Thank God for Blu-ray/DVD company Mondo Macabro, continuously unearthing crackpot films from around the world. Well, they’ve come up with a lulu this time- on October 22 they are releasing a Blu-ray of a rare 1975 Spanish film- The…
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What a golden batch of Blu-rays this month, from remastered Mario Bava, a Bette Davis classic, rare “Giallos,” an offbeat John Huston film, to a blood-drinking fetus in the French cult fave Baby Blood. Hercules In The Haunted World…
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Playing at the Quad cinema on October 11th is a 4k restoration of a loony, little-seen 1976 film by Serge Gainsbourg that plays like the ultimate anti-erotic crackpot romance. Set in American, but feeling like it’s unfolding on another…
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Ah, what a gorgeous day. Flowers raise their frilly yellow heads in Central Park. Birds chatter enthusiastically outside the window. People are walking along with blissful grins as the sun shines down on them. What better way to spend a…
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In Pedro Almodovar’s exquisite new film, Antonio Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, an acclaimed filmmaker, who, after a series of debilitating health problems, has stopped working. For Salvador, “without filming, my life is meaningless.” A remastering of one of his…
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Director Alexandre O. Philippe uses the same kind of inspired deconstruction he did with the Psycho shower sequence in 78/52– this time the iconic chest-busting scene in Alien. Philippe charts the film’s inception from Dan O’Bannon’s early script, which…
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The new film by Fatih Akin is based on a true Hamburg serial killer in the 1970s and it’s so outrageously twisted and grindingly appalling it’s kind of amazing. The director- Fatih Akin is a real favorite of mine-…
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There’s a surprising tender heart beating beneath the deliriously violent, blackly funny surface of the exhilarating new film by prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike. Leo (Masataka Kubota) is a young aspiring boxer who is informed by doctors he has…
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The new promos for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming season of American Horror Story hints that it might be an homage to 80s slasher films. My heart leapt at this. True, most of today’s more successful modern horror movies like…
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You cannot beat a month in which you can purchase digitally restored Blu-rays of movies by film maverick Ida Lupino, not to mention other gems like Criterion’s glorious version of John Waters’ Polyester, Warner Archive’s new editions of Jezebel…
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