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- Created: 19 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...
Read more: Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 March 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What if they made a movie and nobody came? That was the fear when the horror satire The Hunt was scheduled for release last fall before being delayed by a series of unfortunate events. First, it was the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings. Then a tweet about the film from our ...
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- Created: 28 May 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
You say want sex and violence? Well, the Masked Mutilator has EXACTLY what you are looking for. Just be respectful because this house parent will definitely kick your ass ...
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- Created: 25 June 2020
- Written by Michelle Duy
Knives Out (2019) is a clever murder mystery from writer and director Rian Johnson, the best quality of which is its awesome ensemble cast: Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon and more. Everyone seems to enjoy their juicy ...
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- Created: 04 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Because, sometimes, even babies need the support of the police! Pushing a hard-hitting social commentary, Abandoned - with a colorful set of character names - takes aim at selling unwanted babies as the City of Angels becomes ground zero for black ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema III: Abandoned (1949) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 22 June 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
With streaming now taking the lion’s share of the average household’s attention, it is getting harder and harder for the studios to entice us for yet another dip at their titles; especially when a great many of them are but a single click away on our smart TVs. It is wildly believed that physical home media ...
Read more: Jaws (1975) - 45th Anniversary Edition - 4K UHD Review
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- Created: 04 August 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The most successful 3D film of the 1950s has finally arrived on Blu-ray. André de Toth’s House of Wax brought Warner Bros a lot of fortune and fame during its original run in 1953 but the film is also known for something else: the rebirth of Vincent Price ...
Read more: House of Wax 3D: The Warner Archive Collection (1953) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 01 June 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Films of the ilk of last year’s Ad Astra are always a quandary for me to write about. With the output of most of Hollywood’s efforts being what some might sarcastically call formulaic and digestible, it is both a blessing and a curse when something is offered to buck the trend. James Gray’s science ...
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- Created: 31 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes a classic film - or one we now consider a classic of its genre - underwhelms in its original run. This is the curious case of Breakheart Pass, a film that continues - every five years or so - to garner more interest in it as it reaches new audiences thanks to Charles Bronson’s ...
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- Created: 28 February 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Though more than eighty years have passed since Claude Rains donned the dark sunglasses, smoking jacket, and yards of ACE bandages in 1933’s The Invisible Man, the character still holds a firm place in the pantheon of Universal’s classic movie monsters. That’s not only a testament to the legacy of the studio’s monster ...
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- Created: 29 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It is said that when a woman fights for a man, she is like an ANIMAL! Vanessa Windsor (Hedy Lamarr), a spoiled Hollywood star, and her daughter, Penny (Jane Powell), fall head over heels in love with the same man, Chris Farley (George Nader), and they aren’t even aware of the other’s interest in him! Tabloid...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II: The Female Animal (1958)
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- Created: 22 May 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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- Created: 28 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
In which the nuns get it done! Thanks to the crackling cinematography of William H. Daniels (Six Bridges to Cross, Harvey, Winchester ‘73) and the performance of Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary who is haunted by the past, Thunder On The Hill roars off the screen with a fury that is relatively unmatched ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume II: The Price of Fear (1956) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 06 March 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What's the first question everyone asks whenever you’ve just watched a new Pixar film? “Where does it rank?” Of course, they’re asking where it fits within the hierarchy of Pixar films. And let’s face it, even a bad Pixar film tops most cinema fare these days, so when we say that Onward ranks ...
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- Created: 24 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It is no understatement to suggest that Bruce Lee’s return to Hong Kong, after America refused to make him a star, was the best thing for his career. Lee was pissed off; frustrated by Hollywood’s inherent racism and refusal to put any faith in the idea that an Asian could ever carry a profitable film ...
Read more: Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits (1971 - 1978) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 15 May 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
When Harley Quinn has a bad day, it’s a good day for the rest of us. And Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is the proof. The very bad, rotten day had by Harley (Margot Robbie, I, Tonya), is told in side-splitting detail in the 24-hour comical frenzy ...
Read more: Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 23 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
What has the world come to when the director of Sasquatch at the Mall can't get a gig? That's what horror auteur Harry Penderecki is wondering. Once considered a horror legend, with a string of hits like Bowel Movement, People Pesticide and I'll Take the Ring Back and the Finger Too, he now finds himself ...
Read more: Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 31 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Who wasn't frightened as a child by the horrifically grim childhood fairy tale about an evil witch who bakes pastries to lure children into her home so she can cook and eat the youngsters for dinner? It’s a wonder any of us made it out of childhood without totally losing all of our marbles ...
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- Created: 23 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
In which the nuns get it done! Thanks to the crackling cinematography of William H. Daniels (Six Bridges to Cross, Harvey, Winchester ‘73) and the performance of Claudette Colbert as Sister Mary who is haunted by the past, Thunder On The Hill roars off the screen with a fury that is relatively unmatched ...
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- Created: 17 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What does a filmmaker do when attempting to revive a franchise that has lain dormant for more than a decade? In the case of Bad Boys For Life, directors Adil and Bilall do what most other filmmakers have done: they adapt the story to fit a new cultural landscape, they riff ...
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- Created: 22 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The mystery! The murder! Corruption inside America’s Bible Belt! That’s the territory of Black Rainbow as writer/director Mike Hodges blends genres, creating a movie that takes on chemical plants and spiritual links to the After Life ...
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- Created: 24 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Where have you been, Guy Ritchie? We’ve missed your language, your punch, your sleight of hand, and that self-referential swagger that defined your early days as a filmmaker. We got hardly any of that as you set out for more commercial ventures like Swept Away, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., ...
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- Created: 21 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Make no mistake about it, The Flesh and the Fiends is a righteous horror film, drooping left eye and all, as experimental vivisections rule the day. Lost men! Lost souls! With no apologies issued to the dead, The Flesh and the Fiends begins in a spooktacular fashion as a body is torn free from ...
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- Created: 03 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
At one point in Just Mercy, the new film from director, co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton (The Glass Castle), the film’s main character Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) points out that “the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.” Those words set the tone for the tangle of legal and ...
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- Created: 20 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Because not everyone can be saved. Inspired by the Great Brink's Robbery of 1950, Six Bridges To Cross makes its targets known early: trigger-happy cops and unrepentant criminals. Civil unrest. That’s what happens when a police officer (George Nader) shoots a kid during a robbery ...
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- Created: 17 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
2005 saw the end of the prequel trilogy, and what a job it had before it to finally deliver what we’d been promised since the trilogy was announced: the descent of Anakin Skywalker to the dark side and the rise of Darth Vader ...
Read more: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - 4K blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
An Act of Murder, in which a very uncompromising and stubborn judge learns a tough, tough lesson about guilt and morals, is perhaps one of the most forward-thinking film noir offerings in that it comes from the point of view of a man who defends a very strict and outdated view of law and ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume IV: An Act of Murder (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 15 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Twice now, in different decades, Star Wars has resurrected itself and rewarded Lucas handsomely. With the recent sequel trilogy now behind us, the parallels between their reception and the era of the prequel trilogy are difficult to ignore. Both critics and the Star Wars fan base have major issues with ...
Read more: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - 4K Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 19 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
...in which the Golden Age of Radio meets the Chiller Comedies of the 1940s. No wonder Haunted Honeymoon was a box office bomb, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be ignored. The film, with over-the-top characters and spooky atmospheres, is damn funny ...
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- Created: 15 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Episode 2 made a couple of firsts in Star Wars history. Firstly, it would be the first of them shot entirely digital. Secondly, and unfortunately, it would be the first of the episodes to debut with a now tarnished perception. The Phantom Menace had not gone down well with the critics and a great ...
Read more: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - 4K Blu-ray Review
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