Lily and Generoso review director Gürcan Keltek’s mesmerizing supernatural drama, New Dawn Fades, winner of the Best Feature Boccalino D’Oro Award of the 24th Independent Film Critics Awards of the 2024 Locarno International Film Festival.

Like fine Italian wine, Lamberto Bava’s splatterfest, Demons, has aged extremely well, and with a 4K presentation, it’s the perfect time to uncork and let it breathe.

Undercrank Productions unveils the previously lost silent feature The Craving, directed by and starring Francis Ford.

If you haven’t already heard about Sugar, Ian Koss will explain why you should keep it that way and just watch the show.

With Last Summer, the 2019 Danish family drama Queen of Hearts is transformed by the unique style of auteur filmmaker Catherine Breillat, marking her first feature film in ten years. Lily and Generoso review Breillat’s intricately nuanced adaptation about a relationship between a stepmother and stepson.

Fists and bullets fly in the third installment of the In the Line of Duty series, the Hong Kong action film that launched the career of Cynthia Khan.

When there is an assassination attempt via bazooka in the first 15 minutes, you know what kind of movie it is. Phil Bailey reviews the international martial arts action caper The Double Crossers (1976), newly re-released on Blu-ray.

After a decade in prison, a Yakuza boss struggles to make his way in a very different Japan. Phil Bailey reviews Koji Tsuruta’s Yakuza classic Sympathy for the Underdog, now on Blu-ray.

One of the last of the classic wuxia swordplay films stands as a fitting coda to the grand period of the genre. Phil Bailey reviews a new Blu-ray release of the 1975 film The Valiant Ones.

Not everyone can be excited by blocks spinning on a screen, but if you are, Ian Koss recommends you pay attention to Best of Five.

The final two films in the bonkers Hong Kong action comedy series The Inspector Wears Skirts hit Blu-ray from 88 Films.

A pair of early “girls with guns” action films from superstars Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock have arrived from 88 Films.

A pair of Tinto Brass films from the ’90s reminds viewers we weren’t always so uptight. Phil Bailey gets erotic with All Ladies Do It and Frivolous Lola from the esteemed Italian director.

Anthony Mann’s gorgeous monochrome western, The Tin Star, may have been shot in black and white, but its themes are never that easily defined.

Charles DJ Deppner finds Flipside to be a vital treatise on mortality, creativity, and purpose, disguised as a quirky documentary about a struggling record store.

Frank Henenlotter’s gory grindhouse classic Basket Case looks as grimy as the streets of Times Square, and that is one of the film’s greatest assets. Arrow Video gives this unlikely candidate a welcome fresh release.

A lady Tarzan and her gorilla have a rough time adapting to high society in Lorraine of the Lions (1925), one of four silent films on Accidentally Preserved: Volume 5, unleashed by Ben Model and Undercrank Productions, with musical scores by Jon C. Mirsalis.

Christopher Lee presides over sex and torture in Jess Franco’s exploitation gem, Night of the Blood Monster now in 4K!

J-Horror classic Dark Water (2002) makes the skin crawl with an unease that lasts long after the film is over. Phil Bailey reviews the new Arrow Video release.

John Wayne’s final movie sees the cowboy actor go out on a high note, in The Shootist, one of his best performances.