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Blu-Rays you must see

Flip the Frog

            Oh joy! Oh rapture! The long-awaited restoration of the complete cartoons of Ub Iwerks’ Flip the Frog (1930-1933) is finally available on Blu-ray from Thunderbean. There’s even an introduction by Ub Iwerks’ granddaughter Leslie Iwerks. Talk about a perfect Christmas…
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The Flesh Trilogy

            This notorious trilogy is The Lord of the Rings for perverts. And part of the 60s exploitation films called “roughies,” which were black and white melodramas that reveled in sex and violence. Films like Joseph P. Mawra’s Olga’s House of…
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Beau is Afraid

            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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