Did Spider-Man really need another origin story? Since 1963 the story of Spider Man’s origin has been told so many time it should be committed to almost anyone with a passing familiarity with superheroes or popular fiction. It was only a little over 10 years ago that Sam Raimi brought Spider Man’s origin story to…
52 Pick Up (Kino) Blu-ray Review
Harry (Roy Scheider) is a guy who seems to have it all. He has a beautiful wife, a spacious mansion, a classic Jaguar, and a high paying job. Unfortunately, he also has a mistress named Cini (Kelly Preston) and three blackmailers (John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Robert Trebor) that have a videotape of them in…
Alamo Bay (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
Welcome to Port Alamo, Texas, a small community of fishermen along the Gulf Coast. Tensions have been rising in the town for a long time over the influx of Vietnamese immigrants moving in and taking a sizable bite out of the local fishing trade. The latest arrival to Port Alamo is Dinh (Ho Nguyen), an…
Blu-ray Review – An Ideal Place to Kill (Mondo Macabro)
An Ideal Place to Kill aka Oasis of Fear stars Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti as Dick and Ingrid. A young hippie couple from Denmark who smuggle porn to Italy to pay for their lifestyle. When they overspend on their latest trip they sell Polaroids of Ingrid to finance their trip home. This runs them…
Blu-ray Review – Carnival Magic (Severin Films)
I am old enough to remember when a VHS box set of Ed Wood’s films wrapped in Angora (like Wood’s preferred sweaters) was considered a big deal in the realm of cult cinema. Now in late May of 2020, in the midst of the worst pandemic in 100 years, Severin Films has given viewers a…
Blu-ray Review – Hot Dog the Movie (Synapse Films)
When people would ask me what titles I wanted on Blu-ray over the last decade, I would in all seriousness mention Hot Dog – The Movie, alongside other such wanted titles as Fassbinder’s In a Year of 13 Moons. It appears I am not the only one who wanted this 1980’s sex comedy classic on…
Blu-ray Review – Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is an odd-duck of a film. It is a sequel to a film that by all objective reasoning could be considered a critical failure, and while it probably made enough money back to justify a sequel/spin-off’s existence, it didn’t scream out for one to…
Aladdin (1992) Diamond Edition (Disney) Blu-ray Review
Disney’s The Little Mermaid was released in 1989, and began a second “Golden” era for the famed animation house. The prior 15 or so years had proven to not be the best in terms of quality for Disney, and the decade between 1989-1999 proved to be one of the studio’s finest filmmaking decades in their…
Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season (Cartoon Network) Blu-ray Review
When my daughter first found Adventure Time while watching Cartoon Network many moons ago, I found myself immediately drawn to the show. I immediately recognized the show as satirizing the RPG/Fantasy universe’s that I grew up playing games in and reading about. Over the years the creators of Adventure Time have proven that the show…
Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season (Cartoon Network) Blu-ray Review
I go through phases with Cartoon Network programming, when they kicked off in the early 90’s they seemed more like a repository for the Hanna Barbera library of cartoons before creating extremely memorably original content like the Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory and more. They seemed to lull for a few years before hitting…