In a desolate post-apocalyptic wasteland a thousand years in the future, in a land where mutants, monsters, robots and crazed killers roam around wreaking havoc on anyone unlucky enough to cross their paths, one man remains with a small shred of hope for the future of the planet, one man who these days is just…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024 Part 2 – Books, Music and Tabletop Gaming
While ECAV’s bread ‘n’ butter is all about soaking in the effervescent glow of the television screen, basking in the splendor of the goopfests of Joe D’Amato, the eroto-vampire flicks of Jean Rollin and the twisty and beautiful films of Dario Argento, we also have other interests here. We read, folks! We like to chill…
Now or Never A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich
Author extraordinaire Janet Evanovich who has written many best-selling Novels, has released the latest book in her Stephanie Plum series. The 31st book, entitled Now or Never is the book many fans have waited over a year for, where Stephanie Plum makes the decision on who she marries, Ranger or Joe Morelli. In book 30,…
EuroCultAV Holiday Gift Guide 2024! – Part 1 – Blu-ray and UHD
Contributions from the staff of EuroCultAV including Ben Tucker, Scott MacDonald, David Steigman, and Richard Glenn Schmidt. That oh-so-frosty time of year has arrived once again when we reflect back on what a bountiful crop of splendid releases that have been put out by all the stellar boutique media labels out there and recommend some…
Daiei Gothic: Three Ghost Stories [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Box Set Review
Adapted loosely from the much celebrated kabuki play, The Ghost of Yotsuya finds our lead Iemon Tamiya (Kazuo Hasegawa) destitute, having failed to become a samurai, and living with his wife Oiwa (Yasuko Nakada), depressed and aimless. One day he meets with the daughter, Ume Ito (Yoko Uraji), of a powerful samurai who becomes infatuated with…
The Love Light Blu-ray review
In the past few years, we have seen some of the movies featuring Mary Pickford getting released on Blu-ray. VCI Entertainment along with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Mary Pickford foundation have been restoring her silent classics, much to the delight of fans who love the golden oldies. The latest release to…
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! [MVD Rewind Collection] Blu-ray Review
The year was 1982. In the wake of the late ’70s blossoming of the blockbuster, we find America in a state of craving big movies in genres previously seen as less than prestigious and only for the low brow grindhouse and drive-in crowds. But these films were doing boffo business at the box office now….
Dogra Magra [Radiance Films] Blu-Ray Review
A man named Kure Ichiro (Yôji Matsuda) wakes up to find himself in a mental institution with no memory of who he is or why he is there. He is told by a Dr. Wakabayashi (Hideo Murota) that Ichiro has killed his fiancée on their wedding day, and his amnesia is caused by his brain’s…
The Cult of AGFA Trailer Show [AGFA] Blu-ray review
The Cult of AGFA Trailer Show is kind of a mixed tape of random clips from movie theaters: commercials, public service announcements, movie trailers, etc. The “movie” itself contains some full trailers but also some clips spliced together for comedic effect, but a lot of them are crazy enough to not need editing to be…
Demon Pond (1979) [Criterion Collection] Blu-Ray Review
Gakuen (Tsutomu Yamazaki) is a teacher and botanist who travels alone through the wilds of rural Japan, eventually stumbling across a drought-stricken village so desperate for water that breast milk is used as a substitution. He meets in this village an old friend, Akira (Go Kato), who is married to a mysterious woman named Yuri…