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Aliens 30th Anniversary Edition

James Cameron's superb spacemen vs. monsters siege battle epic is back in a reissue with an extra collector goodie or two, still…

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Dr. Mabuse The Gambler

He's back and more diabolically ruthless than ever! Berlin cowers under the influence of a gambler-mastermind, the secret architect of an 'Empire…

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

"Death will take you as you sleep! A sleep as deep as Death!" Barbara Steele doesn't realize that her husband is using…

Comanche Station (Einer Gibt Nicht Auf)

A FINE PAIR AND THE LIMITS OF CLAUDIA LOVE

This fall semester I started taking an Italian language class two evenings a week with my daughter, and Thursday night I was…

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

Glurg garrgle gurgle raaaaw!  It's the razor-clawed reptile-man that scared the bejesus out of little kids, way back when. Jack Kevan's basic…

Night Train to Munich

Modern spy movies have nothing on this Brit thriller produced just as war broke out -- Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood and Paul…

Once Were Warriors

Hammer Films Double Features

A Frankenstein, a Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and a mythological dame from Hell: three out of four of these classic titles appear in…

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Clint Eastwood's mint juleps 'n' murder epic is an easygoing pleasure. Kevin Spacey, John Cusack and a host of great performances guarantee…

The Glory Guys

Do you like my choice of leading image?  'We're the Glory Guys! EEE-Yow!' What is surely the most generic cavalry western of all time…

A Few Words About Gene Wilder and Jon Polito

GENE WILDER 1933 -2016 In all likelihood, the events of this past week probably didn’t offer any more or less sadness and…

Deadline – U.S.A.

Richard Brooks' exciting Humphrey Bogart picture is one of the best newspaper sagas ever. An editor deals with a gangster threat and…

Cat People

This kitty needs no introduction: Simone Simon is the purring-sweet immigrant with a dark atavistic secret. It's Val Lewton's debut smash hit.…

Hardcore

The conflicted Paul Schrader works out some hellacious personal issues, in a feverish tale of a Michigan Calvinist searching for his daughter…

Fixed Bayonets!

Samuel Fuller's first picture under his Fox contract is a fine Korean War 'suicide squad' tale, filmed on a sound stage but…

Tony Rome / Lady in Cement

It's ring-a-ding time, with producer-star Frank Sinatra and his cooperative director Gordon Douglas doing a variation on the hipster detective saga. The…

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

At the bitter end of a ten-year slide into ever-cheaper productions, The Cannon Group sends stars David Bradley (a nice guy), Steve…

Chimes at Midnight

Fans that lament Orson Welles' many career frustrations will flip over this Spanish-filmed masterpiece. Not well distributed when new and MIA for…

Tab Hunter Confidential

What's the right thing to say about a closeted movie career in an industry that feeds on gossip? There's plenty to say,…

The Pride and the Passion

Surround three international stars with several thousand extras in Franco's Spain and you've got yourself an instant historical adventure epic. Unfunny Cary…

The Ox-Bow Incident

Leave it to director William Wellman to direct the most compelling social justice movie of the 1940s. Taken from a bestselling novel,…

Wild in the Streets

Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones and Diane Varsi star in American-International's most successful 'youth rebellion' epic -- a political sci-fi satire about a…

The Immortal Story

Orson Welles' French TV show with Jeanne Moreau is a near-masterpiece, directed with assurance and style. It's the filmmaker's first color feature,…

THE FOVC GUIDE TO THE DRIVE-IN MOVIE PART 3: DRIVE-IN MOVIE MOVIES

11 DRIVE-IN MOVIE MOVIES (in alphabetical order): Blue Thunder (1983) One key sequence in this thriller about a high-tech urban surveillance helicopter…