Punch Line is a very very weird show. I thought at first it was going to be a cliché ecchi/pantie shot anime series, and for a long while it appeared to be. I won’t spoil things, but this is a show that does shift in tone for the better after its first half. The show…
Blu-ray Review – Shirobako (Sentai Filmworks)
Shirobako will seriously affect you if you have ever tried to work as a creative. Have you and your friends ever tried to make a career in films, start a band, make an album and hit the road only to realize that it was a long and arduous road? Shiroback WILL AEFFECT YOU. The series…
Blu-ray Review – Death Laid an Egg (Cult Epics)
Death Laid an Egg is a 1968 giallo film directed by Giulio Questi, who was most known to me previously as the director of my favorite western. The complete and utterly bizarre Django Kill… If He Lives Shoot! Which is one way that Death Laid an Egg could also be described, completely and utterly bizarre….
Severin Films – Black Friday Sale Review
It is that time of year again when the holidays are rolling around the stores are trying to get shoppers in with cut throat deals. It is also the time of years when our beloved home video labels unleash some surprise goodies upon their various fandoms. It’s an exciting time for sure, a lot of…
Blu-ray Review – Ghost Dog – The Way of the Samurai (Criterion)
I have this thing, I call the “Easy Rider Theory of Home Video Visuals”. I don’t want to come across as arrogant, but I honestly believe a bad transfer of a movie can ruin even the best film. Get a copy of Citizen Kane or 8 ½, wash it out, transfer it to 10th generation…
Blu-ray Review – Brute Force/The Naked City (Criterion)
Odd to admit this, but it was my love of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville that lead me to find Jules Dassin. I remember trying to find anything that resembled Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge in the wake of seeing those in my early 20’s and finding Dassin’s Rififi in the process (I’m not…
Blu-ray Review – The Last Starfighter (Arrow Video)
I feel like I should have been introduced to the Last Starfighter sooner than I was. As a kid in the 80’s I was on a steady diet of the Goonies, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, adventures movies that would have any young boy excited for more. The Last Starfighter I didn’t get around to…
UHD Review – Deadly Games – Dial Code Santa Claus (Vinegar Syndrome)
I’ll just straight out admit that I did not anticipate what I got with Deadly Games – Dial Code Santa Claus (36.15 Code Pere Noel). I thought I had the killer Santa movie thing down at this point and had seen them all. I was wrong, very very wrong, and what I got here was…
Tabletop Review – Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (Wizards of the Coast/Dungeons and Dragons 5E)
During my first decade-long go around with D&D (then AD&D 2E) in the 90’s, there was an over-abundance of material that went along with the game. At the time I loved it, in fact, I consider one of the great tragedies of my existence is my Mother dumping all my 2E stuff long after I…
Blu-ray Review – Parasite (Criterion)
I first discovered Bong Joon Ho like many through his wonderful film The Host. I had started hearing about it right before it came out, but was unable to see it until somehow I managed to find a DVD copy in a video store closing sale in Palmetto, FL. (I also found a copy of…