I have said this many times before, but 1995 is my favorite film year of all time. I know, I know. What about 1982? What about 2008? What about 1999? All good years but none of them hold a candle to 1995, in my book.  Why 1995? Well, 1995 saw the release of a ton of films that would become beloved by me. STRANGE DAYS , SUDDEN DEATH …

I have been doing this site for 10 years, as of today (4/16/2026), and I wanted to take a look back at my collecting history.

This Week's Haul sees another quartet of Laserdiscs featuring a slasher classic, an underrated John Carpenter flick, an action film everyone needs to see, and an X-rated martial arts classic.

I bought a few Laserdiscs this week and I wanted to share my thoughts, and a little history, about each one of them.

Back in the day, before shopping on the internet really took off, there was the thrill of the hunt. Going out to stores hoping to find something. Sometimes you do. Sometimes you don't. We didn't care, though, as the hunt was always more exciting than the find.

Anyone who grew up in the 90s knew about The Jerky Boys . They were everywhere for a very short period of time. They were known for their prank calls. They would adopt funny voices and call various businesses and do something funny. My friends and I had their CDs and listened to them all the time. We even tried making our own, with …

In this installment of T HE VIDEO STORE DAYS , I talk about "Director's Cuts" and my memories of how I discovered them and a bunch of different ones that have come along in my life.

When it came to video stores, they came in every size possible. From huge stores like your local Blockbuster or Hollywood Video to the small stores found in your local grocery store or gas station, the video store didn't need a lot of room to stock the films you were looking for.

Rumble in the Bronx was the first film I saw starring Jackie Chan. It was this film and Snake in the Eagle's Shadow that turned me into a lifelong Jackie Chan fan.

I grew up in a VHS household. I think that 95% of people out there will say the same thing, I had a friend who had a Beta player, but finding tapes for it was really hard, so we never really had anything to watch on it. By the time I was in my teens, I wanted to branch out and start watching more things. This was becoming a problem …

The 90's were the time of the Erotic Thriller, a subgenre where the crimes and investigations were offset by lots of sex and nudity. Today, we are taking a look at the film that started this wave of Erotic Thrillers: Basic Instinct.