Joss Whedon, as long as you’ve heard of him, is someone you statistically love or loathe. Trust me, I’ve done the research. You can go to just about any forum related to his medium, drop his name, and derail a thread. Just like that. Snap your fingers for instant trolling. The shit-storm cometh. Some will…
An Angel for Satan & The Long Hair of Death (Midnight Choir) DVD Review
It seems that Midnight Choir is out to impress horror fans with their debut releases. This Barbara Steele double feature contains two of her more obscure Italian films An Angel for Satan and the Long Hair of Death. Prior to this release I had only heard of, but had not seen Long Hair of Death,…
All Good Things (Magnolia) DVD Review
The strange-but-true case of the disappearance of Katherine Durst, the wife of an emotionally unstable heir to a New York real estate dynasty who was long suspected of her murder but never convicted, has provided the inspiration for All Good Things, the first fictional film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. Jarecki came to prominence in…
Alucarda (Mondo Macabro) DVD Review
Justine is a young woman whose parents have both recently died. This tragic turn of events has forced her into a convent, where she is put together in a room with Alucarda, another young woman with a tragic past. Alucarda and Justine quickly become friends, and that friendship actually blossoms into something quite a bit…
Alien Opponent (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
When white trash trophy wife Meghan Mazurski (Ashley Bates) is caught in a adulterous tryst with her himbo lover Braden (Cuyle Carvin) by her abusive and possessive husband Tom (Kevin Shea) she buries a hammer in dear ol’ hubby’s skull. At that point an alien spacecraft crash lands near where the murder occurred. When Tom’s…
Altin Cocuk (Golden Boy) (Onar Films) DVD Review
Before seeing Altin Cocuk my only exposure to the world of Turkish pop cinema was a VHS viewing of Turkish Star Wars(Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam) over a decade ago. I was a teenager at the time, and thought the whole thing was quite silly, but I enjoyed it. I never really thought too much about Turkish…
All In The Family: The Complete Series (Shout! Factory) DVD Review
I was born years after all in the family went off the air. When I had started to catch episodes of the show Archie Bunker was a pop culture reference, and Sally Struthers was making attempts to help the needy in third world countries, by giving the viewing public the opportunity to help them for…
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…
Astron 6 (Troma) DVD Review
When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez teamed up in 2007 for their exploitation extravaganza Grindhouse the results were decidedly mixed: although the double feature homage overflowing with hot babes, cool cars, and glorious gore made a lot of the viewers who didn’t leave the theater after the first feature confused very happy and impressed most…
Asylum (I Want To Be a Gangster) (Synapse) DVD Review
Much like Henry Hill before him, all young Jack (Julien Courbey) ever wanted to be was a gangster, just like the ones he used to admire in the movies. But the work he’s getting as a low-level street thug while running a back room Russian roulette game with his partner (Abel Jafri) on the side…