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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So many rare treats on Blu-ray this month- from dazzling MGM musicals to rare Warner Oland Fu Manchu thrillers, to a great new horror film from director Ti West, a memorably creepy film about alien abduction, Paul Verhoeven’s racy tale…
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“Surgery is the new sex,” is the mantra is director David Cronenberg’s glorious return to body horror- Crimes of the Future. Set in a dystopian future of “accelerated evolution syndrome” where people have been developing unexplained new organs in their…
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Want to see a really scary movie? I can’t tell you how many times I have been disappointed by that recommendation. But the Argentinian film Terrified directed by Demian Rugna is the real McCoy. And then some. The film is…
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Chesty Morgan beats a man to death with her 73-inch breasts. Two scientists build a rocket and fly to the moon only to find overweight, scantily clad girls with pipe cleaners sticking out of their heads. A husband is mysteriously…
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Robert Louis Stevenson knew plenty about doctors and medicine- he wrote most of his 1886 classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in bed, coughing up blood. After reading the book in seventh grade, I would retire to my…
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May flowers mean only one thing to me- a colorful bouquet of batshit Blu-rays. And this month offers everything from the stupid to the sublime. A ludicrously ripe retelling of the life of the Marquis de Sade, a talking mule, a…
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M– is for the monstrous way she treats us. O– means that she can be just obscene. T– is for the torment that she causes. H– is for the hatred she receives. E– is for the eyepatch she wears smiling.…
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Listen, I’ve always said I hope I die from “spontaneous combustion” while sitting in a movie theater. The reality is that an air conditioner will probably fall from a window and bash my head in while I’m coming home from…
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Opening at IFC Center on Friday April 29 is Vortex, director Gaspar Noe’s shattering portrait of an elderly couple shakily hanging on by a thread in their cluttered, lived-in flat. The great Italian director Dario Argento plays the husband, with…
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