Picture it: Devonsville, 1683. Some puritanical dickbagels burn three women at the stake. Why oh why did they do this? They think that these totally innocent people are witches! Here comes your fact-filled history lesson, so buckle up, kiddos. Puritans were somewhat anti-witch back in the day. That’s it. Three hundred years later, the same…
Love and Lies: Complete Collection Blu-ray Review [Sentai Filmworks]
Can you have love without lies? Can you lie about being in love? It’s time we found out in this twelve-episode anime series reissued recently on blu-ray from our old friends at Sentai Filmworks. In the not-too-distant future, Japan is suffering severely declining birth dates (a problem they are already facing today) to the point…
Demon of Paradise Blu-ray review
Demon of Paradise is basically, for all intensive purposes, a Filipino version of Creature from the Black Lagoon. The difference is, this movie is a cheesy horror film from the 80s with severely hammy acting, tons of gun violence and an odd-looking monster, as opposed to a well-made, well-produced and well-acted 50s B-movie, which Creature…
Revisions Blu-Ray Review [Sentai Filmworks]
Arriving recently on blu-ray from anime juggernaut Sentai Filmworks is the 2019 action sci-fi series Revisions. Hop into your mech and let’s fight some gross, mutant robot things! Daisuke is an off-kilter high schooler who has fixated on an incident in his childhood where he was confronted by a being from the future and told…
UHD Review – Justine/Eugenie (Blue Underground)
Blue Underground have been one of my favorite distributors since early in the DVD era. The reason simply being is that they have released many of my favorite films, or at least the type of films I enjoy onto the format in quality editions. They have continued that tradition into the Blu-ray era, but one…
UHD Review – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Dark Sky)
I remember being 12 years old, and popping in Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the middle of one of the many group horror marathons my friends and I would have at this age. We had heard about the title for years, and with it’s reputation and even the title, we expected to have a splattery good…
Quiet Days in Clichy – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (Blue Underground)
Joey and Carl are two down and out reprobates- oops, I mean writers in Paris. These two walking hard-ons get into all sorts of ridiculous and impossible shenanigans involving sex, food, and money. Sometimes, all three at the same time. There are lots of beautiful women that come and go, and they are all treated…
Tonight or Never Blu-ray review
Based on the Hungarian Play of the same name, Tonight or Never is a 1931 American pre-code comedy film that stars screen legends Gloria Swanson and Melvin Douglas. In this picture, Gloria Swanson (Manhandled, Zaza, Sadie Thompson) stars as Nella Vargo, a young opera singer who is having some trouble advancing her career according to…
The Black Crystal – Blu-ray Review (AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome)
Will (Mike Conway) is cruising out west in his sick Trans Am to go see his brother, who lives in a small town up in the mountains, when he foolishly picks up a sketchy hitchhiker named Justin. They are on the road for about 2 minutes before they are forced off the road by some…
Cinematic Sorceress: The Films of Nina Menkes [Blu-ray Review]
On February 7, 2003, Arbelos releases a two-disc set collecting six of indie director Nina Menkes’ pioneering feminist films of slow cinema along with a bountiful host of extras. Does this set deliver the goods or will it leave you wandering the desert in search of meaning in a desolate world of apathy and sin?…