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- Created: 10 July 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Some 27 years after it’s release, one might be forgiven for forgetting what a game changer Jan de Bont’s Speed was. No scratch that, you should remember! Back in the early 90s, the big muscles, full testosterone action picks from Sly, Arnie, Segal, Van Damme and the like were started ...
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- Created: 11 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
"I've got my head. I've lost my leopard!" As far as screwball comedies go, the pairing of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn was probably seen as an odd choice in 1938. She didn’t have a hit film and Grant, hitting his comedic stride, was just coming off of The Awful Truth to ...
Read more: Bringing Up Baby: The Criterion Collection (1938)
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- Created: 25 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Spiders the size of SUVs in a mining town full of crazy characters? Count me in! Eight Legged Freaks, starring David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, and Doug E. Doug, finally arrives on blu-ray courtesy of Scream Factory. For me, this B-grade horror ...
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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: 23 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The comedic timing. The charisma of all involved. The breaking of the fourth wall. Hollywood’s definitive leading man! What’s not to love about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Cary Grant takes his physical comedy and his mannerisms from the office to home construction woes ...
Read more: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House: Warner Archive Collection (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 05 July 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Remember that episode of The Big Bang Theory? You know, the one where Sheldon shares his love of Raiders of the Lost Ark with Amy, and after watching it, she blows his mind by attesting that the plot would have been exactly the same without it’s protagonist. I, like Sheldon, was ...
Read more: Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection - 4K Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 21 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
He’s really being the monster today! Why can’t he be more like his brother? With those two sentences, audiences are immediately thrust into the chaos that is 2005’s House of Wax. That opening, in which two bent out of shape parents struggle with their wild twin sons ...
Read more: House of Wax: Collector's Edition (2005) - Blu-ray Review
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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: 09 April 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
With nothing more than the well-being of our fellow man at stake, can humans be trusted to do the right thing to ensure the proliferation of the species? Or are we genetically programmed to revert to primitive nature? ...
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- Created: 13 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
A psychological thriller in which Boris Karloff does NOT play a creature of the night? Say it ain’t so?! But it’s true. Isle of the Dead, produced by the legendary Val Lewton, concerns itself with that which haunts Greek nightmares: the Vrykolakas and this female vampire is certainly NOT ...
Read more: Isle of the Dead: Warner Archive Collection (1945) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 22 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
I’m tweakin’ dude! One of my favorite B-grade flicks from Cinemax’s yesteryear is now on blu-ray! The Wraith has arrived! Complete with a crazy ass performance from Clint Howard (AND HIS HAIR) and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Secret Loser” (from The Ultimate Sin) blasting at the start of the first ...
Read more: The Wraith: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 11 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Oof! The struggle is real! Wonder Woman 1984, directed by Patty Jenkins, should have been a lot of things as it embraces the technicolor, cocaine-fueled era of BIG HAIR and even BIGGER SHOULDER PADS, but it’s not and its nearly ...
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- Created: 05 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Madness. Mayhem. And, of course, MURDER. This is what follows the anti-archetype characters of M. It is a thriller that is meant to unsettle the viewer with its hunt for a serial killer, making it an unforgettable REEL CLASSIC ...
Read more: M: The Criterion Collection (1931) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 14 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Can I have my light back, Reggie? With guns blazing and fierce energy kicking about in its insides Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs. is a violent and truly funny action comedy. When it was originally release, it was the movie which rocketed Eddie Murphy to stardom thanks to his performance on ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: 48 Hrs. - 4K Restoration (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 07 March 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
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: 08 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
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: 15 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Iceman cometh! Yeah, so Another 48 Hrs. might not be the film fans wanted at the time of its release, but it still EXPLODES with action scenes that sees bodies flying all sorts of places as they are shot by a crazy biker gang. And that’s ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: Another 48 Hrs. - 4K Restoration (1990)
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- Created: 13 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Suspicions! Accusations! It’s all on the screen in this minor film noir classic. The Suspect arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and I, as a fan of Laughton’s performances, couldn’t be happier ...
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- Created: 05 March 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It often takes an earth-shattering moment to remind us that sometimes, it is friendship – not biological family – that gets us through some of life’s most challenging times. That’s the big take-away in Our Friend, which tells the devastating true story of the Teague family and how their lives were suddenly ...
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- Created: 13 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Talk about a CLOWN DAY AFTERNOON! Coming straight at you from the weird and wacky center of 1990s Forgotten Gems aisle comes Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards in Quick Change, a comedic heist film in which Murray appears ...
Read more: Quick Change : The Warner Archive Collection (1990) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 30 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
One wouldn’t normally equate Cary Grant with a family movie about adoption and the drama which lies therein, but perhaps that’s why Room for One More (also known as The Easy Way) lingers with viewers. Grant, playing one half of The Roses, never gets time alone as his house is filled ...
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- Created: 22 March 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
From the producer of Get Out and Us, Antebellum (2020) is hard to watch as it depicts the realities of slavery. Everything from branding a human being to committing rape and murder is vividly portrayed. Thankfully, some scenes take place in the present day which give the viewer a much ...
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- Created: 01 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Now THIS is how you do it! The title says it all. Godzilla in one corner of the ring. King Kong in the other. And one HELL of a battle in the space between these two titans. And, within seconds of it opening, we get the added bonus of this series FULLY embracing its science fiction leanings with two ...
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- Created: 10 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“She’s afraid of the big bad wolf. Tra la la la laaaaaa.” It Happened One Night remains a phenomenal romantic comedy. After all these years, this pre-code American film - which was made when being a reporter was idolized and the screwball comedy was only just hitting its stride - still hits all the perfect notes as ...
Read more: It Happened One Night: Criterion Collection (1934) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 24 March 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
The low-budget Christian drama Dispatched is like a movie version of a street preacher. You may have been just going about your daily business, but it grabs you by the shirt collar. It gets right up in your face and declares God’s love for you. This blunt approach to evangelism is not for everybody ...
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- Created: 22 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Anyone have some change? Frank and Josie are back! I am not sure if it is the whole Generation X side of me, but Career Opportunities - which is essentially The Breakfast Club set inside Home Alone - was my jam back in high school. There’s a part of me that still ...
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- Created: 03 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Marx Brothers are coming! The Marx Brothers are coming! Well, after a bit of exposition that is as Casablanca (and others like that film) get a big kiss-off thanks to the parody on display throughout the 86-minutes that make up A Night in Casablanca. This REEL CLASSIC might not be the ...
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- Created: 28 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
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: 16 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Oscar Winners Martin Landau and José Ferrar in a monster movie with grand laughs? Sign me up! A very nude girl paints her toes in her bedroom. It is night and she’s clueless as to what foul beast is lurking just outside her house. It is a slug-like monster the size of a bear and ...
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- Created: 18 December 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It’s foolish to expect a movie about fossil hunting to be an exciting action banger. But Lord Have Mercy, is Ammonite about as slow as one would expect a movie about fossil hunting to be! To be fair, Ammonite isn’t about fossil hunting, nor does being slow necessarily make it a bad film. It isn’t. But like ...
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