I still cannot believe I have the new Criterion box set of the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini in my hot little hands. I have been waiting for this baby for months and sliding in each disc to see the…
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One of the best films people didn’t see in theaters recently was Beau is Afraid. It’s coming on on Blu-ray on July 11 from Lionsgate and I urge you to experience it’s maniacal charms. Directed by Ari Aster’s it’s about…
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Spooky castles, vengeful witches, malevolent eyeless crying women and a shapeshifting Baron who transforms into a hairy, big-headed monster with an elongated forked tongue that sucks out your brain. These are some of the pleasures in an astonishing new Blu-ray…
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There are some movies you love for all the wrong reasons. Bus Riley’s Back in Town is one of those films for me. Not because it’s any good. Or even trashy fun in a good/bad movie way. It’s just a…
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There is a staggering array of films out on Blu-ray and 4K this month- from classics like The Night of the Hunter and The Servant, to cult favorites like Paul Bartel’s kinky, fabulous Private Parts, to Victor Buono as an…
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You might not be familiar with the 1968 British psycho-thriller Twisted Nerve starring Hayley Mills, but you probably heard the theme song. Bernard Herrmann’s unforgettable musical score includes a demented whistling theme that Quentin Tarantino appropriated for Kill Bill and…
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Director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) considered his offbeat 1977 vampire film Martin his favorite among the movies he made. And with good reason. There is a new Blu-ray of Martin from a company in England- Second…
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“Eat me,” achieves a radical interpretation in Claire Denis’ (I Can’t Sleep, Beau travail) gruesome art house horror film out now in a gorgeous Blu-ray from The Film Desk. Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) plays Core, a young woman who suffers…
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Speaking of May flowers, there’s a delicious bouquet of Blu-rays this month, from a sinfully sardonic thriller starring Alain Delon, to three films from the criminally underused Anna May Wong, to one of my favorite Greta Garbo films, to a…
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Finally available on Blu-ray (from Altered Innocence) is Patrice Chereau’s defiantly disturbing 1983 film about a young man’s dangerous sexual obsession with an older male hustler. Director Patrice Chereau was mostly known for his inspired staging of operas and theater.…
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