MVD dominates @PopMatters' Best of 2025 list with 30 distributed releases from @DeafCrocodile, @FunCityEdition, @CultEpics, @FilmsRadiance, @EurekaVideo, @ArrowFilmsVideo, & MVD Collector's Brands. An incredible showing across the year’s top 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, & DVD releases!

Brian Gibson’s BREAKING GLASS (1980) starring Hazel O’Connor and Phil Daniels makes the cut! Thank you, @PopMatters. 🙏

As we nestle into our hibernation pods for the holidays this week, we got an early gift from @PopMatters who listed an astonishing -SIX- of our titles on their Best DVDs of 2025 list! We are absolutely gobsmacked and honored to not only be listed here, but simply to be among some of our most inspiring peers like @FunCityEdition, @SeverinFilms, @CultEpics, @EurekaVideo, @FlickerAlley, @KinoLorber, and more! Our releases listed: ALRAUNE THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE THE ASSASSIN OF THE TSAR THE DEVIL'S BRIDE IN THE MOSCOW SLUMS THE OUTCASTS THE PIED PIPER Jiří Barta Shorts Deluxe Edition Check out the full list: popmatters.com/best-dvds-202… All of these releases and more are available on our website: deafcrocodile.com/collection… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DeafCrocodile #Animation #StopMotion #JiriBarta

First Love’s Slow Seduction Spare, yet strangely ornate, Swiss film First Love sings of a decadence that evokes the richly embroidered tales of Russian literature. - @MatutinalLife READ: tinyurl.com/FrstLvMxmlln

JoBoxers Pull No Punches in This Retrospective Interview British new wave/ progressive soul band JoBoxers talk with PopMatters about cracking whips at lions and tigers and pulling no punches with their new box set of lost albums from Cherry Red Records. – @MatutinalLife READ: tinyurl.com/JoBoxers

Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, and Elizabeth McGovern's Coming of Age Drama Racing with the Moon Is Artful and Immersive If cinema is more than the sum of its parts, then Racing with the Moon is an immersive experience that pairs its talented performers with an artful and expert backdropping. – @MatutinalLife READ: tinyurl.com/RacingMoon

Girl With a Suitcase Charms With Its Magnetic Performances Despite what appears to be a probing examination of the socioeconomics of the European class system, Girl With a Suitcase's pleasures are simple. – @MatutinalLife READ: tinyurl.com/59cpw7du

Allain Robbet-Gillet’s Playing With Fire Will Burn the Uninitiated ➡️ tinyurl.com/BurnUninitiated Playing With Fire marks a curious effort when considered in the scope of cancel culture today, yet it compels nonetheless. – @MatutinalLife

John Robb's The Art of Darkness Unburies Goth Music's Beginnings ➡️ tinyurl.com/5ypm79jt John Robb's massive The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth [@ManchesterUP] unburies an estimable wealth of knowledge of goth music and can sit comfortably beside the works of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage. – @MatutinalLife

Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie Explores Social Class Struggles with Chilling Exactitude ➡️ tinyurl.com/LaCeremonie Filmed under a cool glass of calm and enwrapped in an airy atmosphere, La Cérémonie [@Criterion] makes judicious use of its setting to starkly contrast its warring classes. – @MatutinalLife #pmpick