The Undoing is a 2020 television mini-series that features a few screen legends in Donald Sutherland, Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman. If you want to see a successful family get torn to pieces, then this is the film for you! The story is nothing more than a modern day who-done-it tale which to some degree…
Blu-ray Review – Masculin Feminin (Criterion)
I hate to get all personal when writing reviews, but when I was in film school in the early 2000’s I went through a French New Wave obsessive phase, especially the early films of Jean-Luc Godard. This mixed with the New York independents of the 80’s like Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Hal Hartley, Frank Henenlotter,…
Blu-ray Review – Last Gasp – Vinegar Syndrome
While trying to build a luxurious resort in the jungles of Mexico, Leslie Chase (Robert Patrick) is forced to halt construction because a nearby indigenous tribe is sacrificing his workers. He calls in some local muscle to wipe the tribe out but one of them gets away and comes after him. After killing his attacker,…
Doctor X Blu-ray review (Warner Archive Collection)
Every October when I exclusively watch horror movies to celebrate the Halloween season, Doctor X is one of the films that I always watch. Known for its line “synthetic flesh” the creature in this picture is nothing short of hideous and is spookier than most, including those in contemporary horror cinema! Based on the play…
Man from Del Rio / The Ride Back Blu-ray review
Anthony Quinnhad an amazing career in Hollywood that spanned for over 60 years. He was nominated for several Academy Awards and two for Best Supporting Actor for Viva Zapata! and Lust for Life. In 1987 he won the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. A pair of Westerns that he starred in during…
Blu-ray Review – Death Promise – Vinegar Syndrome
Somehow I had never heard of Death Promise before it had landed on my doorstep. After having watched its Death Wish meets Kung Fu trash charms, I am not just sold, I am addicted. I have started the day finding friends to tell about the film. The film follows Charley Roman, a karate-fighter, whose Dad…
Blu-ray Review – Food Wars – Fourth Plate
Being on a diet and watching the “Fourth Plate” (Fourth Season) of Food Wars is not the ideal situation. I’ve had food in anime (see the films of Hayao Miyazaki as an example) where the food looks good enough to eat, but Food Wars takes that to the extreme so much so, that over the…
Blu-ray Review – Venus Wars – Sentai Filmworks
So when I was getting beyond the Robotech/Dragon Warrior phase of my anime fandom, Cartoon Network and the Sci-Fi channel were there to rescue me with some random blocks of anime. Obviously, CN had Adult Swim, but Sci-Fi had some cool stuff too, and they pretty frequently would show the classic Yoshikazu Yasuhiko anime film…
Blu-ray Review – Motto : To Love Ru – Sentai Filmworks
OK, so a few years back on the older web 1.0’ish version of EuroCultAV we reviewed To Love Ru- The Complete Collection. Our assessment of the time was that the first 2 seasons of To Love Ru (this Blu-ray set is the 2nd season) were a bit too on the campy and episodic , and…
Blu-ray Review – Kandagawa Jet Girls – Sentai Filmworks
Kandagawa Jet Girls is a multimedia project that ties together this 12 episode anime series with an OVA and PS4 racing game. The series premise is quite simple Rin has long wanted to follow in her late Mother’s footsteps. Those footsteps, however, would lead her to be a racer in the sport of Kandagawa Jet…