When Robert Downey Jr. took on the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, I had some concerns about him being the choice to play the part of the legendary character. In part because he did not have the right look, and because many of his roles were for comedies. I thought his portrayal…
UHD Review – Daughters of Darkness – Blue Underground
Daughters of Darkness is one of many lesbian vampire films from the early 70’s. It is also one of the best films of that particular sub-genre. Daughters of Darkness, unlike other films of the era, takes a less cliched approach to vampire mythology, and as such has more in common with a film such…
UHD Review – Full Metal Jacket (Warner Brothers)
Full Metal Jacket has always been a decisive movie in Stanley Kubrick’s filmography. There has been never a dispute that the opening half of the film is a stone cold cinema classic with it’s view trained on a group of Marines in brutal basic training. The 2nd half of the film sees the results of…
UHD Review – Ghost in the Shell (Anime, 1995, Lionsgate)
Ghost in the Shell is a film I’ve lived with for a long time. The film was released originally in 1995, and SOMETIME in the late 1990’s I saw it for the very first time on VHS. I immediately fell for it’s hyperactive, cyber-sci-fi charms, and amazing action, coupled with a style of animation that…
UHD Review – New York Ripper (Blue Underground)
The late great horror journalist Chas Balun wrote a small booklet in honor of Lucio Fulci shortly after the maestro’s death in 1996. It was titled Beyond the Gates, and is well worth checking out if you are a Fulci fanatic, as I am. It is fairly short, and not very in depth, but it…
UHD Review – House by the Cemetery (Blue Underground)
House by the Cemetery is an insanely important film for me. I still remember buying Zombie from a Suncoast Video (remember those)? I would use websites like House of Horrors, and magazines like Fangoria to get any information I could on Italian horror, but sometimes it was just the mere act of stumbling on to…
UHD Review – The Goonies – Warner Brothers
As a kid my first passion was my NES. I would always ask for new games for Christmas and birthdays, and rent them when I could. One game I became obsessed with even though as a kid I could never figure it out was “The Goonies II”. I found out through a friend it was…
UHD Review – Beetlejuice – Warner Brothers
Beetlejuice in spite of its popularity is not a film I got around to watching as a kid. I saw it in bits and pieces on TV , but never the whole film until last year, and even then I was unimpressed. I did watch the cartoon quite a bit, but now familiar with the…