Monthly Archive: April 2023
Dennis Dermody
April 24, 2023
Cult
At the beginning of Ed Wood’s gloriously bonkers Plan 9 from Outer Space, a man is seen sitting at a desk wearing a tuxedo and with a ludicrous spit curl in his hair. He speaks in a stentorian deep voice:…
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Dennis Dermody
April 17, 2023
Blu-Rays
I have to admit I’m an April fool for many of the Blu-ray releases this month which include (finally) a stunning restoration of the startling Pre-Code movie- Safe in Hell. Then there’s the blistering dark satire- Triangle of Sadness; a…
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Dennis Dermody
April 10, 2023
Movies
Loving French director Francois Ozon as I do, I shouldn’t have been surprised that he could transform a seemingly depressing premise about an elderly stroke victim who demands his daughters find a way for him to end his life into…
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Dennis Dermody
April 3, 2023
Movies
Is the epic, non-stop action orgy called John Wick: Chapter 4 too much of a good thing? Probably, but, as I was sitting in my theater seat with my jaw unhinged for nearly three hours in such a state of…
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