Lionsgate’s visceral, albeit barebones Blu-ray package lets viewers really sink their teeth into Dead Alive.
If you’ve ever wanted to take the plunge into the deep end of Altman’s brainpan, Criterion’s impeccable Blu-ray presents the ideal jumping-off point.
Slant had the opportunity to discuss McKee’s decade-long career, as well as his latest film, The Woman, with the writer-director.
Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life seems certain to remain the most audacious, abstract, and ambiguous American film released this year.
The Woman arrives as a welcome antidote to one of the most pernicious diseases of our times.
A bracing cinematic buzzkill, Salò will wipe that shit-eating grin right off your face.
A deathtrap slowly closing around its characters, Harakiri exhorts the viewer to come and see the violence inherent in the samurai system.
If you prefer your gore served up with a heaping helping of campy humor, then this Blu-ray will be right up your oddball alley.
Just as one frontier closes, be it Old Hollywood or the Old West, another one opens.
Fittingly enough, he who lives by the balls ends up pinched by the balls.
At the risk of going out on a limb, let me suggest that Torso is much more than simply hackwork.
The Blu-ray release of Basket Case gives fans and newcomers alike the perfect excuse for hanging out with the demented denizens of the Hotel Broslin.
As the film would have it, all those naked, mud-spattered freakniks at Woodstock might have been better off if they had just eaten the brown acid after all.
Jessica Hausner’s miracle play gives viewers on either side of the fence plenty to meditate on.
The film clearly paved the way for everything from Ah-nold on the lam in The Running Man to the parody-parade Series 7: The Contenders.
The film draws its high-voltage forward momentum from the collision of semi-documentary procedural and downbeat rogue-cop revisionism.
De Palma’s fever dream of fear and desire may never get the deluxe Blu-ray transfer it so richly deserves.
The body of Ray’s best work reveals a laudable consistency of viewpoint, thematic cohesion, and aesthetic distinctiveness.
The film is sure to deliver a whopping sugar rush, as well as the inevitably sour letdown.
Only completists (and, possibly, masochists) should bother to face off against Face to Face.