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New arc for Osamu Tezukas Barbara manga launched on May 10

James Balmont provides a guide to one of the country’s greatest contemporary cult filmmakers

Unstreamable is a column that finds films and TV shows you can't watch on major streaming services in the United States.* Housekeeping: Maybe you noticed, but this column has run less frequently this month. It's because we've been on vacation! Our next column will drop in two weeks, and then we'll be back to regular programming. Enjoy the last whiffs of summer while you can! ***STRAW DOGSUS | UK , 1971, 113 min, Dir. Sam...

Barbara manga. Digital Manga describes the series story: Barbara opens with famous author Yosuke Mikura wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, where he makes a strange discovery: a drunk woman, her rags caked in mud, who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikuras shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Bar bara is no benevolent ...

Released in Japan that year, The Legend Of The Stardust Brothers is a terrific musical comedy, with horror and sci-fi trappings, that premiered to not-so-terrific critical notices and box office, seeing virtually no release outside of East Asia. In the 30-plus years since, the film has developed a cult following, to the extent that its writer-director was able to make a semi-sequel, The Brand New Legend Of The Stardust Brothers, in 2016. Thanks to the efforts of distributor Third Window Films...

A great film about phone sex. Courtesy Rosebud Films The Telephone Book is smut of the highest order. Every frame is perverted, twisted fun. I felt giddy the entire time watching it, like I was flipping through a Playboy for the first time. Though theres no full penetration, Telephone Book is, without a doubt, a pretty porny (or "porn chic" as producer Merv Bloch says) affair. The film is centered around Alice (Sarah Kennedy), a perpetually horny woman who receives Thee Most Obscene And Hott...