Dawn of Japan: The Good News And The Bad News
 This is the new DAWN OF THE DEAD: 35th ANNIVERSARY BLU-RAY BOX from Happinet Japan. It costs about $150. It promised a brand new HD master, and technically it delivered... but it's, complicated....
View ArticleSamuel L. Jackson Presents...
"Why does Samuel L. Jackson always play a black guy?"- Perhaps the single greatest YouTube comment of 2014.A full-length trailer and an R-rating ready sizzle reel for the long-delayed live action...
View ArticleThere's No More Room In Hell: DAWN OF THE DEAD's New HD Master Explored
Having had a chance to properly dissect the two most interesting discs on the new DAWN OF THE DEAD: 35th ANNIVERSARY EDITION box set from Happinet Japan, I have a bit of an addendum to make to a...
View ArticleGround Zero Tolerance: Price, Value and Video Games
WARNING: Kentai is operating on a few scant hours of sleep, just filed a physically painful tax return, and may have replaced his meds with coffee. Proceed with this long, convoluted and ultimately...
View ArticleMai-Chan's Daily Movie
So we're all clear that "Japan = Crazy" by now, right?Oh, don't give me that look. I'm familiar enough with the wide expanse of modern Japanese culture to know that 90% of both the things produced in...
View ArticleHere's To You, Kojima and Snake: GROUND ZEROES REVISITED
Pictured: The massively superior "B Side" reversible cover art by Yoji Shinkawa. So METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES - the somewhat expensive "prologue" to the upcoming MGSV: The Phantom Pain due,...
View ArticleADVENT TIME! With Griffith the Hawk, and Guts the Human
Oh hey, look what came out when I wasn't paying attention.As I've already discussed at length in public at one point or another, I have very mixed feelings about this BERSERK: THE GOLDEN AGE ARC/ベルセルク...
View ArticleBest Fucking Music Video Ever
G.I. JANE (Fill Me Up), Jackson and his ComputerbandA friend of mine who's been encouraging me to music a bit more more often sent me this the other night and holy. Fucking.SHIT. It's like everything...
View ArticleAn Inter-Positive Review: RE-ANIMATOR German Limited Edition
A peek inside the German Mediabook courtesy of DVD-Forum.at.Let's not mince words, here; the new Capelight Limited Edition BD set for Stuart Gordon's legendary film adaptation of Stuart Gordon's...
View ArticleIn the Name of the Moon, I Boycott You.
Is it weird that I'm sad this isn't a Laserdisc cover?So... let's talk, however briefly, about a girl I like to call "Bunny". You know, just to rile up both fan-bases at once.Viz Entertainment has...
View ArticleThey Say He's Got To Go... GODZILLA 2014
Gareth Edwards' 2010 feature film, MONSTERS, was his first feature, and it was an intriguing one, at that; a minimalist travelogue about an American journalist who agrees to escort a young, rich girl...
View ArticleNight Breeders
I'm actually knee-deep in a fun, kaiju-related Blu-ray write-up... but there's a bit of news that needs covering before it's relevance has passed. We'll get this over with as quickly and painlessly as...
View ArticleSailor Fools
Resized by Blogger to 900p becauseI DON'T GIVE A SHIT ANYMORE.First off, dear friends, an apology is in order; while I may not be the biggest Sailor Moon fan on the planet personally, it's still a...
View ArticleA Scanners Too Darkly: Criterion vs Subkultur
Criterion Collection Digipack (USA) It was with no small level of hesitation that I picked up the Criterion Collection release of David Cronenberg's 1981 head-exploding icon of legend, SCANNERS. For...
View ArticleHell Hath No Fury Like A Road Scorned: SDCC Wrap-Up
Sorry, can you repeat that? Afraid I couldn't hear you over my six-foot erection that the new MAD MAX trailer gave me.Word is that this flick didn't have an actual script, too; Miller found someone to...
View ArticleGrainy Holocaust: A Few Words on Grindhouse Releasing's new CANNIBAL...
This is somehow the least controversial part of Grindhouse Releasing's cover art. If I've not spoken at-length about Ruggero Deodato's 1980 magnum opus, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, it's safe to say that it's...
View Article/V/ Has Gone Nuclear: The Quinspiracy Fallout, And Why I'm Done With It All
WARNING: The following is a massive and very poorly-focused rage-dump brought on by a storm in a teacup, specifically about "Games Journalism" as covered by websites like EuroGamer, The Escapist,...
View ArticleThe Death of Gaming and The Silver String Illuminati: How Deep Does The...
So, for those who would like a firmly tongue-in-cheek primer for what this "Gamer Gate" bullshit is all about, please watch this. Most ridiculous and bizarre half-hour of your life you'll waste today,...
View ArticleMonsterous Sequels
...so I have three questions.1) How the hell did Gareth Edwards minimalist immigration allegory MONSTERS even get a sequel?2) How is this film, which is being produced by Edwards, go in completely the...
View ArticleSD Night, Deadly Night
So, the good news is that Anchor Bay put out the original SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT on Blu-ray for its 30th anniversary, complete with a new commentary track.The bad news? It looks like garbage day....
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