Roland West’s 1930 classic crime thriller, The Bat Whispers is a mystery movie during the pre-code era that is about a master criminal named ‘The Bat’ who wears a black costume that resembles a bat. The Bat had a rich history in cinema as the movie was remade several times. There aren’t that many movies…
Tchao Pantin [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Lambert (Coluche) is a melancholy, alcoholic gas station attendant that works the night shift with no drive in life. One evening a young man named Bensoussan stumbles into Lambert’s life while fleeing the cops, igniting a spark of friendship that Lambert hasn’t felt in a very long time. We come to find out that Bensoussan…
Cocaine Werewolf [Cleopatra/MVD] Blu-ray Review
The film opens with a cam girl openly professing her love of money. Horny + greedy = Not a great situation to be in for a movie called Cocaine Werewolf. Before you know it, her cameraman is killed off as her screams pierce the night. Then we jump to a drug deal gone awry… Ah…
High Crime [Blue Underground] 4K Blu-ray Review
Franco Nero stars as Inspector Belli, a no-nonsense cop on a crusade to take down a crime syndicate peddling in drugs and corruption. Stifled at every turn by higher-ups that are either in the pocket of the mob or too scared to make waves, Belli is like a bull, charging headlong into danger. Things get…
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
The year is 1864 and Edgardo Mortara is a six-year-old boy who is suddenly taken away from his Jewish family because the Papal authorities declare that they believe he was baptized in secret and thus is actually a Christian and unfit to be raised by Jewish parents. In the process of attempting to win back…
Once to Every Woman Blu-ray review
Fay Wray fans can celebrate as another classic movie she starred in has been given a Blu-ray release courtesy of Sony Pictures! The film, Once to Every Woman is a pre-code drama from 1933 that is basically a hospital drama. Wray, mostly known for screaming at the top of her lungs in the mega-classic King…
The Last Kumite [Capelight] Blu-ray Review
Michael Rivers (Mathis Landwehr) is a retired karate champion who just wants to spend time with his family. One day, he is approached by a mysterious man named Ron Hall (Matthias Hues) who proposes he join an underground “no rules” fighting tournament to determine the greatest martial artist in the world. Rivers turns him down,…
June Zero [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
For those not aware Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking member of the Nazi party and the SS that was instrumental in organizing the Holocaust and in particular the concentration camps that Jews were kept in during World War II. In 1960, Eichmann was captured by Israel’s Mossad agency, put on trial and eventually executed in…
Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace [Severin] Blu-ray Review
Review by James Layton Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace is a 1962 black and white film directed by Hammer Films regular, Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee in his only appearance as Holmes. Not to brag, but I have read every Sherlock Holmes story and novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but don’t…
Eighteen Years in Prison [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Noboru Ando plays Kawada, a former soldier of a suicide squadron in WWII who is now trying to find meaning in his life and forms a gang with his friend Tsukada (Asao Koike) to steal goods from occupying American soldiers in order to setup an organization to take care of the families of fallen Japanese…