A group of five festively adorned bank robbers, in the wake of an intense bank heist, are looking for a place to lay low until the heat dies down. They crash at the Jolly Roger Hotel while one of their members, dressed as Santa, acts as a decoy and lures the authorities away from their…
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
Michael Powell, ex-banker and studio contract director who churned out 23 films between 1931 and 1936, and Emeric Pressburger, a well-educated Hungarian whose career as a journalist was cut short by the rise of Nazism causing him to flee to Paris and switch to becoming a screenwriter, may have begun their careers in wildly disparate…
Infinite Santa 8000 [Synapse Films] Blu-Ray Review
In a desolate post-apocalyptic wasteland a thousand years in the future, in a land where mutants, monsters, robots and crazed killers roam around wreaking havoc on anyone unlucky enough to cross their paths, one man remains with a small shred of hope for the future of the planet, one man who these days is just…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024 Part 2 – Books, Music and Tabletop Gaming
While ECAV’s bread ‘n’ butter is all about soaking in the effervescent glow of the television screen, basking in the splendor of the goopfests of Joe D’Amato, the eroto-vampire flicks of Jean Rollin and the twisty and beautiful films of Dario Argento, we also have other interests here. We read, folks! We like to chill…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024! – Part 1 – Blu-ray and UHD
Contributions from the staff of EuroCultAV including Ben Tucker, Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, and Richard Glenn Schmidt. That oh-so-frosty time of year has arrived once again when we reflect back on what a bountiful crop of splendid releases that have been put out by all the stellar boutique media labels out there and recommend some…
Daiei Gothic: Three Ghost Stories [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
Adapted loosely from the much celebrated kabuki play, The Ghost of Yotsuya finds our lead Iemon Tamiya (Kazuo Hasegawa) destitute, having failed to become a samurai, and living with his wife Oiwa (Yasuko Nakada), depressed and aimless. One day he meets with the daughter, Ume Ito (Yoko Uraji), of a powerful samurai who becomes infatuated with…
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! [MVD Rewind Collection] Blu-ray Review
The year was 1982. In the wake of the late ’70s blossoming of the blockbuster, we find America in a state of craving big movies in genres previously seen as less than prestigious and only for the low brow grindhouse and drive-in crowds. But these films were doing boffo business at the box office now….
Dogra Magra [Radiance Films] Blu-Ray Review
A man named Kure Ichiro (Yôji Matsuda) wakes up to find himself in a mental institution with no memory of who he is or why he is there. He is told by a Dr. Wakabayashi (Hideo Murota) that Ichiro has killed his fiancée on their wedding day, and his amnesia is caused by his brain’s…
Demon Pond (1979) [Criterion Collection] Blu-Ray Review
Gakuen (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is a teacher and botanist who travels alone through the wilds of rural Japan, eventually stumbling across a drought-stricken village so desperate for water that breast milk is used as a substitution. He meets in this village an old friend, Akira (Go Kato), who is married to a mysterious woman named Yuri…
Family (2017) [Indiepix] DVD Review
Lily Brooke (Veronica Kedar) frantically arrives at her therapist’s house one evening demanding a session. The therapist is out but her bitchy teenage daughter Talia (Tommy Baremboem) is there and is willing to listen albeit in as judgmental a way as possible. Well, Lily needs someone to listen to her family problems, and Talia will…