George Newman (Weird Al Yankovic) is an unemployed loser recently fired from Burger World along with his friend Bob (David Bowe) and girlfriend Teri (Victoria Jackson). But all that’s about to change when he is given a manager position at a local UHF station that his uncle Harvey won in a poker game. George manages…
Affliction [Shout Select] Blu-ray Review
Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) is a local cop in a small New Hampshire town who is prone to drowning his emotional problems in alcohol. While attempting to reconcile his traumatic childhood with an angry and volatile father (James Coburn), he begins to suspect that a local hunting accident may not have been an accident after…
Rolling Thunder [Shout Select] 4K Blu-ray Review
Major Charles Rane (William Devane) is a returning hero, having finally been freed from a POW camp in Vietnam where he endured terrible experiences that pushed the limits of human endurance. Back on American soil he is reunited with his family but feels ill prepared to ease back into family life. To make matters worse,…
Assault on Hill 400 Blu-ray Review [Shout Factory]
Charging forward on blu-ray from the nice folks at Shout Factory comes The Asylum-produced World War II war drama Assault on Hill 400, based on the true story of the U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion who held Hill 400 from five German counterattacks through the month of December during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in 1944….
Blu-ray and 4K UHD Jackie Chan-Mania (Shout Factory and 88 Films)
So it’s been a wild few months for Jackie Chan releases between Shout Factory’s Jackie Chan Collection Volume 2 (1983-1993) and 88 Films Police Story III Supercop 4K UHD release. Between the two sets I am in an ecstatic place as far as our favorite Hong Kong funnyman goes. It has been more than a…
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…
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…
UHD Review – Sword and the Sorcerer – Shout! Factory
Sword and the Sorcerer is maybe one of the last films I have been searching out on Blu-ray since Blu-ray began. This is film that has been trapped needlessly in DVD hell for so long, that it has basically skipped Blu-ray and gone straight to 4K UHD (there is a Blu-ray included too). I know…