Review by James Layton Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes ran on BBC during 1968. Originally, there were sixteen episodes but it was a common practice to record over the video tapes if a show did not perform well,. Sherlock Holmes was considered to have little future potential and most of the episodes were wiped…
Before Dawn [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Based on anecdotes pulled from the real diaries of ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) who fought on the western front during World War I, primarily in the days and months after the Gallipoli campaign, this film follows a young man named Jim (Levi Miller) who leaves his family’s sheep farm in the Outback…
Tchao Pantin [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Lambert (Coluche) is a melancholy, alcoholic gas station attendant that works the night shift with no drive in life. One evening a young man named Bensoussan stumbles into Lambert’s life while fleeing the cops, igniting a spark of friendship that Lambert hasn’t felt in a very long time. We come to find out that Bensoussan…
Cocaine Werewolf [Cleopatra/MVD] Blu-ray Review
The film opens with a cam girl openly professing her love of money. Horny + greedy = Not a great situation to be in for a movie called Cocaine Werewolf. Before you know it, her cameraman is killed off as her screams pierce the night. Then we jump to a drug deal gone awry… Ah…
High Crime [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
Franco Nero stars as Inspector Belli, a no-nonsense cop on a crusade to take down a crime syndicate peddling in drugs and corruption. Stifled at every turn by higher-ups that are either in the pocket of the mob or too scared to make waves, Belli is like a bull, charging headlong into danger. Things get…
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
The year is 1864 and Edgardo Mortara is a six-year-old boy who is suddenly taken away from his Jewish family because the Papal authorities declare that they believe he was baptized in secret and thus is actually a Christian and unfit to be raised by Jewish parents. In the process of attempting to win back…
The Last Kumite [Capelight] Blu-ray Review
Michael Rivers (Mathis Landwehr) is a retired karate champion who just wants to spend time with his family. One day, he is approached by a mysterious man named Ron Hall (Matthias Hues) who proposes he join an underground “no rules” fighting tournament to determine the greatest martial artist in the world. Rivers turns him down,…
June Zero [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
For those not aware Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking member of the Nazi party and the SS that was instrumental in organizing the Holocaust and in particular the concentration camps that Jews were kept in during World War II. In 1960, Eichmann was captured by Israel’s Mossad agency, put on trial and eventually executed in…
Eighteen Years in Prison [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Noboru Ando plays Kawada, a former soldier of a suicide squadron in WWII who is now trying to find meaning in his life and forms a gang with his friend Tsukada (Asao Koike) to steal goods from occupying American soldiers in order to setup an organization to take care of the families of fallen Japanese…
Danza Macabra Volume Three [Severin Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
Severin has unleashed another box set of tasty Spanish gothic morsels to devour! How does each film stack up though? Let’s dig in to find out! In Necrophagous, Michael Sherrington has been away on business but returns to his ancestral home to discover that his wife died during childbirth and his child was stillborn. While…