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Following up on its 2022 collection House of Psychotic Women, Severin Films has released a second compendium of films centered around angst-ridden women going about their often-unhinged business. This time out we get a female serial killer who finds true love amid the carnage, a twin who plots her sister’s poisoning, and two very desperate housewives. The box set comes with a plethora of informative interviews, authoritative commentary tracks, and thematically relevant short films. What’s more, each title has been given an impressively detailed 2K or 4K restoration.

Brutal and uncompromising, 1994’s Butterfly Kiss, directed by Michael Winterbottom and written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, is an unconventional road movie that follows Eunice (Amanda Plummer) on her blood-spattered quest across Northern England to locate a woman named Judith. Unlike most road movies, a lot of Butterfly Kiss takes place in desolate roadside margins and nondescript petrol stations like the one...

Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Helen Mirren, Harvey Keitel, Milos Forman, Danny DeVito, Casey Affleck, Andy Garcia, John Malkovich — what reads like a who’s who of Hollywood star power is also part of the list of big names who have starred in trailers for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, whose 58th edition unspools June 28-July 6.

Typically, the shorts, often in black-and-white, debut during the opening ceremony of the film fest in the picturesque Czech spa town and are offbeat, eccentric, and full of attitude. They feature a previous Karlovy Vary honoree and what they did with their award.

“The idea of shooting festival trailers featuring distinctive representatives of world cinema was born 16 years ago,” Kviff highlighted recently in unveiling the stars who will get special awards this year, namely Viggo Mortensen, Daniel Brühl, and Clive Owen. Added Kviff executive director Kryštof Mucha: “It’s...