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,…
The Mole People (Shout! Factory) Blu-ray Review
Archaeologist Dr. Bentley (John Agar) and his mountain crew suddenly full into a cave while climbing. They suddenly find themselves in a deep hidden world with two races of people. One is a group of Mole like subhuman mole like beasts, and the others are albino men who fear the bright sun. But as Bentley and company…
Troll: The Complete Collection (Eureka!) Blu-ray Review
TROLL 2 (1990) started life as another latter-day Italian horror film with a special twist. It was a vegetarian spoofing nightmare filmed in the US with American actors. It was a common practice, but somehow the movie found new life on VHS as a notorious “so bad it’s good” movie in the same vein as…
Grizzly (88 Films) Blu-ray Review
Park ranger Michael Kelly (Christopher George) is proud of the National park he oversees. The park is untouched and for looks exactly the way it did when it was inhabited by Native Americans. But as the camping season is heading to a close, the park is suddenly menaced by a wild grizzly. One that is not park of the forest’s natural bear population. As campers and rangers get picked off one…
The Woman in the Window (Eureka! Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray Review
With his wife and two kids away for a Summer vacation, Psychology Professor Dr. Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) is left all alone to enjoy his work. But his friends can’t help but poke fun at his lack of a sense of adventure. After leaving the gentleman’s club late one evening, He stops to look at…
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…
Godzilla (1954) (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray Review
The first time I saw Godzilla was on a mid-afternoon screening on a local horror show in New Jersey as a child. I couldn’t have been older than 6-7, the quality couldn’t have been great, all I can remember is that it made an impact. When that giant green lizard was on screen my mind…
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Disney) Blu-ray Review
The early 2000’s was an uneven period for Disney animation. After the early 90’s brought them back to the forefront of animation with films like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King they began a decent in quality starting with Pocahontas. Starting around 2000 they started to change things up from the musical-feature…