun wrote a small booklet in honor of Lucio Fulci shortly after the maestro’s death in 1996. It was titled Beyond the Gates, and is well worth checking out if you are a Fulci fanatic, as I am. It is fairly short, and not very in depth, but it…
UHD Review – House by the Cemetery (Blue Underground)
House by the Cemetery is an insanely important film for me. I still remember buying Zombie from a Suncoast Video (remember those)? I would use websites like House of Horrors, and magazines like Fangoria to get any information I could on Italian horror, but sometimes it was just the mere act of stumbling on to…
Blu-ray Review – The Lady Kills/Pervertissima (Mondo Macabro)
Back in the days of DVD when I first started collecting Mondo Macabro discs they helped introduce me to some wild and worldly cinema. One of the first 10 or so discs I bought based on title alone was The Sadist with Red Teeth, by director Jean-Louis van Belle. It has been a decade if…
UHD Review – The Goonies – Warner Brothers
As a kid my first passion was my NES. I would always ask for new games for Christmas and birthdays, and rent them when I could. One game I became obsessed with even though as a kid I could never figure it out was “The Goonies II”. I found out through a friend it was…
UHD Review – Beetlejuice – Warner Brothers
Beetlejuice in spite of its popularity is not a film I got around to watching as a kid. I saw it in bits and pieces on TV , but never the whole film until last year, and even then I was unimpressed. I did watch the cartoon quite a bit, but now familiar with the…
Blu-ray Review – Weathering With You (Shout! Factory/G Kids)
When I saw Your Name about 4 years ago it introduced me to the cinema of Makoto Shinkai. The experience blew my mind at the time, and I had gone back to see some of his earlier work to continue the cinematic journey that I had begun with Your Name, and found myself enjoying each…