Millionaire Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham) is obsessed with the afterlife. He has alienated his family and friends -though it’s doubtful that he had any friends because he’s such a dickbagel- and has supposedly squandered his fortune hunting and capturing ghosts. He has enlisted the help of psychic medium Dennis Rafkin (Matthew Lillard) to help…
Blu-ray Review – Abrakadabra (Cauldron)
As a child, Lorenzo Manzini (Germán Baudino) witnessed the accidental death of his magician father during a magic trick where he was supposed to catch a bullet. Oh, he caught the bullet all right! Now a grownup magician himself, Lorenzo is preparing his illusions for a big magic show at a swanky theater. Unfortunately, he…
Western Classics I Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber once again taps in the Western genre and has assembled three films from the Universal pictures’ library in a box set. Called Western Classics 1, this set consists of a trio of Westerns from the 1940s with some legendary, big-name actors who are synonymous in the genre. The three films in this set…
Deanna Durbin Collection I
Deanna Durbin Collection 1 Deanna Durbin was a child actress who had a somewhat of a short-lived Hollywood career as a singer and actress. She was mainly known for starring in romantic musical comedy films with her heyday being in the late 1930s. A few years later Durbin, as she was getting older, wanted to…
Blu-ray Review – Overlord Season 2 (Classics, Funimation)
I have a tendency to not watch things as they go live, but when I eventually get a disc copy of them later, so while I watched Season 1 of Overlord a few years ago, I had yet to get to Season 2 (or 3 for that matter). I do remember enjoying watching Overlord S1…
Blu-ray Review Maid Sama! Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks)
I’m going to admit a strike of confusing when this Blu-ray hit my mailbox. I feel I reviewed the complete Maid Sama! Years ago, and as the original ECAV is gone I couldn’t check, but then I doubled back to see if this was a reboot, second season, or something else. As it stands it…
Blu-ray Review – Senryu Girl (Sentai Filmworks)
I can’t fully explain why I get into anime series like Senryu Girl but sometimes I basically need these as a palette cleanser between more serious things and they just hit hard when I need them. Senryu Girl is based on a manga series by Masakuni Igarashi. It follows Nanako Yukishiro, who is a shy…
Blu-ray Review – Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? Season 2 (Sentai Filmworks)
When EuroCultAV got the first series of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Many years back (has it really been years, time is weird, and the original version of the site was torn down so I can’t check). Being a tabletop RPG fanatic, I was immediately drawn to the concept of…
Blu-ray Review – Ozone (MakeFlix/Tempe Digital)
When I first started getting into more obscure horror films outside the “Friday the 13th” bandwagon, one of the first films I found was J.R. Bookwalter’s The Dead Next Door. A local video store had a tape, and immediately I fell in love with the film. It looked like a group of friends had got…
The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection (Severin Films)
Severin Films seems determined to put out the top tier of home video releases in 2020. In May they released an Al Adamson Collection so comprehensive I think Al himself would have been shocked at the loving treatment he received. Now in July we have gotten the long awaited Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection! This collection…