Thanks in advance…

It’s finally coming! I have been waiting for years to get a good release of this film, and those wonderful humans at Kino Lorber are obliging.

For me, it's Inchon. I've never seen the movie but was recently reading up on it and it sounds like a fascinating disaster. I don't know how this would ever happen but it would be amazing if only for history's sake.

I got The Keep, The Tenant, and Looking for Mr. Goodbar and I skipped on the slipcover editions which I often do with VS. Ultimately it's the price that keeps me from it and a lot of times I just don't find the art all that appealing. I definitely have some of their releases with slips but more often than not I opt for no slip.

Anyone else weird about this or just me?

FORBIDDEN LOVE (1992) - Canadian International

This feels like a documentary that might have started life as three separate projects, but the way they're woven together makes the end result more interesting than any one strand would have been on its own. Interviews and archival material paint a pretty vivid picture of what Canada's emerging lesbian bar scenes were like in the '50s and '60s, decades before Pride parades were a viable form of protest against police raids. If you've ever had an awesome old co-worker who had wild stories to share in the break room once you got to know her a little... that's who most of the interviewees are. Figuring prominently in lot of their stories are the shocking pulp novels about the lesbians hiding among us (GASP!), leading to other great stories about making a living writing them or them being a cultural lifeline in small towns in the days before the Internet. There's also a sweet little dramatic thread running through the picture to show off some period costumes and justify licensing a few songs. It's more than a little encouraging these days to see that people really can make it out of unwelcoming environments alive, and the disc's extras include a little more encouragement in the form of several of the movie's subjects getting some much-deserved applause at a festival screening.

ROADKILL (1989) - Canadian International

Growing up in Canada in the '80s, it felt like most of our culture was Kevin Sullivan and low-budget game shows, so Bruce McDonald's first few movies were a welcome hit of punk-rock energy. Neither of his two road movies ever looked brilliant, but the modern scan Roadkill gets on this year's release is a real treat... which makes you scratch your head a little when the new cast and crew interviews are lit professionally and then seemingly shot with an old DV cam, but whatever. You get to marvel to the beginnings of several very long careers, wonder why the hell there's a town called "Swastika" in northern Ontario, enjoy a good shoot-out, and maybe ask yourself if every single highway up that way looks the same because I swear I've seen all of those stretches of road on the way to or from family camping trips over the years. Val Buhagiar is fantastic as the minimum-wage office worker who gets to make sense of all of that, too, and it totally makes sense that someone saw her in this and immediately decided that she needed to host our artsy film-revue shows.

DANCE ME OUTSIDE (1994) - Unobstructed View

Yes, yes... everybody's mad at Unobstructed View about the Caligula thing, that's nice. They've also done us a pretty solid favour by updating their release of McDonald's third picture, which stops zipping along highways and actually stays in a community for a little over a year as some very small-town Ontario teens grow up quite a bit. The extras are basically unchanged from the old VSC DVD and the film itself looks pretty soft by modern standards, but it's a surprisingly fun movie considering the unpleasantness that gets most of it going (and how Gooch gets treated). If somebody could please get Pontypool, The Tracey Fragments, and Trigger out on Blu-ray, that would be great. And speaking of Trigger, since it was basically a proper Hard Core Logo 2, could we get a sequel to Dance Me Outside, too? Silas and Sadie deserve to be checked in on.

TRICK OR TREAT (1986) - Synapse/Red Shirt

This one gets my vote for "best contextualizing extras for a movie you wouldn't think needed them". Seriously, what I bought as a fun Halloween picture with that dorky kid from Family Ties playing the town metalhead somehow turned into two nights of really digging the stories everyone involved in its production had to share. Do you absolutely need to know that the guy behind the unusually-prancy demonic metal singer had been on tour with Debbie Reynolds and a Solid Gold dancer? No, but it makes the movie a lot cooler when you do. Is it kind of awesome to learn that Skippy's best friend was played by Glen Morgan, who most of us know a lot better as an X-Files writer? You bet. (His brother Darin's stuff was funnier.) Is the image of Sean Connery watching this movie with its director/his Untouchables castmate and talking to the screen throughout now one of my favourite things about Sir Sean? Hells of yes. I had mixed feelings about the price of this box when I first ordered it, but Sweet Satan, does it justify it once you've cracked it open.

Went crazy on eBay this past week!

Starting Tuesday, Barnes & Noble will start carrying A24’s titles previously only available on their website. Not sure if it’s select locations, but my local store prematurely put them on the floor and they had everything available exclusively online (I Saw the TV Glow, Lamb, etc), including A24 books and records.

Unfortunately at the register I could not purchase The Zone of Interest since Tuesday will be the official day, but luckily they put it on hold for me.

Now that I have it I just dunno if I'm pushed replacing the disc cus of the error that's apparently on it.. I watched the theatrical cut and it was perfectly fine from what I heard. That being said I don't have a sound system outside of what comes outta my TV so maybe I'd only notice the issues if I had a great setup but idk if anyone else shares these feelings

Grab it before the scalpers get to it!

cleaning and organizing my movies when I stopped to admire this beautiful Criterion release. What a movie, what a performance !

My wicked vision mediabook collection so far.

My first Radiance titles. Other than the excellent Kino releases, any other good poliziotteschi on blu ray?

Hello, I have a pretty dumb question but I just want to be sure. On Amazon UK they mark the Criterions as UK only. Doesn't this just mean its region B? Thanks in advance :)

Does arrow do a 50% sale in December? I really want the upcoming 4k of Crimson Peak I missed it when it dropped.

Available at both Cauldron-Films and DiabolikDVD. Shipping in April and Limited to 2500 copies.
Also Houses of Doom is down to about 100 total copies left.

It seems the Amazon US store has The Substance up for preorder. But it’s not available on Amazon.ca (at least not yet). Im not too privy on paying the $20 of shipping and import charges Amazon is claiming I’ll have to pay. It seems like a site called myflicks.ca has it for preorder, but I haven’t heard much about it before. Do any Canadians have any resource they would recommend? Thanks.

I finally gave in today

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Like it says above, do their releases usually go out of print? I'm mostly looking at Opera and Antiviral...

If you’ve had your fill of Arrow, VinSyn, Severin, and Criterion for this sale period, check out these two boutique companies!

I placed an order for some older titles earlier today, but it looks like some newer titles I am interested are selling super fast. Should I pull the trigger now??

The Keep has a 12K edition but seems to be going fast Looking for Mr. Goodbar has an 8K edition and is going fast The Tenant has an 8K edition but don’t have a good sense how fast it’s going.

Thoughts on these titles, should I grab them now if I’m interested in the limited editions, or will these last a bit?