Pale white, rail thin, squatting. Eating corn raw, straight from the cob in a cornfield. This is how we meet our protagonist(?). This strange individual with seemingly psychic powers of some kind meets a parade of eccentric and memorable characters. A fat man mimics his motions and has an usual fixation with a clown painting…
Flatliners (1990 film) UHD review
“Today is a good day to die” is the infamous quote in the opening moments said by star Kiefer Sutherland for the 1990 Joel Schumacher psychological horror film known as Flatliners! Yes, this film is about people who decide to play with their own lives, potentially killing themselves! The story is about five medical students…
Tabletop Review – D&D – Spelljammer – Adventures in Space – Wizards of the Coast
I have been waiting for Wizards of the Coast to bring Spelljammer back to D&D since I got back into D&D. When I was younger I would pretty much grab any AD&D book I thought would fit into my campaign and looked cool, and I remember one week my FLGS had a bunch of older…
UHD Review – Dog Soldiers – Scream Factory
Dog Soldiers is one of the finest werewolf films of the 21st Century, and to be honest could easily squeeze into the pantheon of all time genre best as far as werewolf films are concerned. The werewolf as a cinematic monster is so drastically under utilized unlike it’s cinematic counterparts zombies and vampires, that when…
UHD Review – Cat People – Scream Factory
It will seem that in the last decade we have been in the midst of a remake/reboot trend that simply will not stop. The remakes of our current period are less from visionary directors with a new angle of an established classic, and more about using the title of an established classic as a profit…
Blu-ray Review RahXephon – Complete Collection – Sentai Filmworks
When I first started hearing about RahXephon in the early 2000’s it was unfavorable comparisons to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Every review or blurb I read was simply about how the show was a knock off of the mid-90’s mega-hit, which has for decades been my favorite anime series of all-time. For some reason this made…
The Frisco Kid Blu-ray review
Not to be confused with Frisco Kid the 1935 crime drama film starring James Cagney, The Frisco Kid is a 1979 American Western comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, stars a pair of screen icons in Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. Gene Wilder (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) is Polish rabbit Avram Belinski, who…
Adventures of Don Juan Blu-ray review
If you liked Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Robin Hood, then withoutquestion, you should see Adventures of Don Juan. This is another swashbuckling adventure fantasy film that he stars in. This picture is from 1948 and is another Technicolor classic starring the iconic actor Errol Flynn. This film is directed by Vincent Sherman and…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Out of Whispers and Snowmen
I’m not one to cotton to self-help gurus and feel-good platitudes. My day job (what? you think I get paid for blogging? LOL) is in a corporate environment where I’ve been exposed to lots of this nonsense, usually marketed as “LIFE-CHANGING! YOU GOTTA READ IT/WATCH IT”. They inevitably wind up being basic common sense stuff…
Little Man, What Now? Blu-ray review
Based on the Hans Fallada novel under the same title, Little Man, What Now? is a pre-code film from 1934 about a couple that is financially struggling, with a baby on the way! Directed by Frank Borzage (Bad Girl, A Farewell to Arms, Desire) the film has a mixture of themes including love, hardship, and…