When actress Lizabeth Scott died on Jan. 31, 2015 at 92, the NY Times obituary (beautifully written by Robert D. McFadden) described her as “a sultry blonde with a come-hither voice cut out for the seething romantic and homicidal passions…
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I have to laugh with sardonic joy at the array of oddball Blu-ray stocking stuffers this holiday month. From a perverse Italian “giallo,” The House with Laughing Windows (God, I love that title), to hilariously sleazy wonders like Ilsa, Harem…
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Why is it that anytime I sit down to make a movie “list” I can hear in the background the dulcet voice of movie star Lola Brewster (lustily played by Kim Novak) in The Mirror Crack’d, “I could eat a…
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“X was never like this!” was the tag line for the 1974 softcore erotic box office phenomenon Emmanuelle, which is represented in a staggering 11-disc box set from Severin. The set contains the first three films in the sexy series,…
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There is plenty to be thankful for on Blu-ray this month. Especially the digital reconstruction of some of my favorites- like The Curse of Frankenstein, Eyes Wide Shut, The Descent, Sleepless, A Summer Place and Lovely to Look At. Not…
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Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s nerve-shredding, trippy, nightmarish odyssey begins with a wall of weathered speakers being assembled in a gully surrounded by mountains in the barren Moroccan desert. Soon a wall…
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Ira Sachs’ sublime new film is based on a tape recording that writer Linda Rosenkrantz made of her good friend photographer Peter Hujar, recounting his past day. It was in 1974 and the project of hers was never finished but…
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Just in time for Halloween comes this absolutely stunning 4K UHD of one of the strangest, most surreal and spellbinding films to come out of Italy in the 1970s- The Perfume of the Lady in Black starring Mimsy Farmer. In…
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Out on Blu-ray from Arrow Releasing is a delightfully deranged 2-disc set of two separate trilogies of terror, with short films by well-known Asian directors. Like most omnibus horror-themed collections the entries are hit and miss. But in the second…
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My dream of William Friedkin’s underrated Rampage coming out on Blu-ray is finally a reality. And for vintage horror fans, Warner Archive is putting 6 classics on one collection. Ben Wheatley’s terrific The Kill List gets an upgrade from Severin,…
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