Author: Tyler Miller

Alien Opponent (Shout! Factory) DVD Review

When white trash trophy wife Meghan Mazurski (Ashley Bates) is caught in a adulterous tryst with her himbo lover Braden (Cuyle Carvin) by her abusive and possessive husband Tom (Kevin Shea) she buries a hammer in dear ol’ hubby’s skull. At that point an alien spacecraft crash lands near where the murder occurred. When Tom’s…


Altin Cocuk (Golden Boy) (Onar Films) DVD Review

Before seeing Altin Cocuk my only exposure to the world of Turkish pop cinema was a VHS viewing of Turkish Star Wars(Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam) over a decade ago.  I was a teenager at the time, and thought the whole thing was quite silly, but I enjoyed it.  I never really thought too much about Turkish…


All In The Family: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory) DVD Review

  I was born years after all in the family went off the air. When I had started to catch episodes of the show Archie Bunker was a pop culture reference, and Sally Struthers was making attempts to help the needy in third world countries, by giving the viewing public the opportunity to help them for…


Alamo Bay (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review

Welcome to Port Alamo, Texas, a small community of fishermen along the Gulf Coast. Tensions have been rising in the town for a long time over the influx of Vietnamese immigrants moving in and taking a sizable bite out of the local fishing trade. The latest arrival to Port Alamo is Dinh (Ho Nguyen), an…


Aladdin (1992) Diamond Edition (Disney) Blu-ray Review

Disney’s The Little Mermaid was released in 1989, and began a second “Golden” era for the famed animation house. The prior 15 or so years had proven to not be the best in terms of quality for Disney, and the decade between 1989-1999 proved to be one of the studio’s finest filmmaking decades in their…


Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season (Cartoon Network) Blu-ray Review

When my daughter first found Adventure Time while watching Cartoon Network many moons ago, I found myself immediately drawn to the show.  I immediately recognized the show as satirizing the RPG/Fantasy universe’s that I grew up playing games in and reading about. Over the years the creators of Adventure Time have proven that the show…


Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season (Cartoon Network) Blu-ray Review

I go through phases with Cartoon Network programming, when they kicked off in the early 90’s they seemed more like a repository for the Hanna Barbera library of cartoons before creating extremely memorably original content like the Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory and more. They seemed to lull for a few years before hitting…


Akira (25th Anniversary Edition) (Funimation) Blu-ray Review

Akira was certainly not the first Japanese anime to become popular on the world stage. From episodic cartoons in the 60’s and 70’s like Astro Boy, Speed Racer, and Gatchaman (aka Battle of the Planets) to the 80’s Robotech, Japanese animation had begun to make it’s way slowly into the international consciousness.  However, it should…


Astron 6 (Troma) DVD Review

When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez teamed up in 2007 for their exploitation extravaganza Grindhouse the results were decidedly mixed: although the double feature homage overflowing with hot babes, cool cars, and glorious gore made a lot of the viewers who didn’t leave the theater after the first feature confused very happy and impressed most…


Asylum (I Want To Be a Gangster) (Synapse) DVD Review

Much like Henry Hill before him, all young Jack (Julien Courbey) ever wanted to be was a gangster, just like the ones he used to admire in the movies. But the work he’s getting as a low-level street thug while running a back room Russian roulette game with his partner (Abel Jafri) on the side…