After exploring all of Eureka’s Hong Kong cinema offerings, I now turn to their release of Sonny Chiba’s Karate Beast Fighter films. Karate Bullfighter and Karate Bearfighter are as good a showcase for Chiba’s brutal style as the Street Fighter...
Summer isn’t even over and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is already at home (as are Furiosa, Bad Boys: Ride or Die and many other summer movies). I’ll never get used to this, but this sequel was a...
You’ve got to hand it to these distributors. Every time they’ve put out the Rocky franchise in anew format they come up with an equally appropriate boxing name. I’ve had the Undisputed collection, rhe Heavyweight collection, the Knockout collection and...
The Miracle Fighters is a Yuen Woo-ping movie I’ve never seen and I’m glad Eureka put it out because this one is wild. This one is more about surreal magic fights, so you’ve got a guy in an urn with...
Risky Business enters the Criterion Collection on 4K UHD no less. It’s been a classic for decades thanks to launching Tom Cruise to leading man stardom, but it truly is a quality movie. Long before Home Alone, Risky Business explored...
The Last Stop in Yuma County was a cool single location thriller that came out earlier this year. A cast of colorful characters converge at a diner next door to a gas station awaiting a fuel truck. Two of the...
Warner Brothers never made a sequel to Twister, but this year’s release of Twisters by Universal has prompted WB to upgrade the original to 4K. The state of the art in 1996 looks pretty great still. Twister is all about...
This year’s portrait of a modern day civil war presents the cautionary tale as a stark reality in 4K. Civil War was shot for IMAX theaters so that clarity ports home, if not the full scale of it. You are...
Dev Patel’s directorial debut was a breakthrough showcase for him as an action hero. Now on 4K UHD, Patel’s vision holds up. The film highlights both sides of India, from the dense cities to sparse nature. The striking figure Patel...
Spanish horror is not necessarily my genre, but when a review copy of the Danza Macabre Vol. 3 collection showed up, it seemed like a good opportunity for education. These four films each offer explorations of different horror subgenres. And...