Domestic Girlfriend follows Natsuo, an aspiring writer, and full-time ladies man who has eyes on his teacher Tachibana. During a cocktail party, he ends up taking a girl named Rui home for the night. The next day his Dad announces his upcoming marriage and invites his bride to be over with her 2 daughters. When…
Blu-ray Review – Black Clover Season 1 (Complete Collection, Funimation 1-51)
I play a lot of D&D, and read fantasy fiction in my spare time, so any anime that has wizards and fantasy settings I’ll at least give a shot to. I’ve been hearing about Black Clover for a number of years now, but really never gave it the time, especially with the basic comparisons as…
Blu-ray Review – Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Severin Films)
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh is the second narrative feature film by director Sergio Martino (he directed one western, and some documentaries prior). It is also the beginning of Martino’s many collaborations with the legendary screen actress Edwige Fenech. These would include Your Vices is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key,…
Blu-ray Review – Horrors of Spider Island (Severin)
Horrors of Spider Island opens with Gary a nightclub owner in Singapore auditioning sexy women for his club. They come in by ones and in pairs, show off their “assets”, and either get selected or rejected (spoiler, they all get accepted). Gary than gets all these lovely ladies on to his plane to wing them…
Blu-ray Review – Escape from L.A. (Scream Factory)
Scream Factory has a fever, and the only cure for it, is putting out more John Carpenter films. Seriously, the label has pretty much put out every John Carpenter film on Blu-ray and with Twilight Time going under I feel like the rights to Christine will be going up soon, VCI might one day be…
Blu-ray Review – An Ideal Place to Kill (Mondo Macabro)
An Ideal Place to Kill aka Oasis of Fear stars Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti as Dick and Ingrid. A young hippie couple from Denmark who smuggle porn to Italy to pay for their lifestyle. When they overspend on their latest trip they sell Polaroids of Ingrid to finance their trip home. This runs them…
Blu-ray Review – Carnival Magic (Severin Films)
I am old enough to remember when a VHS box set of Ed Wood’s films wrapped in Angora (like Wood’s preferred sweaters) was considered a big deal in the realm of cult cinema. Now in late May of 2020, in the midst of the worst pandemic in 100 years, Severin Films has given viewers a…
Blu-ray Review – Hot Dog the Movie (Synapse Films)
When people would ask me what titles I wanted on Blu-ray over the last decade, I would in all seriousness mention Hot Dog – The Movie, alongside other such wanted titles as Fassbinder’s In a Year of 13 Moons. It appears I am not the only one who wanted this 1980’s sex comedy classic on…
Blu-ray Review – Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is an odd-duck of a film. It is a sequel to a film that by all objective reasoning could be considered a critical failure, and while it probably made enough money back to justify a sequel/spin-off’s existence, it didn’t scream out for one to…
Blu-ray Review – Fantastic Planet (Criterion)
Fantastic Planet is not so much a character driven film, but a species driven one. In this case we have 2 fictional species the humanesque Om’s, and the giant blue Draags. Both share space on a planet, though share is probably not the appropriate term as the Draags due to their massive size and intellectual…