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…
Blu-ray Review – Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
The Harry Potter series of films ended in 2011 with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. That left Warner Bros. without their largest franchise money-maker, and the DC films aren’t exactly of the same family friendly mold as the Potter films, so of course they were hungry for another trip into the Wizarding…
Satanico Pandemonium (Mondo Macabro)
I first heard of Mondo Macabro as a DVD releasing entity through an ad advertising an upcoming DVD release of The Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay in either Rue Morgue or Fangoria. I found the ad enticing, and of course, ordered it, and 2 other titles from the label Alucarda, and Satanico Pandemonium. This…
Forgotten Gialli Vol. 1 (Vinegar Syndrome)
If there is one type of film that I find myself obsessing over, and going back to year in, and year out, it is the giallo. Send me a giallo that I haven’t seen, and I guarantee it will be in my Blu-ray player that night. So needless to say when Vinegar Syndrome’s Blu-ray release…