DTV Connoisseur
@dtvconnoisseur.bsky.social
Located in Philadelphia, we look at the best (and worst) in direct-to-video movies. Check out our podcast on most major podcatchers.
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
This prompt made me realize, I haven't watched an episode of a scripted show at all in November. I don't know if I did in October either. Maybe a Better Call Saul on Netflix.
This prompt made me realize, I haven't watched an episode of a scripted show at all in November. I don't know if I did in October either. Maybe a Better Call Saul on Netflix.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
This prompt made me realize, I haven't watched an episode of a scripted show at all in November. I don't know if I did in October either. Maybe a Better Call Saul on Netflix.
This prompt made me realize, I haven't watched an episode of a scripted show at all in November. I don't know if I did in October either. Maybe a Better Call Saul on Netflix.
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Any World of Darkness fans out there looking for something new? Check out my stories on the Storytellers Vault. All three are available for 99 cents, all three include both a short story and game material.
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Any World of Darkness fans out there looking for something new? Check out my stories on the Storytellers Vault. All three are available for 99 cents, all three include both a short story and game material.
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It's a special edition of No Surrender Cinema as @zackmalibu.bsky.social reviews Season 1 of the new Netflix series, Last Samurai Standing!
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No Surrender Cinema: Last Samurai Standing (Season 1)
Blades, bombs, and beheadings…and that’s just in the first five minutes! Netflix’s Last Samurai Standing is a six episode martial arts epic that piqued my interest, and …
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November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's a special edition of No Surrender Cinema as @zackmalibu.bsky.social reviews Season 1 of the new Netflix series, Last Samurai Standing!
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Now online, our review of the newly released Wildcat!
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Bullet Points: Wildcat (2025)
The latest film from Director James Nunn, the maestro behind One Shot and One More Shot, is the action thriller Wildcat. And it just so happens that Wildcat is the subject of this edition of Bullet…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Now online, our review of the newly released Wildcat!
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Enter the World of Darkness with me! open.substack.com/pub/paulleon... A guide to my growing series of World of Darkness horror/urban fantasy tales. Check them out, please and thank you!
Enter the World of Darkness with me!
Three stories for sale, more to come soon!
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November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Enter the World of Darkness with me! open.substack.com/pub/paulleon... A guide to my growing series of World of Darkness horror/urban fantasy tales. Check them out, please and thank you!
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New story alert!
“The ultimate Tradition of the Kindred is do as thou wilt. All else is survival.”
Zillah Hawkins, newly embraced Toreador, finds herself in London in the company of her sire, Elisabetta Zorzi. Her first obligation? Presentation to the fearsome Prince Mithras.
“The ultimate Tradition of the Kindred is do as thou wilt. All else is survival.”
Zillah Hawkins, newly embraced Toreador, finds herself in London in the company of her sire, Elisabetta Zorzi. Her first obligation? Presentation to the fearsome Prince Mithras.
Presentation - White Wolf | Storytellers Vault
“The ultimate Tradition of the Kindred is do as thou wilt. All else is survival.”
Zillah Hawkins, newly embraced Tor
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November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New story alert!
“The ultimate Tradition of the Kindred is do as thou wilt. All else is survival.”
Zillah Hawkins, newly embraced Toreador, finds herself in London in the company of her sire, Elisabetta Zorzi. Her first obligation? Presentation to the fearsome Prince Mithras.
“The ultimate Tradition of the Kindred is do as thou wilt. All else is survival.”
Zillah Hawkins, newly embraced Toreador, finds herself in London in the company of her sire, Elisabetta Zorzi. Her first obligation? Presentation to the fearsome Prince Mithras.
I saw Star Wars is trending, and normally I'd make my reminder that Disney needs to make an Ewoks vs. The Predator movie, but after seeing Killer of Killers, I don't want anyone vs the Predator anymore if they're just going to end up frozen after.
(But I so still kinda want to see that movie.)
(But I so still kinda want to see that movie.)
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I saw Star Wars is trending, and normally I'd make my reminder that Disney needs to make an Ewoks vs. The Predator movie, but after seeing Killer of Killers, I don't want anyone vs the Predator anymore if they're just going to end up frozen after.
(But I so still kinda want to see that movie.)
(But I so still kinda want to see that movie.)
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Quick note:
We'll not have any Black Friday sales.
Our next round of sales start in December, on the 8th, for Smashwords end of year sale.
All ebooks, minus Cosmopolitan Chaos and When in Rome...Kill! will be $1.99 on the Smashwords store, with select sales on Amazon and Kobo to be announced!
We'll not have any Black Friday sales.
Our next round of sales start in December, on the 8th, for Smashwords end of year sale.
All ebooks, minus Cosmopolitan Chaos and When in Rome...Kill! will be $1.99 on the Smashwords store, with select sales on Amazon and Kobo to be announced!
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Quick note:
We'll not have any Black Friday sales.
Our next round of sales start in December, on the 8th, for Smashwords end of year sale.
All ebooks, minus Cosmopolitan Chaos and When in Rome...Kill! will be $1.99 on the Smashwords store, with select sales on Amazon and Kobo to be announced!
We'll not have any Black Friday sales.
Our next round of sales start in December, on the 8th, for Smashwords end of year sale.
All ebooks, minus Cosmopolitan Chaos and When in Rome...Kill! will be $1.99 on the Smashwords store, with select sales on Amazon and Kobo to be announced!
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The Exploding Helicopter podcast returns this week when we'll be looking at a double helicopter homicide in GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019).
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Exploding Helicopter podcast returns this week when we'll be looking at a double helicopter homicide in GODZILLA KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019).
We're late this week, but hopefully it's better late than never, with "The Shepherd Code: Road Back" (2025), co-written, co-directed by, and starring Alan Delabie, also starring Don "the Dragon" Wilson, Shaina West, and Mark Strange. dtvconnoisseur.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
We're late this week, but hopefully it's better late than never, with "The Shepherd Code: Road Back" (2025), co-written, co-directed by, and starring Alan Delabie, also starring Don "the Dragon" Wilson, Shaina West, and Mark Strange. dtvconnoisseur.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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#SongoftheDay - "I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real..." #MusicSky
The Cure - Pictures Of You
YouTube video by TheCureVEVO
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November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#SongoftheDay - "I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real..." #MusicSky
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If'n you a smart person, you've already pre-ordered the next book in the funniest crime series currently running.
I did and I'm only 60% smart!
Be like me and smarter-ish people!
Get some more Santa Lacrimosa in your diet.
You'll laugh. You'll gasp. You might even cry.
I did and I'm only 60% smart!
Be like me and smarter-ish people!
Get some more Santa Lacrimosa in your diet.
You'll laugh. You'll gasp. You might even cry.
Hollywood has come to Santa Lacrimosa… to die. Rock Cobbler returns in Low Angle Shot- Book 4 in the Santa Lacrimosa series. Out December 8. Kindle version is available for preorder right freakin now!
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
If'n you a smart person, you've already pre-ordered the next book in the funniest crime series currently running.
I did and I'm only 60% smart!
Be like me and smarter-ish people!
Get some more Santa Lacrimosa in your diet.
You'll laugh. You'll gasp. You might even cry.
I did and I'm only 60% smart!
Be like me and smarter-ish people!
Get some more Santa Lacrimosa in your diet.
You'll laugh. You'll gasp. You might even cry.
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Do you like vampire stories? Sure, we all do! Check out Satiation, the first in a series of Victorian vampire tales featuring Zillah Hawkins, a young woman thrust into the world of the un-dead and forced to confront challenges ancient and modern alike.
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Satiation - White Wolf | Storytellers Vault
Everything important in Zillah Hawkins' life happened after it ended.
Zillah is a working woman in the small city of Barchester in 1885, one drawn into the World of Darkness when she answers the call ...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Do you like vampire stories? Sure, we all do! Check out Satiation, the first in a series of Victorian vampire tales featuring Zillah Hawkins, a young woman thrust into the world of the un-dead and forced to confront challenges ancient and modern alike.
www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/5...
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Check out our review of The Old Woman with the Knife, which hits Digital/DVD/Blu-ray tomorrow from our friends at @wellgousa.bsky.social
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Bullet Points: The Old Woman with the Knife (2025)
Our friends over at Well Go USA have been doing a bang up job all year long with one quality release after another. Their latest, The Old Woman with the Knife, hits Digital on November 25th. Physic…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Check out our review of The Old Woman with the Knife, which hits Digital/DVD/Blu-ray tomorrow from our friends at @wellgousa.bsky.social
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The latest episode of Snips Movies' spin on the Criterion Closet is now up on YouTube.
Thanks to John Hughes (not that one) for selecting a fine quintet.
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Thanks to John Hughes (not that one) for selecting a fine quintet.
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Five Films from Snips Movies - with John Hughes
YouTube video by Snips Movies
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November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The latest episode of Snips Movies' spin on the Criterion Closet is now up on YouTube.
Thanks to John Hughes (not that one) for selecting a fine quintet.
youtu.be/i4vALjNEqXY?...
Thanks to John Hughes (not that one) for selecting a fine quintet.
youtu.be/i4vALjNEqXY?...
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NEW STORY ALERT
A short and sweet Victorian Age Vampire the Masquerade tale - just 99 cents!
SATIATION
Everything important in Zillah Hawkins' life happened after it ended.
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A short and sweet Victorian Age Vampire the Masquerade tale - just 99 cents!
SATIATION
Everything important in Zillah Hawkins' life happened after it ended.
www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/5...
Satiation - White Wolf | Storytellers Vault
Everything important in Zillah Hawkins' life happened after it ended.
Zillah is a working woman in the small city of Barchester in 1885, one drawn into the World of Darkness when she answers the call ...
www.storytellersvault.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
NEW STORY ALERT
A short and sweet Victorian Age Vampire the Masquerade tale - just 99 cents!
SATIATION
Everything important in Zillah Hawkins' life happened after it ended.
www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/5...
A short and sweet Victorian Age Vampire the Masquerade tale - just 99 cents!
SATIATION
Everything important in Zillah Hawkins' life happened after it ended.
www.storytellersvault.com/en/product/5...
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I know a cool writer dude who is writing a bitching story about pirates. And I keep coming back to this song inspired by one of REH's coolest characters.
Bêlit forever.
Mark "The Shark" Shelton forever.
Up the gatdamn hammers people.
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Bêlit forever.
Mark "The Shark" Shelton forever.
Up the gatdamn hammers people.
youtu.be/9Q-xg5KdKSA?...
Manilla Road - Queen of the Black Coast
YouTube video by Manilla Road Official
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I know a cool writer dude who is writing a bitching story about pirates. And I keep coming back to this song inspired by one of REH's coolest characters.
Bêlit forever.
Mark "The Shark" Shelton forever.
Up the gatdamn hammers people.
youtu.be/9Q-xg5KdKSA?...
Bêlit forever.
Mark "The Shark" Shelton forever.
Up the gatdamn hammers people.
youtu.be/9Q-xg5KdKSA?...
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It's Friday!
Here's the latest episode of Inside The Video Store!
Mega donations! Severin's Emmanuelle set! BFI sale! Lesser seen Coppola movies!
It's all going on down at one of the last movie rental stores...
youtu.be/z2sRIx4cWBk
Here's the latest episode of Inside The Video Store!
Mega donations! Severin's Emmanuelle set! BFI sale! Lesser seen Coppola movies!
It's all going on down at one of the last movie rental stores...
youtu.be/z2sRIx4cWBk
Inside The Video Store: Episode Eighty-Seven (Donations! Emmanuelle! BFII Sale! Coppola Oddities!)
YouTube video by Snips Movies
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November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's Friday!
Here's the latest episode of Inside The Video Store!
Mega donations! Severin's Emmanuelle set! BFI sale! Lesser seen Coppola movies!
It's all going on down at one of the last movie rental stores...
youtu.be/z2sRIx4cWBk
Here's the latest episode of Inside The Video Store!
Mega donations! Severin's Emmanuelle set! BFI sale! Lesser seen Coppola movies!
It's all going on down at one of the last movie rental stores...
youtu.be/z2sRIx4cWBk
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Coming very soon to the Storytellers Vault: Satiation, a Victorian Age Vampire the Masquerade story. Zillah Hawkins, a young woman in the city of Barchester, finds herself unwillingly drawn into the World of Darkness...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Coming very soon to the Storytellers Vault: Satiation, a Victorian Age Vampire the Masquerade story. Zillah Hawkins, a young woman in the city of Barchester, finds herself unwillingly drawn into the World of Darkness...
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Now online, our review of Sisu: Road to Revenge!
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Bullet Points: Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)
The follow up to 2023’s Sisu has hit theaters, and Sisu: Road to Revenge managed to do something I didn’t think was possible… it upped the carnage, upped the mayhem, upped the gor…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Now online, our review of Sisu: Road to Revenge!
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My newest novel, "Mark in Sales," follows Mark, who makes a lot of money selling cut-rate health insurance. As he starts to see the impact of this insurance on the employees of those companies, he gets offered the promotion he's always wanted.
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Mark in Sales
Mark in Sales [Poirier, Matthew] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mark in Sales
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November 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
My newest novel, "Mark in Sales," follows Mark, who makes a lot of money selling cut-rate health insurance. As he starts to see the impact of this insurance on the employees of those companies, he gets offered the promotion he's always wanted.
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New episode of the Forgotten Filmcast is here! This week we look at Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker in The Outfit.
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Forgotten Filmcast Episode 280: The Outfit
On this week’s episode we journey to the year 1973 to see Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker take on a bunch of mob goons in The Outfit. Joining us to discuss this one we have one of the biggest…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
New episode of the Forgotten Filmcast is here! This week we look at Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker in The Outfit.
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Check out the movie Ty and I discussed on the most recent pod episode, "Shepherd Code: The Road Back," free on Tubi, or rent on Amazon for $2.99. It's got a ton of great names in it, and some fantastic action sequences. 🔥🔥
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The Shepherd Code: Road Back Trailer
YouTube video by M and M Film Productions
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November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Check out the movie Ty and I discussed on the most recent pod episode, "Shepherd Code: The Road Back," free on Tubi, or rent on Amazon for $2.99. It's got a ton of great names in it, and some fantastic action sequences. 🔥🔥
youtu.be/8kSUTuEVLLE?...
youtu.be/8kSUTuEVLLE?...
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Matt Spector is throwing it back to Jeff Fahey and Yancy Butler in 1993's The Hit List!
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Bullet Points: The Hit List (1993)
Having hit in the title is a bold move. If it turns out the movie is successful and well liked it is a nice bit of positive foreshadowing. If the movie turns out to be a complete pile all the detra…
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November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Matt Spector is throwing it back to Jeff Fahey and Yancy Butler in 1993's The Hit List!
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