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Screen Anarchy Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Vol. 1. Home Entertainment Releases.
Welcome to the last minute gift guide for 2024. It’s a bit later than I wanted due to some audio issues. But now that those are fixed I wanted to be sure to highlight the great physical releases, books, records...
4K Review: THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
On May 30th, Scream Factory will release a 4K/Blu-ray combo of The People Under the Stairs. I’ve seen the horror-comedy a number of times. Even though it was first released in 1991, the socio-political element of the rich eating those...
Now on Blu-ray: POMPO THE CINEPHILE, Pure Pleasure, On Repeat
Director Hirao Takayuku serves up a feast for the senses. Now on Blu-ray from GKids and Shout! Factory.
4K Review: CANDYMAN, Out Now from Scream Factory
Well, hello again, Candyman — we meet again, though I still haven’t said your name out loud in a mirror five times — and I’m never going to, sorry. The last time I reviewed the original 1992 film (as released...
Blu-ray Review: Delightful Camp and Horror in PARANOIAC
Ah, Hammer Horror, a happy (ish) gateway drug to the more horrific, violent, terrifying modern films of today. Hammer was known for mainly campy and gothic bodice-ripping films, dripping with lurid colors and malice, along with a certain off-the-rails glee....
Blu-ray Review: ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS Kills
Though I was lucky enough to have seen the original Elvira film, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, in theatres, the second adventure of the "Mistress of the Dark" escaped me in the early 2000s. Thankfully, Scream Factory (Shout! Factory's rad horror...
Review: LITTLE VAMPIRE (PETIT VAMPIRE), Monsters Are People Too
French filmmaker and comic book artist Joann Sfar adapts his own graphic novel series into an animated adventure.
SHIROBAKO THE MOVIE Sets U.S. Theatrical Release
Anime fans in the United States now have reason to anticipate August 10. That's when Shirobako The Movie will be unleashed upon discerning theaters nationwide. I freely admit that I know nothing about the manga or anime series, but the...
Review: HOW TO DETER A ROBBER, Wicked Smart
Vanessa Marano, Leah Lewis and Chris Mulkey star in a crime comedy, written and directed by Maria Bissell, releasing July 16 on VOD, digital and in select cinemas.
Review: A CRIME ON THE BAYOU, True and Disturbing
Directed by Nancy Buirski, the true-crime documentary calmly explains how outrageously justice can be perverted.
Blu-ray Review: The Flawed, Fascinating JUST A GIGOLO
Out on June 29th here in North America, Shout Factory releases --- to my knowledge --- a rarely-seen David Bowie film on Blu-ray, Just a Gigolo. Bowie stars as Paul Ambrosius von Przygodski, a Prussian solider whose been injured in...
Blu-ray Review: ESCAPE FROM L.A.
I'm not quite sure of the history of how Escape From L.A. was made, but I do know that director John Carpenter (The Fog, Halloween, Escape From New York) does not like sequels, so the fact that this film perplexes...
Blu-ray Review: JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES
Shout Factory's horror imprint Scream Factory add another of John Carpenter's back catalog of films to its roster for release next week --- 1998's horror western Vampires. As with a lot of Scream Factory's John Carpenter Blu-rays, this release has an...
Blu-ray Review: FEAR NO EVIL Doesn't Offer Much Fear
Coming up next week here in North America, Shout Factory's horror imprint Scream Factory is releasing a Blu-ray edition of the weirdo 1981 film, Fear No Evil. This no-budget shocker was directed by filmmaker and actor Frank LaLoggia (Lady in White,...
Blu-ray Review: VICE SQUAD Dials up the Crazy
Out on August 13 in North America from Scream Factory comes Gary Sherman's (Death Line, Dead & Buried) 1982 film Vice Squad. Filmed on the streets of Los Angeles, Sherman directs Season Hubley (Escape From New York, John Carpenter's TV movie Elvis) as...
Blu-ray Review: MIA AND THE WHITE LION, Born in Captivity
A young woman becomes friends with a lion in an animal-powered drama.
Blu-ray Review: SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
Someone To Watch Over Me may be one of Ridley Scott's (Alien, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise, Black Hawk Down) lesser known films, and it's getting a new Blu-ray release from Shout! Factory on March 12. This 1987 thriller stars Tom Berenger...
Blu-ray Review: KALIFORNIA is Kinda Kool
Directed by Dominic Sena (Swordfish, Gone in 60 Seconds) and written by Tim Metcalfe (Bones, Fright Night Part 2, The Haunting in Connecticut) with Stephen Levy, Kalifornia is essentially a snapshot of the early 1990s. The film centers on a...
Blu-ray Review: CYBORG Kicks its Way Home
Shout Factory's new release of Cannon Films' Cyborg is likely the best the film has ever looked since it's initial theatrical release. As a fan of most of Cannon's canon, I'm sad to say that 1989's Cyborg didn't do it for me, story...
68 KILL Blu-ray Review: Neo-Grindhouse Still Polarizes, Thrills
Back in August, I interviewed director Trent Haaga and actor (sometimes director) Matthew Gray Gubler at Fantasia for their new movie, 68 Kill. You can read that interview here and Josh Hurtado's review here. If you read both articles, you'll...
