The Herculoids: The Complete Series (1967)

"When you're ten years old, this is the coolest damn thing ever." More...

13 Assassins (2010)

"It would be easy to pass 13 Assassins off as Miike's attempt to play at Kurosawa - some of the scenes have a resonance that suggests Seven Samurai - but that would be lazy indeed. Unlike the earlier movie, Assassins eventually becomes a rumination on the very nature of the samurai class,  and the changing face of bushido." More...

Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles (1966) 

"Frankenstein Jr. is a giant robot, very much in the Gigantor mode, who is built and controlled by two-fisted boy scientist, Buzz Conroy. In a futuristic Civic City, they take on more giant-sized menaces controlled by villains with such names as Dr. Shock, Mr. Menace, Dr. Hook (but no Medicine Show) and Baron Von Ghoul. Conveniently, Buzz always seemed to build into Frankie exactly the gadgets required to defeat these monsters." More...

Forbidden World (1982)

"In one of the extras on this disc, Makeup Supervisor John Carl Buechler reminisces about one of his techs asking him, "Is this just a sleazy Alien rip-off?" to which Buechler replied, "Yeah, but it's going to be the best sleazy Alien rip-off." That's a pretty dubious competition to find oneself in, but it has to be admitted, Forbidden World is somewhere near the head of that pack." More...

Batman: Under The Red Hood Two-Disc Special Edition (2010)

"Probably one of the most irksome things about modern comics concerns death. Firstly, the subject was largely verboten in the field for decades, but most modern four-color fantasies seem to have become litanies of murder, so much so that the DC universe should be severely under-populated by this point." More...