Now out on DVD from Kino Lorber is director Mark Rappaport’s wonderfully meta take on closeted actor Rock Hudson. Using Eric Farr as a stand-in for Hudson it begins seven years after the actor’s death from AIDs which shocked the…
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Once again, MHz Choice has got me through bleak times by immersing me in terrific foreign series you cannot see anywhere else. Gritty, twisty procedurals, suspenseful mini-series, and then there’s the wonderful eccentric detective Captain Marleau (like Olive Oyl in…
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If you ever fantasized what Boogie Nights would be like if it suddenly turned into a slasher movie, your prayers have been answered with X, the fiendish, fabulous new horror film by Ti West, which opened in theaters Friday, March…
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This month’s Blu-ray treats offer a wild range of cult and mainstream favorites, many transformed into 4K UHD editions and other rarities suddenly available in stunning restorations for the first time on home video. Included is Dario Argento’s deliriously demented-…
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The new Dark Force Blu-ray release of Fangs (aka Holy Wednesday), a fabulously deranged 1974 horror film, is a cause for great slithery joy. This loony film was shot in San Bernardino and is the only feature film directed by…
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The newest box set of rare “giallos” (Italian thrillers from the 70s and 80s) ratchets up the sleaze meter to 10. These Vinegar Syndrome box sets are handsomely boxed and all are scanned from the film’s negatives and look astonishing.…
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Though he’s best known for playing George McFly in the megahit Back to The Future, it’s Crispin Hellion Glover’s more offbeat roles that have earned him a special place in my dark heart. I love his weirder characters- like the…
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One should growl at the moon to cheer the glorious release of a 2-disc Blu-ray of one of the rarest Sasquatch splatter films from 1980- Night of the Demon. Severin has lovingly restored this practically unseen film from the answer…
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There are Blu-ray valentine’s gifts for everyone this month, include Douglas Sirk’s dazzling melodrama- Written on the Wind, Busby Berkeley-choreographed surrealism in Gold Diggers of 1933, giant terrorizing teenagers in Village of the Giants, Margaux Hemingway as a model hellbent…
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Controversial Basque director Eloy de la Iglesia (Cannibal Man/The Deputy) set his sights on a series of films depicting the troubled youth of Spain in the 70s and 80s. These “Quinqui” (juvenile delinquent films) were wildly popular but became problematic…
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