Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody
Dennis Dermody
July 26, 2022
Blu-Rays
One of the rarest, weirdest, most fabulously fucked-up, movies- Jack be Nimble– is getting a gorgeous Blu-ray release from Altered Innocence. If you’ve never seen it prepare to have your brain scrambled. Alexis Arquette is Jack, Sarah Smutts-Kennedy is his…
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Dennis Dermody
July 19, 2022
Personal
I had that dream again last night. No, not, “ I went to Manderlay again,” like in Rebecca. And certainly not “I dreamed I was…in my Maidenform bra,” like that bizarre 60s ad campaign. No, in the dream, I was…
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Dennis Dermody
July 13, 2022
Blu-Rays
Like the title of a Preston Sturges comedy, it’s Christmas in July when it comes to Blu-rays. Not only are there three starring the Technicolor goddess of Universal Studios in the 1940s- Maria Montez– there are also rare cult classics…
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Dennis Dermody
July 11, 2022
Movies
Neon Lights is an inventively twisted psychological thriller that’s more like a nightmare glimpse inside a disordered mind. Clay (Dana Abraham) is a tech giant and visionary, but he is starting to lose it. There is even a threat…
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Dennis Dermody
July 8, 2022
Blu-Rays
Out now in a gorgeous Blu-ray from Shout! Factory is the fabulous 1964 horror film- The Flesh Eaters, the movie author Michael Weldon described in his seminal book The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film: “A prime example of an outrageous early…
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Dennis Dermody
July 5, 2022
Movies
A woman haunted by a past love who returns to wreak havoc on her marriage is the subject for Claire Denis’ devastating romantic triangle tale. A stunning, brilliant Juliette Binoche plays Sara, a current affairs live radio host, married to…
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Dennis Dermody
June 28, 2022
Blu-Rays
The new Blu-ray release of Uzumaki (2000) by director Higuchinsky is a startling reminder of the surreal power of cinema. Based on a Manga by Junji Ito, it’s about a small Japanese village cursed by spirals. A father becomes obsessed…
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Dennis Dermody
June 24, 2022
Movies
A thick cloud of menace hangs over David Lynch’s brilliant, nightmarish creep-fest. What begins as a story of a jazz musician (Bill Pullman) and his wife (Patricia Arquette) who receive mysterious videotapes showing static shots of the outside of their…
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Dennis Dermody
June 21, 2022
Cult
If ever there was a movie “as gay as a picnic basket” (as Sophia referred to Blanche’s brother on Golden Girls) it’s the bonkers 1943 Technicolor musical The Gang’s All Here. This might have been just another wartime musical confection…
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Dennis Dermody
June 14, 2022
Cult
I remember being with my mother at the Palace Theater in Norwich, Connecticut when I was a young lad, watching musclebound Mike Henry in Tarzan and the Valley of Gold and she leaned in to me half-way through and asked…
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