Astra – Lost in Space follows a group of students from Caird High School. They live in a future world where students go on fields trips to other planets like we would go on trips to theme parks or museums. This is this class’ first trip to space, and as such they are largely inexperienced….
Blu-ray Review – Split Second (MVD Rewind)
I will never not be amused when sci-fi movies (or books) declare a “future” date that is in throwing distance from when the film is made. 1992’s Rutger Hauer starring Split Second does that by casting the film into the 16 year’s future world of 2008. We follow film-noir-ish bad boy cop Harley Stone (Rutger…
Blu-ray Review – Cecilia (Blue Underground)
Cecilia played by Muriel Montosse marries Andre (Franco regular Antonio Maysns) 2 years before out story kicks off. At the beginning their relationship was full of sexual discovery, especially for Cecilia. However, at this point Cecilia finds herself quite bored with her relationship, and her life far away from the city. One day her driver…
Blu-ray Review – The Complete Films of Agnes Varda (Criterion)
When I first became a true cinephile almost 20 years ago, one of the first areas I began to explore was the French New Wave. I was fascinated by a group of film critics and writers who transitioned to some of the most impactful directors in the history of the medium. One of my favorites…
Old Dracula (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
Count Dracula (David Niven) is laying low in the modern-day. He enjoys his quiet time but finds the rest of the world to be a weird and alienating place. He grows more and more lonesome without his wife, Vampira, at his side. His castle is now a tourist attraction and vampires are “hip”. So hip…
Blu-ray Review – Beautiful Bones Sakurako’s Investigation (Sentai Filmworks)
OK, I love a nice atmospheric mystery series and Sentai Filmworks have just released one in the form of Beautiful Bones: Sakurako’s Investigations based on the light novel series by Shiori Ota. The series is 12 episodes long, and is compromised of a series of individual short mystery stories, and also a series of 2-parters….
Flesh-Eating Mothers (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray review
A small town in Upstate New York becomes infected with a strange virus that makes all the women hungry for human meat. A pack of “wild” Teenagers soon discover that they now have Flesh Eating Mothers! I’m not a huge fan of horror comedies. I enjoy most of the classics, but when it comes to…
Aenigma (Severin) Blu-ray Review
A bunch of stuck up jerks at a private school decide to play a cruel prank on Kathy (Milijana Zirojevic), the cleaning lady’s daughter and least popular girl among the student body. They set her up on a date with a hunk and then humiliate her as soon as she lets her guard down. It…
Mikey (MVD) Blu-ray Review
11-year-old Mikey (Brian Bonsall) seems like the most adoptable orphan in the world. He’s smart, he’s cute, and will look good on next year’s family Christmas card. There’s just one little problem with Mikey. If he doesn’t get his way, he will go on a murderous rampage, make it look like an accident, and then…
Fulci for Fake Blu-ray Review
Actor Sandro Bitetto is hired to play Italian horror director Lucio Fulci in a film about his life. The problem is that he doesn’t know jack squat about the “Godfather of Gore”. So, he goes around interviewing Fulci movie experts, his former colleagues in the Italian film industry, and even the man’s daughters to help…