There is still an exquisite thrill to turn on a TV re-run and see the line drawing of the side view of director Alfred Hitchcock’s face while “Funeral March of a Marionette” begins and Hitchcock appears, filling out his silhouette,…
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Trust me, I’d rather get any of these Blu-rays, released this month, than a box of diabetes-inducing candy. There’s 4k UHD restorations of the psychedelic Performance; the notorious Cruising; Gus Van Sant’s wonderful Drugstore Cowboy and the Ed Gein-based true…
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Talk about a hook- now out on Blu-ray from Altered Innocence is a thought-to-be-lost 1973 erotic classic about France’s first gay porn superstar- Karl Forest. And directed by Rudolf Nureyev’s lover Wallace Potts (Nureyev even choreographed Forest’s cabaret numbers in…
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I was talking to an old friend about our favorite horror films from 2024 and we both agreed that the movies we both admired were incredibly fresh and original, not to mention memorably dark and creepy. It’s just a great…
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When you live in a Manhattan apartment you just have so much room for everything. Young people move today with very little, which I admit is a wiser way to travel- especially if moving often is your option. But I’ve…
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There’s something for everyone coming out on Blu-ray this month. From a lengthy, but devastating French film from the 70s, to a film noir treat starring Ann Sheridan, to the memorably bizarre Esperanto movie starring William Shatner, to a charming…
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Russ Meyer (1922-2004) was a true crackpot original as a filmmaker. He began as a combat cameraman during World War II. He went on to be centerfold photographer for Playboy magazine. Russ cobbled together $24,000 and made his first feature-…
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When you look at the career of director Robert Eggers, it should come as no surprise that he would want to re-imagine Nosferatu. The subject matter is certainly in his wheelhouse. From the folk horror of The Witch, to the…
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Are there chestnuts roasting on an open fire at your house this Christmas season? Probably not, unless you live in California and your home is ablaze. Is Jack Frost nipping at your nose? Well, call the police. Yuletide carols being…
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Talk about some great stocking stuffers. The Blu-ray releases this month cover the gamut from rare sleaze classics to the last film from beloved director William Castle Also a truly great supernatural TV series; an anthology horror film with one…
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