Clik here to view.
Film Review: A Ghost of A Chance (Once Upon A Blue Moon)
One of the best films I saw in 2011 wasn’t the usual big-budget Hollywood ego piece cooked up to win award after award, but a great and often laugh out loud funny comedy from Japan that’s worth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The World’s End
A pretty wild chef’s special of comedy, drama and an unusual (but very British) sci-fi element, The World’s End is quite probably going to be the ultimate pub crawl flick for some time to come. Of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Not So Random Film of the Week: The Lovely Bones
Hey, kids! Happy Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) and all that rot! I had to open one of my presents early in order to tell you what my brain and eyeballs say about it, so here you go. This post …...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Movie Review: APP
As the first second screen “horror” film, Bobby Boermans’ APP dares to ask you to not only keep your cell phone ON during its entire running time, it wants you to download an app just for the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: EXTRATERRESTRIAL
The Vicious Brothers’ (Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz) third film, EXTRATERRESTRIAL is a sci-fi/horror hybrid that takes its cues from plenty of genre films with interestingly mixed results. If you go...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Motivational Growth
“The Mold Knows Jack, The Mold Knows…” Talking about a horror movie about a huge talking fungus being the least oddball thing about it is tricky business. All I’ll say is Don Thacker’s unconventional...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film Review: Memory Lane
Packing in a compelling story that’s part thriller and murder mystery with a supernatural bent into seventy minutes is a tricky thing to do well. Nevertheless, Memory Lane is one of those odd yet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: Day of Anger
When UK-based Arrow Video finally decided to launch in North America this year, it picked a trio of excellent films to kick off what’s going to be a wild run of classics and desired library additions....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: Blind Woman’s Curse
One of those wild Japanese films packed with striking imagery and offbeat performances, Teruo Ishii’s 1970 hybrid Blind Woman’s Curse makes for another excellent Blu-Ray release from Arrow Video. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Reviews: A Handful of Arrows for the Holidays
Ho, and Ho-Ho. It’s been quite a year here, but that’s not why I’m here babbling on my keyboard. You need some more movies to watch, I’m sitting on a stack of them that needed to get written up and …...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Lost Arcade: Here Comes A New Challenger For Game Film of the Year
#thelostarcade If you thought a documentary about a grimy New York City videogame arcade would be the last thing you’d ever be interested in seeing, take note: Kurt Vincent and Irene Chin’s The Lost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DVD Review: A House Is Not A Home
As an effective horror film, Christopher (Douglas-Olen) Ray‘s chiller A House Is Not A Home is quite well made, but isn’t the scariest film you’ll ever see by a long shot. Don’t get me wrong – other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
DVD Review: Psychomania
This one’s for Mr. Bruno, who asked how this 1973 British “horror” flick was. Here’s your answer in the form of an opinion, sir. While it’s got a cult following, is fun as hell to watch, has some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: The House of Seven Corpses
“Trust me… dying’s easy! Living is hard” And so is watching some movies, pal. Upon finding yourself on the set of a horror film or hell, ANY film where someone starts reading from a musty old book...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: The Bloodstained Butterfly
Duccio Tessari’s 1971 thriller The Bloodstained Butterfly is a great entry point to the genre for those squeamish viewers curious about gialli but not willing to commit to the more violent entries...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: RAIDERS!
As “making of” documentaries go, RAIDERS! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made is pretty darn great. However, as a friend I watched this Blu-Ray with noted, “It’s kind of missing something...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: Doberman Cop
You may (or may not) confuse Doberman Cop with Wolf Guy for some reason and nope, I’d not fault you one bit if you haven’t seen either film and draw that incorrect conclusion. The former film has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: Ronin
I’ve always viewed Ronin as a sped-up Alfred Hitchcock film, but yep, I’m nuttier than a fruitcake when I need to be. Late director John Frankenheimer’s mostly solid and thrilling 1997 action flick has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: The Zodiac Killer
Ha. Way back in 1970 or so, someone should have told newbie director and pizza shop maven Tom Hanson that the Zodiac Killer has a far better chance to be caught alive during a screening of Dirty Harry...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blu-Ray Review: The Creeping Garden
An absolutely fascinating look at plasmodial slime mold and a few of the people who love it, The Creeping Garden just might be my favorite documentary of 2017. Granted, it’s probably only the third of...
View Article
