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Turkey Shoot
Brian Trenchard-Smith's outrageous futuristic gore-fest imagines an Australian extermination camp run by the sadistic Michael Craig and Roger Ward, where jaded rich…
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Fat City
John Huston sets the bar for director-driven quality filmmaking of the early 1970s. Stacy Keach is a punchy boxing bum who teams…
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Deutschland 83
How did this sneak by? It's a combo escapist spy story, engrossing soap opera, and historically accurate Cold War flashback to the…
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Eaten Alive
Shaggy maniac Neville Brand was born on the bayou. He lives by his high morals and so just can't resist feeding random visitors…
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‘Breaker’ Morant
Bruce Beresford says that by 1980 most Australians had forgotten that their countrymen had fought in the Boer War, and this scathing…
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The Black Stallion
It was a winner right out of the starting gate, an instant classic that's still a pleasure for the eyes and ears.…
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The Reivers
Steve McQueen spent most of the 1960s avoiding lightweight movie roles -- only to do well with his winning comedy-drama performance in William…
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The Wonderful Country
Let's hear it for the great westerns -- not the Ford and Hawks classics, but the fascinating marginal gems that see The…
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Kings of the Sun
Who needs epics about Ancient Rome, Egypt, or Greek mythology when we have a thousand years of exotic Central and South American civilizations…
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The Bear
Animal movies aren't just for kids anymore, but nobody made one better than this French production, which stars a pair of talented…
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The Little House (Chiisai ouchi)
Forget English soap operas about upstairs and downstairs upheavals, Yoji Yamada's chronicle of a life in the little Tokyo house with the…
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Alraune (1952)
There's one ironclad rule for mad scientist movies: if you show a monstrous caged ape-creature in the first act, that ape-creature must absolutely break loose…
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The Robin Hood of El Dorado
Viewers expecting to see a lighthearted 'Cisco Kid' swashbuckler got a surprise with William Wellman's movie: it's a tragedy about a genuine…
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Daniel
How does one make a movie about a hot-button political topic that's divided the nation for sixty years? And if the facts of…
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Murder, My Sweet
As far as Hollywood was concerned, hardboiled pulp author Raymond Chandler was big news in 1944 and 1945, working with Billy Wilder on…
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I, Madman
We've all wished we could change our appearance to attract some desired object of our affections. Demented Malcolm Brand takes the notion…
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Innerspace
In the 1980s, bored film critics sometimes claimed to see homoerotic themes in any 'buddy picture' about guys being friends with guys.…
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War-Gods of the Deep
In the history of soggy underwater adventures, none have been been soggier than this A.I.P. Panavision curiosity from England. Four out of five…
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Mad Max Fury Road
We want to take a moment and welcome the DVD Savant himself, Glenn Erickson, to our guest blog. Glenn's critical and technical…