Released by: Synapse Films
Released on: August 12th, 2014.
Director: Doug Mallette
Cast: John Ferguson, Shane O'Brien, Jes Mercer
Year: 2013
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The Movie:

Directed by Doug Mallette and based on his own short film of the same name, 2013’s Worm is low budget indie genre filmmaking done right. The movie is set in a future where people have quite literally lost ...

Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: August 26th, 2014.
Director: Various
Cast: Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta, Ron Palillo
Year: 1975 - 1979
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The Movie:

Debuting on ABC in 1975, Welcome Back Kotter starred stand-up comic Gabe Kaplan as Gabe Kotter, a man who takes a job as a teacher at his old high school in Brooklyn. Here he winds up in charge of a remedial class with a bunch of troublemakers known as The ...

Violation Of Claudia, The / Hot Honey
Released by: Distribpix
Released on: October 7th, 2014.
Director: William Lustig (as Billy Bagg)
Cast: Sharon Mitchell, Jamie Gillis, Serena, Simone Sinclair
Year: 1977/1978

The Movies:

Distribpix rolls out the red carpet with a new double feature celebrating the adult films of William Lustig. Before he went on to direct horror classics like Maniac and Maniac Cop and long before he started Blue Underground, Lustig cut his teeth in the adult film industry of seventies New York. The Violation Of Claudia and Hot Honey would be the first two film’s he would direct.

The Violation Of Claudia:

First up is this loose 1977 XXX remake ...

Released by: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Released on: August 26th, 2014.
Director: Various
Cast: Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, David Morrissey, Chandler Riggs
Year: 2013/2014
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The Movie:

Based on the long running Image Comics series of the same name, written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Tony Moore and then later Charlie Adlard, the fourth season of AMC's smash hit The Walking Dead arrives on Blu-ray just in time to let you get caught up before the premiere of Season Five this fall. It’ll come as a surprise to no one to learn ...

Directed by: Greydon Clark
Released by: Scream Factory
Released on: August 5, 2014
Cast: ...

Released by: BFI
Released on: August 25th, 2014.
Director: Werner Herzog, Les Blank
Cast: Various
Year: Various

The Movies:

The BFI have gathered together a fantastic selection of filmmaker Werner Herzog’s most iconic films and shorts and released them in one Blu-ray collection aptly entitled The Werner Herzog Collection. Note that the test discs sent for review did not include discs for Nosferatu The Vampyre or Aguirre, The Wrath Of God. Those discs have been reviewed individually at the links and the content of those discs is presumed to be identical to those that should be included with the rest of the content detailed below. Also included in the set is the documentary Burden Of Dreams directed not by Herzog but by Les Blank as he followed Herzog during the making of Fitzcarraldo.

The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser:

The first of two films that Herzog would make with Bruno S. (a street performer born to a prostitute who supposedly spent time in a mental institution), The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser is based on the true story of the titular character (played by the aforementioned) who appeared out of nowhere on the streets of the German town of Nuremberg in 1828. He was found holding a Bible and a letter and was seemingly held captive by an unknown person for the first two decades of his existence.

The townsfolk feel for the young man and take him in, one couple teaching him to read and to write and then to play the piano. The children of the town help him out, it seems that he and they relate to each other sometimes better than the adults, and as the movie progresses we see the social maturation of the young man. The wealthy Lord Stanhope (Michael Kroecher) tries to integrate him into high society but it’s not quite the event the benefactor had hoped it would be. Eventually Kasper winds up in a sideshow alongside an insane Brazilian flute player.

Herzog and Bruno S. make a great team here, the actor infusing his character with so much personality and quirky zeal that you can’t help but be fascinated by him and the director wise enough to let the man do away with traditional performing tactics in order to do so. Bruno S. has this odd tendency to look into the camera in strange, sometimes surprisingly unknowing, ways to somehow accentuate the understandably odd behavior of the film’s antagonist. It makes for a fascinating portrait of a grown man essentially reborn into a world he doesn’t understand but is keen to learn about. The German title for the ...

Released by: Cult Epics
Released on: August 12th, 2014.
Director: Tinto Brass
Cast: Anna Galiena, Anna Jimskaia, Yuliya Mayarchuk, Franco Branciaroli
Year: Various
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The Movies:

Cult Epics bundles three of their previous Tinto Brass Blu-ray’s with the recently released Black Angel Blu-ray (available separately) and throws in an exclusive documentary and insert booklet to create the Tinto Brass: Maestro Of Erotic Cinema collection. Here’s what you’ll find inside…

Cheeky!:

While probably best known to most people for darker fare like Caligula and Salon Kitty, Tinto Brass has pumped out some lighter material as well, and 2000's Cheeky! is a shining example of just how well he can combine comedy with eroticism. All the heat you'd expect from some of his better films like Frivolous Lola is present, and it mixes with some clever and very humane humor to make for a thoroughly enjoyable film that doesn't in the least skimp on what Brass is known for (and that would be beautifully ...

Released by: Twilight Time
Released on: July, 2014.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally, Tommy Noonan, Lee Marvin
Year: 1955
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The Movie:

Originally released by Twilight Time on DVD only in 2011 (now out of print), Richard Fleischer’s excellent thriller Violent Saturday lives again and receives, through this reissue, a very nice ...

Released by: Alpha Blue Archives
Released on: September 1st, 2014.
Director: Ron Black
Cast: Suzanne Fields, Eve Orlon, Alice Friedland, Carmen Olivera, Sandey Carey
Year: 1971
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The Movie:

The Undergraduate doesn’t appear to have been directed by Ed Wood but it would seem to have been written by him. As it stands, there’s not a whole lot to this feature which appears to have been cobbled together from a pre-existing sex education style movie (presumably The Postgraduate Course In Sexual Love as they share producer credits) and some hardcore material ...

Released by: Full Moon Entertainment
Released on: July, 2014.
Director: Charles Band
Cast: Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Art LaFleur, Telma Hopkins, Michael Stefani
Year: 1984
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The Movie:

Produced and directed by Charles Band, Trancers follows a tough guy future cop in 2247 named Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) who not that long ago lost his wife at the hands of a murderer named Martin Whistler (Michael Stefani). ...

Released by: Cult Epics
Released on: July 8th, 2014.
Director: Various
Cast: Horny Europeans
Year: 1970’s

The Movie:

It has been some time since Cult Epics has released a new entry in their Vintage Erotica line up but that time is now upon as and this time around they tackle a decade near and dear to the hearts of many… the seventies! Here we get twelve new short films from Europe, all presented uncut for your viewing enjoyment.

LOVE-IN: A group of hippies wander through ...

Released by: Lionsgate
Released on: July 15th, 2014.
Director: Johnathan Glazer
Cast: Scarlet Johansson, Adam Pearson
Year: 2014
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The Movie:

Although 2014’s Under The Skin (based on the book by Michel Faber) was directed by the man who gave us Sexy Beast, in many ways if feels like director Jonathan Glazer is channeling Stanley Kubric’s 2001 ...

Released by: Alpha Blue Archives
Released on: September 1st, 2014.
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr.
Cast: Louis Wolf, Alice Friedland
Year: 1971
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The Movie:

One of the last films Ed Wood would direct before passing away, The Young Marrieds, not surprisingly, follows a couple made up of Ben (Louis Wolf) and Ginny (Alice Friedland), recently joined in holy wedlock. Ben, however, spends as much time at nudie bars and seedy dives as he does at home, hoping to get some attention from a stripper or a willing hitchhiker even though his wife is a hottie. And he does, he plays around. Why? Well, she may be a hottie on the outside but ...

Vinyl
Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: July 1st, 2014.
Director: Sara Sugarman
Cast: Phil Daniels, Jamie Blackley
Year: 2012
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The Movie:

Sara Sugerman’s Vinyl follows Johnny Jones (Phil Daniels), a middle aged man who used to front a band from Wales called The Weapons Of Happiness. Though they never quite got huge, in their prime they ...

Released by: Mill Creek Home Entertainment
Released on: September 29th, 2009.
Director: Various
Cast: Susumu Kurobe, Akiji Kobayashi, Akihiko Hirata, Masanari Nihei, Hiroko Sakurai
Year: 1966-1967
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The Series:

After the success of the earlier live action monster/sci-fi series Ultra Q, Japan’s Tsuburaya Productions unleashed Ultraman on a monster/superhero ...

Released by: Twilight Time Releasing
Released on: May, 2013.
Director: John Ford
Cast: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones
Year: 1961
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The Movie:

I came to Richard Widmark late in life. He was one of those faces that I'd seen in a number of classic films but never paid proper attention to. Then I saw Edward Dmtryk's WARLOCK with Widmark ...

Released by: Twilight Time Releasing
Released on: June, 2014.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Suzanne Flon, Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon
Year: 1964
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The Movie:

Directed by John Frankenheimer and based on the novel Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, 1964’s The Train takes place in France in 1944 at the height of the Second ...

Released by: Well Go USA
Released on: March 25th, 2014.
Director: Francesca Gregorini
Cast: Jessica Biel, Kaya Scodelario, Aneurin Barnard
Year: 2013
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The Movie:

There is a startling plot development that occurs roughly half an hour into The Truth About Emanuel that is a veritable game-changer. It’s a legitimately shocking and unexpected moment and ...

Released by: Olive Films
Released on: April 8th, 2014.
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone
Year: 1954
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The Movie:

When Young at Heart begins, we hear an instrumental version of the titular Frank Sinatra hit playing over an endearingly artificial studio set that depicts an iconic suburban landscape (tree-lined sidewalks, ...