Tag: Blu-ray

Quiet Days in Clichy – 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Review (Blue Underground)

Joey and Carl are two down and out reprobates- oops, I mean writers in Paris. These two walking hard-ons get into all sorts of ridiculous and impossible shenanigans involving sex, food, and money. Sometimes, all three at the same time. There are lots of beautiful women that come and go, and they are all treated…


Tonight or Never Blu-ray review

Based on the Hungarian Play of the same name, Tonight or Never is a 1931 American pre-code comedy film that stars screen legends Gloria Swanson and Melvin Douglas. In this picture, Gloria Swanson (Manhandled, Zaza, Sadie Thompson) stars as Nella Vargo, a young opera singer who is having some trouble advancing her career according to…


The Black Crystal – Blu-ray Review (AGFA/Vinegar Syndrome)

Will (Mike Conway) is cruising out west in his sick Trans Am to go see his brother, who lives in a small town up in the mountains, when he foolishly picks up a sketchy hitchhiker named Justin. They are on the road for about 2 minutes before they are forced off the road by some…


A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse – Blu-ray Review (Mondo Macabro)

Yukino (Naomi Tani) is stuck working in a bathhouse (AKA brothel) because of her utterly worthless and downright evil husband Toriyama (Kôji Fujiyama). Things only get worse when her younger sister Mayumi (Misa Ohara) shows up to live with the couple and even worser than that, Yukino reveals to her dirtbag hubbie that she is…


The Magnificent Seven – 1960 UHD review (Shout Factory)

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). The film is a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and is a Western version of that movie. John Sturges’ film is also known for launching the careers of several iconic and legendary Hollywood…


Picpus and Cecile is Dead! (Inspector Maigret Double-feature) Blu-ray review

For those not too familiar with the character, Inspector Maigret is a French police detective who is not unlike Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan and Hercule Poirot. Maigret has been in many books, short stories, and films. Kino Lorber has been releasing many Inspector Maigret movies and television shows onto home video in recent years and…


The Loneliest Boy in the World [Blu-ray Review]

From the fine folks at Well Go USA comes this exceedingly quirky horror comedy of both romantic and familial love, hitting blu-ray just in time for Valentine’s Day. Does it come out smelling fresh as a daisy or is it a bloated corpse rotting in its grave? Let’s dig it up and find out! Oliver…


The Invisible Maniac – 4K/Blu-ray Review (Vinegar Syndrome)

Little Kevin Dornwinkle is caught peeping on a sexy neighbor by his mother and her over reaction to this incident instantly creates a future serial killer. Twenty years later, Kevin has grown up into physicist Dr. Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) whose theories on “molecular reorganization” have given him the reputation of being a bit of a…


Attack Force Z ( Severin Films) Blu-ray review

Attack for Z is a 1982 film based on true events during World War II. This film features screen icons Mel Gibson(Lethal Weapon, Apocalypto) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Omen III: The Final Conflict) in early roles and also stars screen veteran John Phillip Law(The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Danger:Diabolik). Tim Burstall directed this movie,…


Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo Blu-ray review

Written, directed, and produced by Tom Chaney who even did the cinematography and editing for the film, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo (AKA Frostbiter and Wendigo ) is an independent horror comedy about a monster that is revived by a pair of hunters and wreaks havoc on some people staying at a nearby cabin in…