Blu-ray valentines abound this month, with many Francois Truffaut directorial treats, a new thriller from Dario Argento, a witty, politically savvy werewolf film, a sexy melodrama starring Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler, an early Mel Gibson action film, a banned…
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Director Carter Smith’s new film is a nightmarish, nerve-shredding, queer love story/body horror film. Two best friends are spending a final night on the town together in Maine. Long-haired, tattooed Dom (Jose Colon) is straight and his handsome buddy Benjamin…
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If you think you’ve seen how horrible the wealthy can be at ritzy resorts by watching The White Lotus you still will be unprepared when you experience Brandon Cronenberg’s bizarre, twisted, hallucinatory- Infinity Pool. Alexander Skarsgard plays James Foster, an…
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I recently acquired a new (all region) Blu-ray from an Australian company Via Vision that made me insane. It’s a gorgeous new Blu-ray of A Rage to Live, a 1965 film directed by Walter Grauman and starring the incandescent, husky-voiced,…
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Talk about an eclectic Blu-ray collection to start the new year! From Orson Welles to Japanese cat women and haunted bath houses. The original 1934 Imitation of Life to a near-nude Sandra Dee in The Dunwich Horror. And is it…
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Quietly devastating film by Alice Diop about Rama (stunning Kayije Kagame), a writer and professor attending the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), a Franco-Senegalese graduate student, who murdered her 15-month-old baby on a beach in France. Laurence is enigmatic…
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Nude on the Moon– can there ever be a film title to top that one? I seriously doubt it. This whacky gem is included in this new box set from AGFA- The Films of Doris Wishman: The Daylight Years, the…
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One of my favorite filmmakers- the prolific, gloriously gozo Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) has directed a whacked-out new South Korean 6-part series on Hulu called Connect and it’s surreal, gory, suspenseful, action-packed, addictive insanity. Ha Dong Soo (criminally…
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For as long as I can remember I’ve always ended the year with a “10 Best & Worst” list. But that was back when I was a film critic and rabid about seeing as many movies as possible during the…
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The Christmas holidays are usually a slow one for home video releases but this December includes some really exceptional new 4k scanned collector’s editions. From greats like The Night of the Iguana, Carrie, Black Christmas, 4 Flies on Grey Velvet,…
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