The new Blu-ray release of Uzumaki (2000) by director Higuchinsky is a startling reminder of the surreal power of cinema. Based on a Manga by Junji Ito, it’s about a small Japanese village cursed by spirals. A father becomes obsessed…
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A thick cloud of menace hangs over David Lynch’s brilliant, nightmarish creep-fest. What begins as a story of a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) and his wife (Patricia Arquette) who receive mysterious videotapes showing static shots of the outside of their…
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If ever there was a movie “as gay as a picnic basket” (as Sophia referred to Blanche’s brother on Golden Girls) it’s the bonkers 1943 Technicolor musical The Gang’s All Here. This might have been just another wartime musical confection…
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I remember being with my mother at the Palace Theater in Norwich, Connecticut when I was a young lad, watching musclebound Mike Henry in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold and she leaned in to me half-way through and asked…
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So many rare treats on Blu-ray this month- from dazzling MGM musicals to rare Warner Oland Fu Manchu thrillers, to a great new horror film from director Ti West, a memorably creepy film about alien abduction, Paul Verhoeven’s racy tale…
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“Surgery is the new sex,” is the mantra is director David Cronenberg’s glorious return to body horror- Crimes of the Future. Set in a dystopian future of “accelerated evolution syndrome” where people have been developing unexplained new organs in their…
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