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FOR HALLOWEEN: ORPHAN
Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still…
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FOR HALLOWEEN: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
FOR HALLOWEEN: EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still…
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W.C. Fields Comedy Essentials Collection
He’s back and he’s funnier than ever. The mischievous, cagey entertainer William Claude Dukenfield starred in some of the best comedies ever.…
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My Darling Clementine + Frontier Marshal
We've already got a fine domestic disc with both versions of John Ford's fine Henry Fonda western. This Region B UK release…
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The High Cost of Loving
José Ferrer stars in his second dramatic feature as director, teamed with newcomer Gena Rowlands as a married working couple. Ferrer's executive…
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Jurassic World 3-D
Meet Indominus Rex, a designer dinosaur with the brain of Hannibal Lecter and a cloaking device like Predator! Steven Spielberg steps back…
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Cronenberg’s The Brood
David Cronenberg swaps his venereal ick-monsters for Samantha Eggar's mater furiosa, an annihilating female who commits her killings as would the villain of…
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Randall William Cook: As Never Seen Before, ‘New’ Vintage Stop-Motion on Blu-ray
In honor of Halloween, I once again have a special essay-article up, and this time I can name the contributor. Randall William Cook…
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Warners’ Special Effects Blu-ray Collection
I'll trade you two RKOs for two Warners', an even swap! This quartet of movie-magic wonderments offers a graduate course on old-school…
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Kwaidan
What makes a Ghost Story scary? This classic was almost too artistic for the Japanese. Masaki Kobayashi's four stories of terror work…
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Writer Jesse Andrews and director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon overturn the formula for the modern teen comedy: they lay on the quirky storytelling and…
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Spartacus — Restored Edition
Most of us love the Trumbo-Douglas-Kubrick thinking man's leftist gladiator epic, and after several iffy disc presentations this exacting digital restoration follows…
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
We still love John Ford's bitter-sentimental look back at the lost Myth of the West. John Wayne and James Stewart are at…
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Mad Men: The Final Season Part 2
The miniseries saga of Don, Betty, Roger, Joan, Peggy and Bert deserved a terrific finish, and at the end of seven plus…
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CineSavant’s Guide to the New Wave of Classic Hammer Blu-rays
Curious about all those Region B Hammer Blu-rays from overseas, the ones requiring a region-free player? As a public service, Savant has…
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THE MONSTER MAKER: AN ART TRIBUTE TO RICK BAKER
Trailers From Hell and Hero Complex Gallery present… THE MONSTER MAKER: An Art Tribute to Rick Baker We are proud and honored…
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Five Films by Patricio Guzmán
The masterful political documentaries of Chilean Guzmán, constitute a national epic for a beloved country traumatized for trying something new within a…
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Tomorrowland
Director Brad Bird and his co-writer Damon Lindelof take on a daring, ambitious science fiction project: chosen 'dreamers' are given glimpses of…
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The Sentinel
Michael Winner is the bad-taste choice to give The Exorcist a run for its money in the faux-religious horror shocker sweepstakes, and…
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A Room with a View
Ready for something actually relaxing? Perhaps the Merchant Ivory team's most gentle and pleasant film, this comedy of English manners at home…
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San Andreas 3-D
California's entire earthquake fault line goes haywire, with 9-point-plus shocks on the Jerry Lee Lewis Rigor Mortis scale! The geological wipeouts include…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
KILLER COUTURE: THE SUPPLEMENTARY PLEASURES OF CRITERION’S DRESSED TO KILL DISCS
July 25, 1980. That was the day Dressed to Kill opened in theaters across the country, and it marked the first of…
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Horror Classics: Four Chilling Movies from Hammer Films
Warners answers the call for Hammer horror with four nifty thrillers starring the great Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The transfers are immaculate -- Technicolor…
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Diary of a Lost Girl
G.W. Pabst's silent German classic is intact, restored and looking great. Louise Brooks is the virginal innocent betrayed on every level of the…
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Two O’Clock Courage
Ready for more Anthony Mann? This light comedy thriller / borderline noir leans on amnesia for a plot hook and to motivate…