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In the Line of Duty IV
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Gabe Powers

Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Vol. 2, Border Crossings: The Crime & Action Movies BD Review (2018)

Seijun Suzuki may be the most well-known Japanese filmmaker of his era who didn’t earn his popularity and acclaim making period-set samurai

Gabe Powers

Cops vs Thugs Blu-ray Review (originally published 2017)

Following the super-popular, genre-changing Battles without Honor and Humanity series (1973-74), director Kinji Fukasaku became the go-to...

Gabe Powers

Blackenstein Blu-ray Review (originally published 2017)

Frank R. Saletri’s Blackenstein has been overlooked for generations for the trifling, utterly inconsequential fact that it’s a terrible...

Gabe Powers

Blacula/Scream Blacula Scream Double-Feature Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)

To a certain cross-section of rural America, all blaxploitation films were pretty scary, but William Crain’s Blacula was the first to blend

Gabe Powers

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards Blu-ray Review (originally published 2018)

Seijun Suzuki may be the most well-known Japanese filmmaker of his era who didn’t earn his popularity and acclaim making period samurai...

Gabe Powers

Street Mobster Blu-ray Review (originally published 2018)

Around the same time director Seijun Suzuki was redefining himself at Nikkatsu, his slightly less internationally renowned cohort, Kinji...

Gabe Powers

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation Blu-ray Review (originally published 2018)

Tobe Hooper’s original 1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre was forged in a creative vacuum that produced an unprecedented motion picture...

Gabe Powers

Episode 5 (Part 3) Trailer Round-up

Welcome back for one last go-round! There was no space to include trailer clips in any of the three parts of our look back at the slasher...

Gabe Powers

Hannie Caulder Olive Signature Blu-Ray Review (originally published 2016)

Time has a habit of changing the popular perception of ‘genre’ movies. When it was released in 1971, Burt Kennedy’s Hannie Caulder was...

Gabe Powers

Requiescant Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)

The challenged pacifist is a common character trend throughout revisionist westerns, appearing in early subgenre entries, like William A..