Anime DVD Review: Trigun, The Complete Series
You’ve got to ask yourself one question… Do I feel lucky?
Movie Review: Unknown
Considering that Unknown stars the new-and-improved-awesome-action-hero Liam Neeson, it was pretty anticipated by most fans (incuding myself), even if the trailers explained little about the movie and weren’t very widely shown. What the trailers did suggest, however, was that the audience would be treated to another action-packed, ass-kick-fest, starring Neeson as the rugged, sexy, and heroic protagonist. While Neeson was, indeed, sexy and rugged, I wouldn’t go so far as to use the words “heroic” or “action-packed” to describe much of anything in this movie, as Unknown (now also known as Taken 2: Hey, Somebody Stole My Memory) unfortunately falls into the category of same-old-story.
Beware of spoilers beyond this point!
Movie Review: Under The Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story
The United States is mired in The Great Depression, and the citizens of the nation are in a seemingly hopeless state. The population has nothing to look forward to. Parker Bros. gets wind of a fast-selling game in Philadelphia. This game, a miniaturized version of the system of capitalism, is giving a sense of hope to people, by giving them the ability to buy, sell, and trade property. This makes the game sell incredibly well, and Parker Bros. decided to take a chance on a game that they had once passed on, calling it “too complicated.” This game, once licensed from its “creator”, begins to sell like wildfire as the American population catches on, and starts to find hope in this neatly delivered package.
Anime DVD Review: Gantz, The Complete Series
It’s a girl!
What is Gantz? Gantz is a large black orb, sitting in an empty Tokyo apartment. Gantz has poor grammar. Gantz will give you weapons, and points if you are good. Pray you never meet Gantz. If you see Gantz, you’ve already died once. But, the next time you die, it’ll hurt more. And you won’t come back again.
Solomon Kane
The other day I was like “wtf ever happened to Solomon Kane coming out? Did it ever release?” and I just looked it up: it didn’t even make back half its budget. No wonder it had no marketing for the Blu-ray, but that doesn’t explain why I never knew it released in theaters OVER A YEAR AGO. wtf?
… as it turns out, THERE IS NO USA Blu-ray release!?! so lame.
Blu-ray Review: Death Race 2- Unrated
Viewers who were entertained by the violence, weapons, and not-too-heavy plotline of Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race will be pleasantly surprised (and probably even more entertained) by the its recently-released prequel, Roel Reine’s Death Race 2. Replacing Jason Statham as the protagonist is Luke Goss (One Night With The King, Hellboy II: The Golden Army), playing Carl “Luke” Lucas, who is serving a life sentence for the unintentional shooting of a cop during a foiled bank robbery.
Spoilers ahead.
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 3: The Broken and Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
You can always go back.
The Flicks
The Broken
After seeing her double driving her car one afternoon, Gina McVey’s (Lena Hedey, 300) seemingly perfect life takes a detour toward crazy. She pursues the doppelganger back to her apartment where she finds a picture of her and her dad. Panicked, she leaves in the same vehicle and gets in a massive car accident. Upon recovery she believes that someone is trying to replace her. As she investigates, she discovers there’s more to her reflection than she bargained for.
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 2: Borderland and Crazy Eights
Chop, chop, chop and never stop…
The Flicks
Borderland
When three close friends decide to take a trip south of border to celebrate their high school graduation, they find more than a party waiting for them. They have the Mexican vacation of their lives until the boys decide to do some ‘shrooms and ultimately get separated.
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 1: The Gravedancers and Wicked Little Things
Dead kids…are…creepy.
The Flicks
The Gravedancers
Blu-ray Review: After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature to Die For Vol 4: The Graves and Zombies of Mass Destruction
Frida! She’s like a Cheetah!
The Flicks
The Graves
Megan and Abby Graves, two close but completely different sisters, are spending a final weekend together before Megan heads off to college. Instead of choosing some awesome place like a beach somewhere or Las Vegas, they choose the middle of nowhere in an Arizona desert. After a diner waitress convinces them to visit the town’s only attraction: an abandoned mining town called Skull City (no really, Skull City!), all hell breaks loose (literally) when they are chased by a determined killer.
DVD Review: The Adventures of Merlin the Complete Second Season
Cometh with me if you want to liveth.
Season two of the BBC’s hit series Merlin surprised me. I wasn’t sure after the end of season one that the series would be able to maintain its momentum, or develop its characters deeply enough to make the show believable for any length of time. One of the things you have to love about BBC productions however is that they’re so obviously not Hollywood, everything seems so much more real in a BBC series, and Merlin is no exception. Perhaps it sounds strange to place a show based entirely on fantasy into the category of “more real”, but bear with me while I make my case.