MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: Panther (1995)
Mario Van Peebles directed and produced this adaption of Melvin Van Peebles’s novel Panther and had his dad write the screenplay, too. Kadeem Hardison plays Judge, a man who has returned home from Vietnam to find that Oakland is torn apart between crime and police discrimination against African-Americans. he soon learns about the Black Panthers […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Blood And Diamonds (1977)
Directed by Fernando Di Leo, who wrote Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars and Massacre Time, as well as the director of Naked Violence, Slaughter Hotel and Caliber 9, Blood and Diamonds is a poliziotteschi about Guido Mauri (Claudio Cassinelli), a thief who has spent the last few years in prison and just wants […]
Rot (1999)
Marcus Koch is probably best known for his effects work on movies like We Are Still Here, Frankenstein Created Bikers, The Third Saturday In October V and Eminence Hill. Or maybe you know him from his directing work on American Guinea Pig: Bloodshock. Either way, he made this back in 1999 and for as grainy and rough as it is, […]
Satan’s Storybook (1989)
Satan’s Storybook prefigures the streaming horror anthology films that litter our watch services today yet it’s miles above those, not just within its two tales, but with a connecting story that makes you want even more. Directed and co-written by Michael Rider, who was also a zombie in the shot on video Hororama, this movie starts […]
MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: 5-25-77 (2022)
Before Patrick Read Johnson did special effects on V, 2010: The Year We Made Contact and Warlock, wrote Dragonheart and directed Spaced Invaders, Baby’s Day Out, Angus and The Genesis Code, he was a kid in Wadsworth, Illinois who made his own movies and dreamed of a Hollywood he was sure he would neer get to. Thanks to his mother setting up […]
KINO LORBER UHD RELEASE: Death Wish (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve talked about Death Wish so many times on the site, but this is all about the excitement of Kino Lorber’s UHD release. It has both a UHD HDR/Dolby Vision master from a 4k scan of the 35mm original camera negative and a blu ray HD master from a 4k scan of the 35mm […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Asphyx (1972)
Man, if you’re looking for a British seance movie — and really who isn’t — there’s not a better film for you than this 1972 bit of craziness. Sir Hugo Cunningham’s (Robert Stephens) idea of fun is to film the last moments of peoples’ lives and seeing if a smudge in the images are the […]
WELL GO USA BLU RAY RELEASE: Alienoid (2022)
Released in South Korea as Alien+Human Part 1, this is one wild movie, weaving together three different timelines come together, all based around aliens putting their criminals into human bodies and trapping them on Earth where they are tracked, extracted and contained by Thunder (the voice of Kim Dae-myung) and Guard (Kim Woo-bin), two robots armed with a […]
Bad Karma (1991)
Before Alex Chandon made Cradle of Fear, he made this and wow, I love every bit of this grimy movie way better than that. It starts with a barbecue party being destroyed by shape-shifting Hare Krishnas who can become monstrous beings that feel like they belong up on the stage with Gwar but here they are […]
CAULDRON FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Convoy Busters (1978)
Maurizio Merli is, for me, the face of poliziotteschi, taking on a similar role as Clint Eastwood as a judge, jury and executioner of criminals that lives by his own strict code and must follow it, no matter how much it destroys his life. Whether he’s Commissario Betti in Violent Rome, Violent Naples and Special Cop in […]
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