Admittedly, it has been a long year, so my memory has been a bit worse than usual in regards to all the releases that have come across my desk. But if you were to ask me what my favorite anime release of 2020 was, I’d have to say this SD on Blu-ray release of Armored…
Blu-ray Review – Skinned Alive (Make Flix/Tempe Digital)
The mid 80’s through the mid 90’s was pretty much the glory days of backyard horror. Most of this ended up being shot on video (SOV) as that made filmmaking more accessible to more people (which lead to so much cool crazy stuff being made), but some filmmakers still managed to get some violent crazy…
UHD Review – Full Metal Jacket (Warner Brothers)
Full Metal Jacket has always been a decisive movie in Stanley Kubrick’s filmography. There has been never a dispute that the opening half of the film is a stone cold cinema classic with it’s view trained on a group of Marines in brutal basic training. The 2nd half of the film sees the results of…
Blu-ray Review Demon Lord, Retry! (Funimation)
I’m not sure if this genre was spurred on by the success of Overlord, but it seems as if the last few years, we have seen an abundance of “isekai” anime. Basically, we see an average person transported into a fantasy world, mostly a video game one as in Overlord. Which is what we have…
Blu-ray Review – Astra – Lost in Space (Funimation)
Astra – Lost in Space follows a group of students from Caird High School. They live in a future world where students go on fields trips to other planets like we would go on trips to theme parks or museums. This is this class’ first trip to space, and as such they are largely inexperienced….
Blu-ray Review – Split Second (MVD Rewind)
I will never not be amused when sci-fi movies (or books) declare a “future” date that is in throwing distance from when the film is made. 1992’s Rutger Hauer starring Split Second does that by casting the film into the 16 year’s future world of 2008. We follow film-noir-ish bad boy cop Harley Stone (Rutger…
UHD Review – Ghost in the Shell (Anime, 1995, Lionsgate)
Ghost in the Shell is a film I’ve lived with for a long time. The film was released originally in 1995, and SOMETIME in the late 1990’s I saw it for the very first time on VHS. I immediately fell for it’s hyperactive, cyber-sci-fi charms, and amazing action, coupled with a style of animation that…
Blu-ray Review – Cecilia (Blue Underground)
Cecilia played by Muriel Montosse marries Andre (Franco regular Antonio Maysns) 2 years before out story kicks off. At the beginning their relationship was full of sexual discovery, especially for Cecilia. However, at this point Cecilia finds herself quite bored with her relationship, and her life far away from the city. One day her driver…
Blu-ray Review – The Complete Films of Agnes Varda (Criterion)
When I first became a true cinephile almost 20 years ago, one of the first areas I began to explore was the French New Wave. I was fascinated by a group of film critics and writers who transitioned to some of the most impactful directors in the history of the medium. One of my favorites…
Blu-ray Review – Beautiful Bones Sakurako’s Investigation (Sentai Filmworks)
OK, I love a nice atmospheric mystery series and Sentai Filmworks have just released one in the form of Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigations based on the light novel series by Shiori Ota. The series is 12 episodes long, and is compromised of a series of individual short mystery stories, and also a series of 2-parters….