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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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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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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Summer is sweeter with these diverse and fascinating new Blu-rays this month. From 4k restorations of the sublime (Le Samourai) and the stupid (Can’t Stop the Music). To a fabulously restored suspense tale (The Chase). To filmed versions of William…
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“250 Pounds of Maniacal Fury” screamed the ad for director Nick Millard’s Criminally Insane, about a woman released from an asylum who turns to homicide when anyone keeps her from her favorite cookies. “A Blood Marriage of Ghouls,” was the…
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If you’re gay, and love horror movies, there are many times when you find yourself exploring some of the gay subtext in certain fright films. Some are more obvious than others. Some are a bit of a stretch. Some are…
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Francois Ozon has always been a favorite director of mine. I remember being at a screening for a short film of his- See the Sea (1997), and was spellbound by the macabre premise and the meticulous, scalpel-sharp storytelling. His films…
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A terrific batch of Blu-rays this month- Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wild last film; an exceptional Raoul Walsh Warner Brothers melodrama starring Ida Lupino; a fascinating new Woody Allen; a bonkers Lucio Fulci erotic thriller; a double-bill of hillbilly harlots; a crackpot…
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Years ago, I was reading in Michael J. Weldon’s exhaustive and exhilarating second installment to The Psychotronic Video Guide about a bizarre 1975 film, shot in Spain, directed by Silvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl) and reuniting actors Dennis Hopper and Carroll…
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Anyone who knows me well knows that the one thing you can’t say Is anything disparaging about actress Kim Novak. Critically maligned through the years, even Alfred Hitchcock dismissed her acting in his masterpiece Vertigo, to which Francois Truffaut, who…
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