Zelma has been taught from a young age that falling in love with the right man and giving everything she has to him in as womanly a way as possible is the key to her long-time happiness. But as hard as she tries, Zelma constantly grapples with her inner self and society’s perception of who…
Journey into Fear Blu-ray review
Norman Foster’s Journey into Fear was a movie that had never been on DVD or Blu-ray domestically until just recently the Warner Archive Collection gave it the first ever release on disc. It was available on VHS and laserdisc back in the day and a DVD was released overseas and that was it until now!…
Conflict Blu-ray review
Screen legend Sydney Greenstreet and the iconic Humphrey Bogart appeared together in five films. Only one of those films had Bogart playing a villainous role, with Greenstreet playing a noble character and that film is the classic Warner Brothers Film Noir, Curtis Bernhardt’s Conflict. In addition to being a Film Noir, Conflict it is also…
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza, originally appearing as a stage play in the 1920s and being adapted to film several times since then, is the story of a wandering samurai named Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura) who works for gangsters in exchange for shelter for the night. They give him a bed and food, and he agrees to kill…
Creature with the Blue Hand / Web of the Spider Blu-ray review
Legendary German actor Klaus Kinski is a household name when it comes to cult, Euro-sleaze, foreign crime and horror films. Early in his career he had roles in many Edgar Wallace krimi films made in Germany. Later, he became a top-star in many Spaghetti Westerns, American horrors and other assorted German thrillers and cult movies…
Terror Firma [MVD Visual] Blu-ray Review
It all starts when Lola (Faye Tamasa) shows up to crash at her brother Louis’ (Burt Thakur) place. She is immediately creeped out by his weird roommate Cage (Robert Brettenaugh) but barely has time to begin adjusting before an unexplained city-wide mandatory lockdown is put in place. Between unresolved past sibling issues and the increasingly…
Before Dawn [Well Go USA] Blu-ray Review
Based on anecdotes pulled from the real diaries of ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) who fought on the western front during World War I, primarily in the days and months after the Gallipoli campaign, this film follows a young man named Jim (Levi Miller) who leaves his family’s sheep farm in the Outback…
Tchao Pantin [Radiance] Blu-ray Review
Lambert (Coluche) is a melancholy, alcoholic gas station attendant that works the night shift with no drive in life. One evening a young man named Bensoussan stumbles into Lambert’s life while fleeing the cops, igniting a spark of friendship that Lambert hasn’t felt in a very long time. We come to find out that Bensoussan…
Cocaine Werewolf [Cleopatra/MVD] Blu-ray Review
The film opens with a cam girl openly professing her love of money. Horny + greedy = Not a great situation to be in for a movie called Cocaine Werewolf. Before you know it, her cameraman is killed off as her screams pierce the night. Then we jump to a drug deal gone awry… Ah…
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara [Cohen Media Group] Blu-ray Review
The year is 1864 and Edgardo Mortara is a six-year-old boy who is suddenly taken away from his Jewish family because the Papal authorities declare that they believe he was baptized in secret and thus is actually a Christian and unfit to be raised by Jewish parents. In the process of attempting to win back…