Author: vergeoflight

Visual artist / graphic designer / former experimental musician - Portland, OR.

The Handmaiden (2016)

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I tend to check out anything Chan-Wook Park directs since he hooked me with Oldboy. This is not as good as “The Vengeance Trilogy” but it’s definitely worthy of your time if you like Park’s work. I’d call it a thriller with that weird South Korean special sauce. I avoided watching this for ages as it’s a long one and not much in the action department. Big Mistake. I should have watched much sooner. The Handmaiden is a beautiful film. Damn near perfect.

Available on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures.

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Blue Ruin (2013)

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This is a fantastic, dark, and violent revenge film with top notch cinematography and acting. If that sentence doesn’t send you fumbling for your remote then there’s no helping you.

Available on Blu-ray via Starz / Anchor Bay

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Logan’s Run (1976)

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This entertaining but cheesy gem got buried after a certain other SF film was released in 1977. I loved it on TV as a kid and still do. Yes, the sets and costumes are ridiculous, and the effects are not spectacular, but who cares? If you’re willing to look past the flaws, this is a film with adult themes and some pretty heavy concepts. Also the soundtrack features excellent analog synth work that I’d much rather hear than John Williams. I re-watched it recently and the restoration job looks pretty damn great. So turn off that part of your brain that wants everything look like the Marvel Universe and enjoy this weird as hell journey to find… SANC-TU-ARY.

Available on Blu-ray from Warner Brothers.

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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

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To set the tone, let’s start with one of my favorite weirdo films. I got to see a 35 mm screening of this straight up exploitation masterpiece at the Philadelphia Film Festival back in the early 2000s. Bizarre dream sequences and crazy camerawork abound in Jailhouse 41, the standout of the four part “Scorpion” film series. It is also, what I believe to be, the best action movie to ever come out of Japan.

Available on Blu-ray via Arrow

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