The Movie:
In a few of my reviews I've made mention of the direct to video titles that were prevalent in the eighties and early nineties. Some of them turned out ok, JR Bookwalter's The Dead Next Door and Carlton Albright's Luther the Geek come to mind. Most of them turned out to be horrible, the only redeeming quality being the video box art. One such example of this is The Ripper, a straight to video title that I remember seeing first in a drug store – remember when you could rent titles at drugstores? They had the frames holding the flattened cases inside so you could flip through and see what you wanted? Anyone? Wow I'm old. So to move on, I first saw this title there and later on found it at a K-Mart for five bucks. I was elated; the cover was fairly cool, the back showed stills of gorily graphic kills, and it "starred" Tom Savini!!! I need see no more and I parte...Read the entire review

The Movie:
I haven't seen very many women-in-prison movies. I know the genre, of course, and can reference it from time to time but freely admit that it's not something I frequent with any regularity. What I do prefer are movies that aren't afraid to either push the limit, or at least put out a setup that makes the viewer say to themselves, "I know where this is headed and there's no way they're gonna do it..."; and then they do. When I first started watching Shadow: Dead Riot I really had no expectations of it whatsoever, except that I knew it was a mix of horror and women in prison films. As the film went on I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is unashamedly a crazy little film that trots out zombies, all out gore, "wire-fu" (to quote Joe Bob), and those aforementioned scenes of, "did they just do what I think they did?" You can boil it down to Caged Heat mixed with ...Read the entire review

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Nowadays there's an awful lot of talk about movies being "throwbacks" to earlier genre films. Horror movies are being referred to as in the vein of "grindhouse" or of the early slasher variety. While I can appreciate that and there have been some good movies to reference these styles, it's starting to get a little into overkill territory. Where the eighties had a glut of the slasher films on video, which ended up pretty much suffocating the genre until no one cared anymore, now the resurgence is starting again; except that "straight to video" has turned into "straight to dvd." Taking an opportunity to cash in on this is Wedding Slashers; molded in the same vein as those direct to video timewasters where the box cover art promised a movie that inside didn't even come close to doing the art justice.

All her life Jenna (Jessica Kinney) has longed to fall in love. Unfort...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Anthology series have always been hit or miss. You have the classics of course, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. You have the really good ones; Tales From the Crypt, Tales From The Darkside (which so needs to be put out on dvd, but that's another rant), and most recently the Masters of Horror series. You also have to take the bad, Freddy's Nightmares and Friday the 13th: The Series anyone? Then there are some that are borderline, they have their moments from time to time but the sum of the parts don't really add up to anything remarkable; or at the very least long lasting. Nightmares and Dreamscapes falls into this category. While a few of the stories included were entertaining, the others were easily forgettable and as a whole, the entire series is one that is good for a visit but you definitely don't need to stay th...Read the entire review

Content:
I admit I'm not much of a reviewer of music. Movies no problem, but there are many more people out there more qualified to give opinions on music then myself; but I'll do my best. Tegan and Sara Quin are twin sisters who along with bandmates Rob Chursinoff (drums), Chris Carlson (bass), and Ted Gowans (guitar) have a good pop/alt sound and really seem to have more of a college following. Most people I asked had never heard of the band, even though on the tour documentary they're shown opening for The Killers. The music to me was reminiscent of bands like The Breeders and Veruca Salt; even though those bands seem to have moments more heavy than Tegan and Sara.

Audio:
The disc I was given to review appeared to be a dvd-r, so the audio was fine but nothing too exciting. Not that a surround sound experience is really necessary, but the dolby digital did a fine job putiin...Read the entire review

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It's always fun to go back and view films for the nostalgic factor. Usually you tend to watch a movie that you remember seeing when you were younger or during a specific moment in your life to recapture the spark that made you enjoy the film in the first place. Sometimes you can go back and watch films from an era that you really didn't get a chance to participate in initially. I tend to do that now, going back and watching films of the seventies that I didn't get a chance to enjoy at the time, since I was only a youngster. Exploitation, whether it be horror, action, kung-fu, or blaxsploitation are all on my list; and I really enjoy watching the trailers accompanying that era. 42nd Street Forever is a wonderful disc for that, and so it was with hesitation and a bit of glee that I journeyed into the film that is Cinderella 2000.

Having recently reviewed Ki...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Ok, I'll make a confession right off the bat. I agreed to review Kinky Kong based solely on the name. I couldn't help it, but with a name like that my curiosity was completely piqued. "Never judge a book by its cover" (or movie for that matter) has never been so apt a rule as it was with this movie. What touted itself as a "non-stop erotic action epic and hilarious spoof" was nowhere near being erotic, having action, nor being hilarious. What the movie was, however, was an utterly amateurish, vastly inept waste of time (even at clocking in at an hour and fifteen minutes) that should be avoided at all costs.

A brief synopsis is in order, since after all this is a review. Erotic film director Seymoure Ass (John Fedele) is looking to make his next epic. Wanting to find the next great starlet, he comes across Fannie Sparrow (Sabrina Faire) trying to steal a sex toy fr...Read the entire review