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A Patch of Blue
Sidney Poitier's films of the 1950s and '60s almost always put a statement about race in the forefront, and even when the…
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Earthquake
1974 was ground zero for a 7.0 magnitude shaker on the clumsy, kitschy disaster-movie Richter Scale with Universal's ambitious, tossed-together epic of…
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Warlock (1959)
As the first wave of 'adult' westerns began to fade, 1959 gave us a burst of genuinely adult stories about the famed…
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The Snake Pit
Hollywood takes a hard look at the mundane horrors of mental asylums, and Olivia de Havilland scores another career high with her…
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The Day Time Ended
Long AWOL from Home Video -- the last time I peeked it was an unwatchable pan-and-scanned laserdisc -- this early Charles Band…
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Shaft’s Big Score! / Shaft in Africa
Released in 1971 during a notoriously divisive presidential campaign, Shaft was both a middle finger to the powers that be and a…
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The Andromeda Strain
Jumpin' gingivitis! Vicious microbes from space threaten the world and our only hope is a team of scientists in an underground lab…
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Police Story & Police Story 2
All the world loves Jackie Chan, whose cinematic action pictures bridge the gap between silent-era virtuosity and slick modernity. As light comedy…
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Ring of Bright Water
This favorite animal film takes a half-step sideways out of the cute animal subgenre: the delightful Mij is no super-otter, just an…
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Fantômas – Three Film Collection
Eighteen years after playing the duel roles of an aristocratic monster and his swashbuckling adversary in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Jean…
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Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki spent much of his early career as an artist and animator on children’s fare like Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon and Puss in…
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Stagecoach (1966)
Twilight Time goes for a Blu-ray upgrade of the western remake with the all-star cast. Forget that there was ever a John…
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Men Must Fight
CineSavant obsesses over yet another obscure bit of cinematic sociology: a glossy pre-Code MGM melodrama about mothers and war, which half-debates issues…
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Von Richthofen and Brown
Freshly divorced from American-International Pictures, Roger Corman leaps into the filmic mainstream with a fairly large-scale World War One aviation picture. He…
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The Landlord
It's the brightest debut feature of 1970, and perhaps the warmest movie ever about the American race divide. Hal Ashby and Bill…
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The Big Clock
Clever plotting goes into overdrive for this light-comedy proto-paranoid film noir about a magazine publishing empire so organized that it seems a…
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The House of the Seven Gables
In 1940’s The House of the Seven Gables, Margaret Lindsay transforms from sunny romantic to stone-faced recluse in the blink of an eye…
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Robbery
Why do crime caper films have so much appeal? Are we all closet criminals, eager to watch less timid souls risk life…
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The Ghost Lovers
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of an obscure period chiller expertly assembled by Shen Hsiang Yu. One of the…
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
"You crazy rat you croaked him!" Yes, you've probably heard better hardboiled dialogue, but this British imitation of American gangster pictures takes…
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FAN SERVICE: AVENGERS: ENDGAME AND SAD HILL UNEARTHED
Haters gonna hate, and yeah, some folks will take, and have taken, their devotion to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to ridiculous lengths,…
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The Mysterious Island (1929)
MGM's gigantic silent sci-fi extravaganza took three years to make, by which time the talkies arrived and everything went to pieces. Lionel…
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The Nightcomers
Between 1944 and 1992 Jack Clayton directed just nine movies but they included some of the most elegant yet clear-eyed films to…
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Summer Stock
I don't know if Garland fans still go around chanting 'Judy Judy Judy' at her every appearance, but they do have a…
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Highway Patrolman (El Patrullero)
The prize for best direction of 1991 ought to have gone to Alex Cox, whose visual economy in this show is to…
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The Strange Door
Charles Laughton is a vengeful aristocrat with a secret in the cellar and Boris Karloff is the family servant who holds the…