After nearly getting expelled for a Psycho-inspired prank, four college girls head off to Florida for some fun in the sun. Along the way, they meet some cute hunks and eat at a dive bar. But their good times come to an abrupt halt when a flat tire in the middle of nowhere spoils their…
The Naked Spur Blu-ray review
The Naked Spur is the third of five Anthony Mann-directed westerns. Screen icon James Stewart stars as Howard Kemp, a bounty hunter out to capture Ben Vandergoat, played by another screen legend Robert Ryan who is wanted for murder. Janet Leigh and Ralph Meeker are also part of the small, but great cast. The movie…
Girls und Panzer das Finale Part 1 Review
On September 24, 2001, Sentai Filmworks released this latest release in the ever-expansive Girls und Panzer anime series. Touted as the beginning of the end, how does it measure up? Let’s find out! The Plot: Momo Kawashima has failed her University entrance exams and is worried about having to repeat a year. To help her…
A Night the Opera Blu-ray review
A Night at the Opera is a comedy starring the Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, and Harpo. The trio made five films for MGM, with this one being the first. This movie was one of the studio’s biggest hits of 1935. The film starts in Italy, where Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx), a conniving business manager…
Blu-ray Review – Midnight – Severin Films
Somewhere just outside of Pittsburgh, a mother and her four children are hunting a little girl for their satanic ritual. This family really loves Satan! God bless ‘em! Fast forward to “Yesterday” (sometime in 1982, that is) where we meet Nancy (Melanie Verlin), a teenage girl with an unfortunate haircut. When her creepy cop stepdad…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Snatching Bodies and Jack the Ripper Conspiracy Theories
This time on Ben Reads the Horror Classics, I’ll be covering a sci-fi horror classic of small town paranoia, a couple of shorter works in Black Horror Fiction, a fun Lovecraftian send-up of Scooby Doo, a haunting disintegration of a ’60s psych folk band and a legendary graphic novel from a master of the form….
In the Good Old Summertime Blu-ray review
In what is essentially a musical remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner, In the Good Old Summertime tells the tale of pen-pals who are in love but are working together in the same retail store where they loathe each other. The picture would later be remade again in the film You’ve Got…
Blu-ray Review – The Fourth Victim – Severin Films
Arthur Anderson (Michael Craig) is your typical guy who’s been widowed three times. Each of his deceased wives had a life insurance policy bigger than the one before her and now the law and his insurance company are getting just a little suspicious of him. Wacky police inspector Dunphy (José Luis López Vázquez) is particularly…
Blu-ray Review – Blades – Vinegar Syndrome
Professional golfer Roy Kent is all washed up and is about ready to finally hit rock bottom. He’s so drunk all the time that he can barely play the sport which made him famous, and his last chance is to become the resident pro at the Tall Grass Country Club. What Roy doesn’t know is…
Magical Girl Site: Complete Collection Review
The Plot: Aya Asagiri is bullied and beaten at school and abused at home by her own sociopathic brother. When she stumbles across a mysterious website promising to make her a magical girl, it provides just enough incentive to continue moving forward, especially when she finds a weird heart-shaped gun in her locker the next…