With the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain in 1975, the lifting of the stranglehold of censorship suddenly offered filmmakers the ability to push boundaries. Director Eloy de la Iglesia (Cannibal Man, Murder in a Blue World) turned out two…
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Necrophilia is not a subject I’m very familiar with. When I played doctor as a child I never wanted my patients to be that still. But recently I heard a wild rumor about a secret group called the Matterhorn Society, founded in…
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Fall never felt so refreshingly sweet, with these restored crackpot classics on Blu-ray this month. From the sleaze classic Nightmare, to Frank Henenlotter’s inspired and deranged Bad Biology; Nicolas Roeg’s creepy Don’t Look Now; a crackling paranoid thriller 3 Days…
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I guess I’m happy for the success of Barbie at the box office. At least it got audiences back in theaters. And it’s a win for Greta Gerwig, who I’ve been rooting for ever since I saw her in Frances…
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