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Now watching “Gamera vs. Barugon” / “Daikaijû kettô: Gamera tai Barugon” (1966) GAMERA: THE SHOWA ERA Blu-ray box set from Arrow Video

Directed by Shigeo Tanaka

Starring Kôjirô Hongô**,** Kyôko Enami**,** Yūzō Hayakawa

A giant monster that emits a destructive ray from its back attacks Japan and takes on Gamera.

Now watching “Long Weekend” (1978) Blu-ray from Second Sight

Directed by Colin Eggleston

Starring John Hargreaves**,** Briony Behets

When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Now watching “Some Like It Hot” (1959) on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Kino Lorber (also available from The Criterion Collection)

Directed by Billy Wilder

Starring Marilyn Monroe**,** Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Now watching “Savage Summer” / “Verano Salvaje” (1980) from the The Films of Enrique Gómez Vadillo (1980-1991) Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray box set

Directed by Enrique Gómez Vadillo

Starring Ana Martín, Fernando Allende, Jorge Rivero

After a romantic betrayal, young Cecilia decides to sleep around with the men she grew up with.

Now watching “Shanghai Blues” / “Shang Hai Zhi Yen” (1984) on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Film Movement (a Vinegar Syndrome partner)

Directed by Hark Tsui

Starring Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, Sally Yeh

During a 1937 Shanghai bombing, a soldier and a woman meet under a bridge and promise to reunite post-war. 10 years later, she's a singer who helps a country girl. The girl falls for her upstairs neighbor - the same soldier.

Now watching “The Brides of Fu Manchu” (1966) Blu-ray from Indicator Films

Directed by Don Sharp

Starring Christopher Lee, Douglas Wilmer

Fu Manchu blackmails several industrialists and scientists into helping him construct a super-weapon by kidnapping their daughters & wives.

Now watching “Fantomas Unleashed” / “Fantômas se Déchaîne” (1965) as part of the Fantômas Returns: The Fantômas Trilogy, 1964-1967 Blu-ray box set from Eureka! Films

Directed by André Hunebelle

Starring Jean Marais**,** Louis de Funès**,** Mylène Demongeot

When Professor Marchand, a famous scientist, mysteriously disappears, the commissioner, Juve, immediately suspects Fantomas

Now watching “Death on the Nile” (1978) on 4K UHD Blu-ray from StudioCanal (& also Kino Lorber)

Directed by John Guillermin

Starring Peter Ustinov**,** Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale**,** Jane Birkin**,** Bette Davis**,** Olivia Hussey**,** George Kennedy**,** Angela Lansbury**,** David Niven**,** Maggie Smith**,** I.S. Johar

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Now watching “Entertaining Mr Sloane” (1970) Blu-ray from Severin Films

Directed by Douglas Hickox

Starring Beryl Reid**,** Harry Andrews**,** Peter McEnery

Kath encounters the manipulative Sloane in a cemetery and invites him to be a lodger. Her closeted brother, Ed, forbids it, but Sloane seduces both Kath and Ed. Their father recognizes Sloane and threatens to expose his murderous past.

Now watching “El Topo” (1970) Blu-ray from Arrow Films

Written & Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Starring Alejandro & Brontis Jodorowsky

A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.

Now watching “Girl Stroke Boy” (1971) Blu-ray from Indicator Films

Directed by Bob Kellett

Starring Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Clive Francis, Peter Straker

The straitlaced parents of a young boy who has, until now, shown no interest in the opposite sex, are confounded when he brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.

Now watching “13 Frightened Girls” (1963) Blu-ray from Indicator Films

Directed by William Castle

Starring Murray Hamilton**,** Joyce Taylor**,** Hugh Marlowe

While attending a school for diplomats' daughters, the teen-aged daughter of the American ambassador uses her access to various embassies to engage in espionage.

Now watching the “The Strange World of Coffin Joe” or “O Estranho Mundo de Zé do Caixão” (1968) as part of the Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe Blu-Ray box set from Arrow.

Directed by & starring José Mojica Marins

Three episodes: A dollmaker whose dolls are eerily human, a tale of necrophilia, and a doctor proves love is dead.

Now watching “Bang the Drum Slowly” (1973) on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Cinématographe (a Vinegar Syndrome label)

Directed by John D. Hancock

Starring Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia

The story of the friendship between the New York Mammoths major-league baseball team's worldly-wise pitcher Henry "Author" Wiggen and half-wit catcher Bruce Pearson as they cope with Bruce's terminal illness during a baseball season.

#NowWatching “Fackham Hall” (2025) Blu-ray from Bleecker Street (Decal Releasing)

Directed by Jim O'Hanlon

Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe, Damian Lewis

A new porter forms an odd bond with the youngest daughter of a well-known UK family. As the Davenport family, headed by Lord and Lady Davenport, deals with the epic disaster of the wedding of their eldest daughter to her caddish cousin.

Now watching “The Northman” (2024) on 4K UHD Blu-ray

Directed by Robert Eggers

Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman

A young Viking prince is on a quest to avenge his father's murder

Now watching “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975) Blu-ray from Imprint Films (region-free)

Directed by John Houston
Starring Sean Connery**,** Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer

In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Now watching “Irreversible” (2002) Blu-ray from Altered Innocence

Written & directed by Gaspar Noé

Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order.

Now watching “A Blade in the Dark” / “La Casa con la Scala nel Buio” (1983) on 4K UHD Blu-ray (4-disc set) from Vinegar Syndrome

Directed by Lamberto Bava

Starring Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Fabiola Toledo

A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.