In the words of Gilbert & Sullivan: ‘Oh joy! Oh rapture unforeseen!” Despite all the gloomy news lately, when this gloriously schlocky Blu-ray of The Slime People & The Crawling Hand (VCI) came in the mail, those were the exact…
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Some of my favorite movies are getting these new restorations on Blu-ray and it’s like seeing them anew. This month is a starry array of greats and offbeat fare looking so sharp and sounding so great, it’s a revelation. From…
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Severin has just released an astonishing, revelatory Blu-ray set which includes two thought-to-be-lost films of grindhouse great Andy Milligan plus a brilliant, deeply moving documentary on this truly offbeat director. Andy Milligan churned out twenty-nine movies between 1965 and 1988,…
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Director Francois Ozon’s mesmerizing, masterful adaptation of the 1942 novel by Albert Camus– which was a haunting, existential novel of a young man’s senseless murder of an Arab. The film is about Meursault, (Benjamin Voisin from Ozon’s Summer of 85),…
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Spring is here for home media loons (like me). One of my favorites- Strange Behavior (under its original title: Dead Kids) is coming, newly remastered, not to mention Jeff Lieberman’s paranoid shocker Blue Sunshine. A new Sisu movie will bitch…
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Gleefully grisly throwback to 70s horror cinema by director Rod Blackhust. This begins with Chase (Seann William Scott) surprising his girlfriend Macy (Fabianne Therese) by taking her out in the Tennessee woods to a scenic overlook in anticipation of proposing…
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God, I love Italian exploitation movies. This point was made markedly clear once again when I got my greedy hands on the new Severin Blu-ray release of Adam and Eve, a truly bonkers 1983 Bible-sploitation flick which had the inspired…
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I cannot think of a better valentine than any of the Blu-ray releases this month. From two separate 4K UHD releases of (Italian horror maestro) Dario Argento films, to a gorgeous upgrade of a Mario Bava “giallo” thriller, to a…
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An exciting new batch of rare films from the storied career of the legendary Christopher Lee. The imposing Lee who was known from his work with Hammer films or Lord of the Rings or from the Star Wars franchise made…
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Wryly funny and playfully provocative kinky gay love story starring a very affecting Harry Melling as the shy, mild-mannered Colin. He’s by day a traffic warden in the outer borough of London. He also sings acapella with his dad in…
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