Author: Ben Tucker

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…


Alienoid: Return to the Future [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review

If you are just joining us in-media-res as it were for this sequel, the first Alienoid film involved two robotic, intergalactic police named Guard and Thunder whose job is to retrieve alien prisoners who have taken up residency inside humans. They appear in 1380 to stop an alien and end up taking over the raising…