Original Cinemaniac

Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody

Jack Be Nimble

            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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Neon Lights

             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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Uzumaki

            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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Lost Highway (4K Restoration)

            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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The Gang’s All Here

            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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