Paramount Pictures’ planned a 25th anniversary big-screen return of the 1995 film Braveheart, but with theaters closing across the country it’s doubtful that is going to happen. Maybe that is the bright spot in all this crisis- at least you don’t…
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Any month that offers Blu-rays of such indescribable strangeness as Leave Her To Heaven and The Passion Of Darkly Noon is a reason to rejoice. There is also James Whale’s wonderful version of Show Boat, offbeat Universal Horror films from…
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Opening at IFC Center on March 6th is a fabulously bizarre feminist horror fable by Carlo Mirabella-Davis with a remarkable and heartbreaking performance by Haley Bennett. Haley plays Hunter, the trophy wife of successful businessman Richie (Austin Stowell). They live…
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Out on Blu-ray (but unfortunately a PAL disc which you will need an all-region Blu-ray player for) is Station Six-Sahara, a 1963 scorcher of a film starring Baby Doll herself- Carroll Baker. She plays Catherine Star and she and her…
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Opening Friday, Feb. 28th at IFC Center is an eccentric neo-noir set in Niagara Falls about a woman in her 30s- Abby (Tuppence Middleton) who warily returns home when her mother dies to settle accounts with her straight-laced, married sister…
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It is with a heavy heart I report the passing of 83-year-old Brazilian underground filmmaker and horror legend- Jose Mojica Marins, aka “Coffin Joe.” Usually dressed in a top hat and black cape with outrageously long fingernails, he made a series…
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There are several obscure, crackpot films that I love to turn others on to. But how could I ever imagine one of my favorites- Hollywood Horror House, a twisted late-entry horror-hag film starring acting legend Miriam Hopkins, John Garfield Jr.…
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Boy, they are plenty of cinematic Valentines available on Blu-ray this month. From the uncut version of the well-loved slasher My Bloody Valentine to a rare, crackpot Serge Gainsbourg film starring Joe Dallesandro & Jane Birkin. There’s trash classics Kitten…
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As Valentine’s Day approaches a million lists of the “most romantic films” appear online. Don’t be conned. An Affair To Remember stinks. And many medical professionals agree that love is a psychological disorder anyway. Why do you think it’s called…
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What is it about crime and gay porn stars that fascinates me so? Perhaps it’s that these two particular and sordid subject matters together in my mind create an unusually intoxicating bouquet of evil? Or maybe I’m just a sick…
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