Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody
Dennis Dermody
September 16, 2024
Blu-Rays
This month’s treasure trove of Blu-ray treats includes- a psycho Johnny Cash; a rude, hilarious Todd Solondz dark comedy; a rare Italian-TV thriller starring the stunning Edwige Fenech; a haunting Andrew Haig film starring Andrew Scott (Ripley); an incendiary Peter…
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Dennis Dermody
September 9, 2024
Blu-Rays, Uncategorized
Gregg Araki is one of the truly great queer maverick directors. His brilliant, thrillingly transgressive, teen apocalypse trilogy is given the classy Criterion treatment this month on Blu-ray. But don’t be fooled- each film is like having an incendiary device…
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Dennis Dermody
September 3, 2024
Blu-Rays
For rabid fans of Italian director and master of the macabre- Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts, out now on Blu-ray from Severin, is a 4-disc set and a treasure trove of mouth-watering rarities and cinematic lunacy. From his successful 1972 RAI…
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Dennis Dermody
August 26, 2024
Cult
As I inch closer and closer to an open grave, I find myself compiling lists of movies I’ve always wanted to see, and then trying to track them down. On the other hand, I keep stumbling across titles that make…
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Dennis Dermody
August 19, 2024
Cult
I am slowly going through my bucket list of films I have always wanted to see, for one reason or another. And one high on the list was The Doll (1962), a Swedish film I saw ads in the newspaper…
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Dennis Dermody
August 12, 2024
Movies
Cuckoo is writer/director Tilman Singer’s appropriately titled, defiantly bizarre, enjoyably unhinged horror film. An unhappy teenage girl- 17-year-old Gretchen (scrappy, sensational Hunter Schafer), is begrudgingly uprooted from America and forced to move with her architect father (Marton Csokas) to a…
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Dennis Dermody
August 5, 2024
Blu-Rays
What a month of crackpot Blu-ray treats! A deluxe box set of Reptilicus; the first feature-length 3-D movie; two deliriously deranged Hong Kong Category III films; a new action film from John Woo; a sensational vampire movie from the directors…
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Dennis Dermody
July 29, 2024
Movies
A smart, sexy and soulful portrait of Max (Ruaridh Mollica), a good-looking young writer working for a magazine and living in London. He also secretly sidelines as a sex worker, chronicling each sordid encounter as chapters in a proposed novel. …
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Dennis Dermody
July 22, 2024
Cult
Once in a while you stumble on a movie that cries out for re-discovery. Recently I was flabbergasted by a 1933 Paramount B thriller called Terror Aboard. It’s also an early body count movie like Friday the 13th; really quite bizarre and…
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Dennis Dermody
July 15, 2024
Movies
This subversively disturbing chiller by Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) is about Lee Harker, a haunted, rookie FBI agent (sensational Maika Monroe), with possible psychic abilities, on the hunt for a frightening serial killer who calls himself “Longlegs.” The fiend…
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