British actress Belinda Lee, who passed away much too young, plays the lead role as Messlina in director Vittorio Cottafavi’s 1960 Italian sword and sandal film Messalina (aka Messalina Venere Imperatrice) which was one of her final films. In this story, Valeria Messalina is arranged to be married to an older man Claudius, who just…
Blu-ray Review – Venom – Legend of the Spider Forest (Twilight Time)
The original Twilight Time swore off horror films after the reactions they got to some of their titles, so it was quite surprising to see the new Twilight Time come back with an Ozploitation title, and a horror film. Venom – Legend of the Spider Forest is an early 1970’s British horror film from Australian…
Mindwarp (Twilight Time) Blu-ray review
Fangoria Films seemed like an amazing idea when I first heard of the concept as a kid. America’s Number 1 horror magazine getting into the production, and distribution of actual horror films I thought to myself,how could it possibly go wrong? Fangoria Magazine especially when I was younger was like my bible into horror in…
Major Dundee (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
As American is engaged in the Civil War, disgraced Union Calvary officer Major Amos Charles Dundee (Charlton Heston) – currently spending a once illustrious career in the military overseeing a prison stockade in New Mexico – is assembling an army to go into Mexico and capture or kill Sierra Charriba (Michael Pate), the vicious Apache…
As Good As It Gets (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
As Good As It Gets is a film much like it’s 1997 pop drama brethren Good Will Hunting, and Titanic is a film I actively avoided seeing back in my Freshman year of high school. Although it does feature older characters it was a smash hit even amongst the teenagers in my grade, and above,…
Alamo Bay (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
Welcome to Port Alamo, Texas, a small community of fishermen along the Gulf Coast. Tensions have been rising in the town for a long time over the influx of Vietnamese immigrants moving in and taking a sizable bite out of the local fishing trade. The latest arrival to Port Alamo is Dinh (Ho Nguyen), an…
Geronimo (Twilight Time) Blu-ray Review
Lt. Britton Davis (Matt Damon) tells the story about how he joined the hunt to stop the Apache chief Geronimo (Wes Studi). As the US soldiers get closer to the man known as Geronimo, they soon realize how wrong this world is. Walter Hill is one of the great tough-guy directors. Despite some hiccups like…