The setting is post-war Japan. We follow Miho and Toshio, a husband and wife, and their children as they struggle with the vagaries of their marriage. Miho becomes jealous of an infidelity on the part of her husband which sends her spiraling into fits of madness and paranoia. Is it too late to salvage what…
The Black Mass [MVD Visual] Blu-Ray Review
Florida, Winter, 1978. An unsettling man prowls the streets, spying on women, making lewd passes at them. He becomes fixated on a group of sorority girls and starts spying on them through their windows. Who will survive the night? This really happened. And much more. This is the story of one of the most legendary,…
Allonsanfàn [Radiance] Blu-Ray Review
The setting is France in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars in the mid 1800s. Marcello Mastrioanni is Fulvio Imbriani, a man of noble birth who refuses to give up the location of a secret revolutionary group called the Sublime Brothers. The Grand Duke decides to free Fulvio at the advice of his consigliere. At…
Cutting Class – 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Review (MVD Rewind)
Poor Paula (Jill Schoelen)! She has an annoying (but hunky) boyfriend named Dwight (Brad Pitt), an obnoxious best friend (Brenda James), and a strict district attorney daddy (Martin Mull). Her teachers are all perverted weirdos. Even her lascivious principal, Mr. Dante (Roddy McDowall), can’t keep his bulging, horny eyes off her backside. As if her…
The Heroic Trio / Executioners – 4K + Blu-ray Review (The Criterion Collection)
The Heroic Trio (1993) tells the story of a mysterious cult that is stealing babies from the city for nefarious purposes and the useless cops can only stand by and watch. I mean, they are kinda out of their league since Ching (Michelle Yeoh), the person snatching these kids, can turn invisible and run up…
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy [Radiance] Blu-Ray Review
The first film in the Bounty Hunter Trilogy, Killer’s Mission, introduces us to the titular bounty hunter (but also doctor?), Shikoro Ichibei (played by the great Wakayama Tomisaburo who would go on to star in the awesome Lone Wolf & Cub films), who is given an assignment by the shogun to go investigate a Dutch…
The Dead Mother [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
A thief named Ismael breaks into an art gallery with the intent of executing a simple burglary. Before we the audience fully register what has happened, the thief has callously murdered a woman while her daughter watches. The girl walks up to her mother, unable to comprehend what has happened. She sees Ismael and he…
The Defilers and A Smell of Honey, A Swallow of Brine – Blu-ray Review (AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome)
The Defilers (1965) is about two friends, Carl and Jamie, a couple of assholes who are always out for kicks, which means trying to sex up the ladies and successfully smoking doobies. Thanks to his father being a hotshot wheeler and dealer about town, Carl has secured himself a party space/sex dungeon in a nasty…
The Curse of the Screaming Dead – Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)
A bunch of longhairs go on a hunting party from hell, arguing over petty nonsense and incurring the wrath of some undead Civil War zombies. The Curse of the Screaming Dead (1982) is one of the single most annoying films I’ve sat through in quite a long time. The story is disjointed and tedious, and…
Lycan Colony Blu-ray Review [Visual Vengeance]
An alcoholic surgeon that everyone calls Dr. Dan screws up big time on the job and finds himself ostracized from his peers and forced to uproot his family and move to a small town in New Hampshire. If only tourists during the fall season were the worst things they have to worry about! As you…