A low-level criminal sets up shop in a rural Texas town during a heat wave in Dennis Hopper’s 1990 erotic thriller/neo-noir The Hot Spot, now on 4k from Radiance Films.
Tag Archives: Crime
Parallel Gazes (Les regards parallèles) (2026) [Fantasia 2026]
What begins as an ambitious plan to steal a luxury car quickly spirals into a crime story filled with unexpected complications, fractured relationships, and the harsh reality that living like a gangster is far more complicated than it looks.
The Outfit [1973] [Arrow Blu-Ray LE]
A bank robber goes to war against a syndicate that wronged him in John Flynn’s 1973 The Outfit, based on the Parker book series by Donald E. Westlake.
Sugar Cookies [1973] [Troma “Tromatic” Special Edition Blu-ray]
A softcore starlet is murdered, and her lady lover sets up a revenge plot by finding a new starlet who looks just like her in Theodore Gershuny’s Sugar Cookies, a 1972 early Troma written by Lloyd Kaufman, and now on Blu-Ray via Troma Entertainment
Aesthetics of a Bullet [1973] [Radiance Blu-Ray LE]
An excitable patsy is sent into gang territory to incite a gang war in Sadeo Nakajima’s 1973 film Aesthetics of a Bullet, now on Blu-Ray via Radiance
Spider-Noir [2026]
Former superhero and now full-time private eye Ben Reilly has to mask up to break a case in the spectacular Spider-Noir, a gripping and clever twist of the Spider-Man mythos to Depression-era detective stories.
Marlowe [1969] [Arrow Blu-Ray LE]
Raymond Chander’s signature detective, played by James Garner, looks for a missing man and uncovers a conspiracy in Paul Bogart’s MARLOWE, coming soon to Blu-ray via Arrow Video.