A veritable Thanksgiving feast for Blu-ray fanatics including Paul Morrissey’s Flesh for Frankenstein, and some very rare 40s thrillers from Kino that I never dreamed I would own like Among the Living and The Mad Doctor. Also, 4k Blu-rays of…
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“Everything’s weird underwater,” says Ben (James Jagger) to comfort his skittish girlfriend Tina (Camille Rowe) as they plan to dive down in a remote lake in Southwest France to explore (on camera) an entire house buried underwater. In directors Alexandre…
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What’s the scariest film of all time? Some say Psycho, some The Texas Chainsaw Masacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street. For many there was nothing to equal the first time they saw Night of the Living Dead. But for me,…
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To be honest, MHz Choice kept me sane during the pandemic. This superior streaming service has riveting TV series from around the globe- mystery series from Denmark, thrillers from Germany, procedurals from Sweden, first-rate dramas from Italy. I found myself…
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Most of us remember the first movie witch that freaked us out. From the green-skinned Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, to the evil Maleficent of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Honestly, for me the thought that you could ride a broom and…
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I have to admit I’ve been weary of Netflix for a while- strolling their menu in vain for anything to watch. There’s always a glut of choices but nothing that speaks to me, that’s for sure. And then, like magic,…
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Another great month for Blu-ray fanatics, with rare made-for-TV thrillers including the loony Scream, Pretty Peggy; the precursor to X-Files– Kolchak: The Night Stalker; a brilliant existential sci-fi classic- The Incredible Shrinking Man; an eerie Japanese chiller- Onibaba; the hilarious…
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Shout! Factory sneakily released a Blu-ray of one of my favorite so-bad-it’s-good movies- Bluebeard starring Richard Burton and sex-kitten Joey Heatherton. I remember vividly seeing this 1972 stinker in a sparsely attended movie theater and had to jam my scarf…
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It’s fall and The New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center is back, and not virtual (a word I’ve come to loathe). In the 70s every fall I would hitchhike to New York from Provincetown, Mass. with my tickets for…
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Heartbreaking documentary by Kristina Lindstrom and Kristian Petri about Bjorn Andresen, who won the part of Tadzio in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 Death in Venice. Visconti went on a world-wide search for the beautiful object of obsession for Dirk Bogarde’s Gustav…
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