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Discussed in this episode:
Arco (2025): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. The UHD/Blu-ray release of the animated film about a rainbow-suited boy who travels from the distant future to the less-distant future includes numerous featurettes (but, despite what the box claims, a soundtrack in the original language is not a bonus feature.) Buy Arco.
The Bride! (2026): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Warner Bros. won’t recoup their investment on Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s bonkers flop Frankenstein’s bride movie with this UHD/Blu-ray/DVD offering (careful: each sold separately), but its nice that they did release it, and with meaningful documentary extras. Buy The Bride!.
The Dark Backward (1991): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Since the DVD went out of print, even a bare-bones release of the corpse-licking dark comedy is a welcome development. Buy The Dark Backward.
The Demoniacs (1974): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s review. Is there any Jean Rollin left for Indicator to 4K up after this minor nautical horror? Buy The Demoniacs.
Fresh Kill (1994): A lesbian couple uncover a conspiracy involving toxic waste in a dystopian New York City. Never heard of this underground lesbian punk experiment before, but if the Criterion collection is going to bat for it, that means something. Buy Fresh Kill.
I Love Boosters (2026): Boots Riley‘s latest eat-the-rich manifesto finally arrives in theaters. IMDB users who hate boosters, but probably haven’t seen the movie, have been bombing it with anonymous 1-star reviews. I Love Boosters official site.
Matador Bolero (2026): The plot involves murder, cults, A.I., and an “elusive being living outside the realms of time and space,” and stars an experimental musician we’re unfamiliar with (Yves Tumor). So little information on this one, but the minimalist website (brought to us by something called “Surreal U.S.A.”) and the trailer pique our interest. Matador Bolero official site?
The Napa Boys (2025): A group called “The Napa Boys” go on a “wine-sloshed” comedy adventure in which they say the words “Napa Boys” a lot in this fourth installment of a long-running comedy series with no previous installments. In reviews, the words “inside joke” recur more frequently than other others, although one critic did use the acronym “WTF” and another calls it “bizarre.” Buy The Napa Boys.
Speed Racer (2008): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. This offering of the campy, flashy popcorn feature is UHD only (no Blu-ray) and steelbooked. Also available, if you hate steel, in non-steelbook format at (currently) the same price. Buy Speed Racer [4K Steelbook].
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366, but the gang will be back to discuss the week’s weird movie news and new releases. In written content, Michael Diamades pays respects to Fernando Arrabal‘s Car Cemetery (1983), Shane Wilson relates The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Enar Clarke profiles The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan (2025), and Gregory J. Smalley predicts whether you will love I Love Boosters (see above). Onward and weirdward!
Are you going to talk about Cannes? There’s quite a few movies that released this year that have strong weirdness potential. Also as someone who has seen Fresh Kill I can confirm it is extremely weird.
We have put off Cannes because of a large number of other movies in the past two weeks, but I hope next week will be lighter and we can do a festival wrap-up.