Category: Movie Reviews

Oh the Irony! Dead Media on VOD is Coming Sooner Than You Think!

Who needs a haunted DVD and zombie mayhem when Dead Media on VOD does it all? Namely, a reminder of why physical media still matters.

Dead Media on VOD Movie PosterComing to Prime Video, YouTube, Fandango, and Moonbeem.

With Dead Media on VOD, you’ll be glad watching it on demand won’t cost anyone their soul! This fun throwback reminds audiences why home releases matter. You can read my review here. With VHS, mixtapes and vinyl making a comeback among those who feel the future isn’t friendly, perhaps it’s time to revisit what these formats offer. As long as they’re not cursed!

That’s what Maggie and her friends face when her uncle visits and insists they watch Night of the Lurchers on disc instead of through a streaming service. Watching it digitally feels rather ironic given the story, but it’s still a hoot and a holler for those who love their zombie movies with a meaningful narrative.

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Take Another Trip to Nakali! Forgotten Island Is Coming Home with Plenty of Extras To Boot!

DreamWorks’ Forgotten Island is ready to be found again on both online and home platforms! And this time, it brings folklore to the front!

Forgotten Island Blu-Ray CoverDigital Release: October 27, 2026

It seems that reactions are really divided between fans and critics concerning DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island. Overall, despite a few questionable choices, I enjoyed this film. My movie review can be read here. And with it coming to digital and home video, I can check for those easter eggs, find what’s important with freeze frame, and study the extras.

As for the 4K UHD, Blu-ray™ and DVD release, where there’s more value for your buck and better bit rates, that’s Dec 1, 2026 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Both releases offer 60 minutes of exclusive bonus content, and that’s important to know.

Exclusive features include:

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Hop Along Lovecraft! Why Frogman Returns Is an Epic Cryptid Romp…

Anthony Cousins and John Karsko’s cryptid sequel, Frogman Returns, trades DIY roughness for polish, with a Lovecraft twist and a rival cryptid hunter in Ghostbusters gear. It’s camp, it’s creepy, and it might be the perfect Halloween watch.

Frogman Returns Movie Poster
Screened at Toronto After Dark, Sun, Oct 18th Cineplex Scotiabank Theatre

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Anthony Cousins and John Karsko’s sequel, Frogman Returns, raises the bar for campy parody while delivering a love letter to all things cryptid. What makes this film such a solid sell is how the story captures why we love cryptids more than ghosts. With Halloween approaching, there’s all the more reason to seek this film out!

Although familiarity with the original helps, this sequel works reasonably well as a standalone film. Still, I didn’t think it was fair to review it until I’d tracked down a copy of the original to watch, too, allowing me to make comparisons. Hence the delay to this review. The first film tries to be serious, with very strong The Blair Witch Project influences.

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Is The Seoul Guardians a Shocking Thriller or a History Lesson?

Three broadcast journalists turned directors revisit the December 2024 night South Korea’s lawmakers raced to lift martial law. In The Seoul Guardians, here’s how the footage holds up as a thriller, and why it brings Tiananmen Square to mind.

The Seoul Guardians Movie PosterUnless viewers are already in the know, what The Seoul Guardians does is look back at a crisis that took place in South Korea on December 3, 2024, when then-President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law and attempted a self-coup. He accused the political opposition of collaborating with North Korea, and in order to prevent lawmakers from entering and voting to lift martial law, he ordered police and military forces to seal off the National Assembly.

To an outsider, this was a moment that changed how the world looked at this nation. Whether outsiders reacted with xenophobia or something much worse, there are insights to be had. Broadcast journalists turned directors Kim Jong-woo, Kim Shin-wan, and Cho Chul-young documented everything, cinéma vérité style, and what’s presented is bold. The people with the power to lift martial law were scaling walls and roofs. A quorum must be made in order to get anywhere, and when push comes to shove, that’s when this work starts to earn its wings.

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This Isn’t No Matapanki Business! An Explosive, Wickedly Fun Movie Review

When a strange brew gives Ricardo superpowers, and he doesn’t know what to do with them, what’s presented in Matapanki turns his frustration about life’s smelly roses into a gloriously scrappy rebellion, fuelled by punk rock and punches that send heads flying.

Matapanki Movie Poster
Played at Toronto After Dark Festival Thu, Oct 15th, CineCycle

If there’s ever a crazy, primal, rage-fuelled desire to punch someone out and you know it’s best not to, may I suggest watching Diego Fuentes’ Matapanki (2026) do the work instead? It’s so punk rock, some viewers may well wonder why this film hasn’t arrived in theatres before. After a huge debate with a certain telecom company, I’m with Ricardo (Ramon Galvez) in wanting to get that frustration out, stick it to the man, and not worry about the ramifications. With a wonderful soundtrack from the anti-monarchist punk-rocker Brits of Idles, I can scream “oh yes” and hope the corporations get what’s coming to them.

Here, our young hero lives with his grandmother, and he loves her dearly. After meeting up with Claudia (Antonia McCarthy) and Mella (Diego Bravo) and having a good time out, he finds a strange brew that changes his life around! It turns out the bottle was planted, and after being made a guinea pig, he’s ready to hand out his own brand of justice!

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I Love Paris… Just Not All 118 Minutes of Her

A vampire’s body count doubles as an influencer’s engagement metric in I Love Paris, a mockumentary with a clever hook that wears thin long before the credits.

I Love Paris movie poster
Playing at Toronto After Dark Film Festival
Fri, Oct 16th, 6:30 PM @ Cineplex Scotiabank Theatre (Cinema 1)

Having grown up on the classic vampire movies, and skipping the back half of Twilight for good reason, there’s something to be said for how this member of the undead keeps pace with changing times. But when a film tries to be Gen Z, or wants to reinvent the wheel and call itself I Love Paris, it had better not just be headquarters for Vampire: The Masquerade. Yes, I’ve played that role-playing game, and I even have a character I fondly named Amadeus.

After Dark Shadows, Interview with the Vampire, Dracula, Forever Knight, and the various Nosferatu remakes, I feel well-trained on the classics. But after this movie, I may well have to change expectations. So when this movie, written and directed by Nicky Murphy, showed up wearing its mockumentary conceit proudly, I figured I was in for something special.

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