by Dave Bradley | Sep 3, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
VIDEODROME Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated R Canadian ‘Body Horror’ legend David Cronenberg was on the cusp of going mainstream after Shivers, Rabid, The Brood and Scanners when he made this notorious, already-dated-looking but still fabulously trippy shocker back in 1983....
by Dave Bradley | Jul 4, 2019 | DVDs, Movies, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA First-time co-writer/director Dominique Rocher’s low-budget, memorably-titled French zombie drama found an unexpected ally in Stephen King who (much like he did with Sam Raimi’s original The Evil Dead years ago) loved it and was...
by Dave Bradley | May 20, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA Originally and blandly called Keepers but now with a title change sure to get it confused with the 1988 Dutch pic of the same name (a.k.a. Spoorloos) and its appalling American remake, this psychodrama from director Kristoffer...
by Dave Bradley | May 1, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated MA Obviously a teen-targeted scary saga (despite having just enough violence to qualify for an MA Rating), this wannabe-creeper has a mildly unusual set-up and an initially grim mood, although it does eventually somewhat go to Hell....
by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated M 2.5 stars (out of 5) Drawn from George Harrar’s book of almost the same name, this ponderous, pseudo-intellectual psychodrama has a pretty good lead performance by Guy Pearce as a character it’s impossible to like, but the slow...
by Dave Bradley | May 31, 2018 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated M Jason Momoa is pretty busy at the moment on massive productions (he finished up on Game Of Thrones a while back and now he’s Aquaman in the Justice League movies and the new Crow too), but here he settles for something smaller and...
