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Merrily We Go to Hell
Marriage, social pressure, professional disappointment -- and if you want to be really unhappy, add alcohol to that mix. Fredric March and…
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Larceny
It happens every time: we want to cruelly betray somebody, but LOVE keeps getting in the way. When evil Dan Duryea sics…
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The Face Behind the Mask
Is this a horror classic? I'd certainly say yes, just for the shrewd and sympathetic performance of Peter Lorre as an unlucky…
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly 4K
It's still one of the most popular movies ever, and fans are proving that by shelling out for an umpteenth home video…
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HAMMER VOLUME SIX: NIGHT SHADOWS
Once an upstart and now a company to contend with, Britain's Indicator continues their series of Hammer Studio releases with Hammer Volume…
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The President’s Analyst
Here's a GREAT picture whose time has come -- Theodore J. Flicker's spy spoof is one of the smartest, funniest political satires…
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Explorers
One of Joe Dante's finest pictures speaks heart-to-heart to gee-whiz space fans -- transporting us from our backyard to the far reaches…
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Scarface (1932)
Still the fiercest and most cinematic of the first wave of gangster classics, Howards Hughes and Hawks's pre-Code rule-breaker was the one…
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The Yearling
Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s 1938 novel, The Yearling revels in the solitary adventures of Jody Baxter, a boy whose untamed nature…
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To New Shores & La Habanera
Douglas Sirk proves his mettle as a consummate romantic storyteller in these part-musical melodramas from the peak of his career in Germany.…
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
"Learn it. Know it. Live it!" The best-remembered teen comedy of the '80s is also an insightful and unabashed look at real…
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Hellfighters
"Two smoldering women made all the danger worthwhile!"... heck, we didn't even see 'em catch fire. John Wayne is charismatic and Andrew…
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Blood of the Vampire
The man with eyebrows that can kill! Not really, but that's the impression given by the poster illustration. The Baker/Berman producing team…
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Giants and Toys
Brilliant filmmaking from Japan: Yasuzô Masumura's film all but screams in protest, that unfettered consumer capitalism is cannibalism, plain and simple. In…
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The Woman One Longs For
It's Marlene Dietrich, before Josef von Sternberg and The Blue Angel -- and much of her mystique is already present. This sophisticated…
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It Happened Tomorrow
René Clair takes a trip through The Twilight Zone in It Happened Tomorrow, the story of a reporter’s perilous adventure with a…
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The Producers
At his most unrestrained, Mel Brooks would have made Voltaire blush. Would such uninhibited comedy survive under the gaze of today’s self-appointed…
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History is Made at Night
'Unabashed, unfettered romanticism' runs wild in Frank Borzage's golden-age masterpiece of a runaway wife and the crazy Frenchman who pursues her. Long…
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The Whistle at Eaton Falls
It's another CineSavant Revival Screening Review of a show not presently available on disc: not an old favorite, but something we admittedly…
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Escape from Fort Bravo
John Sturges' first color western is a tightly organized and unpretentious winner about a stern Union prison warden and a Confederate prisoner…
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The Blue Lamp
It's the granddaddy of British cop dramas of the modern era. The most popular English picture of 1950 introduced PC George Dixon,…
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Nightmare Alley
One of the most glamorous / unsavory films noir ever, this creepy tale of a master con-man undone by warped ambition was…
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Donnie Darko 4K
The 4K Ultra HD crowd has a treat in store, for Donnie Boy is back for theatrical quality home screenings. Richard Kelly's…
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Smile
Near the pinnacle of director-driven '70s cinema is this marvelous comedy about a 'American Miss' contest, and the swirl of personalities that…
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They Won’t Believe Me
Vintage high-end Film Noir from the classic year 1947! Low Mileage too -- this long cut hasn't been seen since the…
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THE DUNGEON OF ANDY MILLIGAN COLLECTION
“I should have killed Andy.” – Jimmy McDonough In 1987 Andy Milligan was working on his latest film, a bloody revenge saga…