It’s 1860s San Francisco and the strong and independent Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) finds herself drawn to the stolid Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen). They soon marry and Holger and Vivienne travel back to Holger’s home in Elk Flats, Nevada to build a life together. After a time the American Civil War flares…
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes / Silver Blaze Blu-ray review
Film Masters continues to release some older classic, arguably obscure films on Blu-ray. They have entered the Sherlock Holmes universe and have offered a pair of Sherlock Holmes movies, The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes and Silver Blaze which star Arther Wontner as the great detective and Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson! The Triumph of Sherlock…
Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits [Severin] Blu-ray Review
From 1978 to 1993, the Scala Cinema near King’s Cross Station in London was the wildest, most out-there, transgressive counter-culture repertory cinema in the UK, bringing together freaks, geeks, outcasts, weirdos, those with alternative lifestyles, the LGBTQ+ crowd and just regular theater-goers looking for something off the beaten path. From their iconic themed monthly programs…
Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection
Tom and Jerry fans are probably the happiest cats in the world right now, as the Warner Archive Collection has gone to their cartoon library and released over twenty of their short films on Blu-ray discs in letterboxed format. Entitled Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection this Blu-ray release has twenty-six Tom and Jerry…
Eastern Condors [Criterion Collection] Blu-Ray Review
The Vietnam War is over but American soldiers have left a massive clutch of weapons in enemy territory. Lt. Lam (Ching-Ying Lam) along with the criminal Tung (Sammo Hung) is tasked with leading a ragtag group of Asian prisoners into Vietnam to destroy the weapons before the Vietcong can get their mitts on them. In…
Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
At various points in his illustrious career, celebrated Italian horror maestro Dario Argento took his talents to the small screen, beaming certified Argento productions into the homes of millions of viewers complete with his distinct brand of macabre menace. In 1973, he produced an anthology miniseries called Door Into Darkness which featured four episodes of…
Bones and All [Shout Factory] 4K UHD Review
Maren (Taylor Russell) is a detached teen girl whose father seems to move them from town to town a great deal, preventing her from making long-term relationships. We discover why when she is invited to a sleepover and bites off the finger of a girl trying to befriend her. It turns out that she possesses…
Blood-a-Rama Triple Frightmare 2 [AGFA + Something Weird] Blu-ray review
The triple feature, ahem, sorry. I meant to say triple frightmare is comprise of three movies contained in this release and are all very short, one under thirty minutes and two around an hour. The run time is padded a little with AGFA’s always entertaining drive-in mode where they intersperse clips and trailers from old…
2020 Texas Gladiators [Severin Films] 4K UHD Review
It’s the end of the world in Texas. Nisus (Al Cliver) along with the rest of his gang including Jab (Harrison Muller), Halakron (Peter Hooten), Red Wolfe (Hal Yamanouchi) and Catch Dog (Daniel Stephen) travel around trying to salvage what’s left of this hellhole by helping others (kind of…eventually). After Catch Dog attempts to rape…
The Howling 2: Your Sister Is a Werewolf [Vinegar Syndrome] 4k/Blu-ray review
In 1981, The Howling and An American Werewolf in London brought werewolves back into the zeitgeist and studios were seeing dollar signs. The Howling was a Joe Dante film that was a enough of a success to land him the gig directing Gremlins. Obviously, The Howling needed a sequel. Enter Australian filmmaker, Philipe Mora. What…