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Death Ship (1980)
From the golden age of Canadian tax shelters comes a horror movie about a fiendish, fearful freighter fraught with frills, I mean,…
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Wagon Master
John Ford's favorite western of his own work is a curiously gentle, endearingly simple hark-back to the verities of silent filmmaking. Mormons…
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A High Wind in Jamaica
Alexander Mackendrick's exhilarating pirate adventure mixes accurate history with a fine story of innocence corrupting the corrupt: Anthony Quinn's pirate goes soft…
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The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
There's nothing like the term 'Transcendental Style' to intimidate a filmgoer, but have no fear: Yasujiro Ozu's tale of a domestic trial…
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Man Without a Star
King Vidor, the director behind the bucolic Kansas sequences in The Wizard of Oz and the histrionics of Duel in the Sun,…
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The Witches (1990)
Roald Dahl's marvelous horror thriller for children (the ones ready for it) doesn't soft-pedal the scary stuff. Horrible (but sexy) witches plot…
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The Man in the White Suit
File this great comedy under social science fiction, subheading 'H' for hilarious. Alec Guinness's comic boffin hero is both a bringer of…
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Day of the Outlaw
How does Hollywood sell a gritty, realistic western? With a sexy shot of star Tina Louise! Viewers will be surprised: this fine…
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Wild in the Country
Elvis fans laud this high-end drama, an attempt by the superstar to lock into a mainstream acting career. Presley has fine dramatic…
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Seven Chances & Battling Butler The Buster Keaton Collection Vol. 3
In his day Buster Keaton's popularity trailed that of Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, but now those reputations have switched around. These…
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Jonny Quest: The Complete Original Series
Though the heartland was nearing a showdown between the Masters of War and the Age of Aquarius, things were relatively status quo…
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An Angel at My Table
Here's the story of a woman who overcame adversity -- not the dramatic, historical kind, but the sort of mundane discriminatory issues…
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Moonfleet
It's Fritz Lang versus CinemaScope, for the first and last time. The format suited to snakes and funerals effectively hamstrings the great…
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4D Man
An old monster formula props up this fantastic film but at its heart is a brilliant premise that excites the imagination. Jack…
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Alice, Sweet Alice
This unique proto-slasher is not a rip-off of The Exorcist and for my taste is more meaningful, despite associating innocent children with…
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A Foreign Affair
If you like Billy Wilder but haven't seen everything he's done, this is the film for you, a sparkling but typically sharp-tongued…
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The Last American Hero
All-American race car mania is alive and well in this excellent Jeff Bridges movie, a true biographical story researched by Tom Wolfe.…
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Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula
William Beaudine, the human assembly line behind a warehouse full of movies that included Voodoo Man and Bowery Buckeroos, hauls John Carradine onto…
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Quatermass 2
What ought to be appreciated as one of the most prescient of 1950s suspense films holds a place among the best science…
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Behold a Pale Horse
Here's a highly suspenseful thriller with fine characterizations, set in a grim but meaningful place -- Fascist Spain in the late 1950s,…
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Lust for a Vampire
Courageous disc boutique Scream Factory takes on one of Hammer's biggest embarrassments, that almost everyone connected to it would like to disown.…
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Piranha
In 1968 Joe Dante and Jon Davison teamed up to make The Movie Orgy, a counter-culture take on 1941’s comic blitzkrieg, Hellzapoppin’.…
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Death in the Garden (Mort en ce Jardin)
Finally out on Blu-ray in Region A, Luis Buñuel’s beautiful color adventure is a worthy jungle tale shot through with his signature…
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The Reptile
Hammer's attempt at a budget monster romp for 1966 isn't quite as good as its sister film Plague of the Zombies, but…
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Merrill’s Marauders
Is this Samuel Fuller's biggest production? He tries to convey the harrowing reality of a military campaign that tested the limits of…
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PHOENIX ON SOUTH F STREET: The Re-Emergence of the Alger Theater
“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make…