Movie Reviews by Dennis Dermody
Dennis Dermody
March 4, 2020
Movies
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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Dennis Dermody
February 29, 2020
Blu-Rays
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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Dennis Dermody
February 25, 2020
Movies
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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Dennis Dermody
February 21, 2020
Cult
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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Dennis Dermody
February 18, 2020
Blu-Rays
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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Dennis Dermody
February 11, 2020
Blu-Rays
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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Dennis Dermody
February 4, 2020
Cult
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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Dennis Dermody
January 28, 2020
Personal
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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Dennis Dermody
January 21, 2020
Movies
In Richard Stanley’s brilliant, nightmarish, hallucinatory version of a H. P. Lovecraft story, a meteorite falls from the sky outside Nathan Gardner’s (Nicolas Cage) remote woodland Arkham farmhouse. Gardner lives there with his wife (Joley Richardson), their three children…
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Dennis Dermody
January 14, 2020
Blu-Rays
What a way to begin the new year for Blu-ray lovers! Maria Montez on Blu-ray! Doctor Cyclops! All About My Mother! The Fugitive Kind! The Great McGinty! The controversial Lars Von Trier movie The House That Jack Built uncut!…
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