If Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji was director Tomu Uchida’s homage to the socially conscious period dramas produced by Sadao Yamanaka...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Recently, I had the pleasure of revisiting Daiei’s Daimajin. In...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When this money started coming, we should have known it came with...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] With The Timekeepers of Eternity, Aristotelis Maragkos accomplishes...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Daiei’s 100 Monsters (currently available on one of the discs in Arrow...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When I first discovered the existence of Banmei Takahashi’s Door earlier...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Contrary to what the sequels might lead you to believe, Pinhead and his...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Giallo—a cinematic genre as distinctly Italian as the spaghetti...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] Like many of its contemporaries (including Tommy and The Rocky Horror...

“She says as much as she needs to say.” Within the context of the overarching narrative, this line of dialogue exists to describe the...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] A Haunting in Venice is the best entry in Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] For the majority of its running time, The Equalizer 3—the (allegedly)...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] There’s an old Japanese proverb that goes, “The nail that sticks...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] After finally seeing Violence Voyager for myself (having learned of its...

In the 1980s and 1990s, a lot of anime was produced exclusively for the booming home video market. Freed from the more stringent...

Well, I suppose I have nobody to blame but myself. I knew what I was getting into when I decided to watch Hell of the Living Dead. After...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The Town That Dreaded Sundown is essentially two different movies...

[The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] When I first watched Master of the Flying Guillotine back in college, I...

[The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!] The opening teaser of Meg 2: The Trench is a delightfully creative...

The Criterion Channel’s synopsis describes The Housemaid as a “venomous melodrama,” and it certainly earns that label; director Kim...