“Follow the River”. This is the unforgettable song that is heard during and at the ending to the 1957 film, Night Passage. The film is one of several Westerns that James Stewart starred in during his tenure with Universal Studios. In this film, he goes undercover and plays an accordion! Former railroad man Grant McLaine…
The Rare Breed Blu-ray review
One of my favorite actors in cinema is James Stewart, mainly for some of his great unforgettable roles he had over the years, be it from Anatomy of a Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo and It’s a Wonderful Life. He was a brilliant actor, often playing likeable characters. In 1939 he starred in a comedy Western,…
Blu-ray Review – Satan’s Slave (Severin Films)
If there is one takeaway from all the Indonesian horror and fantasy films I have watched over the years it is basically black magic is bad news. This month’s Severin Film’s release Satans’s Slave (Pengabdi Setan) really hammers that point home. The film follows Tomi, who has just experienced the death of his Mother. After…
Blu-ray Review – Domestic Girlfriend (Sentai Filmworks, Complete)
Domestic Girlfriend follows Natsuo, an aspiring writer, and full-time ladies man who has eyes on his teacher Tachibana. During a cocktail party, he ends up taking a girl named Rui home for the night. The next day his Dad announces his upcoming marriage and invites his bride to be over with her 2 daughters. When…
Blu-ray Review – Black Clover Season 1 (Complete Collection, Funimation 1-51)
I play a lot of D&D, and read fantasy fiction in my spare time, so any anime that has wizards and fantasy settings I’ll at least give a shot to. I’ve been hearing about Black Clover for a number of years now, but really never gave it the time, especially with the basic comparisons as…
Blu-ray Review – Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Severin Films)
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh is the second narrative feature film by director Sergio Martino (he directed one western, and some documentaries prior). It is also the beginning of Martino’s many collaborations with the legendary screen actress Edwige Fenech. These would include Your Vices is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key,…
The Way Back (Warner Bros) Blu-ray Review
Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck)’s life is a void of everything but hardships. His job is terrible, he has troubles with his family, and his separation from his wife has kept him for the dating scene. The only thing in life is his crippling addiction to booze. Things start to look up when he is offered…
Blu-ray Review – Horrors of Spider Island (Severin)
Horrors of Spider Island opens with Gary a nightclub owner in Singapore auditioning sexy women for his club. They come in by ones and in pairs, show off their “assets”, and either get selected or rejected (spoiler, they all get accepted). Gary than gets all these lovely ladies on to his plane to wing them…
Blu-ray Review – Escape from L.A. (Scream Factory)
Scream Factory has a fever, and the only cure for it, is putting out more John Carpenter films. Seriously, the label has pretty much put out every John Carpenter film on Blu-ray and with Twilight Time going under I feel like the rights to Christine will be going up soon, VCI might one day be…
The Muppet Movie (Disney) Blu-ray Review
It took a few decades of TV appearances, before the Muppets even got their own TV show, however with the wild success of the Muppet Show it was inevitable that Jim Henson’s most timeless and popular creations would make the transition to the cinema screen, and in 1979 they finally did with the eponymous The…