I have a tendency to not watch things as they go live, but when I eventually get a disc copy of them later, so while I watched Season 1 of Overlord a few years ago, I had yet to get to Season 2 (or 3 for that matter). I do remember enjoying watching Overlord S1…
Blu-ray Review Maid Sama! Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks)
I’m going to admit a strike of confusing when this Blu-ray hit my mailbox. I feel I reviewed the complete Maid Sama! Years ago, and as the original ECAV is gone I couldn’t check, but then I doubled back to see if this was a reboot, second season, or something else. As it stands it…
Blu-ray Review – Senryu Girl (Sentai Filmworks)
I can’t fully explain why I get into anime series like Senryu Girl but sometimes I basically need these as a palette cleanser between more serious things and they just hit hard when I need them. Senryu Girl is based on a manga series by Masakuni Igarashi. It follows Nanako Yukishiro, who is a shy…
Blu-ray Review – Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls In a Dungeon? Season 2 (Sentai Filmworks)
When EuroCultAV got the first series of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Many years back (has it really been years, time is weird, and the original version of the site was torn down so I can’t check). Being a tabletop RPG fanatic, I was immediately drawn to the concept of…
Blu-ray Review – Ozone (MakeFlix/Tempe Digital)
When I first started getting into more obscure horror films outside the “Friday the 13th” bandwagon, one of the first films I found was J.R. Bookwalter’s The Dead Next Door. A local video store had a tape, and immediately I fell in love with the film. It looked like a group of friends had got…
The Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection (Severin Films)
Severin Films seems determined to put out the top tier of home video releases in 2020. In May they released an Al Adamson Collection so comprehensive I think Al himself would have been shocked at the loving treatment he received. Now in July we have gotten the long awaited Complete Lenzi/Baker Giallo Collection! This collection…
Blu-ray Review – Dream Demon (Arrow Video)
Dream Demon is a film I have to admit I had not even heard of when it showed up in my mailbox. I did not do any research on the film prior to watching it, and honestly, have to admit I was none too excited to see it. But that all changed within the first…
Blu-ray Review – Django (Arrow Video)
With the exception of Sergio Leone’s films, spaghetti westerns have been severely underrepresented on Blu-ray. The tide is beginning to change with Blue Underground’s release of Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti western classic Django. Django is probably Sergio Corbucci’s best known film, and is very likely his best. Sergio Corbucci’s Django is one of the most grim…
Blu-ray Review – Come and See (Criterion)
Come and See is a 1985 Russian war film by Elem Klimov. I am a pretty big fan of the Russian cinema I’ve seen over the years, but I’ll admit the gaps in my knowledge of Russian cinema are quite large, and this is definitely one of those gaps. It seems most times when one…
Blu-ray Review – Rising of Shield Hero (S1 Parts 1 and 2, Funimation)
Rising of the Shield Hero is a 2019 anime series by Studio Kinema, who made one of my recent favorite anime series, Made in Abyss. Knowing this going in I was already excited. I know there are plenty of anime series that involve normal people entering fantasy universes so that tempered my expectations slightly, but…