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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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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…
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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…
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The Invisible Monster
Welcome to the weird, irresistible world of Republic Serials, an art form with rules of content and conduct that resemble no other…
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Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970
Get your beret and warm up the espresso! Some of the most famous deep-dish art film is here — in HD — from…
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Arts in Exile: Nine East German Shorts on Artists Forced to Flee the Nazis
Take a trip into political art history: the state-run East German film company DEFA uses the experiences of Communist artists to promote…
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The Oblong Box
Scream favorites Vincent Price and Christopher Lee become tangled in an African curse, grave robbing, a premature burial and a clutch of…
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The Phantom of the Opera
The latest release of Lon Chaney's most famous silent classic is a Blu-ray, which allows us to marvel at at the actor's…
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Emperor of the North
What would seem the perfect project for tough-guy director Robert Aldrich still commands a high reputation with some. Ambitious top-dog hobo Lee…
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The Honeymoon Killers
The advertising promised a surfeit of sleaze -- but the film is a superior thriller about a real-life, low-rent serial killers from…
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The Satan Bug
Techno-thriller fans have been waiting a long time for a good disc of action ace John Sturges' sci-fi espionage suspenser. George Maharis,…
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The Old Gun
Robert Enrico's literally searing terror tale from the French occupation is not for the faint of heart. Fearing reprisals, surgeon Philippe Noiret…
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Man with the Gun
First-time director Richard Wilson's B&W '50s western is different. Robert Mitchum is on-task as a town tamer with believable problems, both in…