I have this thing, I call the “Easy Rider Theory of Home Video Visuals”. I don’t want to come across as arrogant, but I honestly believe a bad transfer of a movie can ruin even the best film. Get a copy of Citizen Kane or 8 ½, wash it out, transfer it to 10th generation…
Blu-ray Review – Brute Force/The Naked City (Criterion)
Odd to admit this, but it was my love of the films of Jean-Pierre Melville that lead me to find Jules Dassin. I remember trying to find anything that resembled Le Samourai and Le Cercle Rouge in the wake of seeing those in my early 20’s and finding Dassin’s Rififi in the process (I’m not…
Blu-ray Review – The Last Starfighter (Arrow Video)
I feel like I should have been introduced to the Last Starfighter sooner than I was. As a kid in the 80’s I was on a steady diet of the Goonies, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, adventures movies that would have any young boy excited for more. The Last Starfighter I didn’t get around to…
UHD Review – Deadly Games – Dial Code Santa Claus (Vinegar Syndrome)
I’ll just straight out admit that I did not anticipate what I got with Deadly Games – Dial Code Santa Claus (36.15 Code Pere Noel). I thought I had the killer Santa movie thing down at this point and had seen them all. I was wrong, very very wrong, and what I got here was…
Tabletop Review – Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything (Wizards of the Coast/Dungeons and Dragons 5E)
During my first decade-long go around with D&D (then AD&D 2E) in the 90’s, there was an over-abundance of material that went along with the game. At the time I loved it, in fact, I consider one of the great tragedies of my existence is my Mother dumping all my 2E stuff long after I…
Blu-ray Review – Parasite (Criterion)
I first discovered Bong Joon Ho like many through his wonderful film The Host. I had started hearing about it right before it came out, but was unable to see it until somehow I managed to find a DVD copy in a video store closing sale in Palmetto, FL. (I also found a copy of…
Blu-ray Review – My Hero Academia – Season 2 – Funimation
Out of all the big name anime shows that are currently making waves right now (Attack on Titan, Black Clover, etc) I am possibly enjoying My Hero Academia the most. Aside from the fact that after Dragon Ball Super concluded this is the one show my son and I seem to watch together on a…
Blu-ray Review – Locke the Superman – Sentai Filmworks
I’m sure I’ve mentioned that my love of anime started in the 80’s with shows like Dragon Warrior and Robotech. So when I get a new 80’s anime in the mail, I pretty much throw it in right away. The feel of 80’s anime (or Japanimation as we wrongly called it FOR YEARS), still gives…
Blu-ray Review – Undefeated Bahamut Chronicles – Complete Series – Sentai Filmworks
OK, so I’ll start this off with some weirdness. I feel like I reviewed Undefeated Bahaumut Chronicle sometime in 2017. Now the original version of the site was torn down back in May, so I could make something easier to update, and mobile friendly, but I still have the records, but nope, not there. Anyway,…
Blu-ray Review – Patrick Still Lives (Severin Films)
About 10 years ago I received a book called “Italian Horror” by Jim Harper, at the time there was not a lot of books on this regional division of horror, and so I was happy to have anything related to spaghetti splatter on my bookshelf.Until I got this. Harper’s book covered the years 1978 to…