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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Here are some lurid and entertaining Blu-ray stocking stuffers to make the spirit bright for certain demented family members. I would go insane to find any one of these under the Christmas tree. Horrors of the Black Museum (VCI) A…
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In a month that includes Thanksgiving I am always grateful for more crackpot Blu-ray treats. This month we have releases from the sublime to the subversive. From restorations of great films like Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist; Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last…
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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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With Halloween looming many Blu-ray companies trot out horror-themed fare and we’re lucky this month to see Freaks out from Criterion, plus the great Spanish shocker Tombs of the Blind Dead, Mario Bava’s gothic classic Black Sabbath, not to mention…
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With the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain in 1975, the lifting of the stranglehold of censorship suddenly offered filmmakers the ability to push boundaries. Director Eloy de la Iglesia (Cannibal Man, Murder in a Blue World) turned out two…
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Fall never felt so refreshingly sweet, with these restored crackpot classics on Blu-ray this month. From the sleaze classic Nightmare, to Frank Henenlotter’s inspired and deranged Bad Biology; Nicolas Roeg’s creepy Don’t Look Now; a crackling paranoid thriller 3 Days…
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Talk about an eclectic and surreal month of Blu-rays this month. From a cult classic with a hilariously hambone performance by William Shatner, to a mommy dinosaur destroying London to reach her offspring, to the ultimate Bruce Lee film; a…
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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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