Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016. Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them. Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not […]
DVD Review – Female Fight Club (2016)
Female Fight Club, 2016. Directed by Miguel A. Ferrer. Starring Amy Johnston, Cortney Palm, Rey Goyos, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Zito, Levy Tran, Shaun Brown, Sean Faris, and Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez. SYNOPSIS: A retired fighter reluctantly returns to the sport in order to rescue her sister from an unscrupulous underground promoter. Female Fight Club is obviously […]
Blu-ray Review – Images (1972)
Images, 1972. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Susannah York, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, and Marcel Bozzuffi. SYNOPSIS: A schizophrenic housewife has visions of different people in her life and starts to kill them off, not being sure if they are real or not. Essentially, Images is a horror film from a director not […]
Blu-ray Review: A Pistol For Ringo & The Return of Ringo: Two Films by Duccio Tessari
A Pistol For Ringo & The Return of Ringo: Two Films by Duccio Tessari Directed by Duccio Tessari. Starring Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorella De Luca, Antonio Casas, Víctor Bayo, Nieves Navarro, and George Martin. SYNOPSIS: Box set containing two influential Spaghetti Westerns from director Duccio Tessari. You often hear movies described as Die Hard […]
DVD Review – Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)
Kickboxer: Retaliation, 2018. Directed by Dimitri Logothetis. Starring Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Christopher Lambert, Sara Malakul Lane, Mike Tyson, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, and Sam Medina. SYNOPSIS: After the brutal defeat of Tong Po, kickboxer Kurt Sloane is kidnapped and forced to take on the hulking Mongkut in another fight to the death. […]
Blu-ray Review – Der Todesking (1990)
Der Todesking, 1990. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause, Susanne Betz, Eva-Maria Kurz, and Andreas Doehler. SYNOPSIS: Seven short stories based around the notion of suicide, all from the director of Nekromantik. If ever there was a call for a movie about suicide – and why wouldn’t there be? – […]
Blu-ray Review – Once Were Warriors (1994)
Once Were Warriors, 1994. Directed by Lee Tamahori. Starring Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Taungaroa Emile, Cliff Curtis, and Julian Arahanga. SYNOPSIS: The mother of a New Zealand Maori family struggles to keep her family together as her violent husband and wayward children seem to pull apart. Controversial upon its original release and still […]
Blu-ray Review – Jigsaw (2017)
Jigsaw, 2017. Directed by Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig. Starring Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, Laura Vandervoort, Brittany Allen, Josiah Black, and Mandela Van Peebles. SYNOPSIS: A series of grisly murders point to Jigsaw killer John Kramer as the suspect but he has been dead for 10 years… hasn’t he? So […]
DVD Review – Beyond the Woods (2018)
Beyond the Woods, 2018. Directed by Sean Breathnach. Starring John Ryan Howard, Mark Lawrence, Sean McGillicuddy, Ross Mac Mahon, Claire J. Loy, Alan Riordan, and Irene Kelleher. SYNOPSIS: Seven people stay in a secluded holiday cottage near where a sinkhole has opened up, unleashing evil forces into the area. The first full-length feature for writer/director […]
Blu-ray Review – Scalpel (1977)
Scalpel, 1977. Directed by John Grissmer. Starring Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, and Sandy Martin. SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic plastic surgeon tries to claim a huge inheritance by transforming the face of an accident victim into that of his missing daughter. John Grissmer’s debut feature Scalpel is an odd one. Odd because, […]
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