Long time friends Jesse and Pat (Richard Hatch and Doug Chapin) have finally made it home after a tour of duty in Vietnam. To celebrate their newfound freedom, the guys decide to go on one last road trip with their girlfriends before they settle down and get married. The trip starts innocently enough, but it…
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (BBC Video) DVD Review
It is that time in the world of Doctor Who again, in roughly 7 weeks from now, on Christmas Day Matt Smith, the 11th Doctor will regenerate into the 12th Doctor played by the Thick of It’s Peter Capaldi. It is a concept we take for granted these days. It seems as soon as we…
The Caller (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
While she’s preparing for a dinner date, a woman (Madolyn Smith Osborne) staying in a secluded cabin gets an unexpected visit from a man (Malcolm McDowell) claiming to be a stranded motorist. Their conversation turns from small talk to interrogations as both of these people appear to be hiding something. Is the man a traveling…
Pandemonium (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
After the big game, a high school cheerleading squad is skewered on a javelin, thus kicking off a rash of brutal cheerleader murders. Years later, cheer wannabe Bambi (Candice Azzara) starts her own cheerleading camp at the very school where the murders took place. So, it’s no surprise when the new squad starts getting knocked…
Gundala (Well Go USA) Blu-ray review
Sancaka (Muxakki Ramdhaan)’s life is thrown upside down when his father is murdered during an Indonesian factory worker’s protest. After moving to a new apartment, his mother leaves him to find work. But work doesn’t come and it seems like Sancaka is left to be on his own. He grows up homeless in the rough…
Blu-ray Review Demon Lord, Retry! (Funimation)
I’m not sure if this genre was spurred on by the success of Overlord, but it seems as if the last few years, we have seen an abundance of “isekai” anime. Basically, we see an average person transported into a fantasy world, mostly a video game one as in Overlord. Which is what we have…
Blu-ray Review – Astra – Lost in Space (Funimation)
Astra – Lost in Space follows a group of students from Caird High School. They live in a future world where students go on fields trips to other planets like we would go on trips to theme parks or museums. This is this class’ first trip to space, and as such they are largely inexperienced….
Blu-ray Review – Split Second (MVD Rewind)
I will never not be amused when sci-fi movies (or books) declare a “future” date that is in throwing distance from when the film is made. 1992’s Rutger Hauer starring Split Second does that by casting the film into the 16 year’s future world of 2008. We follow film-noir-ish bad boy cop Harley Stone (Rutger…
UHD Review – Ghost in the Shell (Anime, 1995, Lionsgate)
Ghost in the Shell is a film I’ve lived with for a long time. The film was released originally in 1995, and SOMETIME in the late 1990’s I saw it for the very first time on VHS. I immediately fell for it’s hyperactive, cyber-sci-fi charms, and amazing action, coupled with a style of animation that…
Blu-ray Review – Cecilia (Blue Underground)
Cecilia played by Muriel Montosse marries Andre (Franco regular Antonio Maysns) 2 years before out story kicks off. At the beginning their relationship was full of sexual discovery, especially for Cecilia. However, at this point Cecilia finds herself quite bored with her relationship, and her life far away from the city. One day her driver…