Produced and directed by Buzz Kulik, Warning Shot is 1967 mystery film about a cop who kills a man in self-defense, but the gun of the person he shot is missing, which makes the cop look as if he killed him for no reason and could be accused of murder! The film has a lot…
Carole & Tuesday Complete Collection [Blu-ray Review]
Courtesy of Sentai Filmworks, Carole & Tuesday finally comes to blu-ray after being sequestered on Netflix for a while, and it’s a humdinger of a show! Directed by legend Shinichirō Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, Carole & Tuesday takes place in a future where the music industry is driven by AI-written tunes and…
Love on the Ground Blu-ray review
Love on the Ground is a French drama from 1984 that stars a pair of theater troupe members who are invited to a theater performance, and their lives are forever changed! Taking place in Paris, Emily (Jane Birkin, Dark Places, Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye) and Charlotte (Geraldine Chaplin, Z.P.G., The Age of Innocence)…
Ghost Warrior (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
J. Carroll’s Ghost Warrior (aka Swordkill) is the story of an ancient samurai brought back to life and must learn how to live, cope and survive in modern day Los Angeles which at this point was the eighties. Yoshi (Hiroshi Fujioka, Kamen Rider, Yamato Takeru) is a 400-year-old samurai warrior that is discovered in Japan…
Attack of the Beast Creatures Blu-ray review
Attack of the Beast Creatures, also known as Hell Island, is a regional independent horror film produced and directed by Michael Stanley. It was filmed in Stanford, Connecticut, and stars a cast of unknowns who are basically known for this one movie! Taking place in 1920, the story is about a group of travelers that…
UHD Review – Freeway – Vinegar Syndrome
I haven’t seen Freeway since the 1990’s. This film which stars Reese Witherspoon as an illiterate teenager from a really messed up home life, is a fairy tale adaptation. This one, of course, is an adaptation of Red Riding Hood. In this one Witherspoon plays Vanessa, a teenage girl who finds her shitty existence turned…
Blu-ray Review – In the Folds of the Flesh – Mondo Macabro
Sergio Bergonzelli’s In the Folds of the Flesh is just about one of the most lurid, pulpy, and quite possibly downright strangest gialli one is likely to see. However, it doesn’t go over the deep-end in its weirdness and into the incomprehensible, and rather chooses to stay in the realm of the entertaining, and very…
Space Monster Wangmagwi Blu-ray review
Never, and I mean NEVER in my lifetime did I think I would ever get the opportunity to watch Space Monster Wangmagwi, let alone review it. Showing my age somewhat, I had first heard of this film and been wanting to see the movie for at least thirty years. SRS Cinema has done what for…
EuroCultAV – Holiday Gift Guide 2022 – Page 1 – Blu-ray, UHD, DVD
Written by the staff of EuroCultAV – Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, Richard Glenn Schmidt, and Ben Tucker I know it’s a cliché at this point, but I feel like I just did this, but here we are again. Another year as past in the pop culture verse, the universe is expanding, and ECAV is here…
EuroCultAV Gift Guide 2022 – Page 2 – Tabletop Gaming, Books, and Music
MIND MGMT (Off The Page Games) Mind Mgmt is a hidden movement game based off the comic book of the same name. If you’ve seen David Cronenberg’s seminal Scanners you have a kinda, sort of touch off point for the story of the comic (psychic warfare, espionage). The game, however is quickly shooting up to…