In the words of Gilbert & Sullivan: ‘Oh joy! Oh rapture unforeseen!” Despite all the gloomy news lately, when this gloriously schlocky Blu-ray of The Slime People & The Crawling Hand (VCI) came in the mail, those were the exact…
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Some of my favorite movies are getting these new restorations on Blu-ray and it’s like seeing them anew. This month is a starry array of greats and offbeat fare looking so sharp and sounding so great, it’s a revelation. From…
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Severin has just released an astonishing, revelatory Blu-ray set which includes two thought-to-be-lost films of grindhouse great Andy Milligan plus a brilliant, deeply moving documentary on this truly offbeat director. Andy Milligan churned out twenty-nine movies between 1965 and 1988,…
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Spring is here for home media loons (like me). One of my favorites- Strange Behavior (under its original title: Dead Kids) is coming, newly remastered, not to mention Jeff Lieberman’s paranoid shocker Blue Sunshine. A new Sisu movie will bitch…
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I cannot think of a better valentine than any of the Blu-ray releases this month. From two separate 4K UHD releases of (Italian horror maestro) Dario Argento films, to a gorgeous upgrade of a Mario Bava “giallo” thriller, to a…
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An exciting new batch of rare films from the storied career of the legendary Christopher Lee. The imposing Lee who was known from his work with Hammer films or Lord of the Rings or from the Star Wars franchise made…
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It’s a new year of beautifully upgraded Blu-rays. Not to mention Blu-rays of some above average films released last year. There’s the Italian gothic The Ghost, the thrilling film noir Narrow Margin, the rousing Errol Flynn swashbuckler Captain Blood, the…
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I have to laugh with sardonic joy at the array of oddball Blu-ray stocking stuffers this holiday month. From a perverse Italian “giallo,” The House with Laughing Windows (God, I love that title), to hilariously sleazy wonders like Ilsa, Harem…
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“X was never like this!” was the tag line for the 1974 softcore erotic box office phenomenon Emmanuelle, which is represented in a staggering 11-disc box set from Severin. The set contains the first three films in the sexy series,…
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There is plenty to be thankful for on Blu-ray this month. Especially the digital reconstruction of some of my favorites- like The Curse of Frankenstein, Eyes Wide Shut, The Descent, Sleepless, A Summer Place and Lovely to Look At. Not…
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