Murder, She Wrote S3 E18: No Laughing Murder (1987)
Someone is found dead after the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics. Season 3, Episode 18: No Laughing Murder (March 15, 1987) Welcome to Cooperville, New York. Jessica is in town to visit the Hiawatha Lodge, which is owned by the widower of Jessica’s dear, departed college pal. He’s a retired stand-up comic, […]
SRS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Death-scort Service: Trinity (2015, 2017,
In a dark and twisted tale set in Las Vegas, a deranged slasher targets a group of aspiring young escorts. As the body count rises, the women band together, using their wits and determination to confront the killer. Will they survive the night, or will the slasher claim them as his next victims? Death-scort Service […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Romancing in Thin Air (2012)
Most people hear the name Johnnie To and immediately think of bullet-riddled suits, slow-motion standoffs and the cool-as-ice nihilism. But he can direct a gritty triad war in his sleep and then turn around and break your heart with a melodrama. Louis Koo (Throw Down) stars as Michael, a Hong Kong megastar who has everything […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
If you think the legal system is a mess today, take a trip back to 1970s Palermo, where the line between the badge and the bullet is thinner than a piece of cheap deli ham. Director Damiano Damiani (Amityville II: The Possession) drops us into a world where justice isn’t just blind; she’s been paid […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Agitator (2001)
If you’re a fan of the kind of cinema that feels like a pressurized steam pipe about to burst, Takashi Miike is your dude. While most directors would be happy finishing one masterpiece in a lifetime, Miike dropped Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q and The Happiness of the Katakuris all in the same year as […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Dancing Hawk (1977)
You know the story. The dirt-under-the-fingernails kid who looks at the smog-choked horizon and decides he’s going to be the one holding the briefcase instead of the plow. It’s the American Dream, right? Only this is Poland in the wake of WWII, and the ladder is made of socialist bureaucracy, party favors and a soul-crushing […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 12: Blood Freak (2020)
April 12: 412 Day — A movie about Pittsburgh (if you’re not from here that’s our area code). Or maybe one made here. Heck, just write about Striking Distance if you want. Isn’t Blood Freak made in Miami? Yes, but this is Yinzer Blood Freak, made right here in Pittsburgh. Yes, this time, we’ve moved from the balmy Atlantic breeze […]
PARAMOUNT BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Running Man (1987)
The Running Man was a troubled production, with original director Andrew Davis (Under Siege, The Fugitive) being replaced a week into filming by former Starsky and Hutch actor Paul Michael Glaser (he’s gone back to acting, but not before giving us the magic that is Kazaam). In his book, Total Recall, Arnold wrote that this was a horrible decision, as the director […]
VCI/KIT PARKER FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Creepy Creature Double Feature: The Slime People (1963)/The Crawling Hand (1963)
The Slime People (1963): There’s so much fog in this movie that Lucio Fulci got jealous. There was so much fog that the Elizabeth Dane wrecked. So much fog… You get it, right? A bunch of lizard people emerge from under Los Angeles and use their fog machine to invade the city because, well, we nuked […]
VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU-RAY RELEASE: Vampire Time Travelers (1998)/I Know What You Did in English Class (2000)
I’ve never seen any of the movies that director and writer Les Sekely has made like Night of the Living Date, The Not-So-Grim Reaper and The Alien Conspiracy: Grey Skies, but I have seen this and I totally am hunting for the rest. This movie feels less like a narrative movie and more like someone made a Dark […]
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