“Turn the key, see what happens,” are the instructions for an oversized, sardonically grinning toy monkey that two young twins, Hal & Bill (both played by Christian Convery) discover among their errant father’s possessions. But when they do turn the…
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There is still an exquisite thrill to turn on a TV re-run and see the line drawing of the side view of director Alfred Hitchcock’s face while “Funeral March of a Marionette” begins and Hitchcock appears, filling out his silhouette,…
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Trust me, I’d rather get any of these Blu-rays, released this month, than a box of diabetes-inducing candy. There’s 4k UHD restorations of the psychedelic Performance; the notorious Cruising; Gus Van Sant’s wonderful Drugstore Cowboy and the Ed Gein-based true…
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Talk about a hook- now out on Blu-ray from Altered Innocence is a thought-to-be-lost 1973 erotic classic about France’s first gay porn superstar- Karl Forest. And directed by Rudolf Nureyev’s lover Wallace Potts (Nureyev even choreographed Forest’s cabaret numbers in…
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