I am a huge fan of the film Pacific Rim. I saw it twice in theaters – each time in IMAX 3D as I felt that the spectacle was something that would make full use of the format. Thankfully, I was right and enjoyed the second time viewing the...
Category - Film Review
Arrow Video Giallo Essentials Red Edition Collection Review
Need to kickstart the Giallo shelf in your movie library? Regrettably pass on some of Arrow Video’s out of print releases from...
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Arrow Video DEEP RED 4K UHD Blu-ray Release Review
There are few directors more synonymous with a genre than Dario Argento and Giallo. After establishing his name with landmark...
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Frankenstein’s Daughter Special Edition Blu-ray Review
The 1950s were a hell of a time for aspiring filmmakers. Seemingly anyone with a few dollars in their pocket, access to a generic...
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Synapse Films Demons & Demons 2 Blu-ray Two-disc Limited Edition...
What do you get when you combine the masters of Italian horror, twin tales of cursed movies, pre-reunification Germany and a...
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The Green Knight 4K and Blu-Ray Combo Disc Set Review
The Green Knight, or, “Sir Gawain and the Gorgeous 4K Transfer”. At least, that’s what I would title it...
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While at this week’s San Diego Comic-Con, we got invited to a special showing of Edgar Wright’s “The World’s End” – the final installment in his “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy, which began with...
Growing up in the 1980s, I was one of the lucky (or unlucky, depending on your world view) little boys who got the chance to play “war” with my friends using plastic toys and cap guns that resembled real firearms. Beyond that, even...
Grave Encounters 2, the new film from the Vicious Bros., begins by showing clips of students reacting and talking about Grave Encounters. The new film takes a reality/viral-video style voyage in a world where the first film was actually...
HOLLOW (2012) is a British “found footage” film helmed by first-time Director, Michael Axelgaard. It follows four friends as they go on holiday to an old, abandoned monastery in the countryside. When screening HOLLOW, I was...
When you think of Cuba and exports, it is almost always the illegal cigars supposedly rolled on the thighs of virgins (hey I am allergic to smoke, all I know about cigars I learned from TV and movies). Otherwise if you know your history the...
Act of Valor, the new action flick in theaters which features active-duty U.S. Navy SEALs (apparently filmed in-between deployments), is both a salute to the men and women of the armed forces as well as an intense action movie. While its...
This may be a bit too early for Halloween pieces (though you would not know it based on the number of The Thing stories we have posted of late) but a peculiar DVD arrived on the GamingShogun doorstep yesterday. The film was Jim Mickle’s...