DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

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 ...