Chihayafuru surprised me, I mean, really surprised me. When I looked at the case the artwork looked nice and simple, but reading the back I did not expect to find myself caring that much about an anime that follows a character playing a competitive poetry based card game that I had never even remotely heard…
Blu-ray Review – Overboard – Severin Films
Overboard follows Joanne (Goldie Hawn) and Dean (Kurt Russell). Joanne is a rich heiress, who is currently running around the world in a yacht with her equally snobby husband Grant. Grant and Joanne arrive in Elk Grove, OR. Where Joanne hires Dean to remodel her shoe closet, when she is not pleased with the work,…
Blu-ray Review – Mirror – Criterion
Can I just say FINALLY? I know Mirror has been out via Artificial Eye in the U.K. For years now, but is a relief to have all of Andrei Tarkovsky’s work available on Region A Blu-ray, and sealing up the collection this month is the director’s autobiographical Mirror. Mirror is one of the Tarkovsky films…
Vengeance Trails – 4 Classic Westerns (Arrow Video)
This has been a pretty amazing year for box sets, and next on the chopping block is an Arrow Video entry “Vengeance Trails – 4 Classic Westerns”. This box set takes some lesser known western entries, by some better known directors like Lucio Fulci, Antonio Marghetiri, Maurizio Lucido, and Massimo Dallamano, and puts them together…
No Time for Love Blu-ray review
Kino Lorber has been releasing a few movies on Blu-ray that are directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring screen legend Claudette Colbert (Arise, My Love). One of those films is the recent release of No Time for Love which the great actress is paired alongside another screen legend in Fred MacMurray (Double Indemnity) in one…
Blu-ray Review – Treasure of the Ninja – AGFA
Dr. Stewart and her colleagues are seeking a long sought-after treasure but some villains employing ninjas -both the living kind and the undead kind- stand in their way. It’s up to government agent and martial arts expert Magneta Faze (William Lee) and his teenage genius sidekick Monique to save the day. That’s two sentences of…
Back Street(1961) Blu-ray review
Imagine being in a relationship with someone that you will not have a future with but decide to be with that person anyway because you love him or her so much. That’s what we have here in the 1961 film, Back Street. Back Street is the tragic love story about a couple who cannot be…
Blu-ray Review – House on Sorority Row – MVD Rewind
Horror seems to become popular in waves. Every decade or so some movie seemingly reinvents the wheel of what is scary for the time. This decade for example has seen the rise of Saw inspired “torture porn,” and Americanized versions of foreign (especially Japanese) horror films. In the 90’s it was the pseudo-giallo Scream rip…
Blu-ray Review – Cannibal Man – Severin/Subkultur
Review and Notes on Subkultur Edition by Tyler MillerUpdated Comments on Severin Edition by Scott MacDonald Marcos (Vicente Parra) is a lonely slaughterhouse worker, who seems to be just drifting through life. He dreams of having a higher paying job, and marrying his girlfriend Paula (Emma Cohen). One night after a heated date, the two…
I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes Blu-ray review
Imagine being accused of murder because you wore a certain pair of dancing shoes. Well, that’s what happened here in the 1948 American crime film with the classic title, I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes. In this movie, you probably wouldn’t! I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes is a crime drama about a Tom Quinn…