Two film noirs: 1949’s D.O.A (Rudolph Mate) and 1950’s Borderline (William A. Seiter) come to Blu-ray and DVD under the Film Noir Classics Vol. 1 Sub-label of VCI Entertainment.
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Comedy and horror inevitably overlap in films where funnymen find themselves in haunted houses occupied with a surplus number of ghouls, mad scientists and ectoplasmic mayhem. The Bowery Boys had already run amok in such creepy settings during the 1940s with “Spooks Run Wild” and “Ghosts on the Loose,” back when they were under the East Side Kids banner. But this 1954 offering takes the old haunted house comedy into a wild, almost Dadaist environment.
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Short Film For You! [Pride 2026]
Short Film For You [Ani-May 2026]
Hi, Mom! [1970] [Radiance 4KUHD & Blu-Ray]
A Vietnam vet becomes involved in voyeurism, avant-garde theatre, and terrorism in Brian De Palma’s pointed satire Hi, Mom! Now on 4k & Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
Short Film For You [Ani-May 2026]
The Bootleg Files: Putting on the Ritz
BOOTLEG FILES 939: “Putting on the Ritz” (1974 animated short by Antoinette Starkiewicz).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Perhaps as part of a collection of the filmmaker’s work.
Earlier this week, I did an essay on “International Animation Festival,” a PBS series that aired in the mid-1970s. That series, which was hosted by British actress Jean Marsh, introduced viewers to rarely-seen animated shorts from European, Canadian, and independent American animators.
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