Tag: USA

Army of Darkness (Scream Factory) Blu-ray review

   Ashley J. Williams aka Ash (Bruce Williams) is a department store house wares clerk at S-Mart. He went on a vacation with his girlfriend/group of friends to a cabin in the woods, where an archaeologist had been translating an ancient occult text the “Necronomicon”. After Ash reads aloud from the book demonic deadites begin possessing…


Hellriders (Vingear Syndrome) Blu-ray review

A young woman (Tina Louise) from Vegas is on a road trip when her car breaks down. She is soon menaced by a group of bikers known as The Hell Riders, whose only goal in life to cause chaos. She manages to escape to a small nearby town, but once there she discovers that the…


All Good Things (Magnolia) DVD Review

The strange-but-true case of the disappearance of Katherine Durst, the wife of an emotionally unstable heir to a New York real estate dynasty who was long suspected of her murder but never convicted, has provided the inspiration for All Good Things, the first fictional film from documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. Jarecki came to prominence in…


52 Pick Up (Kino) Blu-ray Review

Harry (Roy Scheider) is a guy who seems to have it all. He has a beautiful wife, a spacious mansion, a classic Jaguar, and a high paying job. Unfortunately, he also has a mistress named Cini (Kelly Preston) and three blackmailers (John Glover, Clarence Williams III, Robert Trebor) that have a videotape of them in…


Alien Opponent (Shout! Factory) DVD Review

When white trash trophy wife Meghan Mazurski (Ashley Bates) is caught in a adulterous tryst with her himbo lover Braden (Cuyle Carvin) by her abusive and possessive husband Tom (Kevin Shea) she buries a hammer in dear ol’ hubby’s skull. At that point an alien spacecraft crash lands near where the murder occurred. When Tom’s…


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…


Aladdin (1992) Diamond Edition (Disney) Blu-ray Review

Disney’s The Little Mermaid was released in 1989, and began a second “Golden” era for the famed animation house. The prior 15 or so years had proven to not be the best in terms of quality for Disney, and the decade between 1989-1999 proved to be one of the studio’s finest filmmaking decades in their…


Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season (Cartoon Network) Blu-ray Review

When my daughter first found Adventure Time while watching Cartoon Network many moons ago, I found myself immediately drawn to the show.  I immediately recognized the show as satirizing the RPG/Fantasy universe’s that I grew up playing games in and reading about. Over the years the creators of Adventure Time have proven that the show…


Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season (Cartoon Network) Blu-ray Review

I go through phases with Cartoon Network programming, when they kicked off in the early 90’s they seemed more like a repository for the Hanna Barbera library of cartoons before creating extremely memorably original content like the Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory and more. They seemed to lull for a few years before hitting…


Frightmare (aka The Horror Star) (88 Films) Blu-ray review

Legendary horror actor Conrad Razkoff (Ferdy Mayne) is starting to hit a low point in his life. His type of horror movie is out dated, and audiences are mostly uninterested in him. After filming a campy commercial for dentures, he is called out to a horror festival by a group of drama students. He suffers a heart attacks and dreams up his ultimate final curtain call,…