It’s March, folks! My allergies suck but at least the weather is getting better. What better time is there for another installment in this on-going horror novel mega-list project of mine? This time we have a controversial French thriller, a slow-burn Victorian throwback, a chilling (both literally and metaphorically) struggle for survival, an outstanding collection…
Tabletop Review – Ahoy! – Leder Games
Since pirates are almost always in fashion, I reveled in the chance to play Leder Games’ new entry into asymmetric board gaming. Right off the bat it has a lot going for it. 1. It has pirates. 2. It has anthropomorphic pirates. Those two things are always a fun combination. It of course helps that…
Tabletop Review – Cyberpunk Red – Black Chrome – R. Talsorian Games
Cyberpunk Red came out at the perfect time for me, after 20 years of not playing table top RPG’s and board games, I got back in with a vengeance. I immediately got back into my old standards like Dungeons and Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, took a look at Shadowrun, but that look was brief, and…
Tabletop Review – Traveller – High Guard Update 2022 – Mongoose Publishing
I am currently obsessed with Mongoose Traveller 2E. I’d say this is odd, because I’ve run the system at this point one time, but I think that nails it, I’m hungering to play it more. The system which was created in the late 70’s as a science fiction response to D&D by legendary game designer…
UHD Review – Justine/Eugenie (Blue Underground)
Blue Underground have been one of my favorite distributors since early in the DVD era. The reason simply being is that they have released many of my favorite films, or at least the type of films I enjoy onto the format in quality editions. They have continued that tradition into the Blu-ray era, but one…
UHD Review – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Dark Sky)
I remember being 12 years old, and popping in Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the middle of one of the many group horror marathons my friends and I would have at this age. We had heard about the title for years, and with it’s reputation and even the title, we expected to have a splattery good…
Quiet Days in Clichy – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (Blue Underground)
Joey and Carl are two down and out reprobates- oops, I mean writers in Paris. These two walking hard-ons get into all sorts of ridiculous and impossible shenanigans involving sex, food, and money. Sometimes, all three at the same time. There are lots of beautiful women that come and go, and they are all treated…
Tonight or Never Blu-ray review
Based on the Hungarian Play of the same name, Tonight or Never is a 1931 American pre-code comedy film that stars screen legends Gloria Swanson and Melvin Douglas. In this picture, Gloria Swanson (Manhandled, Zaza, Sadie Thompson) stars as Nella Vargo, a young opera singer who is having some trouble advancing her career according to…
The Black Crystal – Blu-ray Review (AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome)
Will (Mike Conway) is cruising out west in his sick Trans Am to go see his brother, who lives in a small town up in the mountains, when he foolishly picks up a sketchy hitchhiker named Justin. They are on the road for about 2 minutes before they are forced off the road by some…
Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes [Blu-ray Review]
On February 7, 2003, Arbelos releases a two-disc set collecting six of indie director Nina Menkes’ pioneering feminist films of slow cinema along with a bountiful host of extras. Does this set deliver the goods or will it leave you wandering the desert in search of meaning in a desolate world of apathy and sin?…