DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

What a great exploitation idea: the Marines vs. Charlie Manson. The sentence alone should have grossed $50 million, right?  Not in 1985.  Not by a long shot.  Yet, somehow Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except managed to sear straight into its audience’s brain cells ...

Leave it to the French to redefine both ‘apocalyptic’ and ‘nightmare’.  With one unflinching swipe of the hand, director Xavier Gens (Frontiers) wipes away any lasting memories of The Road or Doomsday and makes A Boy and His Dog look like a family trip to the ...

John Carpenter’s remake of a revered 1950s B-Movie became even more revered than the film it honoured. It was a masterpiece in paranoia, tension, and deftly showed our shortcomings as a species, and how far we yet have to go ...

Now this is how it’s done! Back in 2008, when we were being prepped for Iron Man, the fledgling Marvel Studios told us that this was the beginning of a grand odyssey; one that would ensnare multiple characters from their pages in multiple movies before ...

Jason Statham is no stranger to the mess of pulp found inside his latest redemptive mission, Safe.  Written and directed by Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), the rock’em, sock’em movie plays for eye-catching wit and the absolute crushing of skulls. You see, Statham ...

Writer/Director Delmer Dave’s eerie classic from 1947, The Red House, finally gets its just reward.  Long listed as a favorite film from many critics (but not often seen by the public), the suspense contained inside one abandoned farmhouse is murderously clever and highly ...

When is a horror film not a horror film?  Essentially, that’s the question when writing a review for writer/director Ti West’s latest release, The Innkeepers.  Like Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining before it, The Innkeepers manages to rise above its genre and prove that ...

Is there a more influential 15 minutes in film history?  Famed director Martin Scorsese – who featured the celebrated Georges Melies and his film in his award-winning Hugo – doesn’t think so.  You shouldn’t either.  In what goes down as the most important blu-ray ...

Rage monster Mel Gibson is proving to audiences that he still has that maverick edge.  While unmedicated antics continue in his private life, the actor can still make for an appealing good-spirited criminal.  Get the Gringo, a grit-in-the-teeth production ...

The fine art of deconstruction has a name and it is Haywire. Director Steven Soderbergh has found himself a brand new muse.  Mixed Martial Arts champion, Gina Carano steps out of the ring and in front of his camera for Haywire, a revenge-driven action movie ...

Once again, director Tim Burton gets the quirk right and, once again, he’s come under fire for doing what he does so well: recapturing the world as he sees it with the camera.  Regardless of your feelings for Burton and Depp ...

Warning: the following release is intended for Grindhouse aficionados and trash trailer lovers only!!! Proving itself to be a bit of a history lesson in trash cinema, 42^nd Street is an exploitation lover’s wet dream: almost four hours of nothing but badass trailers ...

No, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has not flipped his lid.  The real-life pranks and antics he scored big laughs with in Borat and Bruno have been replaced with actors, but the dark and scathing commentary still underscores his latest, The Dictator.  Cohen still ...

Offering a little slice of horror to start off the summer, writer/producer Oren Peli (the brain behind Paranormal Activity) revisits the found footage phenomenon and presents us with a collection of nasty-looking nuclear mutants on a European vacation.  Many audience ...

Lethal Weapon is more than a franchise.  It’s more than a movie, too.  Created at Warner Brothers at a time when scripts with original ideas found themselves getting made (instead of reboot after reboot after remake after remake), Lethal Weapon is a force of ...