MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: Macgruber, Balls of Fury, Your Highness (2010, 2007, 2011)
Mill Creek has released this DVD set of three 2000s comedies that is totally worth your money. You can get it from Deep Discount. MacGruber (2010): Directed by The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, MacGruber does what all SNL films do: stretch a short segment into a full movie. However, because this movie has a rich history of spy […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: King Ralph (1991)
Incredibly loosely based on the novel Headlong by Emlyn Williams, King Ralph supposes what would happen if the entire royal family of England was electrocuted and an heir needed to be found, which ends up being Ralph Hampton Gainsworth Jones (John Goodman), a Vegas lounge singer who must be groomed by Sir Cedric Charles Willingham (Peter […]
Orders from Above (2021)
Adolf Eichmann (Peter J. Donnelly) has been captured and brought to Israel to stand trial. Without enough evidence to prosecute him, the job of getting a conviction falls to Israeli Mossad agent Avner Less (Richard Cotter). The first full-length film directed and written by Vir Srinivas, this is a big concept: two men in one […]
The Golden Lady (1979)
Post-Moonraker, there seemed to be an interest in creating new Eurospy ripoff movies like The Nude Bomb; No. 1 of the Secret Service (I realize it came out in 1977) and its sequels Licensed to Love and Kill and Number One Gun. The Golden Lady literally says in its ads that it’s a female James Bond; most curiously it was […]
La ocasión (1978)
Pablo (Javier Escrivá) and and Anna (Teresa Gimpera, Lucky the Inscrutable, The People Who Own the Dark and quite literally Hannah Queen of the Vampires) have come back to their fancy beach home to discover that someone has broken in. That means that he decides to go all Straw Dogs on the hippies or at least calling the cops […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Planet of the Vampires (1965)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on September 7, 2020 but now with the blu ray release of this movie from Kino Lorber, this gives me a chance to update it and expand on it. You can get the new Kino Lorber blu ray directly from the Kino Lorber site. In addition to a new 2K master, […]
La visita del vicio (1978)
I think the strain of making a few softcore movies got to José Ramón Larraz. He was known somewhat for his haunted London series of films and the last few movies he made after returning to Spain were technically fine, but didn’t have the hint of berserk weirdness that he’d shown in England. And then […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Black Dahlia (2006)
Based on The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, which is in turn based on the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short — one in which her black hair had been bleached and then dyed red before she was surgically sliced in half with a technique called a hemicorporectomy, her skin washed and her body was […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: BASEketball (1998)
EDITOR’S NOTE: BASEketball first was on the site on June 24, 2022. Now that there’s a Mill Creek blu ray release, it’s back! You can get this from Deep Discount. David Zucker made Airplane!, Top Secret and The Naked Gun movies so we should really be forever forgiving everything he does, but he’s a pretty great person by all accounts, serving […]
Luto riguroso (1977)
Sadly, the most I can track down of this 1977 José Ramón Larraz directed and written movie are ten video clips online, but as several of Larraz’s hard to find movies have been showing up, I look forward to someday seeing a full version of this. With a title that translates as Deep Mourning, this finds […]
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