A young woman’s murdered family begs for revenge in Olaf Ittenbach’s 2003 splatterpunk Garden of Love, on Blu-ray via Unearthed Films.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die! [2026]
A man claiming to be from the future convinces a handful of diner patrons to join him in taking down an AI in Gore Verbinski’s wild sci-fi comedy-adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die!
Soup to Nuts (1930)
The roots of the Three Stooges filmography can be traced to this creaky 1930 feature for the Fox Film Corporation, which has received more attention lately than it deserves thanks to the expiration of its copyright and its new status as a public domain work.
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House Party [1990] [Criterion 4k UHD & Blu-Ray] [Black History Month]
Kid ‘N Play have a very interesting night while throwing the titular House Party in Reginald Hudlin’s hilarious but honest 1990 film, now on Criterion 4k UHD & Blu-Ray.
Iron Lung (2026)
The planets and stars have vanished leaving humanity to inhabit doomed space stations. A convict is sent to find humanity’s last chance of survival… Deep in an ocean of blood on a derelict moon.
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Send Help [2026]
A jerk corporate executive and a frumpy analyst with survival skills are marooned on an island in Sam Raimi’s deliriously entertaining horror-comedy story of power dynamics: Send Help.
The Bootleg Files: A Streetcar Named Desire
BOOTLEG FILES 928: “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1984 made-for-television film starring Ann-Margret and Treat Williams).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: As a VHS video release only.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: I have no idea why this is out of circulation.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Nothing on the immediate horizon.
Remaking a classic film is always a thankless task, for nine times out of ten the remake is a pallid shadow that is eons removed from the artistry that made the original a beloved work. During the 1970s and 1980s there were plenty of misguided small-screen remakes of big-screen classics. Even the presence of genuine talent in those made-for television remakes couldn’t save them from being weak carbon copies – think of the 1972 “The Man Who Came to Dinner” with Orson Welles and Joan Collins, or the 1974 “Brief Encounter” with Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, or the 1976 “Dark Victory” with Elizabeth Montgomery and Anthony Hopkins, or the 1986 “Stagecoach” with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson.
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