New to WATCH NOW is a slew of required viewing that you should really check out, say… on your laptop with your sweetie on a love seat. That is, if he/she rolls with ‘60s Euro fare or Eastern cinema of the extreme kind.

The Machine Girl:
Vengeful Japanese schoolgirl loses half an arm, only to be replaced by a behemoth Gatling-looking gun. It’s a stylized, hyper-violent collage of exploding body parts, and it’s a gas.

La Chinoise:
Recent reissue by the French New Wave master, Jean-Luc Godard. (No, not the Star Trek captain.) If you aren’t familiar with his work, get ready for something completely, completely different. Fashionable late-sixties hipsters loaf about a mod-colored apartment and ramble on about Communism. There’s also a super catchy song titled, “Mao, Mao.”

Five Deadly Venoms:
Seminal HK Actioner featuring five dudes with mad fighting skills, each representing the prowess of a particular animal: centipede, snake, scorpion, lizard and toad. I used to watch this one on TV with my older brothers growing up back in the day. The four of us could almost rock the entire Poison Clan. Dad, however, would have none of it.

Repulsion:
Roman Polanski’s classic black-and-white art/horror film stars a young (and easy-on-the-eyes) Catherine Deneuve. The first entry in his so-called apartment trilogy (Rosemary’s Baby, The Tenant being the others), it’s strangely rewarding to see a wide-eyed blonde descend into quiet, tripped-out madness. Time to get a big ole house in the country, eh?

Enjoy.

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