I’ll admit to loving an actress when she really goes for broke, especially in a horror film. Now restraint is not in the vocabulary of an actress like Susan Tyrrell. Her turn as a skid-row drunk in John Huston’s Fat…
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I have always collected movie soundtrack albums. They often evoke the film, but occasionally they reach dizzying musical heights on their own. There are a few that I replay so frequently that I am glad I live alone. Here are…
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March may have been bad news for Julius Caesar, but for Blu-ray enthusiasts this ushers in some real treats- like a great, early Andre Techine film, a sensational Joan Crawford melodrama, a warped Mathew Bright comedy starring Natasha Lyonne, a…
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Violent Streets: the Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection is a sensational new box set from Severin featuring five gritty, outrageous crime films from Italian director Umberto Lenzi, particularly the ones he made in the 1970s with the electrifying actor Tomas Milian.…
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