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Hell is for Heroes
A gritty combat drama with Steve McQueen, James Coburn and Harry Guardino? Why wasn't this on Blu ten years ago? Don Siegel…
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The Seventh Seal 4K
This Ingmar Bergman masterpiece still works, and its profundity is only part of the bargain. Max von Sydow is the returning knight…
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The Assassin of the Tsar
Get set for another intriguing Russian import from Deaf Crocodile Films. Karen Shakhnazarov's tale interweaves history with our essential human identity: if…
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Star Trek The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection 4K
The four The Next Generation feature films under the Rick Berman flag maintain the character fun of the TV series while working…
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Counsellor at Law
William Wyler's breakthrough movie gives John Barrymore one of his better sound-era dramatic roles, in a strong, incisive pre-Code adapted from Elmer…
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Asphalt
One of the last of the classic Weimar silents, Joe May's melodrama is only partly expressionist; Günther Rittau's terrific camerawork tells a…
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Martin Roumagnac
Something of a missing link in the filmography of Marlene Dietrich, this immediate postwar French production pairs her with one of her…
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Resurrection
Daniel Petrie and Ellen Burstyn's excellent film elevates a genre we normally disdain -- the Ethereal Cereal do-you-believe Spiritual Awakening picture. Call…
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No Man Is an Island
Here's a hard-to-see WW2 real-life drama that holds up rather well. Jeffrey Hunter plays radioman George Tweed, the lone U.S. sailor holdout…
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Chilly Scenes of Winter
We never miss an opportunity to see John Heard perform. A 'difficult' movie that nonetheless made its mark, Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation…
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State of the Union
Frank Capra's big push to reestablish his exalted pre-war reputation saw him applying 'Capracorn' to a Pulitzer-winning Broadway comedy-drama about modern politics.…
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The Prince and the Showgirl
What a difference a digital remaster makes! Marilyn Monroe's self-produced English comedy leaps back to life with a new restoration of Jack…
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Dragonslayer 4K
Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins put everything they had into a medieval sword 'n' sorcery epic, filmed in England and finished in…
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Party Girl ’95
Here's the eager New York independent production that snagged Parker Posey for her first starring role -- as a Manhattan party animal…
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Black Sunday ’77
John Frankenheimer's big-scale terrorism conspiracy tale benefits from the director's no-nonsense attitude to action. Thomas Harris' first novel spins on a 'high…
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Babylon 4K
Is it a train wreck or an unrecognized masterpiece? Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt topline this enormous, enormously profane epic of silent-era…
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Mildred Pierce 4K
'Washed up' at MGM, Joan Crawford bounced back with one of the smartest, best-judged career rethinks in Hollywood history. As James M.…
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The Long Wait 4K
This Mickey Spillane noir tale has its good points: star Anthony Quinn gives a solid 'tough guy' performance, sizing up a quartet…
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Something to Live For
Hollywood's postwar shift to social consciousness addressed familiar issues like bigotry and discrimination. On his way to making his gargantuan, serious epics,…
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Mississippi Mermaid
François Truffaut is back with another Hitchcock-influenced adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich murder thriller, with stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo as…
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Third Man on the Mountain
CineSavant Revival Screening Review From Newbery Medal to amusement park thrill ride, James Ramsey Ullman’s Banner in the Sky climbed the ladder…
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Death of a Gunfighter
Richard Widmark reportedly used his clout to amp up this revisionist western, but the result seems forced at best, and hampered by…
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Obsessed
This very traditional chamber murder mystery starring David Farrar and Geraldine Fitzgerald has been beautifully restored by Studiocanal and bears the original…
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The Lady Is My Wife
Wow, a 'new' Sam Peckinpah western! While we await the rumored Blu-ray of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid to surface (or…
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Thrillers from the Vault – 8 Classic Films – Part Two
This is part two of a review for Mill Creek Entertainment’s Thrillers from the Vault, 8 Classics Films. Part one can be…
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Thrillers from the Vault – 8 Classic Films
In 1934 Boris Karloff was an unhappy actor, he was one of Universal’s most illustrious stars, yet good parts were scarce, and intelligent…