I Created It as I Went Along: Bill Rebane’s Weird Wisconsin Box Set from Arrow Video By Orrin Grey • August 5th, 2021 Prior to sitting down with this substantial Bill Rebane Blu-ray set the full and complete extent of my knowledge of his filmography came from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Exploits Feature The Shadow of the Cat By Orrin Grey • August 1st, 2021 An old lady gets knocked off by her husband and servants in a relatively brutal opening, and the only witness is the cat. So far so good.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Shelf Stability: Good Design Gets Out of the Way in Ex Libris By Orrin Grey • July 29th, 2021 Ex Libris looks complicated, but all the moving parts click together pretty seamlessly, and there are rarely any of those awkward moments where you’re left scratching your head over how one card mechanic interacts with another.
Unholy Blood: Santa Sangre (1989) on 4K Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 1st, 2021 Whatever really happened on the set of El Topo, Jodorowsky is, at best, a guy who bragged about raping someone for publicity, and this is what I knew about the director of Santa Sangre.
Black-Hearted Women: Switchblade Sisters (1975) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • May 27th, 2021 Does it always work? Naturally not, this is Switchblade Sisters, after all, not whatever venerated classic movie title you want to put here that, in your mind, always works.
Evil Washes Out Evil: A Daiei Invisible Man Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • May 20th, 2021 It’s something of a homecoming to be tackling The Invisible Man Appears and The Invisible Man vs. the Human Fly on Arrow Video Blu here
I Played It, Like, Twice... Rising Tension: The Odd and Appropriate Specificity of Resident Evil 2: The Board Game By Orrin Grey • May 13th, 2021 I decided it was high time for me to crack open my copy of Resident Evil 2: The Board Game and see how it stacked up against my memories of the real thing.
Days of Beasts and Cocaine: An Alex de la Iglesia Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • April 15th, 2021 That’s what I did; two-fisting this particular double-feature with a shot of Day of the Beast and a chaser of Perdita Durango.
No Bright Side: Crimewave (1985) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 7th, 2021 In many ways, Crimewave is the kind of movie I live for: a bonkers, underseen, early-career flick from legendary filmmakers who went on to much bigger things.
I Played It Like Twice Fearful Symmetry: Building the Best of All Possible Overworlds in Overboss By Orrin Grey • April 1st, 2021 In a world where plenty of board games at least claim to be playable with only one person it is, in my experience, rare to find one that actually plays well in solitaire mode.