Mad Men of Japan: Yasuzo Masumura's GIANTS AND TOYS (1958) is a bittersweet satire of rapid postwar change, set in the cutthroat world of candy advertising. Now on #ArrowPlayer (selected by Dan Martin). Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/giants-and-toys-yasuzo-masumura-blu-ray

"a vibrant Tarantino-esque clusterfuck": Katsuhito Ishii's SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL (1999) is on #ArrowPlayer (UK/Ireland) from today. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"For all its conventionality," Rob Savage's THE BOOGEYMAN "is deftly done, its child-focused stakes are never less than alarming, and its ending, ambiguous and closeted, rings true." On UK digital from today. Full review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/reviews/the-boogeyman/

Besides the romantic comedy of love, "the other constants in this non-evolving history are ingenious stunts, pratfalls and sight gags": Buster Keaton's THREE AGES (1923) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-august/

"a work of winning charm and surreal background detail, where everyone desires, but not everyone knows what – or who – they want": Bill Forsyth's coming-of-ager GREGORY'S GIRL (1980) now on Blu/UHD via #BFI. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-august/

"more fairy godmother than sex object": Kelly LeBrock's monster gives adolescent creators a lesson in John Hughes' goofy WEIRD SCIENCE (1985), now on Ltd UHD from #Arrow. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-august/

Star cross'd lovers: Benny Chan’s A MOMENT OF ROMANCE (1990) "merges crime flick and romance, while teasing out these genres’ differences." On Blu from today via #Radiance. Capsule for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-august/

For #LittleWhiteLies, here are capsules of 6 August home releases:
A MOMENT OF ROMANCE
WEIRD SCIENCE
TIME BANDITS
GREGORY'S GIRL
THREE AGES
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (2009)
https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-august/

“Women are just lubricating oil to your killing machine, aren’t they?”: Junya Sato's hard-boiled spy oater GOLGO 13 (1973) unleashes a (maybe) Japanese assassin on Iran. On Blu from today via #Eureka. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"Mori is certainly the hero, but there is more than one villain, and the Mafia prove not just the Fascists’ enemies but their rivals in criminality": Pasquale Squitieri's proto-poliziottesco THE IRON PREFECT (1977) is now on Blu via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"a resistance, sometimes armed, to the prevailing ideology, as the two young men (the future!) join forces with those left behind by the Reagan era": Robert Altman's teen buddy comedy O.C. and STIGGS (1987) on Blu from today via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"uses the past... as a prism to America’s present, while finding warts-and-all sympathy for the nation’s marginalised outlaws": Robert Altman's Depression-era THIEVES LIKE US (1974) is on Blu from today via #RadianceFilms. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"a vibrant Tarantino-esque clusterfuck": SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL (1999) is released today as part of #ThirdWindow's 3-disc 6-film Blu-ray Katsuhito Ishii Collection. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

Ghostface Takes Manahattan: in Radio Silence's SCREAM VI (2023), "old tropes die hard". On 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD from today via #Paramount UK. Review for #LittleWhiteLies #ScreamVI📷 https://lwlies.com/reviews/scream-vi

THE BLACK DEMON (2023)
SHARK SKIN MAN AND PEACH HIP GIRL (1999)
THIEVES LIKE US (1974)
O.C. AND STIGGS (1987)
THE IRON PREFECT (1977)
GOLGO 13 (1973)
All on UK home release this month. Capsule reviews for #LittleWhiteLies
https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-july/

"Kevin's inverted adventures are uncanny, oneiric and utterly unnerving": Kyle Edward Ball's mesmerising experiment SKINAMARINK (2022) is "pure and primal child's-eye horror". On UK Blu from today via #AcornMedia. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/reviews/skinamarink/

On digital from today via #SignatureEntertainment, Daphné Baiwir's STEPHEN KING ON SCREEN "assesses King’s work through the medium of adaptation, turning for insightful commentary to nearly all the directors who have converted his writing to cinema, in a whistle-stop tour of this prolific, often prescient author’s œuvre." Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-june/

"Rothrock truly is the film’s weapon of mass destruction, taking on an army of opponents from East and West alike with a charm that is lethal": Hoi Mang's LADY REPORTER (1989) now on Blu via #EurekaEntertainment. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-june/

"turns this conflict between culture and cash into an ironic, self-reflexive odyssey": Jean-Luc Godard's LE MÉPRIS (1963) on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, DVD & digital from today via #StudioCanal. Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-june/

On digital from today via #SignatureEntertainment, Daphné Baiwir's STEPHEN KING ON FILM "assesses King’s work through the medium of adaptation, turning for insightful commentary to nearly all the directors who have converted his writing to cinema, in a whistle-stop tour of this prolific, often prescient author’s œuvre." Review for #LittleWhiteLies https://lwlies.com/articles/what-to-watch-at-home-in-june/