Jean-Claude Van Damme is … The Shepherd

Fans of the Muscles from Brussels unite! (I’m sure there are one or two of you still out there…) Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to fight crime in the direct-to-DVD movie “The Shepherd: Border Patrol”. In the action pic, JCVD will play a former cop turned border patrol agent who...

January 3rd, 2008 | Read More

Rush Hour 3 DVD Giveaway — Last Day!

Just a reminder: Today is your last day to enter our Rush Hour 3 DVD giveaway. If you haven’t already done so, head over here to put your name in the hat. It’s easy — comment on the article page and you’ll be automatically entered. Only U.S. residents only for this one, sorry. CLICK...

January 2nd, 2008 | Read More

Day of the Dead Remake Goes Straight to DVD

According to the spooky goons that run Upcoming Horror Movies, the much derided “Day of the Dead” remake has shown its true colors and gone straight to DVD, thus saving us the trouble of having to spend good money on popcorn to enjoy its, apparently, crappiness. How else to explain why a...

January 2nd, 2008 | Read More

Death Sentence DVD Giveaway

The DVD release for the Kevin Bacon revenge thriller “Death Sentence” doesn’t arrive on the streets until January 8th, 2008, but that isn’t going to stop us from delivering bloody justice to you in the form of a DVD Giveaway for the movie. Starting now and ending January 4th,...

December 19th, 2007 | Read More

Rush Hour 3 DVD Giveaway

You can’t run out to your local store to grab the latest adventures of Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan until December 23rd, 2008, when the DVD hits the streets, but don’t fret none, because we have five (5) copies of the DVD to give away to five lucky winners. All you have to do to win is to...

December 18th, 2007 | Read More

New Asian DVD Releases: Lust, Caution and Triangle

Ang Lee’s World War II-era Shanghai drama “Lust, Caution” and the Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, and Ringo Lam collaboration “Triangle” leads this week’s new Asian DVD releases. The street date for the erotically charged “Lust, Caution” is December 21, 2007, but...

December 16th, 2007 | Read More

The Simpsons Movie DVD Details, Cover Art

The Simpsons did the impossible — made people forget that they had been on TV for ages (and for free!) and forced them to pay good money to see it again in theaters. After an impressive theatrical jump, the yellow-skinned family of delinquents will now be headed to DVD, and we have the DVD cover...

November 24th, 2007 | Read More

The Seventh Seal (1957) Blu-Ray DVD Review

Tartan’s 50th digitally re-mastered Anniversary release of Ingmar Bergman’s immortal classic “The Seventh Seal” on Blu-ray format is an interesting proposition, offering a chance to see how an older black and white film holds up on high definition. As well as presenting the film...

November 23rd, 2007 | Read More

Bride of Re-Animator (1990) DVD Review

Although the much touted Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez double bill “Grindhouse” unfortunately turned out to be a bit of a box office dud, it did have the knock-on effect of inspiring a flood of re-releases of good old fashioned exploitation fare. One company making the most of the...

November 15th, 2007 | Read More

Bright Future (2003) DVD Review

“Bright Future” is a recent effort from acclaimed Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, finally released on region 2 DVD via Tartan. Although Kurosawa is best known for horror films such as “Kairo”, “Séance” and “Cure”, his works have always had an appeal...

November 10th, 2007 | Read More

DVD Specs for Danny Boyle’s Sunshine

I was really looking forward to Danny Boyle’s first foray into science fiction, “Sunshine”, then I heard some bad things about it, then some good things, an when I finally saw it, I really liked it. It had that perfect combination of paranoia and suspense and contemplation that really...

October 31st, 2007 | Read More

Oldboy (2003) Blu-Ray DVD Review

For their second Blu-ray release Tartan have chosen Korean director Park Chan-wook’s worldwide cult hit and award winner “Oldboy”. Whilst on one hand selecting such a popular title for a flagship release on the new format certainly makes sense, on the other since most of the intended...

October 27th, 2007 | Read More

Buried Alive DVD Sweepstakes

You gotta love Halloween. No other event in America has the type of pedigree as Halloween, which basically allows you to do pretty much everything all in the name of celebrating horror. Such as this Buried Alive Sweepstakes, which is giving away a coffin case full of horror DVD titles. You can head on...

October 23rd, 2007 | Read More

Shocker — Transformers DVD is a Big Seller

Hear that? That’s the sound of the suits at Paramount jumping for joy at the news that the “Transformers” DVD, in its first week of release, has already sold more than 8.3 million copies. In case you didn’t hear, that’s in its first week. That’s only DVDs sold in North...

October 22nd, 2007 | Read More

Karas: The Revelation DVD Giveaway

You’re in luck, anime lovers (or hey, you can win it too even if you can’t spell “anime”) — we have 10 DVD copies of “Karas: The Revelation” to give away. Picking up right where the Prophecy ends, the new Karas, Otaha, seeks vengeance against the yakuza that...

October 19th, 2007 | Read More

Havoc 2: Normal Adolescent Behavior DVD Giveaway

If you’re a fan of Anne Hathaway’s 2005 sexually charged drama “Havoc”, you’ll be interested in writer/director Beth Schacter’s “Havoc 2: Normal Adolescent Behavior”, which chronicles the sexual exploits of high school teens. To celebrate the release of...

October 19th, 2007 | Read More

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of the Akkadian to Land on DVD in 2008

Earlier this year we heard that Russell Mulcahy will be directing a sequel (or prequel, actually) to “The Scorpion King”, the 2002 movie starring The Rock that was itself a prequel to Stephen Sommers’ “The Mummy” movies. According to Reuters, the film, to be called “The...

October 17th, 2007 | Read More

Evil Dead Ultimate Edition 3-Disc DVD Details

The guys over at Shock Til You Drop have gotten their hands (blood and dirt encrusted hands, no doubt) on the DVD cover art for the forthcoming Anchor Bay DVD release of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s 1981 horror classic “The Evil Dead”. But this is no ordinary DVD — it’s...

October 12th, 2007 | Read More

Upcoming DVD Releases: The Tripper, Angel, Danny Roane

Three new upcoming DVD releases for October and November, including David Arquette’s directorial debut, the camp horror-comedy “The Tripper”, about a serial killer in a Ronald Reagan mask who really, really hates hippies, and he has an ax to show his displeasure; David Boreanaz and...

October 4th, 2007 | Read More

Donnie Yen’s Flash Point on DVD

I liked Donnie Yen’s latest Hong Kong actioner “Flash Point”, but I didn’t LOVE it. (Read my review of it here) One of my problems with the film is that there isn’t very much in the first and second act, and there is, quite possibly, too much in the final act. But that still...

September 27th, 2007 | Read More