Tony Musante is CIA operative John Dannahay and has been tasked with working to overthrow an African government while also trying to track down a mole on his team. John Steiner is the double-crossing Agent Grayson who has been working against him. Before Dannahay can confront him, Grayson seeimingly flips out and snipes some folks…
The Sting of Death [Radiance] Blu-Ray Review
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…
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…
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…
Yakuza Graveyard Blu-ray Review [Radiance]
Springing forth this summer from Radiance is the underseen gangster flick Yakuza Graveyard from acclaimed Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku beautifully restored on blu-ray for the first time. Tetsuya Watari plays a rage-filled cop named Kuroiwa who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in pursuit of his goals. Kuroiwa, sickened by his department’s unofficial and…
Red Sun Blu-ray Review [Radiance]
Hitting blu-ray from the exciting new Radiance boutique blu-ray label comes a forgotten crime film from the time of the German New Wave. Let’s sit around the apartment, murder somebody and just chill out and enjoy, huh? Thomas is a drifter aimlessly wandering through Germany when he runs into an ex-girlfriend of his who agrees…