DVD Reviews

The tagline “Even Bad Girls Need Protection” should turn many a Grindhouse connoisseur’s head toward its direction.  Couple that with the exploitative stylized cover art and a wonderfully slinky appearance from Scream Queen Danielle Harris, Michael Beihn’s ....

To celebrate the release of the Indiana Jones series on blu ray, we offer a four part retrospective article series honouring one of the most beloved franchises in film history ...

With a visual flair that is damn near unmatched by his contemporaries, director David Fincher scored a huge win with 2007’s sleeper hit The Game.  This striking feature is a serious trip of the mind and cons its own audience with an interesting premise and a pacing ...

When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses. This would never work so...

While home ownership - that classic American Dream - is at an all-time low throughout parts of this country, our interest in the classic haunted house narrative and all the paranormal activity behind its closed doors is at an all-time high.  We are, of course, drawn to the ....

With all the fabulous charm of old school Burton, Frankenweenie arrives in theaters just in time to wag its electrified tail (or tale as the case may be) for all the costumed kiddies and adults this Halloween season. It’s a fully charged black-and-white romp about a ...

Universal’s original run of monster flicks, stretching from 1925’s The Phantom of the Opera to 1956’s The Creature Walks Among Us, produced what many consider to be the Mount Rushmore of Horror. From Dracula to The Creature Walks Among Us, produced ...

Available now for your viewing pleasure on DVD - THE TALL MAN. Jessica Biehl tries her best to look Native American in this wannabe thriller from Pascal Laugier. Who's that you ask? I don't know! This is the first movie I've seen from him and first impressions ...

The Funhouse, being director Tobe Hooper’s ode to the classic Universal monsters and to late-night carnivals everywhere, is an odd slice of americana horror.  It, when slashers were all the rage, decided to turn its back on the popular movement and reintroduced ...

No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis.  No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery ...

Know this, your car - locked or heavily armed - is not safe from H.B. Halicki's badass crew of car thieves. It might not be as sleek as the Nicolas Cage remake from 2000, but H.B. Halicki’s original Gone in 60 Seconds boasts a 40 minute car chase that wrecks  ...

Fox Network is notorious for killing promising shows without giving them a fair shake.  Alcatraz, produced by J.J. Abrams, came in as a mid-season replacement in January 2012 and lasted for a whopping 13 episodes before retiring for the summer. The exciting ...

Sex, drugs, and Denzel Washington. Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump), after spending the last decade in dead-eyed motion-capture films, finally returns to a world full of soul, rock ‘n’ roll, and damaged heroics.  Flight is a glorious return to form ...

When it comes to enjoying a nice chilly October night – especially near Halloween’s festive date – there’s nothing else like the scares of a good silent horror film to entertain.  Saturated with mood and melodramatic with its frights, little else will do it right to get you ...

The supernatural world just got a bit sexier.  From Canada, Lost Girl: Season One – complete and uncut - arrives on blu-ray to appease its rabid cult fan base here in the United States.  Currently airing on Syfy, Lost Girl explores an alternate universe where...

Director Colin Trevorrow might have just redefined “harmless” with his directorial debut.  As far as romantic comedies go, Safety Not Guaranteed definitely has something to say about human companionship and being understood.  It feels a bit too small, though, ...

The first thing you need to understand about Skyfall is that it's nothing like any of the other James Bond films you've seen. One of the grand things about Bond films is the variety of directors who approach the character, as well as the writer who pens the script...

Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter’s crudely crafted science fiction comedy gets new life this month on blu-ray thanks to the archival efforts of VCI Entertainment.  Amazing that this film began its life as a student film project all those years ago and, while it’s ...

Greed and revenge are two of the most primal motivators in all of storytelling.  Combine these elements with a fantastical setting that practically bleeds brooding splendor and you have the dense dragontastic beginnings of Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen, a ...

Hollywood simply does not (and cannot afford to) make films as powerfully epic as David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.  The Best Picture winner of 1962 - rather expensively shot on location in Jordan, Morocco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and in Spain - is a masterfully ...

One of the most frustrating things this reviewer sees every Christmas is the list of perennial favourite festive season movies to watch, and this not on it. Richard Donner took time out from blowing shit up in Lethal Weapon movies to guide Bill Murray through ...

Rise of the Guardians, directed by Peter Ramsey, is what happens when various figures from our collective calendar holidays team up to play superhero against a soul-sucking force that threatens to steal their target audience away from them. The intelligence ...

Social taboos be damned! Opening with a statement that reads, “This picture is dedicated to those who are disturbed by today’s lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital punishment”, 1974’s House of Whipcord opens a brand new gore-ific ...

Riddle me this, dear readers.  What’s sexy and snarky and full of enough world mythology tidbits to please any serious fan of Joseph Campbell? Here’s a hint.  It’s Canadian. Here’s another hint.  You probably aren’t watching it. Ah, you’re getting warmer ...

In the 1980s, DC Comics took their tales of Batman to new heights. Years before Tim Burton took the helm as director of Batman (1989), Frank Miller and Alan Moore took the Dark Knight to new heights and new intense worlds. Many of these graphic novels and ...

Andrew Dominick has a history with making movies like this. Back in 2007 he penned the screenplay The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, a movie as long as it's title, that on paper was epic but ultimately failed to be.. It was bloated in ...

The Day is as trying and as bleak as its opening scene – of five savaged survivors on a wearily constant move - suggests.  Too bad it’s also as empty as the road they travel as far as meaningful film experiences go.  The drab post-apocalyptic setting suggests ...

For a kid who grew up in the Eighties, Saturday morning cartoons were a heavenly institution. Six solid hours of animated splendour! And, as the years progressed, and the likes of Transformers, Masters of the Universe, The Smurfs, (and I could ...

When asking someone what their favourite Disney film is, one rarely if ever hears this 1950’s era adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s immortal play mentioned. Yet, it is a favoured entry amongst the entertainment elite, with Stephen Spielberg doing a live-action sequel to ...

After E.T. stormed the box office and captured the hearts of about every kid in existence at the time, studios predictably tried their own riffs on the child/alien combo film with varying degrees of success. Setting aside any cynical viewpoint as to why the Eighties ...