It’s 2023, and Sentai Filmworks is determined to make us ring in the new year with some real FEELS courtesy of this re-issue of the Complete Season 1 & 2 of seminal slice of life romantic dramedy Clannad (now at a more affordable price point!). This includes both Clannad and it’s follow-up Clannad After Story…
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yukino (Naomi Tani) is stuck working in a bathhouse (AKA brothel) because of her utterly worthless and downright evil husband Toriyama (Kôji Fujiyama). Things only get worse when her younger sister Mayumi (Misa Ohara) shows up to live with the couple and even worser than that, Yukino reveals to her dirtbag hubbie that she is…
Picpus and Cecile is Dead! (Inspector Maigret Double-feature) Blu-ray review
For those not too familiar with the character, Inspector Maigret is a French police detective who is not unlike Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan and Hercule Poirot. Maigret has been in many books, short stories, and films. Kino Lorber has been releasing many Inspector Maigret movies and television shows onto home video in recent years and…
Blu-ray Review – Don’t Deliver us from Evil
Don’t Deliver Us From Evil is a 1971 French crime/horror/exploitation film adapted from the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case. This story would further be adapted by Peter Jackson in his 1994 feature Heavenly Creatures, fear not readers, unlike that film, this one is the exact opposite of a class-act, and this one offers all the sleazy…
The Loneliest Boy in the World [Blu-ray Review]
From the fine folks at Well Go USA comes this exceedingly quirky horror comedy of both romantic and familial love, hitting blu-ray just in time for Valentine’s Day. Does it come out smelling fresh as a daisy or is it a bloated corpse rotting in its grave? Let’s dig it up and find out! Oliver…
The Invisible Maniac – 4K/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
Little Kevin Dornwinkle is caught peeping on a sexy neighbor by his mother and her over reaction to this incident instantly creates a future serial killer. Twenty years later, Kevin has grown up into physicist Dr. Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) whose theories on “molecular reorganization” have given him the reputation of being a bit of a…
Attack Force Z ( Severin Films) Blu-ray review
Attack for Z is a 1982 film based on true events during World War II. This film features screen icons Mel Gibson(Lethal Weapon, Apocalypto) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Omen III: The Final Conflict) in early roles and also stars screen veteran John Phillip Law(The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Danger:Diabolik). Tim Burstall directed this movie,…
Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo Blu-ray review
Written, directed, and produced by Tom Chaney who even did the cinematography and editing for the film, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo (AKA Frostbiter and Wendigo ) is an independent horror comedy about a monster that is revived by a pair of hunters and wreaks havoc on some people staying at a nearby cabin in…
I’m Quitting Heroing: Complete Collection [Blu-ray Review]
Released on blu-ray January 23, 2023, Sentai Filmworks brings us a new fantasy anime that will sure to please fans who like their fantasy with a dash of comedy while leaning into deeper themes. What does the great hero do after he’s defeated the great evil and no one wants to work with him anymore?…
Programmed to Kill Blu-ray review
Programmed to Kill aka Retaliator is a science fiction action thriller directed by Allan Holzman that stars Robert Ginty and Sandahl Bergman with the latter that becomes a lethal cyborg with the desire to kill. Yes, it’s another movie that borrows some elements of The Terminator. In this movie, ex-CIA agent Eric Mathews (Robert Ginty,…