Apartment Wife: Affair In The Afternoon is a mix of marital drama and Roman Porno. The early 1970s Japanese picture is a nicely pacey affair- with twisting ‘n’ turning plotting, double-crossings, and candy-coloured lit softcore embraces. Here from 88 Films is a Blu-Ray release of the film- taking in a new bright and buoyant scan, a commentary track, and a few other things.

Mother Mortis is a 2023 low-budget English horror film that attempts to weave together several horror sub-genres- in a decidedly haphazard, not always successful manner. It opens up being focused on a cross-dressing/ marigold glove-wearing serial killer hiding out in an abandoned building. Then, switches to woodland-based slasher meets dark witch horror, before throwing in low-key body horror/ satanic monster elements. Here from SRS Cinema is a region-free DVD- taking in director commentary and a few other things.

Quadrant is a recent horror/ Sci-fi fantasy film from the long-running and prolific B-movie director Charles Band. It concerns Quadrant, a VR helmet that transports users' minds into nightmarish AI worlds, to try and cure their mental health issues. Unfortunately, a Jack The Ripper obsessive dons the helmet, and blood starts to run both in the VR and real world. The film was entertaining enough- taking in neat noir-like to vivid nightmare footage, with some softcore female nudity & spurting red gore. Here from Full Moon Pictures is a release of the film- coming as either a DVD, Blu-Ray, or VHS- I’m reviewing the first of these.

Cinq Portes Soudées is the next in the series of Etant Donnes reissues from the folks over at Klanggalerie. It was the French project's fifth release( well half of it) appearing in the year 1984- taking in two around half-an-hour tracks based largely around elements of cut-up angular/ugly experimental rock, with darts into shit folk, dada-focused noise-making, and general rough/ ready ‘n’ odd soundscaping. This CD release features a shorter bonus track from around the same time- bringing the album's runtime up to fifty-seven minutes.

Lumières is a collaborative album between two Hamburg-based sound artists Asmus Tietchens and Alice Freshmouth(aka Tom Fleischhauer). The pair have been friends for the last forty years, and this album finds them offering up a selection of atmospheric soundscapes- which fall between ambience, grey post-industrial moodiness, and bleak/light-churning field recordings.

Correlations is a glossy, colourful, if at points visually distributing coffee-table art book looking at the career of The Rita( aka Sam Mckinlay)  legendary/ influential Canadian wall noise/ harsh noise project. The two-hundred-page tome brings together images of the project's influences, release cover artwork, art performances connected to the project, as well several write-ups regarding The Rita.