I was lying in bed the other morning, plotting revenge, when I glanced over at the bookcase and saw this little stack of 30 paperbacks, lovingly piled up, and realized it was what’s left of my “movie tie-in” books. They…
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Dear God these Hammer “ultimate edition” box sets will be the end of me I fear. And the new one of X the Unknown– a terrific 1956 British sci-fi movie about a giant blob of radioactive mud that emerges from…
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Out now in theaters is a gorgeous 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s 2004 masterpiece Mysterious Skin. Gregg Araki is one of the truly great queer maverick directors. Just check out his brilliant, transgressive, teen apocalypse trilogy: Totally F***ed Up (1993),…
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August is usually referred to as the last kiss of summer. Well someone is slipping tongue with these new Blu-ray releases which are seriously off the charts. From the towering performance by Kim Stanley in The Goddess to the whacked-out…
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Fuck The Odyssey. For me the ultimate summer movie this year is Eli Roth’s gleefully gruesome horror comedy Ice Cream Man. Set in the tranquil, suburban haven of Bayleen Bay, a mysterious ice cream truck rolls up at a kiddie…
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