Attraction (Nerosubianco) much like his prior film The Howl(L’Urlo) feels like it is channeling the free spirit of the 1960’s on film. Also, like The Howl the narrative in Attraction seems to take a backseat to the visuals and moods that director Tinto Brass is attempting to create. When I watched the Howl it felt…
Audition (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
One of the most amazing things about film, especially powerful films, is their ability to change with the viewer. I have just watched Audition for the third time for this review. When I first viewed it close to ten years ago, I was an adventurous horror fan looking for my next scare, I knew what…
Australia After Dark (Intervision) DVD Review
Australia After Dark is a slightly misleading title, as very little of it actually takes place at night. Then again the Aussies have always been a hearty, fun-loving people completely unafraid of letting their freak flags fly in the broadest of daylight, and that’s what this documentary is about. In the tradition of the Italian…
Autumn Sonata (The Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review
It took until 1978’s Autumn Sonata for cinema’s 2 greatest Bergman’s to come together on a project. The film directed by the legendary Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, and co-starring Casablanca/Notorious actress Ingrid Bergman. The film would come at the twilight of both of their careers, for actress Ingrid, Autumn Sonata would be the second to…
DVD Review: Action-Packed Movie Marathon Volume 2 (Shout! Factory)
Shout! Factory returns with another dose of action-powered goodness in this 2-DVD set. Volume Two presents four more explosive flicks with high-octane star power and enough shootouts and hand to hand combat to enthrall any action aficionado. With films ranging from 1974 to 1988, this movie marathon is destined to capture the glory days of…
Blu-ray Review: A Snake of June (Third Window)
Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa) is a phone counselor at a suicide prevention hotline, and married to Shigehiko, a cleanliness obsessed salaryman who tends to spend a lot of time away from the apartment, so much so that he and Rinko are more like roommates than a married couple. That being said their relationship on the surface…
DVD Review: A Saint, A Woman, A Devil (Vinegar Syndrome)
Originally released under the title (Sylvia). This Is possibly one of the oddest, weirdest, craziest Grindhouse, sexplotation type of films that one would ever see or ever try to comprehend. The weirdness of it is perfect and the strange reality of what it captures holds the viewer in all of it’s odd and surreal atmosphere….
Blu-ray Review: A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS/ A THOUSAND AND ONE EROTIC NIGHTS 2: THE FORBIDDEN TALES (Vinegar Syndrome)
After discovering his wife is cheating on him, The Sultan (John Leslie) requests a wild night with a concubine named Scheherezade (Annette Haven) to forget his troubles. The only problem is afterward the poor woman is set to be killed. So in an effort to spare her life, she tells the Sultan a series of…
Blu-ray Review: My Son (Cohen)
Julien (Guillaume Canet) is called back to hometown for a family crisis. His 7-year-old son has gone missing during a camping weekend. The police first think it’s a simple case of a runaway, but Julien has his doubts. His ex-wife (Melanie Laurent) tells him that she is pregnant with another man’s baby and that maybe…
Blu-ray Review: Legend of the Demon Cat (Well Go USA)
Strange happenings start when a mysterious talking black cat show up to the Imperial Court. The whole kingdom gets shaken up when the wife of a General is suddenly possessed by an ancient demon that is hellbent on revenge. But an eccentric duo of a Japanese Monk, with a fondness for exorcisms, and an oddball…