What idiot thought it would be a lucrative idea to make a movie about a greedy Genoese explorer who accidentally discovered the Bahamas? And not just one movie, but two multimillion dollar catastrophes. Did they really think it would be…
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Just in time for Halloween- a great batch of horror and suspense-filled Blu-rays are getting released on an unsuspecting public. Trilogy Of Terror (Kino Lorber) A great 1975 TV movie by Dan Curtis based on several short stories by Richard…
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One the best film festivals, now celebrating its 56th year (from Sept. 28-October 14) arrives with an incredible selection of world films. Any festival that has new films by the Coen Brothers, Claire Denis, Barry Jenkins, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Luc…
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I love my iPod. I used to see people with those telltale white earphones standing on the subway platform and think: “They’ll never hear it coming when a lunatic pushes them in front of a speeding train…” But now I’ll…
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Why are movies so goddam long? Comic book super hero movies are the worst. Avengers: Infinity War was 149 minutes, Captain America: Civil War was 147 minutes, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn Of Justice was 151 minutes (and should have been…
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Rebel and renaissance man Richard Grieco’s career is as confounding as it is preposterous. Starting out as a Calvin Klein model and a soap opera hunk (he played playboy Rick Gardner on One Life To Live in the late 80s),…
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How did I miss this 1973 film about a cross-dressing homicidal killer by the director of Shanty Tramp? Well for one, this Florida-made whack job of a film didn’t get much of a release. Thought to be lost, it turned…
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When we trot off to a movie are we really going for the acting? Or is it that stirring of the secret trouser snake in all of us that compels us to go? I recall sitting in a movie theater…
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My phone started ringing off the hook. “Al Adamson is dead!” Say it isn’t so. Not the infamous director of Satan’s Sadists, Blood Of Dracula’s Castle and The Naughty Stewardesses. God couldn’t be that vengeful. “And he was murdered!” You’re…
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This month there are Blu-ray releases of movies I never ever expected to have, or own, and especially in such stellar, digitally remastered condition. I wake up in the middle of the night and shake my head thinking that the…
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