I think it was my sadness reading about the death of the sublime Jane Birkin that encouraged me to revisit a 1985 film she was in that was directed by Paul Morrissey– Beethoven’s Nephew. I remember loving the movie when…
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Maggie Q plays a toughened, yet damaged, Iraqi war veteran named Tes who begrudgingly accompanies her sisters to their parents’ farmhouse way out in the desert for a bachelorette party. Her sister Beth (Kat Foster), a Stepford Wife with an…
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I still cannot believe I have the new Criterion box set of the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini in my hot little hands. I have been waiting for this baby for months and sliding in each disc to see the…
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One of the best films people didn’t see in theaters recently was Beau is Afraid. It’s coming on on Blu-ray on July 11 from Lionsgate and I urge you to experience it’s maniacal charms. Directed by Ari Aster’s it’s about…
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Spooky castles, vengeful witches, malevolent eyeless crying women and a shapeshifting Baron who transforms into a hairy, big-headed monster with an elongated forked tongue that sucks out your brain. These are some of the pleasures in an astonishing new Blu-ray…
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