Visual effects artist Gary Jones (Army of Darkness, Moontrap) made his directorial debut with 1995’s Mosquito, an entertaining tongue-in-cheek homage to the giant monster and killer bug B-movies of yesteryear. Jones’ labor of love receives its long-awaited debut on Blu-ray courtesy of Synapse Films with a beautifully upgraded transfer and some terrific supplements that dig…
Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of the Shinya Tsukamoto (Arrow) Blu-ray review
Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of the Shinya Tsukamoto is one of the best home video releases of 2020. It may be a little early to say this (it’s August as I write this), but this is my favorite release of the year. This boxset is a love letter to one of the most transgressive…
Quai Des Orfevres (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
Jenny (Suzy Delair) is a young hopeful singer who wants to make it big in the theatre. Her singing talents are limited but she isn’t let this get in her way. She flirts and seduces popular people around the industry. This makes her husband and accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier) jealous. He discovers that Jenny is…
Enter The Fat Dragon (2020) (Well Go USA) Blu-ray Review
Supercop Fallon Zhu (Donnie Yen) just can’t stay out of trouble. Everywhere he goes there is a new crime, robbery, or attempted shootout. This starting to drive his girlfriend Chloe (Niki Chow) crazy. She is a successful actress, who keeps getting insults from journalists and fans for her being labeled “The worst actress” and getting…
Curse of the Puppet Master (Full Moon) Blu-ray Review
Dr. Magrew (George Peck) is a scientist with some unusual ideas about transforming people into other beings. He finds the case of living puppets and decides to turn a human into a puppet creation. He has to keep this a secret from his daughter Jane (Emily Harrison), as he searches for a test subject. He…
RIP: Ennio Morricone
July 6th, 2020, we lost a legend today. The great Italian composer Ennio Morricone has left us. But I won’t dwell on the negative. The man left behind a wide legacy, wider then any epic landscape, with more iconic scores then I could possibly count. Morricone was classically trained and loved playing the trumpet. For…
The Narrow Margin (1990) (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
While going on a blind date, Carol (Anne Archer), becomes a witness to a brutal mob hit. Thinking that she can avoid any trouble, she decides to hide out in her brother’s cabin in Canada. Carol doesn’t know that the man with the hitman was actually an infamous Mob Boss. A Los Angeles district attorney…
Massacre Mafia Style (Grindhouse Releasing) Blu-ray Review
I like to think of Duke Mitchell, not as a filmmaker, not as an actor, or a crooner, but as a mid-20th Century Renaissance Man. Mitchell was a Sinatra style crooner in the early portion of his career, before a producer paired him with Jerry Lewis clone Sammy Petrillo for a night club act. Although,…
Mary Poppins: 50th Anniversary Edition (Disney) Blu-ray Review
Mary Poppins is a film whose VHS tape I wore through quite easily as a child, and whose DVD (coincidentally purchased exactly 10 years ago this month as the 40th-anniversary edition) I have watched at least once a year with my own kids. Disney has just released the 50th Anniversary edition Blu-ray, which while not…
Metamorphosis/Beyond Darkness (Scream Factory, Blu-ray) Review
Metamorphosis stars Gene Lebrock as Dr. Peter Houseman, a scientist who believes he has achieved a way to cure death by tapping into the evolutionary memory of DNA. Frustrated by the small-mindedness of his colleagues, he experiments on himself to prove his theories. As his science becomes more and more mad, his relationship with university…