The other day, someone on social media posted this challenge: Name something that most people consider to be a masterpiece but you don’t like. Upon reading that, I immediately blurted out: “Journey to Italy.”
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Blood of Revenge [1965] [Radiance Films LE]
The politics and rivalries of crime, business, and personal wants come to a head in Tai Kato’s lush 1965 yakuza melodrama Blood of Revenge, on its first Blu-ray via Radiance Films.
Return to Silent Hill (2026)
When James Sunderland receives a letter from his lost love, Mary, he has to return to where they first met… The cursed town of Silent Hill. What he finds there will shake him to his core and redefine his life.
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Mother of Flies [2026]
A young woman and her father seek a cure for her illness via a strange and dangerous witch in The Adams Family’s affecting folk horror Mother of Flies, now streaming on Shudder.
The Bootleg Files: Uncle Walt
BOOTLEG FILES 927: “Uncle Walt” (1964 student film that was unavailable for many years).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube and Internet Archive.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A student film made without the clearance of the rights owners of the original classic.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Nope.
One of the sad truths of locating films that are either lost or have been otherwise unavailable for decades is that the discovered titles are often far less interesting than the mystique that surrounded them during their absence from view.
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Cheap Thrills [2013] [Arrow Video LE Blu-Ray]
Two down on their luck guys perform increasingly dangerous dares for cash in E. L. Katz’s wonderfully nasty 2013 dark comedy Cheap Thrills, now with a new LE Blu-Ray from Arrow Video.
Night Patrol [2026]
In Ryan Prows’s total mess Night Patrol, a new LAPD cop tries to join the eponymous elite, racist vampire squad targeting minorities, especially one who witnessed a murder they committed.