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Shredder Orpheus (1989) is a low-budget reimagining of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice presented as a post-apocalyptic skateboard rock opera. Orpheus (played by director Robert McGinley) is a local rock star that must descend to the underworld on a skateboard-from-hell to rescue…
Body horror made a quantum leap in ’32, with the twin releases of these two markedly different exploitation classics. In Island of Lost Souls, Charles Laughton plays the sinister Dr. Moreau, whose gene-splicing lab in the jungle spawns a new class…
What better way to follow up the runaway box office success of Purple Rain — the film that cemented Prince's status as a pop icon and helped sell a bajillion soundtrack albums — than with a frothy screwball tribute to…
A brand new film series, SAINT LOUIS VIDEO SOCIETY PRESENTS, launches in June with it's first feature Pulsebeat! The owner of a floundering health club, Roger, has to make changes to his business in order for it to survive. Though his…
"This film leaps at you with such joy and vigour and generosity you cannot reject it." - The Spectator It's rare that a movie captures the intensity and excitement of a live Broadway musical production while appealing to a broader…
"In equal parts a landmark of queer cinema, a groundbreaking lesbian love story, and a cogent antifascist statement. Made by women who intimately understood and delighted in women, Mädchen in Uniform is a reminder, now as ever, that if enough of us…
"ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE 2010s... Without question, the most moving film ever made about being a power bottom. This is the rare love story about compatibility and calibration, as two adults reestablish the terms of their partnership…
“A psychedelic candy colored acid trip of a movie, Holy Trinity isn't like anything else you've ever seen.” - Bay Area Reporter Named one of IndieWire's "Queer Films Not to Be Missed," HOLY TRINITY is a funky, day-glo exploration of…
One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) stars Emil Jannings stars as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which…
"Pink Narcissus transcends any niche descriptor that applies—queer, camp, avant-garde, softcore, documentary expressionism—and plunges into the deep end of consciousness-annihilating erotic desire." - Slant Magazine “As beautiful and timeless as The Wizard of Oz” according to no less an authority on…