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Gabe Powers
Oct 2, 20194 min read
Erik the Conqueror Blu-ray Review (originally published 2017)
Released towards the middle of the peplum (or sword & sandal) cycle, when Italian filmmakers were aping big-budget Hollywood Biblical epics


Gabe Powers
Oct 1, 20195 min read
Absolution Blu-ray Review (originally published 2016)
Anthony Page’s Absolution (the 1978 movie, not to be confused with the 2015 Steven Seagal movie) explores the rules of the priesthood and...


Gabe Powers
Oct 1, 20196 min read
The Unholy Blu-ray Review (originally published 2017)
Camilo Vila’s The Unholy (1988) is one of those late ‘80s horror movies that everyone seems to have rented at some point, but no one seems..


Gabe Powers
Sep 30, 20196 min read
Unholy Four Blu-ray Review (originally published 2017)
By the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, many spaghetti western filmmakers were low on cash and stuck in a rut, shooting the same action scenes on the..


Gabe Powers
Sep 30, 20196 min read
Justice League Gods & Monsters Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)
The DC Animated Universe original movies (DCAU) followed the long, successful runs of various continuity-heavy television cartoons...


Gabe Powers
Sep 27, 20198 min read
The Dead Next Door Ultimate Edition Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)
There was a time when movies about flesh-eating zombies were rare. Now, The Walking Dead is the most popular show on basic cable and I can..


Gabe Powers
Sep 26, 20197 min read
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
Sep 26, 20194 min read
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
Sep 25, 20195 min read
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
Sep 25, 20196 min read
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
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