In 1997, DRIVE was released direct to video in the US, and in my opinion is one of the best martial arts movies of that decade. Director Steve Wang gave us one of the funnest, and most hard hitting action films of the decade. DRIVE follows Toby, played by Mark Dacascos, a special agent from…
Blu-ray Review – Buried Alive (Vinegar Syndrome)
In 1989/1990, producer Harry Alan Towers produced three Edgar Alan Poe adaptations for Menahem Golan’s 21st Century Film Corporation: Edgar Allan Poe’s The House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death, and the film we are reviewing today, Edgar Allan Poe’s Buried Alive. The film stars Playboy Playmate Karen Witter as Janet,…
Girls und Panzer das Finale Part 3 [Blu-ray Review]
Barreling onto blu-ray this September from Sentai Filmworks is Part 3 of the big Girls und Panzer Finale (of a planned six films), and if this is the planned conclusion of the series, then it looks like they’re planning to go out in style! For those who haven’t been following the previous two entries of…
Girls und Panzer der Film [Blu-ray Review]
Sentai Filmworks brings Girls und Panzer der Film back into print on blu-ray after the original release of this film back in 2017, this time as just a blu-ray rather than the original blu-ray + DVD combo pack, with those scrappy girls of Ooarai Academy and their ridiculous physics-defying tanks returning for the big screen…
Blu-ray Review – Horrible Sexy Vampire – Mondo Macabro
The Horrible Sexy Vampire (or the Highway Vampire as it’s Spanish title translates to) is a bizarre little Spanish horror entry from 1971 that I’ll own up to having never seen before this Blu-ray ended up in my player last weekend. The film opens up with a couple, tired from a road trip stopping for…
UHD Review – Army of Darkness – Scream Factory
Ashley J. Williams aka Ash (Bruce Williams) is a department store house wares clerk at S-Mart. He went on a vacation with his girlfriend/group of friends to a cabin in the woods, where an archaeologist had been translating an ancient occult text the “Necronomicon”. After Ash reads aloud from the book demonic deadites begin possessing…
Blu-ray Review – Satan’s Little Helper (Synapse)
Jeff Lieberman hasn’t directed a ton of films, but the films he has directed have struck deep into the minds of cult film fans. Squirm, Just Before Dawn, Blue Sunshine, and Remote Control are easy to recall just from name alone. After the early 80’s Lieberman directed some well-regarded documentaries before jumping back in with…
Gunbuster: The Movie Blu-ray Review
On September 13, 2022, Sentai Filmworks re-issued the blu-ray of Gunbuster: the Movie having previously been released back in 2016 under Sector 23’s Maiden Japan banner. While this looks to be the same disc as the previous release but with updated cover art, I still tip my hat to Sentai Filmworks in keeping a seminal…
Seitokai Yakuindomo The Movie 2 Blu-ray Review
Released on September 20, 2022 courtesy of Sentai Filmworks, we have this delightfully obscene film continuance of the riotously raunchy anime series based on a 4-koma manga (a 4-panel gag comic not unlike ones you would see in our newspapers in the US) like Nichijou or Azumanga Diaoh. Seitokau Yakuindomo is very much like those…
Blu-ray Review – The Birds II: Land’s End – Vinegar Syndrome
Those mean old birds from Alfred Hitchcock’s famous movie about killer birds called Rope (1948) are back and boy howdy, they are mad. They’re frickin’ sick of humankind’s bullcrap what with our all of our polluting the Earth and blaring our loud music. I can’t confirm this but my cursory research indicates that birds especially…