Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody
Dennis Dermody
October 22, 2024
Blu-Rays
Out now is a remarkable, remastered Blu-ray (from Radiance)- director Fernando Arrabal’s 1971 surrealist masterpiece Viva La Murete. Fernando Arrabal (who turned 92 this year) is a Spanish author, poet, playwright (he’s written over 100 plays), artist and filmmaker. Along…
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Dennis Dermody
October 15, 2024
Blu-Rays
More treats than tricks this month on Blu-ray. Not to mention a few I have been praying would come out on Blu-ray someday. Two great Val Lewton-produced chillers from the 1940s; an excellent film about a writer who sidelines as…
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Dennis Dermody
October 8, 2024
Uncategorized
It’s hard for me to remember the many years during the 70s that I used to hitchhike from Provincetown to NYC in the fall with my backpack filled with tickets for the NY Film Festival. It was always one of…
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Dennis Dermody
September 30, 2024
Cult
I’m not what you call a dog person. I don’t own a dog, nor do I feel much warmth in my heart when I see one scampering down the streets at the end of a leash. I’ve always harbored the…
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Dennis Dermody
September 24, 2024
Blu-Rays
I have a real fondness for British horror movies…everything from Hammer Studios to Amicus to Pete Walker’s disturbing shockers to the gory fun of films from Tigon and Norman J. Warren. But the mouth-watering new collection of “Three Killer Thrillers…
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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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