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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Hunt Is a propulsive, action-packed South Korean spy thriller directed and starring Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game). It begins in Washington D.C. in 1983 during a botched assassination attempt on the South Korean president, whose authoritarian regime has caused student uprisings…
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By all means, make a reservation to see The Menu, a fiendishly enjoyable dark comedy, smartly directed by Mark Mylod and topped with a fabulously sardonic performance by Ralph Fiennes. The plot concerns a group of well-heeled epicureans, arriving by…
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Surprisingly romantic young “cannibals in love” movie from Luca Guadagnini (Call Me by Your Name). Based on a novel by Camille DeAngelis, it stars the charismatic Taylor Russell as Maren, whose father has deserted her because of her “affliction” of…
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