Category: Film & Television Reviews

Rating – 3 1/2 stars out of 5

In 2010, Prince got together with Tal Wilkenfeld, Chris Coleman along with NPG singers, Liv Warfield, Shelby Johnson and Elisa Fiorillo (and others) to record an album.  Eventually they produced twelve songs which spoke about sensitive topics such as racism, politics, exploitation and disinformation.  Then it was mysteriously shelved for over a decade.  Some say that it was due to the fact that they couldn’t go out on the road with the same group that created the album or perhaps Prince himself just wasn’t done tweaking it.  But in the vault it went until this year when it was released by the Prince Estate.

One always wonders when an posthumous album is released, is it any darn good?  After all, it wasn’t being handled by Prince directly for the very last bit, it’s a production crew.  Even if they understand the artist (which obviously they do), there is a still a hanging of doubt over any record like this.  The short answer, it is good but in my mind there are some editing/mixing that could have made this tighter.  Also, it really detracts when the title song is arguably the worst song on the album.  Let’s proceed.

Continue reading “Prince – Welcome 2 America CD Review” →

I felt pretty darn good after Mothman Prophecies and decided to jump on another recent release in the Disney Movie Club exclusive, the Black Cauldron.  Enjoy.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/06/01/the-black-cauldron-blu-ray/

Yes, I’m still alive, just going through a down period where I am not having a lot of inspiration.  I have even slacked on my book reviews (I am reading and rating but not writing the reviews I was).  But I jumped back into it with a couple of reviews including this one on the Imprint Release, The Mothman Prophecies.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/05/28/the-mothman-prophecies-blu-ray/

Back to anime reviews I go.  This one went quickly, but eighty two minute movies kinda do that.  It was also something of a let down considering the pedigree.  Enjoy.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/03/29/earwig-and-the-witch-blu-ray/

Road films are something of a passion when it comes to movies for me. It could be a movie on a ten-lane highway guaranteed to have multiple car crashes, a two-lane cross country expedition, or a one-lane dirt road going into darkness where the passengers might never return. Nothing gets me going more than films like The Hitcher, Road Games, Two-Lane Blacktop, or The Duel.  It is the idea of not knowing exactly where the next turn is going to take you or what lies beyond the next hill.  Characters, environments, situations all can change once you get to the next town or cross another state line.  Today’s road film is the 1997 thriller, Breakdown, with Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh, where we explore what a man must do in order to find his missing wife.  As one might guess, it is one of my favorites, as it delivers one nail-biting scene after another.  Let’s take a look.

The original copy of this review can be found at:

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/03/14/breakdown-blu-ray/

Continue reading “Breakdown (Import) (Blu-Ray) Review” →

Africa Screams is a movie near and dear to my heart.  Hope you enjoy my review of the blu-ray restoration.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2020/07/21/africa-screams-blu-ray/

I know it’s been a few months since I have done a review,  but this one really got my creative juices flowing and I would venture to say its one of my best reviews.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2020/05/29/escape-from-l-a-collectors-edition-blu-ray/

Despite my tender age of 44, I didn’t see Escape from New York until I was in my early twenties.  My parents never talked about it, my college friends didn’t seem to care, and the Internet wasn’t nearly as prevalent as it is now.  But it has become my favorite movie of all time.  What’s curious is that the sequel to the film, Escape from L.A., is what introduced me to Kurt Russell and the character of Snake Plissken (and became the foundation of everything I consider to be “cool”).  It holds a giant chunk of my movie heart, and I’m glad today to bring you this review of the Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray released by Shout Factory.

The original copy of this review can be found at:

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2020/05/29/escape-from-l-a-collectors-edition-blu-ray/

Continue reading “John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A. (Blu-ray) Review” →

This one was a bit brutal but others might find it enjoyable.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2020/02/18/donten-laughing-under-the-clouds-gaiden-3-film-collection-blu-ray/

This one was a lot of fun.  Hope you enjoy.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2020/02/12/white-snake-blu-ray/