The lazy hazy of days of summer keep going by and with that the world of cinema and b movies keep knocking at the video store’s door begging to be let in. Who am I to deny them? So let’s see what to expect this week at the shop…
A staple to the shop after all these years. The triple feature of Kubrick goodness…
Sending shock waves through the Mexican film industry and the world, this blistering feature debut from Alejandro González Iñárritu brought the director’s electrifying visual style and bravura multistrand storytelling to the screen with the heart-stopping impact of a primal scream. In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers—a young man (Gael García Bernal) mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman (Goya Toledo) who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin (Emilio Echevarría) who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter—collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys. A tour de force of violence and emotion captured in a rush of kinetic handheld camera work, Amores perros is an unforgettable plunge into a world of brutality and aching, interconnected humanity.
A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, and he falls for one of the new residents. Buzz Kulik (1974)
Shad must scour the cosmos to recruit mercenaries from different planets and cultures, in order to save his peaceful home planet from the threat of the evil tyrant Sador, bent on dominating and enslaving the entire universe. Joining this “magnificant seven” of mercenaries are the deadly Gelt, carefree Cowboy, and the sexy Valkyrie Saint-Exmin.
The residents of a seaside Maryland community become the unfortunate hosts of mutant, waterborne parasites that take control of their minds and bodies.
Two misfit queer teens start a fight club to impress cheerleaders but accidentally spark a chaotic feminist revolution filled with absurd brawls. Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Emma Seligman, 2023
Mike Nichols’ zeitgeist-defining examination of American mores in this story of 2 men’s troubled sexual journeys. Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, Mike Nichols, 1971
A married couple takes a camping trip celebrate a cancer remission but they find themselves trapped between a wild madman and a skin stealing monster. Devon Sawa, Mark Famiglietti, Courtney Halverson, Mitchell Altieri, 2024.
A father-daughter duo accidentally hit a unicorn and must dodge its vengeful family and a greedy biotech family. Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, Richard E. Grant, Alex Scharfman, 2025.
Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse Big Boy Caprice is the city’s most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crimelord’s illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an enigmatic barroom singer who has witnessed some of Caprice’s crimes firsthand. However, she seems more set on stealing Dick away from his girlfriend, Tess (Glenne Headly), than helping him solve the case of his career
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey remains one of American cinema’s darkest dreams.
It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. His cut-and-dried assignment quickly descends into a feverish psychedelic odyssey. Director Terry Gilliam and an all-star cast (headlined by Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro) show no mercy in adapting Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary dissection of the American way of life to the screen, creating a film both hilarious and savage.
A hauntingly beautiful, award-winning Latvian animation reveals a black cat’s journey through a mesmerizing flooded world. Gints Zilbalodis, 2024
When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée is chopped to pieces by the blades of a remote-controlled lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life. He reassembles his beloved Elizabeth using the body parts of New York City’s finest prostitutes, and resurrects her during a heavy lightning storm.
In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum (The Night of the Hunter) plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates (Breaking Away) of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking-a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.
In this classic feature length anime, an orphaned siblings struggle to survive in war-torn Japan in a harrowing animated tale of loss and love. Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Isao Takahata, 1988.
Because Hell would not have him, Michael Myers survived the mine explosion thought to have killed him. One year later, his traumatised young niece Jamie (Danielle Harris, Rob Zombie’s Halloween) is horrified to discover she has a telepathic bond with her evil uncle … and that Uncle Michael is on his way back to Haddonfield. But Dr. Loomis (the legendary Donald Pleasence) has a new plan to destroy The Boogey Man in his childhood home using Jamie as bait. Tonight, the carnage begins again: Michael Myers is back with a vengeance! Ellie Cornell and Beau Starr return for this hit sequel that features grisly gore by K.N.B. EFX Group (The Walking Dead, Army Of Darkness).
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual suicide on the property. Iyi’s clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for a new position, try to force his hand and get him to eviscerate himself—but they have underestimated his beliefs and his personal brand of honor. Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi is a fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system.
Lead singer Joe Dick (Hugh Dillon) decides to reunite his cult punk band, Hard Core Logo, for a Canadian tour. But guitarist Billy Tallent (Callum Keith Rennie) is waiting to hear back from Jenifur, a popular Los Angeles–based group considering bringing him on — which causes tension with Joe, for whom Hard Core Logo is everything. Along with erratic bassist John Oxenberger (John Pyper-Ferguson) and hard-partying drummer Pipefitter (Bernie Coulson), the contentious duo take to the road.
In this Canadian made horror, a slasher invades a cursed summer camp as staff fight back in a neon-drenched blend of horror and comedy. Finn Wolfhard, Billy Bryk, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, 2023.
This genuinely frightening, exquisitely made supernatural gothic stars Deborah Kerr (Black Narcissus) as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James’s classic The Turn of the Screw, cowritten by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top), The Innocents is a triumph of narrative economy and technical expressiveness, from its chilling sound design to the stygian depths of its widescreen cinematography by Freddie Francis (The Elephant Man).
In Karate Rock (1990), a new teen arrives in a small town and wins a dance competition with the most gorgeous girl around. Unfortunalty he learns she has a boyfriend, who’s a black belt in Karate and wants to fight. In Lady Battle Cop (1990), a champion tennis player who was mortally wounded by terrorists from the mysterious Cartel organization, is revived as the cyborg Battlecop, who seeks revenge against her assailants and their superiors.
All aboard! The combined spirits of H.P. Lovecraft, early Sam Raimi and Mystery Science Theater 3000 inhabit this action-packed tale of nautical derring-do and monster mayhem – winner of the Audience Award for Best International Feature at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival.
Thirty-four years after his death, irman William H. Pitsenbarger Jr. is awarded the Medal of Honor for his service and actions on the battlefield.
Having missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom,and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult…but will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny, or decide this life might be worth living after all?
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about past productions and burning witches at the stake, meanwhile technical problems, ego, and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos. Gaspar Noé, 2019.
Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, in Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who’s on his trail. Elaine May (1976)
Satoshi Kon’s masterful follow-up to Perfect Blue traces the career of a legendary actress, Chiyoko Fujiwara, as seen through the eyes of documentary filmmakers. Though Chiyoko has withdrawn into retirement, filmmaker Genya Tachibana receives the rare opportunity to interview her about her life. When he gives the actress a token from her past, Tachibana and his cameraman Ida are thrust into Chiyoko’s memories, reliving the key moments of her life and uncovering the truth behind her fabled career. This timeless tale of passion bends reality and delivers emotion in a way only Satoshi Kon could.
Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other.
When the girl of his dreams gets kidnapped, a man turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected advantage as he fights a bunch of thugs to get her back.
Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he’s abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning.
A rich woman wants an Australian private eye (Bryan Brown) to find out if her tycoon husband is still alive.
A bachelor detective’s world is filled with intrigue when he life takes a turn as he becomes involved in baffling crimes, exciting car chases and attractive young women.
Michael Stacey, a disgraced Queensland officer, writes a book exposing police corruption, investigates murders, exposes a religious cult, and witnesses a military coup.
Wendy Darling encounters a twisted Tinker Bell as she tries to rescue her brother, Michael, from the evil clutches of Peter Pan.
An erotic starlet seduces Europe from the backseat of a luxury car in this playful cult skin-flick. Lina Romay, Eric Falk, Ursula Maria Schaefer. Erwin C. Dietrich. 1975
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Confined to a secluded rest home & trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child’s puppet to abuse the home’s residents with deadly consequences. Geoffrey Rush, John Lithgow, James Ashcroft, 2024
Convent secrets erupt in blasphemous blood and forbidden desire in this 70s Euro sleaze nunsploitation delight. Joëlle Coeur, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Marie-Pierre Castel. Pierre B. Reinhard. 1977.
In 1986 Northern California, Olive Oyl, her brother Castor and friends, go on a camping trip to see the meteor shower with Halley’s comet. But the night turns into horror as a meteor transforms Popeye, into an unstoppable killing machine.
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A riveting action-thriller full of style and grit! A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner. Willem Dafoe, William Petersen, John Turturro, Dean Stockwell, William Friedkin, 1985.
The search for a missing woman unspools in two unexpectedly interconnected parts in Laura Citarella’s playful new feature. The missing woman is Laura (Laura Paredes), a biologist cataloging plant species in and around the Argentinean city of Trenque Lauquen. The men searching for her: Rafael, her boyfriend, and Ezequiel, a coworker who has come to mean more to her in recent days. But in order to uncover the truth of Laura’s disappearance, a profusion of mysteries must be explored. There’s the question of love letters hidden in books in the local library, the discovery of a new species of flower, and then there’s the mysterious being, rumored to be haunting the lake at the center of town.
There’s no shortage of magnificent Douglas Fir trees in Twin Peaks. Immerse yourself in the entire universe of Twin Peaks with this definitive collection which includes Seasons 1 and 2 of The Original Series?, A Limited Event Series, Fire Walk with Me, and 4K Ultra Hi-Def versions of the Original Series Pilot and Part 8 of A Limited Event Series?, plus so much more! So grab a cup of coffee, a slice of cherry pie, and experience the legendary mystery…again and again!
One year after her sister disappeared, Clover and her friends head to the remote valley where she vanished to search for answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they soon encounter a masked killer who murders them one by one. However, when they mysteriously wake up at the beginning of the same night, they’re forced to relive the terror over and over again.
Lovely teen Julie Richman (Deborah Foreman) is steeped in the excessive, pink-clad culture of the San Fernando Valley, complete with her narcissistic boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen). At a party, however, Julie falls for an edgy Hollywood punk named Randy (Nicolas Cage), and the two begin an unlikely romance. Torn between fitting in with her superficial friends and embracing a more non-conformist lifestyle, Julie ultimately has to decide to stay with Tommy or take a risk with Randy.
Three decades after it first shattered audiences worldwide, Severin presents the animated classic about an elderly couple – voiced by Academy Award® winners Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft – attempting to survive the aftermath of a nuclear war. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, adapted by Raymond Briggs’s acclaimed graphic novel, and featuring an original score with title song by David Bowie.
A teenage Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) meets and befriends his future sidekick, the bemused and bespectacled John Watson (Alan Cox). During their first semester of boarding school, a series of deaths occur on campus. Intrigued by the crime, Holmes looks into it and soon comes to suspect a poisonous hallucinogen. And then, in the midst of their investigation, Holmes and Watson stumble on a bizarre cult with a penchant for human sacrifice — after which they must struggle to escape.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
