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Ray Austin's 1972 British horror exploitation film Virgin Witch gets a Blu-ray release today from Redemption. The story follows two sisters who head to a country manor for a fashion photo shoot and end up recruited by a coven of witches — led by a lascivious lesbian and a pervy doctor. The film's home entertainment release inspired us to look back on several of horror cinema's sexiest witches that hail from the same era. The '60s and '70s occult craze created a coven of memorably seductive sorceresses, which you can become acquainted with past the break. Leave us your picks below. Daughters of Satan Tom Selleck's pants are so tight his head might explode and Barra Grant can't act her...

Yonkers - Ernie Kovacs is the patron saint of innovative TV comedies. His impact can be felt on everything from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In to Monty Python’s Flying Circus to Saturday Night Live. Shout! Factory’s The Ernie Kovacs Collection gives a survey of his short yet stellar career that ended in 1962 with his death. Over the course of six DVDs, you realize this guy truly revolutionized what you could do on TV.

The boxset doesn’t have any of the episodes from his original Three to Get Ready show that aired on Philly TV. But we get a healthy helping of his other shows that allowed him to bounce between NBC, CBS, ABC and even the legendary DuMont. Along with creating comedy shows, he hosted talkshows, gameshows and even variety shows. He even contributed to Mad Magazine. His famous mustache and cigar popped up all over the dial.

The sudden departure of a wife trying to find herself, leaving her mid-life crisis suffering husband and lovesick son to fend for themselves, starts off Love Hurts, an often painfully forced comedy attempting to explore the concept of different generations finding new perspectives on love. This is one of those films truly doomed by its writing and direction, as the actors deliver performances far above what the script deserved. As for director Barra Grant, she takes the film from point A to B without ever trying anything clever or innovative which would have gone a long way toward spicing up the proceedings and making it a bit more bearable.

It would seem Ben Bingham (Richard E. Grant) turned a blind eye to the degradation of his own marriage, so when his wife Amanda (Carrie-Anne Moss) announces one morning during a routine breakfast that she’s leaving him to take some time alone,...

The 3rd annual Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (Pow!) has announced their full festival lineup, which includes 44 films from all over the world. The fest will run March 18-21 at the Hollywood Theatre.

Maybe this year, the Pow! fest will have something extra to celebrate if Kathryn Bigelow wins the Best Directing Academy Award on March 7th. Bigelow is the odds on favorite to take home the Oscar statuette this year for directing The Hurt Locker and, if she does, she’d be the first woman ever to do so. Actually, only four women have ever even been nominated: Bigelow, Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola.

The lineup below proves that women are a powerful force sitting in the director’s chair and Pow! has assembled an impressive lineup of animated films, shorts, features, documentaries, experimental films and more:

March 18

7:00 p.m.: “Local Shorts”

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Richard Curtis sets out to the high seas to rock our world, Roland Emmerich just obliterates it and Wes Anderson reenvisions it in stop-motion animation, while as a group of documentaries ponder real world issues of war, God, poverty and Glenn Gould.

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On behalf of moviegoers everywhere, we here at IFC would like to thank that schoolyard bully who must have so traumatized a young Roland Emmerich that he has spent his recent career ritualistically laying waste to our world one famous landmark at a time. Having previous employed such excuses for mass destruction as alien invasions and global warming, this time cinema's most destructive director turns to an ancient Mayan prophecy that foretells the end of all mankind, and once again batters humanity -- specifically John Cusack and assorted stragglers -- like the...

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced initial casting for Christopher Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them and Craig Lucas's The Singing Forest. Nicholas Martin will direct Why Torture Is Wrong... with a cast of seven that includes Amir Arison, David Aaron Baker, Kristine Nielsen and John Pankow. Mark Wing-Davey will direct a cast of nine that includes Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis in The Singing Forest. The cast for Why Torture Is Wrong..., which runs March 24 to April 26, will include Amir Arison (Queens Boulevard at Signature), David Aaron Baker (Dead Man's Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons), Kristine Nielsen (Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons), and John Pankow (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at The New Group). Early casting for The Singing Forest, running April 7 to May 17, will feature Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award winner for Moonstruck) as Loe Reiman.

Clifton Collins Jr. has joined Eion Bailey and Ellen Pompeo in the indie dramedy Glory Days for first-time feature director Barra Grant. The film, which started lensing Monday in Los Angeles, centers on an engaging alcoholic (Bailey) who finds himself spending a weekend with his estranged wife (Pompeo) and his best friend (Collins) as they attempt an intervention. Rosalind Chao, Larry Miller, Pamela Reed, Kristin Bauer, Gabe Olds, John Ross Bowie, John Ales and David Clennon round out the cast. Brian Reilly is producing along with Mark Gordon from a script by Grant, who also wrote the comedy Cheer Up, which is currently lensing with Stephen Herek at the helm for Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures. Grant first sold the project five years ago to Warner Bros. Pictures with Robert Zemeckis attached to direct. Collins is repped by CAA, the newly launched management firm Fenton Kritzer Entertainment and attorney David Krintzman. He recently finished up the indie The Hillside Strangler for director Chris Fisher.

Variety reports that Eion Bailey is set to star in the dark comedy Glory Days, from writer-director Barra Grant. Centering around a group of friends who stage an intervention, only to find themselves left to their own devices when the requisite psychiatrist fails to show, the low-budget ($5 million) comedy will start shooting in Los Angeles in November. Brian Reilly and Mark Gordon are set to produce.