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The Straight Story
Alvin Straight is not the twisted David Lynch character audiences expected... he's a well-adjusted old Iowan with the same kinds of regrets…
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Mona Lisa
Bucking the trends for '80s crime films, Neil Jordan's tale of a low-rung hood attached to a 'complicated' call girl becomes a…
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The Herculoids: The Complete Original Series
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera produced 114 Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM between 1940 and 1956—and then they were fired. The…
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Prince of the City
Sidney Lumet's harrowing film is a true-life account of a NY narcotics detective- turned government informant; its length and intensity can be…
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Columbia Noir #4
Powerhouse Indicator moves forward to their fourth fancy box of noirs from the studio of Harry Cohn, six pictures stretching from the…
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Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman (Part 1)
Yes, sometimes a producer could earn 'auteur' status making B pictures. A name that's never going to be uttered in the same…
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The Heroes of Telemark
Any WW2 action adventure involving the Norwegian resistance is OK in my book, and this big-star saga about sabotage efforts to stop…
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The Little Rascals Volume 2
Religion may be the opiate of the masses but nostalgia runs it a close second. And there’s no narcotic more soothing or…
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The Grifters
Every once in a while a movie makes me think, 'this one's too good to review, just tell them to see it…
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Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri Eccellenti)
It's yet another masterpiece from the Italian director Francesco Rosi, adapting a fiction novel about a political murder conspiracy that is altogether…
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A Life at Stake
It's low-rent Noir A Go-Go: Angela Lansbury is a double-crossing femme fatale in this independent cheapie with modest charms. You can't trust…
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Dune 4K
Ignored, maligned and hammered out into an 'Alan Smithee' extended cut for TV, David Lynch's outstanding Sci-fi epic arrives on 4K Ultra…
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Peter Ibbetson
Surreal delirium in cinema! Gary Cooper and Ann Harding are a tragic romantic pair, but even when separated by space, time and…
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Hammer Horror: Four Gothic Horror Films
In December of 1959, Hammer Studios released a bit of Yuletide cheer called The Stranglers from Bombay, a censor-baiting melodrama highlighted by…
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Corruption
Foreseeing a relaxation of censorship on the horizon, England's Titan Films filmed this mad surgery opus with far more gore and cruelty…
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Union Pacific
Cecil B. DeMille delivers a satisfying western epic starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy & Akim Tamiroff; the story…
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Rancho Deluxe
Another unexpected comic treasure from the mid '70s! Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston make an irresistible pair of would-be outlaws in a…
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The Blind Beast (Moju)
Yasuzo Masumura takes horror into kinky territory in an Edogawa Ranpo shocker about obsession, namely, mixing sex and death. Michio is the…
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Silver Screams Cinema
It's a collection of 6 -- count 'em Six -- horror and sci-fi curiosities from the '40s and '50s, aimed straight at…
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Encounter of the Spooky Kind
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of Sammo Hung's groundbreaking Hong Kong hit wherein comedy, horror and martial arts elements…
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The Daimajin Trilogy
Japanese monsters seem to bring out the best in home video companies—Arrow Films’ The Daimajin Trilogy is the most beautifully wrought Blu…
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Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzej Wajda's most celebrated film in the West is a serious thriller about doubt and corruption in a Poland 'liberated' by the…
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The Last Man on Earth
The Last Man on Earth is the very definition of a one-man show—Vincent Price stars as a lonesome medico who isn’t lacking…
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F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer
"Es ist eine schwimmende Plattform!" Here's something for committed Sci-fi followers, a lavish German production with big drama, big emotions, and impressive,…
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The Raven/The Comedy of Terrors
Roger Corman helped Vincent Price create his reputation as a horror movie star and in 1962 he helped him to dismantle it—already…
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Counterblast
A review for a movie not on video disc. CineSavant bears down hard on a now-obscure UK thriller that proves a crossroads…