Author: ScottM

Tabletop Review – Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022 – Mongoose Publishing

About 5 years ago I took the plunge back in the world of table top RPG’s. I spent years just not having the time and left them behind, so it seems like now having gotten back in since the late 90’s, I am making up for last time. I can’t always get the games I…


Blu-ray Review – Vampire Lovers – Scream Factory

Hammer Studios has already existed for decades when they experienced a sudden jolt of success with their one-two punch of the Curse of Frankenstein and the Horror of Dracula. These 2 films aside from being grounded by two men who would become a legendary pairing in the realm of fantastic film, had amazingly lurid color…


Blu-ray Review – Shock – Arrow Video

Finally, we have Shock on Blu-ray, so now I can start asking about Shock and the filmography of Bava on 4K UHD! Shock is the final film directed by the legendary Italian maestro of the macabre Mario Bava. It was made in 1977, and has a tonally different feel than his prior horror films, though…


Blu-ray Review – Dororo – Complete Collection – Sentai Filmworks

This review took a lot longer than anticipated. Dororo is the third-ever adaptation of the manga by Osamu Tezuka. In this series a baby is born without limbs of senses, and is sent downriver to die. He is found, and fixed up and manages to survive. It turns out that his ailment was caused by…


Blu-ray Review – Shawscope Volume One – Arrow Video

Classic kung fu films have always struggled to find legitimate release in the U.S., for a short spell in the early 2000’s in the direct period after Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill was released Miramax/The Weinstein Company made a deal with Celestial Pictures/Shaw Brothers to release some of their titles under the Dragon Dynasty banner. At…


Five for Friday – Severin Films Black Friday Blu-ray Reviews

It’s Black Friday which means it is sale time everywhere, but in cult cinema releasing world it means that labels are throwing out some specialized packages to entice fans. This Black Friday Severin Films are unleashing Severin Blu-ray releases of wild exploitation, foreign, and shock cinema sure to please fans, and we got our hands…


Tabletop Review – Alien RPG – Colonial Marines Operations Manual – Free League Publishing

So when it comes to the Alien franchise I will admit I lean more to the horror side of things. That means when I revisit the franchise, and I’m not marathoning them in order, my go-to’s are the original and Alien 3 (assembly cut). Yet, oddly even though the action-packed Aliens is my outlier in…


Tabletop Review – Dungeons and Dragons – Wild Beyond the Witchlight – Wizards of the Coast

I’ve been playing Dungeons and Dragons, basically since 2E in the early 90’s. I say basically since my first edition was a “Classic” box I bought earlier. If there is one thing D&D (or AD&D when I started) was and is known for it is combat. For the last year and a half I’ve been…


Blu-ray Review – Weird Wisconsin – The Bill Rebane Collection

I legitimately enjoy Bill Rebane movies, I saw Monster a Go Go originally when the Somethng Weird DVD release, and yeah, it’s bad, but I found it enjoyable. I was introduced to Rebane’s work sometime as a teenager in the 90’s when a TV screening in the middle of the night showed up the Giant…


Blu-ray Review – Swordgai – The Animation – Complete Series – Sentai Filmworks

Swordgai – The Animation takes place in a world where incredibly violent and powerful weapons exist. These weapons are demonic in nature, and either possess their wielder, or begin to slowly control them. Into this world comes “Gai”, whose Mother had come into contact with one of these weapons “Shiryu” when she was pregnant, but…