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THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS / THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY New Blu-ray Review Anthony Arrigo Reviews Arrow Video's New Blu-ray Twofer, THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS / THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY By Anthony Arrigo Directed by Shinsei Adachi, Shigehiro Fukushima & Mitsuo Mirayama Distributed by I’m a rabid fan of all things tokusatsu or “special filming”. You know, special effects. It’s always thrilling to discover some rare Japanese gem that makes use of my favorite filmmaking techniques – read: practical. An...

Edge of the Axe Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the internets movie review column that has never wanted to hang a poster of Paul Newman’s movie The Color of Money on my wall, not because the movie is bad or I hate Paul Newman, I just don’t want to do it (I’d much rather hang a poster for a movie like Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives! or 2019: After the Fall of New York), The Gratuitous B-Movie Column, and I am your host Bryan Kristopowitz. In this issue, issue number five hundred and eighty-nine, I take a look at the Spanish-American slasher flick

The Pianist: Shout Select (BD), No Man’s Land (BD and DVD), The Night (BD and DVD), House of Wax: Collector’s Edition (BD), and Ernest & Celestine (BD and DVD) on 7/13, followed by A Stranger is Watching (BD), Little Big League: Shout Select (BD), Fire (BD and DVD), and Eight Legged Freaks (BD) on 7/20, and State and Main: Shout Select (BD), The Dead Zone: Collector’s Edition (BD), Chamber of Horrors (BD), and Brotherhood of the Wolf: Collector’s Edition (BD) on 7/27. Extras on all of these are still TBA. You can see the cover art for The Dead Zone at left, with more cove...

Criterion’s June slate, Indiana Jones in 4K update, THX 1138 at 50, more release/industry news & In Defense of Home Entertainment March 15, 2021 - 2:42 pm   |   by Bill Hunt serious ground to cover in today’s My Two Cents update, so let’s get right to it... THX 1138 in honor of the film’s 50th anniversary (which was last week on 3/11 – the piece was delayed due to a technical issue). The column takes an in-depth look back at the original theatrical release and also features a great roundtable discussion with film historian Chris Barsanti, documentary filmm...

Owls Head — The Croods: A New Age (Universal, Blu-ray or DVD, PG, 96 min.). Seven years after the original movie, one’s second favorite Stone Age family – after “The Flintstones,” of course – meets the concept of neighbors and things do not always go smoothly, especially when the Croods eat the bananas. Yes, there is some monkey business going on in this sequel, which has a first-half geared more toward adults and an action-packed second half for the kids. Central to the story is orphan Guy (voiced by returning Ryan Reynolds, also of the “Deadpool” films), whose backstory beg...