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Crocodile (1979) Blu-ray Review
Movies about rampaging crocodilia are among the nadir of the eco-horror and killer animal genres, in large part because they have no...

Gabe Powers
Jul 5, 2024


Fata Morgana Blu-ray Review
The concept of giallo is hard enough to define on its own without considering the larger impact of pop-thrillers made outside of Italy...

Gabe Powers
Jul 2, 2024


The Guyver (1991) 4K UHD Review
I’m not an expert on the subject, but it seems to me that 1990 was the year that manga and anime finally ‘broke’ in America...

Gabe Powers
Jun 26, 2024


Sympathy for the Underdog Blu-ray Review
Before he was recognized as a genre-redefining maverick, Fukasaku was a salaryman type workhorse director who was still developing his...

Gabe Powers
Jun 21, 2024


The Miracle Fighters Blu-ray Review
Following the seismic cultural impacts of the Wachowski’s The Matrix (1999), Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and Quentin...

Gabe Powers
Jun 19, 2024


The Toxic Avenger Collection 4K UHD Review
I was sent this collection for review back in September of 2023 and only the first 4K disc would work on my player...

Gabe Powers
Jun 12, 2024


The Valiant Ones 4K UHD Review
Jinquan ‘King’ Hu had begun his career at Shaw Bros. in the late ‘50s as a character actor in period films and made his directorial debut...

Gabe Powers
Jun 6, 2024


Shinobi Trilogy Blu-ray Review
If you grew up in America during the 1980s, you’d be forgiven for assuming that ninjas were an omnipresent piece of world pop culture...

Gabe Powers
May 31, 2024


Narc 4K UHD Review
During the early ‘00s, many popular filmmakers turned to the stylistic grit and moral ambiguity of the 1970s to cinematically express the...

Gabe Powers
May 30, 2024


Beauty of Beauties Blu-ray Review
With limited knowledge on the subject, I’m approaching this as less of a standard review of Li Han-hsiang’s Beauty of Beauties...

Gabe Powers
May 21, 2024
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