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…
Weak Spot [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
It’s Greece, 1974, and a man clambers out of an upper story apartment window in a mad dash to escape the police pursuing him before leaping to his death on the street below. Meanwhile across the street is a travel agent going about his business, trying to sell a vacation package to a foreign couple….
Underworld Beauty [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Miyamoto (Michitarô Mizushima) is fresh from a stint in prison due to a diamond heist. After collecting the hidden diamonds from the heist, he tells his yakuza boss Oyane (Shinsuke Ashida) that the profits from the diamonds are going to his old partner Mihara (Tôru Abe) who was crippled in the heist to get them….
Supervixens [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Clint (Charles Pitts) is a hapless gas station attendant who is forced to go on the lam after being framed for the (shockingly brutal) murder of his cuckolding wife (Shari Eubank) by the sadistic corrupt cop Harry Sledge (Charles Napier). While on the road, Clint tumbles into a variety of sexy shenanigans, swinging with a…
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock [Cohen Media] Blu-Ray Review
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most celebrated and studied directors in film history. Taking the breath of the often cited in-depth interview with Francois Truffaut in which Hitchcock participated in 1966 and merging it with the laser-like focus of the scene-specific analysis of the documentary 78/52 (which, released the same year as this film,…
Vixen [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Vixen Palmer (Erica Gavin) is insatiable. She is married to pilot Tom (Garth Pillsbury), but his job inevitably takes him away from home for long stretches, leaving poor ol’ Vixen sexually frustrated and looking to get with anyone within thrusting distance. This leads her on a series of sexual misadventures that involves mounting a mountie,…
Yokohama BJ Blues [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
BJ (Yusaku Matsuda) is a beaten down private detective who lurks in nightclubs singing the blues on the side. Although if you asked him, he’d probably tell you he’s a blues singer who happens to do a little P.I. work as a side hustle. Regardless, BJ finds himself embroiled in a killer case involving the…