Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is a small time con man, pulling little grifts in bars to get by. While the occasional blown con may get him a savage beating from an irate bartender now and then, his life grows increasingly more complicated when his new girlfriend Myra (Anette Benning) tries to pull him into a…
The Seventh Curse/Witch from Nepal [Vinegar Syndrome] Blu-ray Review
The Seventh Curse is framed with an older man (the books series’ author) being prompted by party guests to tell some stories. The movie shows Dr. Yuan acting as a hostage negotiator, leading to a huge gun fight between terrorists and a swat team. Yuan seems to be a trained surgeon and soldier as he…
Kickboxer [Lionsgate] 4K UHD Lenticular Steelbook Review
Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio) is an American kickboxing champion who, along with his brother Kurt (Jean-Claude Van Damme) in his corner, travels to Thailand to take on the best of the best on their own turf. This brings him up against the seemingly unstoppable and savage Tong Po (Michel Qissi) who breaks Eric’s spine, permanently…
The New Adventures of Tarzan Blu-ray review
The New Adventures of Tarzan is a 12 Chapter serial starring Bruce Bennett, who early in his career also went by his real name Heman Brix. Many might remember Bennett for his roles in Before I Hang, Mildred Pierce, Dark Passage and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Shot in 1935, the same time when…
Love & Crime [88 Films] Blu-Ray Review
We open with a medical examiner named Murase (Teruo Yoshida) performing a gruesome autopsy on who we find out is his wife. He discovers another man’s semen present and sets out on a quest to attempt to understand what drove his wife to infidelity, in the process researching four major true crime cases in Japanese…
Weak Spot [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
It’s Greece, 1974, and a man clambers out of an upper story apartment window in a mad dash to escape the police pursuing him before leaping to his death on the street below. Meanwhile across the street is a travel agent going about his business, trying to sell a vacation package to a foreign couple….
The Killer Is Not Alone [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
In a shocking move, the film opens with a revealing who the killer is. A young man is invited into a woman’s apartment. As they begin to kiss on the bed, he pulls a thin wire and strangles her. The wire is so thin that it cuts into her throat, leading to a grisly death…
Underworld Beauty [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review
Miyamoto (Michitarô Mizushima) is fresh from a stint in prison due to a diamond heist. After collecting the hidden diamonds from the heist, he tells his yakuza boss Oyane (Shinsuke Ashida) that the profits from the diamonds are going to his old partner Mihara (Tôru Abe) who was crippled in the heist to get them….
The Hungry Snake Woman [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
Sisworo Gautama Putra directed Jaka Sembung, which I positively reviewed, and continued to make insane Indonesian movies. “The Hungry Snake Woman” is no exception. The movie opens just tossing the audience into the action. A gang of almost naked women is chased by a man with a black powder rifle. The women lure him into…
Tokugawa Sex Ban [Mondo Macabro] Blu-ray Review
The year is 1972 in Japan. A movie comes out that is hard to classify: historical epic, sexploitation film, political satire. The basic plot is a high-born lady marries a country lord. Both are inexperienced in sexual matters and the consummation does not go well. In an effort to “train” the lord, his advisors hire…