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The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates
Take a look at the roots of American campaign image consciousness, and the then-new techniques of cinéma vérité to bring a new…
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The Gallant Hours
Director Robert Montgomery's last feature is a war movie like no other, a study in leadership and command with no combat scenes.…
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Mad Scientists!
Some are merely flakey while others do everything but froth at the mouth. No matter, we love ’em all… they’re Mad Scientists!…
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DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK (1952)
The icon-establishing performances Marilyn Monroe gave in Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959)…
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The City of the Dead
This horror almost-classic has Christopher Lee and great atmosphere. Keep a sharp lookout for All Them Witches: they're not easy to spot...…
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Exodus
"This land is mine, God made this land for me." Those are just song lyrics, while Otto Preminger's politically daring 70mm mega-production…
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Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock assembles all the right elements for this respected mystery thriller. Joan Fontaine is concerned that her new hubby Cary Grant…
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Film Noir
Dim the lights and grab your gat, this week we’re talking Film Noir. [gravityform id=”67″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”] Don’t forget to…
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Blue Denim
Hollywood tackles the big issues! This adapted play about an unwanted teen pregnancy is actually quite good, thanks to fine performances by…
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Panic in Year Zero!
Hey, we're having a NUCLEAR family crisis, so load up your shotgun, grab the grenades and head for the hills, stealing what…
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The Stuff
Forget Caltiki and forget The Blob: 'The Stuff' doesn't eat you, you eat it! Larry Cohen takes a page from Professor Quatermass…
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Alexander the Great
Tired of stupid sword 'n' sandal costume pictures? Robert Rossen's all-star bio-epic of the charter founder of the Masons is a superior…
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Journey to the Seventh Planet
What horrors will we find on the planet Yoo-rah-nuss? A cyclopean dinosaur? Nasty spider monsters? A megalomaniac cerebellum that can turn our…
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“Manos” The Hands of Fate
Auteur Harold 'P.' Warren puts the Pee back in showmanship! After seeing this frightless Texan fright show you'll want to nominate Ed…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
SECRET MOVIES: THEODORE ROSZAK’S FLICKER
Seeing Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934) again recently, my appetite was whetted to re-read Theodore Roszak’s Flicker, which uses Ulmer’s…
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The Films of Steven Spielberg
A quick look at the long career of one of Hollywood’s most influential artists. [gravityform id=”66″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”] Don’t forget to…
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The Purple Plain
Fans of this show know it as the It's a Wonderful Life of war movies, an intensely moving tale that restores feeling…
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Brooklyn
The story of a brave, innocent immigrant gets a glorious re-telling. Never fear, for this emotional but unsentimental tale of an Irish…
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Anastasia
That scarlet woman Ingrid is back from exile, and hypocritical Hollywood is not complaining -- Anatole Litvak and Arthur Laurents make an…
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Susan Slept Here
All hail Frank Tashlin! America's subversive secret weapon of the 1950s made incredible adult live-action cartoon movies that satirized all the sex…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
KARLOFF ENTERS! THE BLACK CAT (1934)
By 1934 Boris Karloff was certainly no stranger to great movie entrances. In 1931, under the direction of James Whale, he seared…
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Dreams Rewired
Looking for a visionary and poetic film with something relevant to say about the ongoing personal tech revolution? Brilliant vintage film clips,…
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The Hateful Eight
Did Quentin Tarantino stumble this time out? His tale of western killers sharing a snowbound cabin builds almost zero suspense, and the…
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A Brighter Summer Day
Superb filmmaking! Edward Yang's chronicle of the children of Chinese exiles in Taiwan follows one teen's strange story of accidental delinquency, muted…
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Kill Me Again
Two guys, some guns, a suitcase full of cash and the open road: what could go wrong? Val Kilmer and Michael Madsen…
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Vessel
Dutch doctor Rebecca Gomberts built a reproductive clinic on a ship, sailed it to countries where abortion is outlawed -- Ireland, Poland,…