A bank heist in Dusselfdorf perpetrated by Junghein (Heinz Hoening) and Britz (Ralf Richter) is underway when things start to go south. They end up surrounded by cops, taking hostages and demanding a ransom of 3 million Deutsch Marks. Leading up the standoff on the cops’ side is a downtrodden schmoe named Voss (Joachim Kemmer)…
Dinner with Leatherface [Anchor Bay] Blu-Ray Review
Who is Gunnar Hansen? He was born on March 4, 1947 in Rekjavik, Iceland and moved to the state of Maine in the United States when he was five years old. At eleven, his parents moved him to Austin, Texas where he later attended the University of Texas at Austin with a double major in…
Last Summer [Janus Contemporaries] Blu-ray Review
Anne (Léa Drucker) is an attorney who works with child services to help minors who are victims of abuse. She lives a seemingly idyllic life with her husband Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), a somewhat checked-out businessman with a teenage son named Theo (Samuel Kircher) from a previous marriage whose presence begins to disrupt the contented household….
Dark Sanctuary: The Story of the Church [Cleopatra] Blu-Ray Reviews
The year is 1991, and club owner Don Nedler opens The Lizard Lounge at 2424 Swiss Avenue in Dallas, TX. The Lizard Lounge would become one of Dallas’ go-to places for techno/rave culture including being at least partially responsible for breaking huge DJs like Moby and a must-play club for big electronic music figures like…
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling [Criterion Collection] Blu-ray Review
We open on Jo Jo Dancer, wildly successful comedian, at the height of his success. He’s manic, electric, also hypocritical and conniving. He swears to get off drugs but immediately proceeds to do what he promises is his last cocaine. In all the whirlwind chaos, he catches himself on fire and is rushed to the…
Venom [Blue Underground] 4K UHD Review
The sleek and sinister Jacmel (Klaus Kinski) has conspired with limo driver Dave (Oliver Reed) and maid Louise (Susan George) to kidnap young Philip (Lance Holcomb), the son of a wealthy family. When Philip’s mother heads out of town, leaving him in the care of his famous hunter grandfather Howard (Sterling Hayden), the criminals put…
Hokuriku Proxy War [Radiance Films] Blu-Ray Review
In the snowy region of Hokuriku, Yakuza firebrand Noboru Kawada (Hiroki Matsukata) finds himself caught in the middle of a proxy war between his boss, who has formed an alliance with a crime syndicate in the city, and the primarily rivals of said syndicate. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Kawada’s loose cannon nature causes everyone to…
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…
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…
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…