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Weird Science
Woo Hoo! We're girl-starved teen nerds, and we're cooking up our own living sex toy with our home computers! John Hughes turns…
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Pin Up Girl
Personality is everything in the movies — even in the Golden Age, plenty of film performers ‘clicked’ for reasons having nothing to…
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Alphaville
My teenage introduction to art film culture was something of a science fiction auteur detour (R2-D2?). I discovered Alphaville at a tiny…
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Klute
Jane Fonda plays Bree Daniels, the hooker with a heart of glass in 1971’s Klute. The lanky vamp in the shag cut…
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This Island Earth
"The supreme excitement of our time! Challenging the unearthly furies of an outlaw planet!" Big-budget space opera finally came to movie screens,…
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Jet Pilot
John Wayne! Janet Leigh! Nifty jet-age flying sequences! Goofy, bad-taste sex jokes! Hans Conreid as a chortling Russian army officer! Howard…
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The BRD Trilogy
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's national epic tells the story of Germany's 'economic miracle' recovery through the experiences of three strong women, each resilient…
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Footlight Parade
This amazing Busby Berkeley extravaganza is the best choice to impress newbies to pre-Code musical madness: it is absolutely irresistible. James Cagney's…
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Mothra
Toho's fabulous, kid-safe Kaiju spectacle about the super-moth from Infant Island might be a stealth Cold War fairy tale. Kids respond to…
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Dead of Night
Anthology films have been a reliable Hollywood staple since D.W. Griffith’s time-traveling Intolerance and Paramount’s depression-era dramedy If I Had a Million.…
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Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart
Classic cinematics from first-rank filmmakers. No ballet or heroism, so not a crowd pleaser, but Michael Powell's original version of Gone to…
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These Are the Damned
"Kinder der Eisigen Dunkelheit!" If those words don't give you a chill, you may be one of 'The Damned.' Joseph Losey's fascinatingly…
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Hold Back the Dawn
All hail Olivia de Havilland, America's longest living movie star. The more de Havilland pictures we see, the more we admire her…
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Hidden behind the membership-only barrier of The Disney Movie Club is a long-delayed, long-missed key feature from The Mouse, Walt's masterful super-production…
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Le Doulos
Auteurist film books from the early '70s touted the crime pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville, a Yankeephile Frenchman who chose a new name…
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Morituri
Marlon Brando had few if any hits in the 1960s, but this wartime spy picture is a not-bad thriller with some tense…
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The Golden Arrow
It's Tab Hunter as you've never seen him before! Antonio Margheriti's limp but colorful Arabian Nights adventure romance is a real head-scratcher…
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Universal Horror Collection: Vol. 1
Like the cat who swallowed the canary, Boris Karloff made for a serenely sinister antagonist. Even when portraying bloodthirsty devils like the…
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War and Peace (1966)
Amazing! Colossal! And it's good, too! 'Gone With the Wind' is a tempest in a teacup compared to this jaw-dropping adaptation of…
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The Silent Partner
The absolute best small scale 'perfect crime' thriller has nail-biting suspense, humor, sexy scenes, a shocking violent scene and apparently a terrific…
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Swing Time
The image of a tuxedo clad Fred Astaire hopping an empty boxcar sums up the double-edged appeal of Swing Time, a transcendent…
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How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Sam Arkoff and James Nicholson, the men behind such teen-friendly drive-in fare as Reform School Girl and High School Hellcats, caught a…
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Cinderella
After five years of combining animated short subjects, and a combo live-action/animation feature, Disney dove into full feature animation fantasy again with…
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The Running Man (1963)
Sir Carol Reed takes on a movie about insurance fraud in sunny Spain -- with a great trio of actors for 1963.…
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The Bostonians
Henry James novels have made terrific movies; this precise, strongly-felt adaptation expresses interior feelings that James -- the master of ambiguity --…
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Blue Velvet
Voyeurs come in all shapes and sizes, from wallflowers like Russ Meyer’s Immoral Mr. Teas to the handsome but lethal pin-up artist…