The late '80s and early '90s marked an enormous revival of noir, thanks primarily to Quentin Tarantino's meteoric rise to fame with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, although it was brewing already in the work of David Lynch and John Dahl, amongst others. Romeo is Bleeding was the third in a row of crime films … Continue reading Romeo is Bleeding – Blu-Ray Review →

Clive Barker created the Hellraiser series back in 1987, basing it on his novella, “The Hellbound Heart.” His original film was a unique horror movie that had some fairly extreme S&M imagery for the time. Barker is a real artist, and Hellraiser was a genuinely interesting horror film, even though I think it’s weaker than … Continue reading Hellraiser: Revelations and Judgment Day – Blu-Ray Review →

This double set of horror films directed by Lamberto Bava has been released on Bu-Ray by Arrow. Produced by Dario Argento, who was also a co-screenwriter on the project, they are both basically the same movie. The first one is better film; the second is a not-quite-as-good retread. In Demons I, a group of people … Continue reading Demons 1 & 2 – Blu-Ray Review →

This Bassam Tariq-directed (and co-written) film stars Riz Ahmed, a great actor well-known from Four Lions, Nightcrawler and a likely Oscar contender this year for Sound of Metal. Mogul Mowgli came out at around the same time, and is about a British-Pakistani rapper who has been in the US for a while, He comes back … Continue reading Mogul Mowgli – Blu-Ray Review →

Mindwarp is a not-very-good Bruce Campbell movie made in the early ‘90s. It stars Angus Scrimm from the Phantasm series along with Campbell, although the protagonist is Judy (Marta Alicia), a woman whose mind has been placed in this post-apocalyptic landscape. In the meantime, most other humans are mutant garbage-miners in Outworld, but some others … Continue reading Mindwarp – Blu-Ray Review →