DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Believe it or not, we are approaching the 50th anniversary of one of TV’s biggest achievements in the world of comedy. That’s right, “SNL,” originally titled Saturday Night, the legendary variety show that launched the careers of such comedic geniuses as John Belushi, Chevy Chase,  ...

The journey begins with a series of hallucinations; a smoky reefer-saturated mess of colors that spiral out as the jungle setting is surgically snipped by the blades of helicopters crisscrossing the image. Then, the landscape suddenly explodes. Fireballs shoot up from the ground and the frame dissolves  ...

Fresh from the success of 1978’s Halloween, director John Carpenter returns to horror and its star Jamie Lee Curtis for his follow-up feature film.  The Fog is a supernatural horror flick that is heavy on atmosphere and creativity and, in spite of its age, its creepy vibe and physical make-up effects  ...

Hey Ho, Let’s Go!  It's time to head back to school – Rock 'N' Roll High School, that is – with this special 45th Anniversary Edition featuring the cult classic film newly remastered in 4K! Thank God for Paul Bartel (who plays Mr. McGree, the music teacher) at Vince Lombardi High School in this ...

Ghost stories are a dime a dozen, have been for decades, so it’s a herculean task to rise above the rest. M. Night Shyamalan, now a director of renown, managed to pull this off at the end of last century. The Sixth Sense actually managed to nearly top the box office in 1999, only being thwarted  ...

Ho ho ho! Merry friggin’ Christmas! Have you been naughty or nice this year? Fuhget about Sandy Claws, it is Krampus who really wants to know.  And thanks to Shout Factory’s Naughty Cut of 2015’s Krampus, we get another chance to celebrate the dark lord of Christmas ...

With Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre as its reference point, Motel Hell is a seriously delicious horror film that exploits all the typical genre markers for the sake of comedy. And it’s all because director Kevin Connor (From Beyond The Grave, At The Earth’s Core) came aboard. What  ...

Joker: Folie à Deux is both a testament to the ambitious nature of its creators and a cautionary tale about trying to marry too many disparate ideas into one film. The follow-up to 2019’s critically acclaimed Joker attempts to explore themes of identity, mental illness, and self-acceptance through  ...

Pumpkinhead returns with a new 4K scan from the original camera negative! What a sad, sad story of one man’s tragic revenge.  Another viewing of Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead, newly remastered and released from Shout Factory, confirms this for me.  This cult classic and its following seems to get ...

“You don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? The perfect organism… Its structural perfection is only matched by its hostility.” —Ash (Alien 1979) Perfection is what Ridley Scott managed when he took his razor-sharp sensibilities, creature designs from the brilliantly disturbed mind of  ...

When is a 4K upgrade worth the double-dipping?  When it’s from Shout! Factory, of course!  Silent Night, Deadly Night, complete with a brand-new 4K transfer from the original 35mm negative, has returned!  Deck the Halls with parts of Charlie indeed! ...

It’s hard to put a finger on how he does it, but with his debut feature film, the awkwardly titled In a Violent Nature filmmaker Chris Nash has done the near impossible: create an effectively-haunting horror film by incorporating all the tired genre tropes  ...

The wait is finally over, folks! The ghost with the most is back. And even after more than 35 years, he’s as wonderfully weird as we remembered. Tim Burton's highly-anticipated revisit to the afterworld in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a delightful cinematic ...

Directed by Jason Baldoni, and written by Christy Hall from the pages of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel which spent 140 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List, It Ends With Us presents a captivating narrative that navigates the turbulent waters of trauma, love, and resilience ...

Originally titled April 29, 1992, and rumored to star Ice Cube and O'Shea Jackson, Jr. in the lead roles with Donovan Marsh behind the camera, the new crime thriller 1992 has since undergone a name change, now stars Tyrese Gibson and Christopher A’mmanuel in the lead  ...