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No Man’s Woman
Shall we sing the praises of actress Marie Windsor? A self--assessed Queen of the Cheapies, she was anything but cheap, gracing some…
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In Cold Blood
More than one feature film looks at the making of this picture, focusing on its author, Truman Capote. Criterion's disc returns the discussion to…
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Terror At the Mall
Is this exploitation, or is it needed documentation of a modern horror that's become all too frequent? It's a Terrorist assault on…
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Pitfall
This is a GREAT film noir. A straying husband's 'innocent' dalliance wrecks lives and puts his marriage in jeopardy. Been there, done…
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Come Fly With Me
Dolores Hart, Pamela Tiffin and Lois Nettleton are flight attendants aiming to snag three attractive, wealthy husbands right out of the air…
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Phase IV
I have the full rundown on the notorious spacey alternate ending to this sci-fi winner by design specialist Saul Bass. The ants…
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The Fireman’s Ball
Milos Forman was the prince of the Prague Spring with this Czech New Wave classic, a hilarious black comedy about the cheerful…
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Mr. Holmes
This one's a keeper, a film that generates a meaningful emotional charge. Ian McKellen and director Bill Condon re-team for an intensely…
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Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing costar in a worthwhile horror attraction -- and for once even share some scenes. Amicus gives us…
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Broken Lance
Edward Dmytryk's big-scale cattle empire saga sees paterfamilias Spencer Tracy drive away his sons and bull his way into a modern civil…
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Passage to Marseille
Michael Curtiz's wartime tale of Devil's Island convict Humphrey Bogart fighting to get back and defend France has a still-controversial scene of…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
GUNNAR HANSEN 1947 – 2015
Gunnar Hansen was born in Reykjavik, Iceland on March 4, 1947, and he died this past weekend, on November 7, in his…
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Carl Franklin scored with this exciting adapation of Walter Mosley's first 'Easy' Rawlins detective tale, starring a terrific Denzel Washington as the…
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Croupier
A classy crime thriller, with edgy suspense and twists that can't be predicted. Mike Hodges directs Paul Mayersberg's script about a frustrated…
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Run of the Arrow
Sam Fuller's superior western classic stars Rod Steiger, Brian Keith, Charles Bronson and Sarita Montiel, and takes on a tall stack of…
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Living in Oblivion
Tom DiCillo's satire about the pitfalls of low budget filmmaking is less farce than it is a loving valentine to the difficult…
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Mulholland Dr.
Ambiguous Ave.? Bizarro Blvd.? David Lynch's major mystery movie is back looking better than ever in a 4K transfer. Criterion's presentation accompanies…
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Tenderness of the Wolves
The catalyst behind Ulli Lommel's perverse horror masterpiece might be writer-actor-art director Kurt Raab. He's almost too convincing as Fritz Haarmann, an…
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The Mask 3-D !
Don't Wait! Put on the mask, NOW! The legendary 1961 spook-show classic has been restored and adapted to a better 3-D…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
NEW IN THEATERS: SPOTLIGHT
The new movie Spotlight begins inside a South Boston police station in 1976, where a Catholic bishop is counseling a distraught mother…
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A Special Day (Una giornata particolare)
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in a serious drama about two outsiders in Mussolini's Rome of 1938, an ordinary housewife and…
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Rashomon
(Region B) Akira Kurosawa's unquestioned top rank classic remains a fascinating study of truth and justice. A forest encounter left a…
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Deep in My Heart
The gaudy MGM musical bio gets one last go-round, gathering an all-star cast to illustrate the songbook of composer Sigmund Romberg. Gene Kelly…
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Je t’aime, je t’aime
Yet another European art film director tries his hand at cerebral Sci-fi. Alain Resnais' openly experimental movie uses a generic time travel…
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Thieves’ Highway
It's just like the film industry, I tell ya! Director Jules Dassin teams with writer A.I. Bezzerides for one of filmdom's strongest slams at…
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Scream and Scream Again
Vincent Price's diabolical surgeon produces a new breed of supermen, except that his latest 'composite' creation is also a serial-killing vampire. While…