Month: March 2022

Is the Order a Rabbit? BLOOM [Sentai Filmworks Blu-ray] Review

Earlier this month, Sentai Filmworks released upon the world the latest season of the light, quirky slice-of-life anime Is the Order a Rabbit? to blu-ray. How does this cute and silly workplace comedy stack up? Let’s dig in to find out! If you’re just tuning in, BLOOM is the third season of the story of…


Hidamari Sketch: Graduation OVA [Sentai Filmworks Blu-Ray] Review

Sentai Filmworks has finally completed the entire run of Hidamari Sketch with this blu-ray release of the final two OVA episodes of the series. Does everything wrap up with a nice warm feeling of fun and friendship? Let’s dive in and find out! The first episode finds the oldest student residents of Hidamari Apartments, Sae…


Tabletop Review – Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 – Mongoose Publishing

About 5 years ago I took the plunge back in the world of table top RPG’s. I spent years just not having the time and left them behind, so it seems like now having gotten back in since the late 90’s, I am making up for last time. I can’t always get the games I…


Tabletop Review – Rolling Realms – Stonemaier Games

Rolling Realms by Ryan Miller I will never not be excited when I have the chance to see what new idea Jamey Stegmaier and Stone Maier Games has brought to the world of table top board gaming. Being no exception, Rolling Realms, the newest new had to have a place at my table surrounded by…


UHD Review – Madman – Vinegar Syndrome

Original Review By Brad Hogue2022 4K Update Notes by Scott MacDonald At the conclusion of camping season for gifted children at North Sea Cottages, everyone is gathered around the campfire singing songs and telling stories. Head counselor Max tells the story of a beast of a man farmer that went crazy and killed his family….


UHD Review – American Werewolf in London – Arrow Video

ohn Landis’ 1980 film An American Werewolf in London has the personal distinction of being my 2nd favorite horror film of all-time (The #1 being Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond). I first saw this on tape over 25 years ago for the first time, and have owned copies in every format (in multiple editions) ever since….


UHD Review – X-Ray Schizoid – Vinegar Syndrome

Review by Bobby Morgan 2022 4K Notes by Scott MacDonald X-RAY Among the many psycho-on-the-loose horror flicks pumped out of Hollywood and independent studios during the early 1980’s – and there were a literal ton of them – Boaz Davidson’s X-Ray, released by youngish Cannon Films in 1982, was neither the best of the widely-loathed…


Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Keep Broken Mirrors and Falling Medusas

Welcome, welcome. And a merry, merry unbirthday to you, folks! I read some more horror books, so naturally it’s time to dig in. In this one we have a dark and satanic thriller masquerading as a classic detective noir, we’ve got a weird serial killer story with a beyond strange twist, we have Nazis being…


Blu-ray Review – Paranoiac – Scream Factory

The Ashby kids never fully recovered from the twin tragedies of losing their parents and the suicide of their brother Tony. Simon Ashby (Oliver Reed) has grown into a total dickbagel who’s intent on burning through his inheritance before he even gets old enough to receive it. His sister Eleanor (Jeanette Scott) is a sickly…


Blu-ray Review – The Monster of Camp Sunshine – AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome

BFFs Claire and Marta are a pair of fun, independent ladies. Marta works in a laboratory that exclusively experiments on animals and Claire is one of them there fashion models. When the weekend comes, these two gals ditch the big city and head out to Camp Sunshine. That’s right, these ladies are a pair of…