DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 11 October 2019; Published: 11 October 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Rarely does conventional wisdom hold in Hollywood. Particularly with regards to the notion that less is more and that simplicity is superior to elaborate embellishment. Take, for instance Jerry Bruckheimer, the titan of TNT, who subscribes to the theory that if a candle is needed ...

Details: Created: 15 November 2020; Published: 15 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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We aren’t in Las Vegas anymore, baby! Written, produced, and directed by Mr. Rear-Projection himself, Bert Gordon (King Dinosaur, Earth vs. the Spider, The Amazing Colossal Man, and Empire of the Ants), War of the Colossal Beast is the ...

Details: Created: 12 January 2020; Published: 12 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Somewhere in Colts Neck, New Jersey there sets a horse farm owned by Bruce Springsteen. And on those 378 acres there is a two-story barn which, on certain nights, doubles as a performance area for Springsteen, his wife Patti Scialfa, and some close friends. The voices coming out from ...

Details: Created: 14 November 2020; Published: 14 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Fans of Paul Blaisdell’s creature work for films like The She-Creature, It Conquered The World, and Invasion of the Saucer Men are going to dig How to Make a Monster as his monster designs get some prime camera time when hung on the walls. Some audiences are going to see ...

Details: Created: 15 January 2020; Published: 15 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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2004’s Hellboy was a well-received if unspectacular performer at the box office, and the studios were not in a hurry to spend on another one. Undeterred, Guillermo Del Toro pressed on pitching various iterations of what could be the follow up. Oh, and since he had some time to kill ...

Details: Created: 13 November 2020; Published: 13 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Beware the barn! Ah, f@#$ it. Enter at your own risk, fools. You’ve been warned. With the smells of rotted wood and autumn leaves hanging in the air, you know that it is time to celebrate serial killing season once more! Hell, we even have a Friday the 13th release for this horror flick ...

Details: Created: 04 October 2019; Published: 04 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Joker was frightening proposition for this reviewer, who has been a lifelong Batman fanatic. Firstly because it presumed to make the focus of its narrative on one of the greatest antagonists in storytelling history, without the hero; secondly because it wasn’t going to stick with ...

Details: Created: 12 November 2020; Published: 12 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Alien invaders? Mind control via sharks? Underwater inner monologues? Treasure and babes in bikinis? Shark Encounters of the Close Kind has it all! It even has an abundant amount of gut busting laughs as this comedy takes nothing seriously - even the shark attacks! ...

Details: Created: 13 January 2020; Published: 13 January 2020; Written by Michelle Duy

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Movies like Miracles from Heaven and Heaven Is for Real tell allegedly true stories of divine intervention. The latest such movie is 2019’s Breakthrough. About four years ago in Missouri, teenager John Smith (Marcel Ruiz) fell through the ice of a frozen lake. After 15 minutes underwater he clinically died. But when ...

Details: Created: 07 November 2020; Published: 07 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Shot in black-and-white on a shoestring budget of nickels and dimes, Lake Michigan Monster is - at once - alarmingly successful in its goal of sending-up the whole monster hunting motif in horror films as a wronged sea captain living in a lighthouse mounts a hilarious hunt involving a ...

Details: Created: 13 January 2020; Published: 13 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Tenacious is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Sylvester Stallone. He was once one of the highest-paid and most successful actors in cinema’s history, and, like most, has had his fair share of career highlights and—lets be kind—lulls. ...

Details: Created: 03 November 2020; Published: 03 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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From dry deserts to tropical islands, Tremors shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, but - if this is the end of the road for the franchise - it goes out on a hell of a high note thanks to Tremors: Shrieker Island ...

Details: Created: 05 September 2019; Published: 05 September 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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When Stephen King’s doorstop novel was adapted for TV in the 90’s, it accomplished what shouldn’t have been possible. King’s novel is a behemoth tome, with dozens of characters, and was one of his truly graphic forays into the horror genre for ...

Details: Created: 01 November 2020; Published: 01 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Greetings, Starfighter! Arrow Video invited you to watch this 1984 science fiction classic in a way never before thought possible. With a newly restored 4k scan of the original negative and the 4.1 sound mix originally created for the 70mm release, The Last Starfighter returns to your living ...

Details: Created: 20 December 2019; Published: 20 December 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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There are touchstone pictures that transcend any generation, no matter when they were born, that fall under the MUST WATCH category. They are masterpieces. Films like Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre, (I know! Bogart nut) it doesn’t matter. If you are a film aficionado, a general viewer, a ...