Author: Ben Tucker

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II [Scream Factory] Blu-ray Review

This follow-up to the first Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey finds Cristopher Robin (Scott Chambers) ostracized from everyone in his hometown of Ashdown after they all believe he was responsible for the “Hundred Acre Massacre” in the Hundred Acre Woods depicted in the first film. No one, including his close friends, believes Christopher Robin’s story of…


Crust [Anchor Bay] Blu-ray Review

Vegas (Sean Whalen) is a washed up child actor who owns a grimy laundromat. He spends his days chatting with his loser friend Russ (Daniel Roebuck) and his nights jacking off into lost socks while weeping about how his life has slipped away from him. Through this magic of his semen and tears, the pile…


The Dead Don’t Hurt [Shout Factory] Blu-ray Review

It’s 1860s San Francisco and the strong and independent Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) finds herself drawn to the stolid Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen). They soon marry and Holger and Vivienne travel back to Holger’s home in Elk Flats, Nevada to build a life together. After a time the American Civil War flares…


Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits [Severin] Blu-ray Review

From 1978 to 1993, the Scala Cinema near King’s Cross Station in London was the wildest, most out-there, transgressive counter-culture repertory cinema in the UK, bringing together freaks, geeks, outcasts, weirdos, those with alternative lifestyles, the LGBTQ+ crowd and just regular theater-goers looking for something off the beaten path. From their iconic themed monthly programs…


Eastern Condors [Criterion Collection] Blu-Ray Review

The Vietnam War is over but American soldiers have left a massive clutch of weapons in enemy territory. Lt. Lam (Ching-Ying Lam) along with the criminal Tung (Sammo Hung) is tasked with leading a ragtag group of Asian prisoners into Vietnam to destroy the weapons before the Vietcong can get their mitts on them. In…


Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review

At various points in his illustrious career, celebrated Italian horror maestro Dario Argento took his talents to the small screen, beaming certified Argento productions into the homes of millions of viewers complete with his distinct brand of macabre menace. In 1973, he produced an anthology miniseries called Door Into Darkness which featured four episodes of…


Bones and All [Shout Factory] 4K UHD Review

Maren (Taylor Russell) is a detached teen girl whose father seems to move them from town to town a great deal, preventing her from making long-term relationships. We discover why when she is invited to a sleepover and bites off the finger of a girl trying to befriend her. It turns out that she possesses…


2020 Texas Gladiators [Severin Films] 4K UHD Review

It’s the end of the world in Texas. Nisus (Al Cliver) along with the rest of his gang including Jab (Harrison Muller), Halakron (Peter Hooten), Red Wolfe (Hal Yamanouchi) and Catch Dog (Daniel Stephen) travel around trying to salvage what’s left of this hellhole by helping others (kind of…eventually). After Catch Dog attempts to rape…


The Block Island Sound [Synapse Films] 4K UHD Review

Tom Lynch (Neville Archambault) is a fisherman that lives on the Block Island Sound with his son Harry (Chris Sheffield). Gradually Tom starts behaving very strangely, taking the boat out in the middle of night and not remembering what was happening as well as other erratic and unstable shifts of mood. Meanwhile, hundreds of dead…


Hard Wood: The Adult Features of Ed Wood [Severin] Blu-Ray Review

Ed Wood is a director who needs no introduction, but despite being the schlock visionary of such “films” as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster, Wood’s later years were plagued with financial difficulties, alcoholism and depression which dampened his creativity, forcing him to mostly get by on writing porno novels. In…