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Diamonds Aren’t a Girl’s Best Friend in Pallardy’s Camp Saga “White Fire” | Blu-ray Review
August 25, 2020In the realm of failed art exists a select category of cinema so terribly conceived those...
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Written on the Wind: Mastorakis’ Grecian Thriller a Find for Foster Fans with “The Wind” | Blu-ray Review
August 25, 2020Arrow Video continues to champion and resurrect the filmography of B-movie director Nico Mastorakis with his...
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Love is a Battlefield in Visconti’s Swan Song, L’innocente (1976) | Blu-ray Review
August 4, 2020Premiering out of competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival just two months after he died...
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I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost(s): Beck Storms Castle’s Camp Classic with Thir13en Ghosts (2001) | Blu-ray Review
July 28, 2020There was a time when it appeared there might be an onslaught of remakes plundered from...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema – Volume IV | Blu-ray Review
July 28, 2020Kino Lorber presents its fourth volume of forgotten or obscured film noir remnants with a trio...
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Skin is In: Ishii’s Signature Erotic Violence in Inferno of Torture (1969) | Blu-ray Review
July 14, 2020An unsung eccentric of Japanese cinema is Teruo Ishii, referred to in his native country as...
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Criterion Collection: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) | Blu-ray Review
July 14, 2020In a world concerned with rigid dichotomies, there remains a roughhewn juxtaposition of the male gaze...
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It Takes a Village: Filho & Dornelles Smash Art-House into Grindhouse Bacurau (2019) | Blu-ray Review
July 14, 2020Bacurau, the third feature from Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-directed by Juliano Dornelles (who served as production...
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Life After Wartime: Balagov Crafts Exemplary Portrait of Post-WWII Role of Women with “Beanpole” (2019) | Blu-ray Review
July 14, 2020Winning the Best Director Prize out of Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival...
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The Doctor and the Devils: Pabst’s Subversive UFA Propaganda Revisited in Paracelsus (1943) | Blu-ray Review
June 30, 2020Austrian born G.W. Pabst remains one of the most celebrated figures of German language cinema in...