What if you woke up tomorrow morning and realized you had grown horns and a tail? Oh and also that you have been entrusted by your ancestors as a descendent of powerful demons to wage war against magical girls? You’d probably go out and make friends with the first one you see, right? No? I…
A Question of Silence Blu-ray Review
New to blu comes hot-button feminist firebrand A Question of Silence from director Marleen Gorris courtesy of Cult Epics. Watch as a primal scream from a first time director becomes a latter day classic! Three women from three different social classes (a middle income housewife [Edda Barends], a lower income diner waitress [Nelly Frijda] and…
My Isekai Life: Complete Collection Blu-ray Review
From our friends at Sentai Filmworks comes the 12-episode fantasy adventure series My Isekai Life a.k.a. I Gained A Second Character Class And Became The Strongest Sage In The World! (Yea, these isekai names are out of control…) Anyway, I hope you have your slimes prepared to execute your next spell because we’re comin’ in…
Waccha PriMagi! Complete Collection Blu-ray Review
Arriving this past June from Sentai Filmworks to blu-ray is a series all about song, dance, fashion, magic and… yes, love. Waccha! Waccha!! WACCHA!!! PRIMAGI!! Matsuri Hibino is your typical middle school girl and is absolutely enamored by the glamorous, high energy PriMagi, a song and dance competition fueled by garish, glitzy fashion and honest-to-goodness…
Project: ALF Blu-ray Review
From the folks at Liberation Hall, we now have the belated ALF TV movie on blu-ray! If you’ve felt that your life has been meaningless and empty without that furry, smart-mouthed devourer of cats, worry no more! If you found yourself tearing your hair out with suspense at the end of the ALF TV series,…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: Conjuring Blood at the End
Been a hot minute since I’ve posted one of these, so I figured it’s past time to let folks know what I’ve been consuming. This time I’ve got a witchy classic, a literary zombie tale, a pop culture frenzy of craziness, a dark and twisted haunted house story and a Victorian gothic tale of murder….
Drowning by Numbers UHD Blu-ray Review [Severin]
Three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one… It’s all a game until it’s not. Coming this month from Severin is the baffling, gorgeous and deeply fascinating Peter Greenaway film Drowning by Numbers in a glorious new UHD transfer. Where does this film rank in the pantheon of weirdo auteurist Greenaway’s ouevre? Three generations of women,…
Alien from the Abyss Blu-ray Review [Severin]
Coming later this month from our dear friends at Severin… THE CLAW! OH GOD!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Oh wait, it’s just Alien from the Abyss a.k.a. Alien from the Deep (as my old, junky One 7 DVD calls it), part jungle action, part Aliens rip-off, all eurotrash good-badness. Let’s pop this puppy in and…
The Complete Comic Strip Presents… Channel 4 Films Blu-ray Review [Severin Films]
Do you like your bust-a-gut, rolling-around-on-the-floor, so-funny-it-hurts alternative British comedy? No? Piss off then! Still here? Good. Because Severin has just delivered up a heaping helping of tasty treats in blu-ray disc form (WARNING: DO NOT EAT BLU-RAY) that is guaranteed to give you the guffaws at least a time or two throughout the three…
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray [WB]
Hacking and slashing it’s way through a swath of gore and anger comes Season Two of Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars)’s ode to Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Primal on blu-ray from Warner Bros. and [adult swim]. Could this be Tartakovsky’s finest production? For those who may not…