Find a person who claims to have grown up in the 1980’s but never heard of ShowBiz Pizza or its iconic band of animatronic animal musicians known as The Rock-afire Explosion, and chances are you have encountered a liar. Possibly. I mean, maybe they were huge fans of ShowBiz’s much flashier competitor, Chuck E. Cheese….
Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist – Blu-ray Review (Synapse Films)
Everything changed when artist Tom Sullivan made friends with a young indie film director named Sam Raimi in the late 1970s. Sullivan quickly got swept up into Raimi’s world as the idea to break into the film business with a horror movie became an obsession for a handful of 20 something Michiganites. The Evil Dead…
JFK Revisited: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review
JFK Revisited: The Complete Collection Blu-ray is a 2021 documentary film distributed by Shout Factory that contains both Through the Looking Glass and JFK: Destiney Betrayed. It takes an even closer look at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Thirty years ago, Oliver Stone took his first look at the assassination of President Kennedy…
Ingagi Blu-ray review
For those who think the 1933 King Kong was the first film to have a sexual suggestion between a woman and an ape are in for surprise. As it turns out, three years earlier, the film Ingagi explored that idea with an arguably stronger suggestion. Ingagi is a 1930 pre-code documentary style film about an…
Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (Severin) Blu-ray Review
Every horror and exploitation scavenger has likely had a run-in with the work of Al Adamson at some point. With titles in his filmography like Blood of Dracula’s Castle (1969) and The Naughty Stewardesses (1974), how could any trash movie enthusiast resist? The son of low budget western actor/director Victor Adamson (AKA Denver Dixon), Adamson…