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The Best DVDs of 2025
These are the works of serious auteurs whose films will stick in your brain like haunting melodies or shards of glass.
READ: tinyurl.com/BestDVDs25
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MVD dominates @PopMatters' Best of 2025 list with 30 distributed releases from @DeafCrocodile, @FunCityEdition, @CultEpics, @FilmsRadiance, @EurekaVideo, @ArrowFilmsVideo, & MVD Collector's Brands.
An incredible showing across the year’s top 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, & DVD releases!
Many thanks - 'Breaking Glass' is a very special entry into the tiny slip of punk-inspired films that featured in the early '80s! A fantastic Blu-ray edition with the bells and whistles!
Brian Gibson’s BREAKING GLASS (1980) starring Hazel O’Connor and Phil Daniels makes the cut! Thank you, @PopMatters. 🙏
Many thanks - these are a great assortment of films!
As we nestle into our hibernation pods for the holidays this week, we got an early gift from @PopMatters who listed an astonishing -SIX- of our titles on their Best DVDs of 2025 list!
We are absolutely gobsmacked and honored to not only be listed here, but simply to be among some of our most inspiring peers like @FunCityEdition, @SeverinFilms, @CultEpics, @EurekaVideo, @FlickerAlley, @KinoLorber, and more!
Our releases listed:
ALRAUNE + THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE
THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR
THE DEVIL'S BRIDE
IN THE MOSCOW SLUMS
THE OUTCASTS
THE PIED PIPER + Jiří Barta Shorts Deluxe Edition
Check out the full list: popmatters.com/best-dvds-202…
All of these releases and more are available on our website: deafcrocodile.com/collection…
#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DeafCrocodile #Animation #StopMotion #JiriBarta
Featuring the enigmatic Dominique Sanda; My review of the romantic period drama, "First Love", @PopMatters:
#DominiqueSanda @mvdentgroup
First Love’s Slow Seduction
Spare, yet strangely ornate, Swiss film First Love sings of a decadence that evokes the richly embroidered tales of Russian literature. - @MatutinalLife
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The 2 lost albums by JoBoxers (as well as their released debut) are now all released on @CherryRedGroup in one retrospective box set. My interview with the band is up @PopMatters:
@digwayne @ChrisBostock01 @dccollard @joboxers_band #joboxers
JoBoxers Pull No Punches in This Retrospective Interview
British new wave/ progressive soul band JoBoxers talk with PopMatters about cracking whips at lions and tigers and pulling no punches with their new box set of lost albums from Cherry Red Records. – @MatutinalLife
READ: tinyurl.com/JoBoxers
This one surprised me - it's quite wonderful! My review of "Racing With the Moon", released by @FunCityEdition, now published @PopMatters
#RacingWiththeMoon
@mvdentgroup #ElizabethMcGovern #SeanPenn #NicholasCage
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Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, and Elizabeth McGovern's Coming of Age Drama Racing with the Moon Is Artful and Immersive
If cinema is more than the sum of its parts, then Racing with the Moon is an immersive experience that pairs its talented performers with an artful and expert backdropping. – @MatutinalLife
READ: tinyurl.com/RacingMoon
My Blu-ray review of the Italian feature "Girl With a Suitcase", published @PopMatters; its a great summer film with wonderful photography and performances. Available @FilmsRadiance.
#ItalianCinema #RadianceFilms @mvdentgroup
Girl With a Suitcase Charms With Its Magnetic Performances
Despite what appears to be a probing examination of the socioeconomics of the European class system, Girl With a Suitcase's pleasures are simple. – @MatutinalLife
READ: tinyurl.com/59cpw7du
Published @PopMatters, my review of 2 films by Shakhnazarov; highly absurd and stylish and entertaining, and released by @DeafCrocodile: popmatters.com/karen-shakhna……
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#deafcrocodile #MVDEntertainment #Surrealistcinema #RussianFilm
The 80s post-disco trash and glamour of "AMERICAN GIGOLO" gets a feature on the Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024 @PopMatters. Title available by @ArrowFilmsVideo, @mvdentgroup: popmatters.com/best-dvds-of-…
AND...a number of @Criterion titles tops the Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024 on @PopMatters' year-end list. Read the feature to check them all out (among other titles) here: popmatters.com/best-dvds-of-…
You can read about TWILIGHT (not THAT one, but this excellent, little-known Hungarian mystery) on @PopMatters' Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024; title available by @ArbelosFilms: popmatters.com/best-dvds-of-…
"Viva La Muerte", "Badits of Orgosolo", "Daiei Gothic", "Tchao Pantin" and "The Shape of Night" top the Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024 year-end list, @PopMatters. Titles available by @FilmsRadiance: popmatters.com/best-dvds-of-…
Review of Alain Robbe-Grillet's surrealist film "Playing With Fire" @PopMatters; Blu-ray release by @CultEpics and distributed by @mvdentgroup
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Allain Robbet-Gillet’s Playing With Fire Will Burn the Uninitiated
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Playing With Fire marks a curious effort when considered in the scope of cancel culture today, yet it compels nonetheless. – @MatutinalLife
ALT Still from 'Playing With Fire' courtesy of Cult Epics
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Initially dismissed as a film for children, Luigi Comencini's Misunderstood reveals some mature ideas about childhood and family and would sit better with adult audiences. – @MatutinalLife
➡️ tinyurl.com/2z5ef7ts
"Misunderstood" is a bittersweet childhood drama, beautifully photographed, wonderfully acted, and given a fantastic remastered Blu-ray released by @FilmsRadiance. Review available @PopMatters: popmatters.com/misunderstood…
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Nothing But a Man, director Michael Roemer’s sobering look at systemic racism in 1960s America is about battling discrimination on an uneven playing field but also about tenaciously preserving friendships and families. – @MatutinalLife
➡️ tinyurl.com/RoemerMan
#PMPick Nothing But a Man is available on Blu-ray from @Criterion
Film review of the excellent @Criterion release "Nothing But a Man" published @PopMatters: popmatters.com/nothing-but-m…
A new tome on the musical culture of goth; review @PopMatters:
John Robb's The Art of Darkness Unburies Goth Music's Beginnings
➡️ tinyurl.com/5ypm79jt
John Robb's massive The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth [@ManchesterUP] unburies an estimable wealth of knowledge of goth music and can sit comfortably beside the works of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage. – @MatutinalLife
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One of Chabrol's best - and based on an excellent novel by Ruth Rendell. Please check out my review of the new @Criterion release @PopMatters:
Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie Explores Social Class Struggles with Chilling Exactitude
➡️ tinyurl.com/LaCeremonie
Filmed under a cool glass of calm and enwrapped in an airy atmosphere, La Cérémonie [@Criterion] makes judicious use of its setting to starkly contrast its warring classes. – @MatutinalLife #pmpick
