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…
Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection Blu-ray Box Set Review [Severin]
Severin Films is no stranger to delivering the goods when it comes to quenching your eurosploitation thirst. And let me tell you that HOT DAWG does this one hit the spot! Severin has graced us with a hefty, sturdy box with a very nice design that is chock full of poliziotteschi goodness, all directed by…
House of Terrors – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)
Yoshie (Yûko Kusunoki) receives news that her husband has died under mysterious circumstances. Then she finds out that he had a mistress AND even had a creepy old villa out in the middle of nowhere that she’s inherited. You take the good. You take the bad. You take them both and then you have… the…
Ben Reads the Horror Classics: All Heads Look Inward and Weep
It’s May! Spring has sprung and those hits just keep on coming. In this installment, we have a classic paranormal detective, a family dynasty steeped in voodoo, a heavily meta demon-possessed typewriter, a tale of revenge and spelunking and a massive omnibus of weird fiction from a particularly unique writer. We got ourselves a whole…
The Green Hornet – 1940 serial Blu-ray review
The Green Hornet is a 1940 thirteen-chapter serial from Universal Pictures that was based on a radio series from the 1930’s by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Gordon Jones (The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, The Big Shot) stars as both Britt Reid, publisher of The Sentinel newspaper, and the masked hero known as…
Wings of Disaster: The Birdemic Trilogy – Blu-ray Review (Severin Films/Intervision)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) is more than just the title of a film, it’s also a film. In this film, on a place resembling Earth, in a little burg called Half Moon Bay, software engineer/salesman Rod (Alan Bagh) manages to make the biggest sale of his career and lands a date with supermodel Nathalie…
Ya Boy Kongming! Complete Collection Blu-ray [Sentai Filmworks]
Fresh out the gate on blu-ray comes the mighty Kongming, rockin’ the mic and representin’ like a BOSS. Let’s check out how this quirky fish-out-of-water time travel comedy meets inspirational pop artist triumph brings it! Zhuge Kongming was a masterful tactician who ruled during the Three Kingdoms era of ancient China. Fallen sick and with…
Fantasista Doll Complete Collection Blu-ray [Sentai Filmworks]
Arriving this month is a reissue of the card battle anime Fantasista Doll from Sentai with new cover art. Is this one worth checking out or will you want to trade in your cards for a new deck? Only one way to find out! Uzume Uno is a bright young high school student who was…
Three Between the Sheets (Ecstasy/Black Venus/Melody of Passion) Blu-ray [Severin]
Arriving on blu-ray from Severin on April 25th is this three-film set of erotic dramas two of which (Black Venus and Ecstasy under the title of Love Scenes) are upgrades of previous DVD releases. Meanwhile the weird ass Melody of Passion arrives on blu-ray for the first time. Let’s slip in something comfortable and see…
Last Hurrah for Chivalry Blu-ray [Criterion Collection]
It has been twenty-five years since Criterion released John Woo’s The Killer and Hard Boiled on DVD. While they elected not to release them on blu-ray (with them being put out in mediocre releases by Dragon Dynasty instead), Criterion FINALLY returns to the well of the great John Woo, this time going all the way…