Blu-Rays

            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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            New from Severin is this fabulous 4-movie Blu-ray box set of Italian gothic horror treats from the 1960s and 1970s. There is an abundance of cobwebs and candelabras, gloomy castles with secret passageways and hidden horrors. But some of the…
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            I have to admit I’m an April fool for many of the Blu-ray releases this month which include (finally) a stunning restoration of the startling Pre-Code movie- Safe in Hell. Then there’s the blistering dark satire- Triangle of Sadness; a…
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