Gabe Powers
Eighteen Years in Prison Blu-ray Review
During the ‘50s and early ‘60s, director Tai Kato was a journeyman for Toei Studios, churning out respectable, influential jidaigeki...
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Gabe Powers
- Aug 6
- 9 min
Demons 2 4K UHD Review
Demons (Italian: Demoni, 1985) was a vivid work of pop art splatter designed to please the widest horror audience possible and its...
Gabe Powers
- Aug 2
- 10 min
Demons 4K UHD Review
At the onset of the mid-’80s, Italian horror and thriller cinema was in decline as the entire industry struggled to make ends meet, yet...
Gabe Powers
- Jul 30
- 6 min
The Crippled Masters Blu-ray Review
The late ‘70s were a wild time for kung fu cinema in the west, as A-level films from major studios, like Shaw Bros. and Golden Harvest...
Tyler Foster
- Jul 29
- 6 min
Hardware Wars Blu-ray Review
Don't know if this constitutes a "hot take" among nerds roughly my age, but I think it's fair to say that Spaceballs is not Mel Brooks'...
Gabe Powers
- Jul 26
- 3 min
The Inspector Wears Skirts 4 Blu-ray Review
On a narrative level, The Inspector Wears Skirts 4 is essentially the same movie as parts one and two with a veteran supercop training a...
Gabe Powers
- Jul 25
- 3 min
The Inspector Wears Skirts 3 Blu-ray Review
The only film in the Inspector Wears Skirts tetralogy to not be produced and distributed by Golden Harvest and sometimes simply titled...
Gabe Powers
- Jul 22
- 2 min
46.2 The Giant Monster Movies of 1957, feat. Patrick Ripoll of 96 Greers (2 of 3)
FROM THE FROZEN WASTES OF THE ARCTIC TO THE DEPTHS OF THE AFRICAN JUNGLE, THE ARID DESERTS OF MEXICO, AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST THEY CAME…
Gabe Powers
- Jul 19
- 6 min
Off Balance Blu-ray Review
Despite being remembered for two extremely transgressive, back-to-back horror films Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and House on the Edge of...
Gabe Powers
- Jul 15
- 9 min
The Case of the Bloody Iris 4K UHD Review
By 1972, the Italian-made thrillers known as gialli had already crested in popularity locally. The genre would continue thriving into the...
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