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Breaking In
Favorite director Bill Forsyth lends his knack for droll understatement to a screenplay by John Sayles, a crime tale that opts for…
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Dancing with Crime + The Green Cockatoo
Lovers of vintage English crime thrillers will have a lot to chew over with this pair of escapist gangster pix, one pre-war…
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The Mighty Peking Man
A monster ape-man smashes Hong Kong accompanied by his adopted daughter, a sexy blonde in a daringly abbreviated bikini. The lavishly produced…
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Red Angel
Yasuzo Masumura's searing outrage didn't abate in the 1960s; this unflinching view of the WW2 Japanese counterpart of a 'M.A.S.H.' unit cuts…
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The Brass Bottle
Possessed of a commanding baritone and an even more elegant delivery, Tony Randall was a natural for radio, cutting his teeth as…
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A Reflection of Fear
'Teach your children well' they say, but Sondra Locke's young girl in this show is the victim of parenting so bad it…
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Day the World Ended
Another key '50s sci-fi makes it to Blu-ray in an admirable encoding. Roger Corman's end-of-the-world survivalist struggle against radioactive mist and three-eyed…
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A Walk in the Sun
Lewis Milestone directed this poetic, optimistic ode to the American infantryman, a 'lone patrol' saga that emphasizes its soldiers' hopes and fears.…
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Maverick director Robert Aldrich's one foray into grand-scale epic filmmaking is returned to crystal clarity in this fine import disc, a restoration…
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The 7th Dawn
It's a Cold War thriller in the steamy tropics! The Reds are making their move in Malaya and four vibrant people are…
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The Great Escape 4K
I must have at least 7 home video releases of John Sturges' classic starting from VHS, but they've come up with a…
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Ladies They Talk About
You can't beat pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck, who glows as a knockout thieves' accomplice, tough prison convict and deceitful lover of an incorruptible…
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The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 1107 1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 107 min. / available through The Criterion…
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The Ultimate Invaders from Mars
Sorry, this is not for a new disc. From 23 years ago, this was the first article that convinced me that there…
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The Red Shoes 4K
The only sales pitch needed is "The Red Shoes has been encoded in 4K." Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's 1947 masterpiece conquered…
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The Abbott and Costello Show Season 1
ClassicFlix comes forward with an entire 26 original episodes of the comic duo's 1952 TV show, all fully remastered by the 3-D…
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The Mystery of Picasso
Attending a performance in the artist’s studio is one thing—to be there at the precise moment that inspiration strikes is quite another.Peter…
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The Wolf of Wall Street 4K
The Mean Street for this Martin Scorsese picture is Wall Street. His show pushes the hard- R rating to depict the wild…
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The Long Goodbye
Is this show a hatchet job on Raymond Chandler's confidential agent, or do Robert Altman and Leigh Brackett honestly find a place…
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Reds
Warren Beatty's show is a beautiful, one of a kind epic. Never mind that it is sharply critical of John Reed, an…
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Homebodies
This remarkable black comedy is often listed as a horror film yet it has more nervous laughs than shivers. It's a solid…
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Mill of the Stone Women
That's how things ought to work -- give this reviewer EXACTLY the great disc he wants to see and wait for the…
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Ivanhoe
Chivalry! Vows of loyalty and honor! Combat action that will impress today's Marvel fans! The violet eyes and super-damsel figure of Elizabeth…
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All or Nothing
U.K. director Mike Leigh directs films in a wide range of moods but his working-class dramas are what made his name. All…
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Mulholland Dr. 4K
This one delivers the 4K 'experience' -- and David Lynch's mesmerizing visuals and Angelo Badalamenti's seductive music once again pull us into…
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Unearthly Stranger
CineSavant reaches back to a U.K. disc released in 2014, because the subject is (what else) a semi-obscure science fiction effort. Favorite…