Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most celebrated and studied directors in film history. Taking the breath of the often cited in-depth interview with Francois Truffaut in which Hitchcock participated in 1966 and merging it with the laser-like focus of the scene-specific analysis of the documentary 78/52 (which, released the same year as this film,…
Vixen [Severin Films] Blu-ray Review
Vixen Palmer (Erica Gavin) is insatiable. She is married to pilot Tom (Garth Pillsbury), but his job inevitably takes him away from home for long stretches, leaving poor ol’ Vixen sexually frustrated and looking to get with anyone within thrusting distance. This leads her on a series of sexual misadventures that involves mounting a mountie,…
Yokohama BJ Blues [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
BJ (Yusaku Matsuda) is a beaten down private detective who lurks in nightclubs singing the blues on the side. Although if you asked him, he’d probably tell you he’s a blues singer who happens to do a little P.I. work as a side hustle. Regardless, BJ finds himself embroiled in a killer case involving the…
Bart La Rue’s Satan War [AGFA] Blu-ray Review
Bart La Rue was a character actor that was in an astounding number of television shows in the 60s and 70s (Mission Impossible, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, Bonanza) who had a deep, resonant voice made for broadcasting or the stage. Something he always wanted to do was direct. In his short directing career, he…
Gabriel Over the White House Blu-ray review
Due to the political season we recently had, Warner Archive went deep into their vaults to release on Blu-ray the 1933 pre-code political drama entitled Gabriel Over the White House. Screen icon Walter Huston (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Beast of the City, The Furies) is Judson Hammond, The President of the United States….
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey II [Scream Factory] Blu-ray Review
This follow-up to the first Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey finds Cristopher Robin (Scott Chambers) ostracized from everyone in his hometown of Ashdown after they all believe he was responsible for the “Hundred Acre Massacre” in the Hundred Acre Woods depicted in the first film. No one, including his close friends, believes Christopher Robin’s story of…
Crust [Anchor Bay] Blu-ray Review
Vegas (Sean Whalen) is a washed up child actor who owns a grimy laundromat. He spends his days chatting with his loser friend Russ (Daniel Roebuck) and his nights jacking off into lost socks while weeping about how his life has slipped away from him. Through this magic of his semen and tears, the pile…
Monster from the Ocean Floor Blu-ray review
Monster from the Ocean Floor is a creature feature film, notable for being the first film iconic director Roger Corman produced. Directed by Wyott Ordung (who also had a small role in the movie), this classic super low-budget B-movie is about a sea creature which lives at the bottom of the sea at a Mexican…
The Dead Don’t Hurt [Shout Factory] Blu-ray Review
It’s 1860s San Francisco and the strong and independent Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) finds herself drawn to the stolid Danish immigrant Holger Olsen (Viggo Mortensen). They soon marry and Holger and Vivienne travel back to Holger’s home in Elk Flats, Nevada to build a life together. After a time the American Civil War flares…
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes / Silver Blaze Blu-ray review
Film Masters continues to release some older classic, arguably obscure films on Blu-ray. They have entered the Sherlock Holmes universe and have offered a pair of Sherlock Holmes movies, The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes and Silver Blaze which star Arther Wontner as the great detective and Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson! The Triumph of Sherlock…