Another week of cinema is hitting the shop this week. A little bit of this and that enters the video store once again and here to break it all down is the LIST!
When the dolphin mascot of Miami’s NFL team is abducted, Ace Ventura, a zany private investigator who specializes in finding missing animals, looks into the case. Soon Miami Dolphins players are kidnapped too, including star player Dan Marino, making Ace’s sleuth work even more pressing. Working with Dolphins representative Melissa Robinson, Ace closes in on the culprits, but not before many ridiculous misadventures.
In this neo noir, an escapee from a mental hospital is roped into an elaborate kidnapping scheme. Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward, James Foley, 1990.
There’s a hip new disc jockey at KDUL, Superstation 66, and he’s about to make rock and roll history. He’s Dangerous Dan O’Dare, the most controversial DJ to hit the airwaves and he’s changing the station’s format from only polka music to a wild rock and roll. But when a wacky alien – who has quite a taste for hard rock and beautiful young women – lands nearby, he takes over the airwaves!
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years’ War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematographic techniques and lavish costume and production design, all of which earned Academy Awards. The result is a masterpiece—a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.
Follow the weird adventures of wealthy, warped Virgil Travis, an eccentric billionaire whose bizarre mask conceals a secret. To satisfy his insatiable kinks, Virgil kidnaps an all-girl rock band and creates a trio of killer dolls to enact violent vengeance on his enemies. As the volume turns up, the bodies pile up and the girl’s strip down, Virgil’s dastardly lusts lead to a shocking grand finale.
blur: To The End Iconic British band blur (“Song 2”, “Girls & Boys”) comes together to record their first album in eight years – the chart-topping The Ballad of Darren – and prepare for the biggest concerts of their career, two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium. With footage of the band in the studio and on the road, plus performances of their much-loved, seminal songs. Blur: Live at Wembley Stadium (127 minute concert film)
During a winter road trip, young couple Cliff (Schitt’s Creek’s Eugene Levy) and Gloria (Black Christmas’ Andrea Martin) get lost and make an unplanned stop in Farnhamville, Ontario, a snowy small town known as “The Friendly City.” When they hear the legend of three local women with a history of murdering men, they playfully investigate. But to their horror, it seems the killers are still active, police and other locals are complicit, and they’re all feasting on the victims. When the cannibals develop an appetite for Cliff and Gloria, they race to get on the road – before they get on the menu.
A loving father dons a clown outfit and makeup to perform at his son’s sixth birthday, only to later discover that the costume – red nose and wig included– will not come off, his own personality changing in horrific fashion. Jon Watts (2016)
Six years after an apocalyptic nuclear war, a group of army deserters take refuge from acid rain in a seemingly abandoned laboratory complex. When a band of desperate deserters flee into the desert, they stumble across an underground lab where they discover a horror even greater than war itself. A mysterious substance transforms one of the men into a deadly creature.
30th-anniversary 4K edition of the brightly satirical cult comedy starring Alicia Silverstone.
Double feature of ultra violent / ultra gory horror films from Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest Studio: Devil Fetus / Her Vengeance
Remastered re-release of the classic French noir about two women, the fragile wife and the wilful mistress of a sadistic school headmaster, who hatch a daring revenge plot. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse.1955.
Jackie Chan stars in this Hong Kong Kung Fu masterpiece where a disobedient son is sent to be trained by his uncle, a master of the 8-Drunken Genii kung-fu, before the son comes back to rescue the father from an assassin. Woo-Ping Yuen (1978)
At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Children of Paradise’s Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju (Judex), is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore, of inexplicable beauty—that once seen are never forgotten.
A mad javelin thrower kills promising teenaged athletes and naked young women in a high school in this brutal 80s slasher. Sally Kirkland, Michael Elliot, 1984.
A woman starts to question her own faith when she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy to bring about the birth of evil incarnate in Rome.
Punk fights, rap duels, street justice, and NBA magic explode in four gonzo tales of 1987 Oakland under a strange green light. Pedro Pascal, Dominique Thorne, Jay Ellis, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2024
ALL 12 FILMS ON 16 DISCS! Plus loads of extras which are new to this set!
A lonely cringe-inducing suburban dad’s awkward obsession with his charismatic neighbour spirals into a darkly comedic and unsettling bromance. Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Andrew DeYoung, 2024
German horror, Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic “games” with one another for their own amusement. Michael Haneke (1997)
Both GATE flicks together!
A French erotic fever dream where sapphic sorcery seduces souls in a mist-drenched fairyland. Brigitte Lahaie, Dominique Delpierre, Bruno Gantillon, 1971
When people are murdered and harvested for their hair, it arouses the interest of Yamazaki, a local morgue attendant with a hair fetish. Discovering that the strange hair continues to grow, Yamazaki peddles his ebony locks to local salons for use as hair extensions. Meanwhile, Yuko (Chiaki Kuriyama of Kill Bill), a hair stylist who is entrusted with the care of her abused niece, purchases a quantity of hair from Yamazakim. Now, the hair appears to have a life of its own with vengeful and deadly intentions that prey upon Yuko and her salon clientele! Hair Extensions is sure to make your own hair stand on end! Japanese language with English subtitles & English dubbed. Includes supplementary extras! 108 mins. Not rated.
Cult slasher series about a relentless swamp monster who hunts teenagers loaded with gore and dark humour. Kane Hodder, Danielle Harris, Parry Shen, Adam Green, 2006–2017
A young man whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the monsters through the United States and Europe. Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Philippe Mora, 1985.
Starring Sam Neill and Jürgen Prochnow, an insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational. John Carpenter (1994)
Inside Metal is an original documentary series dedicated to Heavy Metal music and its diverse array of musical styles and genres. Features Lars Ulrich (Metallica),Stephen Pearcy (Ratt), Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot, Ratt, Snow), Jack Russell (Great White, Dante Fox), Don Dokken (Dokken), Joey Vera (Armored Saint), Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.), Ann Boleyn (Hellion), Michael DesBarres and many others.
Satanists summon an uncontrollable demon.
Amoral teen Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) has made it his goal to sleep with as many virgin girls as possible — but he doesn’t tell them that he’s HIV positive. While on the hunt for his latest conquest, Telly and his best friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), smoke pot and steal from shops around New York. Meanwhile, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny), one of Telly’s early victims, makes it her mission to save other girls from him. But before she has a chance to confront him at a party, everything goes horribly wrong.
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Quentin Tarantino, 2003.
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Quentin Tarantino, 2003.
Real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal as Mollie Burkhart, a member of the Osage Nation, tries to save her community from a spree of murders fueled by oil and greed.
Bruno Double Feature!
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Academy Award-winning 1987 epic about the life of Emperor Pu Yi. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole.
A scientist performs experiments involving intelligence enhancing drugs and virtual reality on a simple-minded gardener. He puts the gardener on an extensive schedule of learning, and quickly he becomes brilliant. But at this point the gardener has a few ideas of his own on how the research should continue, and the scientist begins losing control of his experiments.
A serial killer (Elijah Wood) removes his victims’ scalps and attaches them to the vintage mannequins he restores in his late mother’s shop.
A kung fu rock band goes up against a gang of drug dealing ninja bikers who have tightened their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade. Yes, you read that correctly. Written, directed and starring inspirational speaker Y.K. Kim, 1987.
Cult homage to the Universal monster matinees of the 1940s. Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan, Fred Dekker, 1987.
David Cronenberg’s hallucinatory take on William S. Burroughs’ unfilmable novel. Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, 1991.
A very strange, personal film from the author of the Ecorcist that is sort of Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor set as an episode from The Twilight Zone. Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, William Peter Blatty, 1980.
Joe Young (Trey Parker) is a Mormon, serving his mission in Los Angeles and needing money to marry his girlfriend, Lisa (Robyn Lynne). This leads him to a porn film set, where filmmaker Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) casts unwitting Joe as a masked superhero named Orgazmo. The film becomes a surprise megahit, even in the mainstream, but Joe soon discovers Maxxx is a criminal with sinister plans. So Joe and sidekick Ben (Dian Bachar) become real superheroes to combat the evil director.
Wes Craven, the director of The Serpent and the Rainbow and Shocker, locks you inside the most terrifying house on the street. Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. The boy quickly learns the true nature of the house’s homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house. Stunning visuals highlight this inventive film that the San Francisco Chronicle calls, “Wes Craven’s most satisfying movie.”
A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breathtaking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.
Wendy Darling encounters a twisted Tinker Bell as she tries to rescue her brother, Michael, from the evil clutches of Peter Pan.
When the American Chicken Bunker, a military themed fast food restaurant, builds its latest chain restaurant on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits take revenge on unsuspecting diners and transform them into chicken zombies! Now, it’s up to a dimwitted counter boy, his collegiate lesbian ex-girlfriend and a burqa-wearing fry cook to put an end to the foul feathered menace once and for all.
Six Black Civil War soldiers face a deadly mission and dark forces deep in Arkansas wilderness during a fight for freedom. Malcolm Goodwin, Michael Madsen, Furly Mac, Ashley Cahill, 2025
Incarcerated for assault and manslaughter, a man (Siu-wong Fan) survives in a futuristic prison by resorting to more extreme violence.
A 13-year-old boy, left to fend for himself and his brother after their parents’ death, is taken on a journey to old Mexico by his grandfather after being sentenced to hang for an accidental killing.
After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. Murder, torture, rape and mutilation are only the beginning. A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they try to reunite amid the chaos. The age of civility and order is no more. There is only “The Sadness”.
The film traces the misadventures of buddies J.D. (Jack Black) and Wayne (Steve Zahn), who begin to suspect that their best friend, Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs), is going to allow himself to be badgered into marrying Judith (Amanda Peet), a woman he doesn’t love. They decide to reunite him with his long lost love from their school days (Amanda Detmer) — even if they have to kidnap Judith to do it.
In this late-80s offering from director Richard Friedman, TV star Mary Page Keller plays Kate Christopher, a singer who moves into an old colonial mansion with her son and psychologist boyfriend David (Andrew Stevens). But when they make a gruesome discovery in the boarded-up attic, it soon becomes clear that the mansion carries with it a dark past that is about to terrorize them in the present.
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.Donning protective gear, the men of the Hazmat Elimination Co. venture into the eerily vast and vacant asylum that is filled with an evil and mysterious past. Rampant patient abuse, medieval medical procedure and rumors of demonic possession are some of the many dark secrets the hospital holds – but then so do each of the men.
Rival groups in a skiing school do battle on and off the piste. One gang are rich and serious, the other group are party animals. Dean Cameron, Tom Bresnahan, Patrick Labyorteaux, 1990.
Welcome to Camp Arawak, where teenage boys and girls learn to experience the joys of nature, as well as each other. But when these happy campers begin to die in a series of horrible “accidents”, they discover that someone – or something – has turned their summer of fun into a vacation to dismember.
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky gives us a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide-the Stalker-leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself-Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
Over-the-top creature-runs-amuck movie – this time it is WORMS! AUGH! Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, Jeff Lieberman, 1976
The plot revolves around a paranormal investigator, a forensic analyst, and a police commissioner who team up to investigate the strange occurrences in three separate houses, including voices coming from drains, levitating bodies, and the return of a dead child.
John Carpenter’s fun satire of consumerism finds an unemployed Roddy Piper uncovering that the world’s ruling elite are aliens in disguise who’s aim is to keep humans in a state of mindless consumerism. Keith David, Meg Foster, 1988.
Cult remake of the William Castle original populated with effects enhanced 13 ghosts. Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, 2001.
An assortment of unruly and misfit teens have all been forced to attend camp at a wildlife preserve which happens to be next to a an illicit marijuana growing op that uses a pesticide that mutates ticks to gigantic size. Rosalind Allen, Seth Green, 1993.
Japanese anime taking place on Christmas Eve about three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents. Satoshi Kon, 2003.
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka’s novel, Orson Welles’s The Trial casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth.
Many years after the bloody turf war that ushered in an uneasy era of peace in Hong Kong’s underworld, the notorious Kowloon Walled City serves as a fortified, lawless safe haven for gangs and refugees alike. But when a skilled underground fighter runs afoul of the most feared Triad boss in Hong Kong, a bounty is placed on his head despite his connections to the leader of the infamous enclave. As his pursuers violate the tenuous territorial truce to exact their vengeance, the fallout reignites old grudges, bringing decades of building tension to a brutal, bloody boiling point.
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!
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller, Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer’s The Vanishing unfolds with meticulous intensity, leading to an unforgettable finale that has unnerved audiences around the world.
A special agent investigates a distress call from a round-the-world cruise, but finds the ship abandoned and haunted by a malevolent force that twists sanity into terror.
What We Do In The Shadows introduces us the age-old vampire flat mates being filmed by a New Zealand documentary crew. Stuck in their antiquated ways they struggle to adjust to 21st century customs, like paying rent, sharing household chores, and getting expressly invited into nightclubs.
Argentinean horror about the residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late. Demián Rugna, 2023.
A wild, nostalgia‑charged doc tracing Mad Magazine’s anarchic rise from 1952, packed with celebrity fans and creator confessions. Quentin Tarantino, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, Alan Bernstein, 2025.
MAD Magazine redefined humor with fearless satire of politics and pop culture. Featuring icons like Quentin Tarantino, this doc celebrates its wild legacy, free speech and the “Usual Gang of Idiots” who helped shape comedy forever.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe, Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor. David Lynch (1990)
A man who was abducted by aliens returns to his family three years later, but his presence affects them negatively. Harry Bromley Davenport (1982)
Banger double Feature!
And there we go guys. Movies should arrive Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
