DVD Reviews

Written and directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff, It's Alive, Q: The Winged Serpent, Original Gangstas), Black Caesar is essentially a remake of 1931’s Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson.  To its credit; however, Cohen’s film has enough stylized action and Harlem locale in it to make it   ...

Barry Shear's Across 110th Street remains a hard-hitting look at racial violence in the streets of New York City. Loaded with hundreds of F-bombs, there's no denying its visceral power and, while the film gets lumped in with a lot of other Blaxploitation flicks from the era, the gritty realism  ...

Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow remains an absolute joy ride through pure imagination.  It is - by design - retro in feeling, high on nostalgia, pulpy in its comic book fantasy, and - thanks to Shout! Factory - now hitting its stride on home video thanks to this 4K treatment.  It seems the times  ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight, the critically-panned 1996 American action thriller film co-produced and directed by Renny Harlin and written by Shane Black, has finally arrived on 4K thanks to the fine efforts of Arrow Video.  This brand new 4K restoration has been minted from the original 35mm  ...

Once upon a time ago, Pam Grier – with her name proudly resting ABOVE the titles – could sell a movie. Hell, she WAS the movie. What a powerful time in movie history that was; an African-American woman selling an action flick. Such is the case with William Girdler's Sheba, Baby,  ...

Shout Factory has taken us back to the grit and grime of the Los Angeles streets circa 1973, thanks to their restoration and release of Jack Hill’s blaxploitation cult classic, Coffy, which is part of their Blaxploitation Classics, Vol. 1 release, a set which features THE BADDEST CATS TO STEP  ...

“I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots or only five?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I  ...

“I’m on TV!  I’m on TV!” Because we all love the scene-stealing LUNACY of a Cage-centered meltdown, especially when his character is named Rick Santoro!  Go, Tyler! Go, Tyler! Goooooooooo!  ...

Essentially, Battle Beyond the Stars can be described as Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai meets Star Wars on a restricted budget that employs egg and milk cartons for its interior spaceship designs. It remains nothing but a good time! ...

"Alright, who's next? Who wants some?" With that classic phrase uttered from Bruce Campbell's lips, Raimi's stop-motion ode to all things Ray Harryhausen roars to supernatural life in home theatres everywhere, blowing the heads off of all the "primitive screwheads" in his quest to return ...

With Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre as its reference point, Motel Hell is a seriously delicious horror film that exploits all the typical genre markers for the sake of comedy. And it’s all because director Kevin Connor (From Beyond The Grave, At The Earth’s Core) came aboard. What  ...

The election’s over, friends.  It’s time to chew bubblegum and kick ass again! Director John Carpenter had a nice run, didn’t he?  Between the late 1970’s and the early 1990’s, Carpenter was king of science fiction and horror.  Even if – as is the case with 1988’s They Live – his stories were recycled B-movie  ...

When it comes to auteurship, Russ Meyer was a total badass.  There’s simply no other way to put it and his films, everything from  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, stands as a testimony for his pioneering work in cinematography and his DIY attitude ...

Want some cheese with your Christmas?  Because Vinegar Syndrome and Something Weird Video have plenty of it with this historical (or is that hysterical?) release! Something is wrong with the children of Mars and only Santa Claus can solve their mystery moodiness.  With enough ...

Go ahead. Revoke my membership to the cool kids table at the lunchroom. I guess I simply don’t care to hear anymore from anyone about how goddamn awful Cherry 2000 is. It’s not. Not in the least. I originally saw this during a summer film fest when I was younger.  And it stayed with me ever  ...

Russ Meyer was a total badass.  There’s simply no other way to put it and his films, everything from  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, stands as a testimony for his pioneering work in cinematography and his DIY attitude  ...

“Sometimes the only way I know you’re still alive is when I hear ya flush the toilet!” The VW spider is back in action . . . in 4K! Don’t adjust your television set!  The little blue streak shooting across a rather bland-looking photo of the galaxy as the title card for THE GIANT ...

Fans of campy horror rejoice!  The terrifying three -ring circus has returned!!!!  Those bizarrely goofy Killer Klowns are returning to the planet and this time they’ll land their circus tent of curiosities in glorious 4K resolution.  And just in time, too.  The cinematic world was getting a bit boring ...

The comets are coming!! The comets are coming!! Science fiction gets satirized in writer/director Thom Eberhardt’s fantastic Night of the Comet. Released the same year as David Lynch’s Dune and 2010, this entry into the genre was – while the reviews were ...

Zoltan: Hound of Dracula is not a terribly good movie.  It is, in fact, absolutely terrible.  Nothing in it works as planned.  And the dog at the center of it, a glassy-eyed Doberman Pinscher, is anything but threatening as he is unearthed from his final resting place by a dim-witted Russian army and then  ...

“1, 2, 3 . . . we may be trapped.” - Jack Burton. Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) is having a real lucky day upon arriving in downtown San Francisco.  He’s winning every single card game and now, thanks to his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), he’s just doubled his ...

In which a freedom fighter is crucified, imprisoned, blinded, and then - due to some unfortunate use of black magic - turned into a pig! It’s time to get weird and wild, B-movie fans! The Warrior Trilogy, starring Barry Prima, gets its blu-ray debut ...

Involving yet another cabin in the woods, Deer Camp ‘86 wisely side steps any comparisons to Evil Dead as it focuses on a hunting trip for friends and co-workers gone sideways when the murder of a Native American bartender awakens something troubling . . . which then starts hunting  ...

The Island of Dr. Moreau was always a doomed affair. From the ever-increasing budget demands, the daily script rewrites which forced Rob Morrow to exit early, the unpredictable reaction by Marlon Brando to his daughter’s suicide, Val Kilmer’s own rage-filled reaction to getting served divorce  ...

Australian label Umbrella Entertainment has taken us back to the grit and grime of the Los Angeles streets circa 1973, thanks to their restoration and release of Jack Hill’s blaxploitation cult classic, Coffy.  This release is only available through the Umbrella webstore so scoop yours up quickly! ...

For some people, this was the King Kong they were raised on.  For others, nothing trumps the original.  For me, the 1976 version of King Kong is nothing to go bananas over . . . even if Jessica Lange looks mighty tasty. It might have launched Lange’s career and given Rick Baker an incredibly ...

Okay, let’s get the transfer quality out of the way.  It’s much better than what came before, but black levels still crush in some key moments of Godzilla, which simply hurts my soul.  Why someone can’t get this right is beyond me.  The clarity is still not there and, while the night scenes are a sharp  ...

The gates of Hell have opened . . . again!!! And THIS is why mothers should never breastfeed their freaky-looking children recently turned zombie. Directed by Strip Nude for your Killer’s Andrea Bianchi, Burial Ground is an ...

“Super cops in Hong Kong are cheap and plentiful like commodities in supermarkets.” . . . in which Jackie Chan, martial arts maestro by way of Buster Keaton, gets introduced to American

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“Wolfman’s got nards!” You know who to call when you have ghosts, but who do you call about monsters?!!  The Monster Squad - a group of young kids devoted to protecting their suburban neighborhood from strange things that go bump in the night - ain’t afraid of no ghouls! ...