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Reviews of MGM On-Demand titles Queen of Blood, The Ambulance, The Caller, Cohen & Tate, Cop Hater and Daughters of Satan

Queen of Blood When an alien ship crash-lands on Mars, a rescue ship is dispatched to search for survivors. Instead they find an alien vampire who begins killing the crew ‘Dracula’ style. Queen of Blood, which originally opened in 1966 for the grind house crowd, has a simple but fun plot. A sickly greenish Martian ….

SGU: Stargate Universe – The Complete Final Season DVD review

Stargate Universe was of a much higher quality than other SG television series, and I was puzzled when I heard SyFy was canceling the show after only two seasons. But that’s exactly what they did. However, SGU: Stargate Universe – The Complete Final Season box set is filled with enough features and extra material to ….

Win a copy of the neo-noir action-thriller The Big Bang on DVD

On May 24th, Anchor Bay Films will release the neo-noir action/thriller The Big Bang on DVD and Blu-ray. The film features Antonio Banderas as a ‘private dic’ who’s looking for the missing girlfriend of a recently paroled Russian boxer – along with a 30-million dollar stash of diamonds she’s said to be hiding. To celebrate ….

The dark side of live-action role playing results in The Wild Hunt on DVD

The world of live-action role playing was the source of comedy in the hit Role Models, but it’s the dark and deadly side of the culture that’s at the center of the frightening thriller The Wild Hunt, which is coming to DVD FilmBuff and MPI Home Video on June 7, 2011. Sometimes fiction can be ….

Images from the live-action Tekken martial arts movie

Tekken comes to full live-action life when Anchor Bay Films and Manga Entertainment release the movie version of Tekken on July 19th. Directed by Dwight H. Little (Bones, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers), Tekken stars Jon Foo, Kelly Overton (The Ring Two), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Planet of the Apes, Pearl Harbor, Balls of Fury), ….

MGM Limited Edition Collection’s The Gun Runners, The Happy Thieves, and The Destructors review

The Destructors (1974) The Destructors – originally titled The Marseille Contract – stars Anthony Quinn as a tough U.S. intelligence agent in Paris who’s assigned to break a narcotics ring, but after several of his agents are killed during an operation, he hires a contract killer played by Michael Caine, for help in bringing down ….

Teen Wolf Blu-ray review

Teen Wolf is a sweet film for those of us who grew up with it and can look back at our formative years while watching the movie. But even in the crisp Blu-ray format, the movie looks its age, particularly because of the special effects. Teen Wolf centers on a teenager named Scott (Michael J. ….