So it’s been a wild few months for Jackie Chan releases between Shout Factory’s Jackie Chan Collection Volume 2 (1983-1993) and 88 Films Police Story III Supercop 4K UHD release. Between the two sets I am in an ecstatic place as far as our favorite Hong Kong funnyman goes. It has been more than a…
UHD Review – Justine/Eugenie (Blue Underground)
Blue Underground have been one of my favorite distributors since early in the DVD era. The reason simply being is that they have released many of my favorite films, or at least the type of films I enjoy onto the format in quality editions. They have continued that tradition into the Blu-ray era, but one…
UHD Review – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Dark Sky)
I remember being 12 years old, and popping in Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the middle of one of the many group horror marathons my friends and I would have at this age. We had heard about the title for years, and with it’s reputation and even the title, we expected to have a splattery good…
Blu-ray Review – Don’t Deliver us from Evil
Don’t Deliver Us From Evil is a 1971 French crime/horror/exploitation film adapted from the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder case. This story would further be adapted by Peter Jackson in his 1994 feature Heavenly Creatures, fear not readers, unlike that film, this one is the exact opposite of a class-act, and this one offers all the sleazy…
UHD Review – Dragons Forever – 88 Films
Dragons Forever is the final, and possibly the best of the three brothers (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao), of course best is hard here, and that can change at the drop of a hat. The film has Chan playing a lawyer, who formerly worked on the criminal side of things, working with Sammo…
Tabletop Review – Wingspan Asia – Stonemaier Games
Wingspan: Asia Expansion by Stone Maier Games by Ryan Miller I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Wingspan might be the best game I’ve played in the last ten years. It’s engine-building and resource management are some of the best I’ve played in any board game. Even beyond the tight refinement of it’s…
UHD Review – Freeway – Vinegar Syndrome
I haven’t seen Freeway since the 1990’s. This film which stars Reese Witherspoon as an illiterate teenager from a really messed up home life, is a fairy tale adaptation. This one, of course, is an adaptation of Red Riding Hood. In this one Witherspoon plays Vanessa, a teenage girl who finds her shitty existence turned…
Blu-ray Review – In the Folds of the Flesh – Mondo Macabro
Sergio Bergonzelli’s In the Folds of the Flesh is just about one of the most lurid, pulpy, and quite possibly downright strangest gialli one is likely to see. However, it doesn’t go over the deep-end in its weirdness and into the incomprehensible, and rather chooses to stay in the realm of the entertaining, and very…
EuroCultAV – Holiday Gift Guide 2022 – Page 1 – Blu-ray, UHD, DVD
Written by the staff of EuroCultAV – Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, Richard Glenn Schmidt, and Ben Tucker I know it’s a cliché at this point, but I feel like I just did this, but here we are again. Another year as past in the pop culture verse, the universe is expanding, and ECAV is here…
EuroCultAV Gift Guide 2022 – Page 2 – Tabletop Gaming, Books, and Music
MIND MGMT (Off The Page Games) Mind Mgmt is a hidden movement game based off the comic book of the same name. If you’ve seen David Cronenberg’s seminal Scanners you have a kinda, sort of touch off point for the story of the comic (psychic warfare, espionage). The game, however is quickly shooting up to…