A smart, sexy and soulful portrait of Max (Ruaridh Mollica), a good-looking young writer working for a magazine and living in London. He also secretly sidelines as a sex worker, chronicling each sordid encounter as chapters in a proposed novel. …
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Once in a while you stumble on a movie that cries out for re-discovery. Recently I was flabbergasted by a 1933 Paramount B thriller called Terror Aboard. It’s also an early body count movie like Friday the 13th; really quite bizarre and…
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This subversively disturbing chiller by Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) is about Lee Harker, a haunted, rookie FBI agent (sensational Maika Monroe), with possible psychic abilities, on the hunt for a frightening serial killer who calls himself “Longlegs.” The fiend…
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Summer is sweeter with these diverse and fascinating new Blu-rays this month. From 4k restorations of the sublime (Le Samourai) and the stupid (Can’t Stop the Music). To a fabulously restored suspense tale (The Chase). To filmed versions of William…
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“250 Pounds of Maniacal Fury” screamed the ad for director Nick Millard’s Criminally Insane, about a woman released from an asylum who turns to homicide when anyone keeps her from her favorite cookies. “A Blood Marriage of Ghouls,” was the…
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