Released on blu-ray January 23, 2023, Sentai Filmworks brings us a new fantasy anime that will sure to please fans who like their fantasy with a dash of comedy while leaning into deeper themes. What does the great hero do after he’s defeated the great evil and no one wants to work with him anymore?…
Programmed to Kill Blu-ray review
Programmed to Kill aka Retaliator is a science fiction action thriller directed by Allan Holzman that stars Robert Ginty and Sandahl Bergman with the latter that becomes a lethal cyborg with the desire to kill. Yes, it’s another movie that borrows some elements of The Terminator. In this movie, ex-CIA agent Eric Mathews (Robert Ginty,…
Warning Shot (1967 film, Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
Produced and directed by Buzz Kulik, Warning Shot is 1967 mystery film about a cop who kills a man in self-defense, but the gun of the person he shot is missing, which makes the cop look as if he killed him for no reason and could be accused of murder! The film has a lot…
Carole & Tuesday Complete Collection [Blu-ray Review]
Courtesy of Sentai Filmworks, Carole & Tuesday finally comes to blu-ray after being sequestered on Netflix for a while, and it’s a humdinger of a show! Directed by legend Shinichirō Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, Carole & Tuesday takes place in a future where the music industry is driven by AI-written tunes and…
Love on the Ground Blu-ray review
Love on the Ground is a French drama from 1984 that stars a pair of theater troupe members who are invited to a theater performance, and their lives are forever changed! Taking place in Paris, Emily (Jane Birkin, Dark Places, Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye) and Charlotte (Geraldine Chaplin, Z.P.G., The Age of Innocence)…
Ghost Warrior (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
J. Carroll’s Ghost Warrior (aka Swordkill) is the story of an ancient samurai brought back to life and must learn how to live, cope and survive in modern day Los Angeles which at this point was the eighties. Yoshi (Hiroshi Fujioka, Kamen Rider, Yamato Takeru) is a 400-year-old samurai warrior that is discovered in Japan…
Attack of the Beast Creatures Blu-ray review
Attack of the Beast Creatures, also known as Hell Island, is a regional independent horror film produced and directed by Michael Stanley. It was filmed in Stanford, Connecticut, and stars a cast of unknowns who are basically known for this one movie! Taking place in 1920, the story is about a group of travelers that…
Tabletop Review – Wingspan Asia – Stonemaier Games
Wingspan: Asia Expansion by Stone Maier Games by Ryan Miller I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Wingspan might be the best game I’ve played in the last ten years. It’s engine-building and resource management are some of the best I’ve played in any board game. Even beyond the tight refinement of it’s…
UHD Review – Freeway – Vinegar Syndrome
I haven’t seen Freeway since the 1990’s. This film which stars Reese Witherspoon as an illiterate teenager from a really messed up home life, is a fairy tale adaptation. This one, of course, is an adaptation of Red Riding Hood. In this one Witherspoon plays Vanessa, a teenage girl who finds her shitty existence turned…
Blu-ray Review – In the Folds of the Flesh – Mondo Macabro
Sergio Bergonzelli’s In the Folds of the Flesh is just about one of the most lurid, pulpy, and quite possibly downright strangest gialli one is likely to see. However, it doesn’t go over the deep-end in its weirdness and into the incomprehensible, and rather chooses to stay in the realm of the entertaining, and very…