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Columbia Noir #3
Witness six noir heroes, doing what noir heroes do: one crooked gambler, one psycho, another psycho with access to a gun, a…
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The Night of the Following Day
Hubert Cornfield's smoothly directed, moody kidnapping story is mysterious, engaging and well acted, but opts for an anti-thriller vibe with a curiously…
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Broadway Melody of 1940
For his first re-teaming sans Ginger, Fred Astaire hot-foots it to MGM and the waiting tap & sweep partner Eleanor Powell, already…
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Switchblade Sisters
The always-dynamic director Jack Hill goes teen-gang wild with this absolutely crazy take on JD pictures, pitched three octaves higher than normal…
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Quick Change
On the short list of post- classic-era comedies I can see over and over again is this beautifully executed Bill Murray crime…
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Fukushima 50
This Japanese docudrama is an excellent primer on the scary near- meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011. After…
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The Hot Spot
A sizzling neo-noir that should have boosted Dennis Hopper into feature bankability goes a tad slack -- my guess is that Hopper's…
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Defending Your Life
Albert Brooks' most entertaining picture is still about modern anxieties, but this time seen through a satirical 'film blanc' filter. Neurotic ad…
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Annie Get Your Gun
MGM's old-fashioned Irving Berlin musical has superior songs and powerful performances, especially that of Betty Hutton. She gets plenty loud and rambunctious,…
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THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS / THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY
Founded in 1942, Daiei Films appealed to the hearts and minds of movie-goers with a remarkably diverse catalog. Movies like Akira Kurosawa’s…
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Spacewalker
Dmitriy Kiselev's overlooked Russian thriller is an exciting and inspirational true account of the first walk in space by a Soviet cosmonaut…
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Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas takes a very different trip into silent movie nostalgia, with a director's ill-fated attempt to remake the 1915 serial Les…
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The Furies
When not making tons of money collaborating with James Stewart, Anthony Mann directed some really grim westerns. This mini-epic spells out the…
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The Man in Search of his Murderer
The name talent attached makes this late- Weimar thriller a must-see proposition: Billy Wilder, Robert & Curt Siodmak, Franz Waxman. Their dark…
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Perdita Durango 4K Ultra HD
What could sear your retinas as thoroughly as forbidden cult cinema in 4K Ultra HD? The unrestrained crime-shock transgressors Perdita and Romero…
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Black Sunday (1977)
John Frankenheimer's biggest production since Grand Prix turns the touchy subject of international terrorism into a frightening, outlandish story of a plot…
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Doctor X
It's the disc everyone wants right now -- vintage Hollywood horror fully restored to its original Technicolor luster. A scientific investigation into…
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Hercules and the Captive Women
This debut feature of muscleman favorite Reg Park is one of the better sword 'n' sandal epics; it has good action and…
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Secrets and Lies
Director Mike Leigh's social-personal observations of life as it is lived in the U.K. always get to me -- this one may…
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Dynasty 3-D
3-D goes Kung-Fu in Super-Touch! The 3-D Film Archive restores a Far East oddity from the year of Star Wars, an…
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Gorath
It's another CineSavant review of a movie largely unavailable, especially the original Japanese version. This third Ishirô Honda / Eiji Tsuburaya outer…
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Isle of the Dead
The Swiss symbolist Arnold Böcklin produced several versions of Isle of the Dead in the late 1800’s—none of them suggested a typical…
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The Bad News Bears
W.C. Fields’ final screen appearance was a brief walk-on in Sensations of 1945, an overloaded variety show that barely found time for…
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Journeys through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier breaks the barrier between fans of European movies and 101 classic French pictures that most of us have never gotten…
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Five
The first post-nuclear science fiction thriller is a grim & gripping end-of-the-world tale with rough content for its year. Arch Oboler's best…
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Arizona Colt
Lee Broughton returns with a review of Michele Lupo's fine-looking Spaghetti Western, Arizona Colt. Giuliano Gemma stars as the eponymous anti-hero-cum-bounty killer…