DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Upside Down is not a very good romance as far as storybook fables go.  It is; however, fairly strong and needlessly complicated science fiction.  For my money, I’ll take the latter any day of the week.  After all, this is a concept film and – in order for any part of the ...

“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the ...

Offering a tongue-in-cheek solution to the homeless problem that plagued nightly news during the 1980s, Street Trash is a horror-comedy that goes out of its way to offend everyone … regardless of their bum status.  In doing so, the film earns its underground cult ...

Created by the rich mind of J.G. Quintel, Cartoon Network’s newest original series Regular Show is anything but what its title suggests.  The animated series focuses on the hilarious misadventures of a blue jay named Mordecai (voiced by Quintel) and a ...

In this increasingly creatively vacuous arena we call Hollywood it is something of a miracle when (A): someone can present a new take on something; and (B): it actually gets made. Credit goes to Summit then for this wonderfully fresh spin on a zombie story, based ...

Predicting the right wing's media dominance with an intelligent script and a captivating group of actors of course WUSA – upon on its initial release in 1970 – was a giant flop.  I’ll wager a bet that some of you have never even heard of the film but know of its ...

Fresh from the success of 1978’s Halloween, director John Carpenter returns to horror and its star Jamie Lee Curtis for his follow-up feature film.  The Fog is a supernatural horror flick that is heavy on atmosphere and creativity and, in spite ...

Cheese never gets as gooey as it does in William Sachs’ bloody awful The Incredible Melting Man.  Originally intended to be a spoof of horror films until money hungry producers – realizing there’s more money to be made in a serious horror film - got a hold ...

Released years before the Alan Moore revisions of DC Comics Universe’s environmentally concerned soul crusader, Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing isn’t so much a superhero movie in the traditional sense as it is a creature feature for the camp crowd of matinee ...

Cy Roth’s Fire Maidens of Outer Space from 1956 is 78-minutes of black-and-white science fiction B-movie cheese.  It should be noted that most of that cheese has spoiled.  While this isn’t the worse film ever made, it is a close contender.  Having admitted that the film ...

Originally inspired by spacey Mormon theology concerning a planet named Kolob and the council of twelve, the original Battlestar Galactica movie (but really just the first three episodes of the series cut into a motion picture) arrives on Blu-ray this month courtesy ...

A Boy and His Dog is the perfect post-apocalyptic movie.  The dark humor from science fiction author Harlan Ellison (writer for Star Trek, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and The Outer Limits) is striking and solid and, in spite of this being a short story adaptation, largely ...

With a billion dollar franchise like Twilight to her name it was inevitable that Stephanie Meyer’s other works would quickly find their way to the big screen. According to those in the know, Meyer quickly penned this alien invasion story after completing Eclipse, and ...

The no CGI mandate continues as Adam Green’s uber-bloody Hatchet series comes up with its third and freshest entry.  Directed by BJ McDonnell, Hatchet 3 begins precisely where the second one ended – with actress Danielle Harris butchering the main antagonist ...

One of the few filmic anomalies in the classic era of the long-running Doctor Who series has finally received the upgrade it so richly deserves.  Jon Pertwee's first outing as the Doctor is the first time the adventures of the Time Lord were shown in color.  That in itself ...