JESS FRANCO MONTH: El mirón y la exhibicionista (1985)
I think about Jess Franco and Lina Romay a lot. I’d like to feel that they had a great relationship — they were together for years — and they lived up to the title of this movie, The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist. Working together on this as co-directors, Lina sits in an apartment, in front of […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: American Gigolo (1980)
American Gigolo was always fascinating to me as a kid as my mother wouldn’t let me in the room when it was on. As a result, knowing that it was “dirty” made me want to see it even more. Directed and written by Paul Schrader, it’s about Julian Kay (Richard Gere), an escort for rich older […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD RELEASE: Narc (2002)
Detroit narcotics cop Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) is recovering from an undercover operation gone wrong. In the hopes of getting a desk job, he agrees to return to active duty as the partner of Detective Henry Oak (Ray Liotta) as Oak looks into the death of his partner, Michael Calvess. The film goes into what […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: Rampo Noir (2005)
Based on the works of Edogawa Ranpo, this anthology film features four different stories told by manga artists and directors. It’s a strange film that looks gorgeous and feels incredibly dense. “Mars Canal, by Suguru Takeuchi, starts the film. A wordless episode, it has a nude man wandering a wasteland and longing for a lover […]
TROMA BLU RAY RELEASE: Toxic Crusaders The Series (1991)
Sure, there were Rambo: The Force of Freedom, Police Academy and RoboCop cartoons and toys, but the fact that The Toxic Avenger got his own cartoon and toy still blows my mind. In the seven years since the movie was made, Melvin Junko went from smashing faces with gym equipment to saving Tromaville from the evil Smogulans, […]
BLUE UNDERGROUND 4K UHD RELEASE: High Crime (1973)
I have to speak with pride for my Italian filmmaking countrymen: they do not give a fuck. Any other movie these days that would put a child in danger would not do what director Enzo G. Castellari and writers Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino and Leonardo Martín do in this movie. When the question […]
SYNAPSE 4K UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: The Convent (2000)
I must tell you, any movie that starts with Lesly Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” playing while a girl blasts a room full of possessed nuns and priests to chunks with a shotgun, I’m probably going to love that movie. That movie would be The Convent, which explains that Christine (Oakley Stevenson in her youth, […]
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