The delightful British comedy The Smallest Show on Earth headlines a great Saturday matinee offering from the UCLA Film and Television Archive…
René Laloux's marvelous animated Sci-fi tale is still in a class of its own, mainly because its imaginative- creative level is so…
Hammer hits one out of the park with this 'ripping good' Sherlock Holmes tale, tilted heavily toward gothic mystery and horror. Peter…
A mad extortionist is blowing up rollercoaster rides. Put-upon George Segal must stop him because we all know that time, the tide…
It's the time-honored tale of the cuckolded lover, his heartless woman and 'the other guy,' told in terms that Émile Zola would…
The Nazis can't even keep the National Socialist propaganda out of a simple science fiction fable. Hans Albers is the Aryan King…
Ivan Tors and Curt Siodmak 'borrow' nine minutes of dynamite special effects from an obscure-because-suppressed German sci-fi picture, write a new script,…
In one of those strange confluences of life, death and documentary art, last week the world lost Muhammad Ali, humanitarian, devout Muslim…
“We used to go to the movies. Now we want the movies to come to us, on our televisions, tablets and phones,…
Dirty cops were a movie vogue in 1954, and Edmond O'Brien scores as a real dastard in this overachieving United Artists thriller.…
John Ford's best war movie does a flip-flop on the propaganda norm. It's about men that must hold the line in defeat…
Criterion's special edition of Stanley Kubrick's doomsday comedy is more powerful than ever in a 4K remaster; and it even comes with…
As Steven Tyler once said, "Dude looks like a lady..." And as he definitely didn't say, "Lady looks like a dude..." For…
Norway gets the old-fashioned disaster film genre up on its feet again with a well-made, scary story set in a Northern fjord,…
Sally Field bounces back in this story of mismatched love - or a romantic delusion... that is 3/4 charm and 1/4 wishful…
Here's a sterling example of what Hollywood excelled at back in the golden age: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains and Edward…
John Flynn‘s The Outfit (1974), a brutally efficient bit of business based glancingly on Richard Stark’s procedurally inquisitive and poetic crime novel of the…
Michelangelo Antonioni's pre-international breakthrough drama is as good as anything he's done, a flawlessly acted and directed story of complex relationships --…
John Ford puts a Technicolor sheen on Monument Valley in this second cavalry picture with John Wayne, who does some of his…
Antonia’s Line Blu-ray Film Movement 1995 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 103 min. / Antonia / Street Date April 19, 2016…
I guess Howard Hughes had a soft spot for Minnesota Nazis. William Cameron Menzies directs a Cold War thriller about an insidious…
Robert Mitchum all but snoozes through this promising war-espionage thriller that pits lazy Gestapo agents against clueless partisans in occupied Greece. It's…
That naughty boy Federico Fellini goes all out with this essay-hallucination about women, a surreal odyssey that hurls Marcello Mastroianni into a…
Robert Altman's murder tale reeks of insider access and Hollywood hipster BS; its main claim to greatness is its fifty-plus star cameos.…
If there is a reliable truism that can coexist alongside the American film industry’s dance of death with economically insane budgets that…