Scott at the Tabletop #1 (March 2025) I have been hooked on tabletop gaming since I got the red box Classic Dungeons and Dragons game around age 12. I cut my teeth on RPG’s ranging from the aforementioned D&D to Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu and Vampire – the Masquerade as well as playing various TCG’s…
The Grifters [Criterion Collection] Blu-Ray Review
Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is a small time con man, pulling little grifts in bars to get by. While the occasional blown con may get him a savage beating from an irate bartender now and then, his life grows increasingly more complicated when his new girlfriend Myra (Anette Benning) tries to pull him into a…
The Seventh Curse/Witch from Nepal [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
The Seventh Curse is framed with an older man (the books series’ author) being prompted by party guests to tell some stories. The movie shows Dr. Yuan acting as a hostage negotiator, leading to a huge gun fight between terrorists and a swat team. Yuan seems to be a trained surgeon and soldier as he…
The Penguin miniseries UHD review
I grew up watching the Batman television series starring Adam West with a lot of big-name actors playing the screen villains, including Burgess Meredith as Penguin, for a mainly comedic role. In 1992 Danny Devito played the Penguin in Batman Returns and was a grotesque character. The Penguin has again returned time and time again…
Kickboxer [Lionsgate] 4K UHD Lenticular Steelbook Review
Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio) is an American kickboxing champion who, along with his brother Kurt (Jean-Claude Van Damme) in his corner, travels to Thailand to take on the best of the best on their own turf. This brings him up against the seemingly unstoppable and savage Tong Po (Michel Qissi) who breaks Eric’s spine, permanently…
The New Adventures of Tarzan Blu-ray review
The New Adventures of Tarzan is a 12 Chapter serial starring Bruce Bennett, who early in his career also went by his real name Heman Brix. Many might remember Bennett for his roles in Before I Hang, Mildred Pierce, Dark Passage and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Shot in 1935, the same time when…
Love & Crime [88 Films] Blu-Ray Review
We open with a medical examiner named Murase (Teruo Yoshida) performing a gruesome autopsy on who we find out is his wife. He discovers another man’s semen present and sets out on a quest to attempt to understand what drove his wife to infidelity, in the process researching four major true crime cases in Japanese…