Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise) stars as a disgraced journalist who has holed up in her strikingly lovely house to record a podcast that seeks to unravel a mystery around a series of strange, seemingly otherworldly black bricks that people from all over the world have acquired through bizarre circumstances. The closer to the truth…
The Loneliest Boy in the World [Blu-ray Review]
From the fine folks at Well Go USA comes this exceedingly quirky horror comedy of both romantic and familial love, hitting blu-ray just in time for Valentine’s Day. Does it come out smelling fresh as a daisy or is it a bloated corpse rotting in its grave? Let’s dig it up and find out! Oliver…
The Ambush Blu-ray review
The film known as Al Kameen in Arabic but for American audiences it’s known as The Ambush is a war-drama movie from 2021 directed by Pierre Morel, who was the man behind classics such as Taken and District 13. Marwan Abdulla Saleh, Khalifa Al Jassem and Omar Bin Haider are among the stars of the…
Hansan: Rising Dragons Blu-ray review
Kim Han-min’s Hansan: Rising Dragons is a prequel to the 2014 film The Admiral: Roaring Currents, which focuses on the historic Battle of Hansan Island. This is the second film in a trilogy that follows the battles of Yi Sun-sin. In 1592, Admiral Yi Sun-sin (Park Hae-il, The Host, Moss) and his Joseon fleet…
The Witch Part 2. The Other One Blu-ray review
Even though I love horror movies, I had never heard of The Witch: Part 2. The Other One until I read about it in a forum, which caught my attention. Written and directed by Park Hoon-jung, this South Korean film from 2022 incorporates science fiction, action, and horror and is a sequel to the 2018…
Crazy Samurai 400 x 1 Blu-ray review
Director Yûji Shimomura’s story of Crazy Samurai 400 x 1 is nothing more than a tale of revenge. In this film, taking place in the year 1604, Miyamoto Musashi (Tak Sakaguchi) attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated their master, Seijūrō and his younger brother Denshichirō in two duels. To honor and save…
Samurai Marathon (Well Go USA) Blu-ray Review
After the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry (Danny Huston) and his “Black Ships”, feudal Japan suddenly becomes aware of the issues of being closed off from the rest of the world. Fearing the unknown changes that will happen with the country opening up and agreeing with trade with the western world, the different regions try…
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…
Blu-ray Review: Legend of the Demon Cat (Well Go USA)
Strange happenings start when a mysterious talking black cat show up to the Imperial Court. The whole kingdom gets shaken up when the wife of a General is suddenly possessed by an ancient demon that is hellbent on revenge. But an eccentric duo of a Japanese Monk, with a fondness for exorcisms, and an oddball…
Blu-ray Review: First Love (Well Go USA)
A successful young boxer named Leo (Masataka Kubota) discovers that he may be terminally ill with a brain tumor. His night soon gets worse when he saves a screaming woman and knocks out her attacker. But this is the first in a downward spiral of mayhem. First, the woman is actually a young hooker who…