All Movie Reviews
The Stephen King 5-Movie Collection is a Great Deal if You Don’t Already Own the Films on Blu-ray [Review]
Paramount’s Stephen King 5-Movie Collection is now available on Blu-ray, and it contains a pretty great lineup. If you’re a King fan and you don’t already own the original Pet Sema...
Love Hunter Is A Darkly Erotic, Controversial Time Capsule Of 1970s Japan [ Blu Ray Review]
Nikkatsu Corporation, the studio responsible for Love Hunter, is one of Japan’s oldest movie studios. The company has been creating feature films intermittently since its founding in 1912. Nikka...
Sheep Without a Shepherd Takes a Hammer to Social Injustice [Fantasia Review]
Sheep without a Shepherd is a movie that proudly wears its many influences on its sleeve, beginning with a thrilling, Great Escape-aping opening sequence set at a prison internment camp that’s ...
Undergods’ Dark Dystopia Is Hauntingly Human [Fantasia Review]
Chino Moya’s Undergods was one of the premieres at Fantasia Fest 2020, and from the very first frame, the film is visually stunning. Slate grey fog rolls over the crumbling remains of a large ci...
Turistas is…a Film [Quarantine Retrospective]
While we’re on lockdown, I’ll be working on a series of retrospectives as I watch through my library. Many will be films I love but I may veer into less favorable territory from time to ...
For The Sake Of Vicious Is A Fast Paced Halloween Home Invasion [Fantasia Review]
For The Sake Of Vicious sets its tone from the opening scene, with a masked man wielding a machete in a dingy building full of meat hooks and filthy tarps, an unconscious victim lying at his feet. Pre...
Hunted is an Impressively Nasty Piece of Work [Fantasia Review]
The premise of Hunted is one we’ve seen countless times before; a woman goes to a bar, meets a man who seems nice, and, before she knows it, finds herself abducted and speeding towards certain ...
Monster Seafood Wars is a Delightfully Goofy Throwback [Fantasia Review]
With a title like Monster Seafood Wars, you pretty much know what you’re in for. And yet, prolific director Minoru Kawasaki’s movie, the script for which he co-wrote with regular collabo...
Who the Heck is Hail to the Deadites For? [Fantasia Review]
Over the past few years, there’s been an unfortunate influx in fan documentaries. By this, I don’t mean fan made films, but rather films about fans. It’s unfortunate because there...