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Yorgos Lanthimos doesn’t make easily digestible films. His films aren’t meant to be sweet little treats or light popcorn fare for a date night. The Greek arthouse director aims more for the mind than the stomach. Films like Alps and Dogtooth placed Yorgos Lanthimos on the radar of many for his sheer audacity to examine elements of the human experience in absurd and unusual ways. Whether he’s examining the mental effects of death and loss or social constructs surrounding family and education, Yorgos Lanthimos is an anthropologist with a passion for telling stories.

As you can expect, The Lobster continues his study of cultural norms. Even though it’s his English language debut and he’s now working with Hollywood actors, Lanthimos shows no signs of watering down his approach. Colin Farrell plays a recently single man named David. Accompanied by his brother, David enters The Hotel...

It should count as the highest sort of praise that I can’t believe Dogtooth came out in 2010. It feels like that movie just happened to me. It’s hopefully another tribute to its abilities that I’m compelled to describe the experience in some way that is a bit more grand than the trivial-sounding norm of “having watched it,” which feels wholly inadequate. That movie happens to you.

Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Dogtooth revolved around the lives and experiences of three teenagers who live the ultimate of sheltered existences with their, let’s face it, psychotic parents. The children have never left the grounds of their home, have been taught their own pseudo-language by way of misdefining actual words, and are beaten and/or bizarrely punished for the smallest of infractions. Things come to a head in the film as sex, and to a certain extent, the outside world, enter the game.

If you’ve hunted around for movie bargains, you’ve probably seen some of Mill Creek Entertainment’s 50-Movie Packs on DVD. Apart from other great releases by Mill Creek, these packs are phenomenal boons to cinephiles looking to collect older titles.

There are three new packs available, and I want to not only let you in on a discount code, but I have one of the packs available for you to win.

I know a lot of people may be quick to overlook these packs, and not every movie included stands out as a major value, but there are some great titles in each of them, and fans of the genres will be pleasantly surprised by what they get out of the deal. I have to admit that there is something about seeing a 50-movie pack, especially when it doesn’t cost a couple of hundred dollars, or more,...