DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 25 October 2021; Published: 25 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Beware the yellow van! Opening with some great aerial shots of San Francisco, Jeremy Hoenack's Killer’s Delight (originally shot as The Sport Killer and later re-released as The Dark Ride) shocks its audience when a van that we’ve been following pulls to the side of the road and a nude, dead ...

Details: Created: 15 November 2021; Published: 15 November 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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It’s quite hard to believe that the writer/director of such a modest, coming-of-age tale like Songs My Brothers Taught Me is the same person who just delivered us Marvel’s latest installment, Eternals. Though undoubtedly Chloé Zhao’s style is ingrained in the blockbuster, it is just a difficult task ...

Details: Created: 03 January 2021; Published: 03 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 23 July 2021; Published: 23 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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These are STILL not the ninjas you are looking for. Sure, they might go by the same names as those in the outstanding G.I. Joe universe, as developed by Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1994 in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic series, but the film adaptations have yet to do Hasbro ...

Details: Created: 20 October 2021; Published: 20 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“Kiss me, Tyler!” Alright, alright, so Girls School Screamers might be on the rather cheap end of Z-grade budget horror, but from the very beginning (in which a ghost in a wedding with worms and maggots dangling from her face scares a little boy so badly he runs from the house), to its ...

Details: Created: 29 December 2020; Published: 29 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s hard to conceive in this era of remakes that some redos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy, however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing romp, Some Like It ...

Details: Created: 13 August 2021; Published: 13 August 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What if all the non-playable characters (NPCs) in video games – the background characters controlled by the game's artificial intelligence (AI) rather than by a gamer – suddenly broke out and began taking control of their own destinies? Would anyone play a video game that awards points for ...

Details: Created: 20 October 2021; Published: 20 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Black magic! Like in Marilyn's books! This demon wants a lifeless body to control! Through the Fire begins with a flat tire. We have a glorious wide shot in which a white car comes to a stop against a night full of stars. That single shot is pretty awe-inspiring. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is ...

Details: Created: 17 December 2020; Published: 17 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, All About Eve continues to shine bright thanks to the dazzling performance of Bette Davis as Margo Channing as she takes Anne Baxter as ...

Details: Created: 20 August 2021; Published: 20 August 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What makes for great horror? Some prefer in-your-face blood and graphic violence, while others are spooked by the unsettling things that can’t be seen – the things that happen just off screen or in the corners of the frame. Fans of the latter, do we have a film for you! ...

Details: Created: 18 October 2021; Published: 18 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Once Upon a Time there lived a young woman named Wanda (Kathy Ireland. You know the name. Look up the number!) and she really wanted to change in order to please her surfer boyfriend. She can change! She wants to change! ...

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

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Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking about in the air. And it is that unpredictability which opens director Billy Wilder’s film noir classic, Double Indemnity as a ...

Details: Created: 03 August 2021; Published: 03 August 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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“Is it wrong to want greatness for you?” David Lowrey’s new visual marvel, The Green Knight, challenges the very notion of greatness and honor in this 21st-century retelling of the 14th-century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. What exactly does achieving greatness and honor ...

Details: Created: 14 October 2021; Published: 14 October 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s time once again to hop in the WAY BACK MACHINE and go . . . way back to another age of Hollywood HIGHS and HORROR! Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must ...

Details: Created: 23 November 2020; Published: 23 November 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“Did you bring me here by force?” And INTRODUCING Audrey Hepburn. That’s right, the screen legend begins here with Roman Holiday, a quintessential romantic comedy, which was shot on location in Rome . . . even though Paramount wanted it filmed on their studio ...