The film introduces us to a jaded prostitute named Yoshie Nomoto (Miyuki Kuwano who I recognized from Kurosawa’s Red Beard as well as her earlier performances for Nagisa Oshima in Cruel Story of Youth and Night and Fog in Japan) whose latest client takes a shine to her and want to rescue her from the…
Noryang: Deadly Sea [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Noryang: Deadly Sea is the third and final film in the Korean sea battle trilogy, preceded by The Admiral: Roaring Currents and Hansan: Rising Dragon (although Hansan was released after The Admiral, it was actually a prequel). All three films focus on pivotal naval battles during the Japanese Invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598…
The Great Alligator [Severin] 4K Blu-ray Review
Some bizarrely motivated real estate jackasses decide it’s a great idea to build a swanky resort in the middle of the African jungle. The local jungle god is pretty upset that his precious habitat is being encroached upon and proceeds to take the form of a big ass alligator to eat the shit out every…
The Devil’s Honey [Severin Films] 4K Blu-ray Review
Jessica (Blanca Marsillach) is head-over-heels in love with hot shot saxophone player Johnny (Stefano Madia). Johnny’s unquenchable erotic lust draws Jessica into more perverse and dangerous territory, culminating in Johnny’s involvement in a motorcycle accident. Johnny seems to be fine at first but later collapses in the recording studio, falling into a coma. Meanwhile Dr….
Goodbye Uncle Tom [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
The Premise: Documentarians have traveled back to the antebellum southern United States during the pre-Civil War era when slavery was rampant. Their goal is to capture and expose the cruelty and horrors of the slave trade in as realistic a manner as possible. Witness slave ships with poor souls packed into the galley like sardines,…
Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker [Severin Films] 4K Blu-ray Review
Billy Lynch (Jimmy McNichol) was orphaned at a young age after his parents were killed in a brutal car accident involving a logging truck. He is left in the car of his overprotective Aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrell)and grows up alone with her in a somewhat isolated house on the edge of the woods. Now a…
Affliction [Shout Select] Blu-ray Review
Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a local cop in a small New Hampshire town who is prone to drowning his emotional problems in alcohol. While attempting to reconcile his traumatic childhood with an angry and volatile father (James Coburn), he begins to suspect that a local hunting accident may not have been an accident after…
All Ladies Do It [Cult Epics] 4K Blu-ray Review
Diana loves her husband Paolo of five years but she can’t help but feel adrift and bored with her marriage. In order to inject some thrills into her life, Diana begins having a string of affairs, on a mission to immerse herself in hidden worlds of passion and pleasure wherever she goes. She reveals her…
Rolling Thunder [Shout Select] 4K Blu-ray Review
Major Charles Rane (William Devane) is a returning hero, having finally been freed from a POW camp in Vietnam where he endured terrible experiences that pushed the limits of human endurance. Back on American soil he is reunited with his family but feels ill prepared to ease back into family life. To make matters worse,…
Impulse [Grindhouse Releasing] Blu-ray Review
William Shatner is sleazy serial killer conman Matt Stone. His hobbies include seducing older women, stealing their money and murdering them in cold blood. Plus he’s a smooth operator the whole time he’s doing it. His next target is widowed MILF Ann whose daughter immediately distrusts Matt. He just exudes a kind of slimy false…