Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of the Shinya Tsukamoto is one of the best home video releases of 2020. It may be a little early to say this (it’s August as I write this), but this is my favorite release of the year. This boxset is a love letter to one of the most transgressive…
Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of the Shinya Tsukamoto (Arrow) Blu-ray review
Quai Des Orfevres (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
Jenny (Suzy Delair) is a young hopeful singer who wants to make it big in the theatre. Her singing talents are limited but she isn’t let this get in her way. She flirts and seduces popular people around the industry. This makes her husband and accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier) jealous. He discovers that Jenny is…
Enter The Fat Dragon (2020) (Well Go USA) Blu-ray Review
Supercop Fallon Zhu (Donnie Yen) just can’t stay out of trouble. Everywhere he goes there is a new crime, robbery, or attempted shootout. This starting to drive his girlfriend Chloe (Niki Chow) crazy. She is a successful actress, who keeps getting insults from journalists and fans for her being labeled “The worst actress” and getting…
Curse of the Puppet Master (Full Moon) Blu-ray Review
Dr. Magrew (George Peck) is a scientist with some unusual ideas about transforming people into other beings. He finds the case of living puppets and decides to turn a human into a puppet creation. He has to keep this a secret from his daughter Jane (Emily Harrison), as he searches for a test subject. He…
RIP: Ennio Morricone
July 6th, 2020, we lost a legend today. The great Italian composer Ennio Morricone has left us. But I won’t dwell on the negative. The man left behind a wide legacy, wider then any epic landscape, with more iconic scores then I could possibly count. Morricone was classically trained and loved playing the trumpet. For…
The Narrow Margin (1990) (Kino Lorber) Blu-ray review
While going on a blind date, Carol (Anne Archer), becomes a witness to a brutal mob hit. Thinking that she can avoid any trouble, she decides to hide out in her brother’s cabin in Canada. Carol doesn’t know that the man with the hitman was actually an infamous Mob Boss. A Los Angeles district attorney…
The Light at the Edge of the World (Kino) Blu-ray Review
A troubled American miner named Will (Kirk Douglas) finds himself with the quiet and boring job as an assistant lighthouse keeper in the isolated shores of South America. He left behind a failed relationship after he killed a man in self-defense. Now his days are lazy and bitter. This all changes when a pirate ship…
The Way Back (Warner Bros) Blu-ray Review
Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck)’s life is a void of everything but hardships. His job is terrible, he has troubles with his family, and his separation from his wife has kept him for the dating scene. The only thing in life is his crippling addiction to booze. Things start to look up when he is offered…
Pale Blood (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review
A Vampire travels to LA to look in on a series of bizarre murders. All the victims seem to be drained of blood and killed by a vampire. Fearing the bad name this would give vampires, he tries to stop the killer with the aid of a vampire obsessed PI. Pale Blood (1990) Is a…
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) (Warner Archives) Blu-ray Review
Famous sculptor Ivan Igor (Lionel Atwill), has taken up wax as his new profession. He is running a wax museum in London, but it seems to be doing poorly, with the main complaint being it’s not ghoulish enough. But one night in 1921 he is visited by an influential critic who wants to showcase his…
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