Quite frankly, the 4K release of the sci-fi classic Invaders from Mars should be enough for this month, but there are also other 4K UHD upgrades of many cult classics, not to mention oddball Blu-ray releases of excellent new thrillers…
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When German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder died in 1982, I was reminded of the funeral of another director- Ernst Lubitsch in 1947. Afterwards, Billy Wilder and William Wyler were leaving the burial and Wyler said “Well, no more Lubitsch,” and…
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A new 4K restoration of a brilliant 2005 film by one of my favorite directors- Lodge Kerrigan– Keane is getting a run at Film At Lincoln Center opening August 19 and if you’ve never seen it you are really missing…
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Yes, I must confess, I collect movie stills where actors are screaming or trembling with fear. They always make me laugh. Those freeze-frame publicity shots of mock fright and terror. There’s something so ludicrous and wonderful about them. I have…
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It may be hot as hell, but the array of oddball cult hits available this month on Blu-ray is even hotter. From an amazing box set of the films of Ray Dennis Steckler; to the inadvertently hilarious Shriek of the…
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Turner Classic Movies this month is scheduling each day with an all-day tribute to a different star. On August 4ththey are devoting the day to Ruth Roman, the husky-voiced, sexy, character actress who was always better than most of the…
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One of the rarest, weirdest, most fabulously fucked-up, movies- Jack be Nimble– is getting a gorgeous Blu-ray release from Altered Innocence. If you’ve never seen it prepare to have your brain scrambled. Alexis Arquette is Jack, Sarah Smutts-Kennedy is his…
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I had that dream again last night. No, not, “ I went to Manderlay again,” like in Rebecca. And certainly not “I dreamed I was…in my Maidenform bra,” like that bizarre 60s ad campaign. No, in the dream, I was…
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Like the title of a Preston Sturges comedy, it’s Christmas in July when it comes to Blu-rays. Not only are there three starring the Technicolor goddess of Universal Studios in the 1940s- Maria Montez– there are also rare cult classics…
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Neon Lights is an inventively twisted psychological thriller that’s more like a nightmare glimpse inside a disordered mind. Clay (Dana Abraham) is a tech giant and visionary, but he is starting to lose it. There is even a threat…
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