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The Mind of Mr. Soames
Amicus tries for class-act science fiction: lifelong coma sleeper Terence Stamp is revived as an 'adult baby' and must be educated in…
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The Dragon Missile (Region B)
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton offers an assessment of one of the Shaw Brothers' quirkier and more idiosyncratic historical martial arts efforts: an…
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The Changeling
The success of 70’s shockers like The Devils, The Exorcist and Alien – grindhouse films in big budget drag – opened the door to…
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The Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote strikes again, with a warm and thoughtful tale of life as it was lived in East Texas in 1950. Geraldine…
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Death in Small Doses
This '50s drug epic is not about hopheads on dope but working folk frying their brains on amphetamines. Peter Graves' undercover narc…
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My Man Godfrey
For my money this is the brightest, most endearing and wittiest '30s comedy to be given the name 'screwball.' Everyone on screen…
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The Invisible Man Complete Legacy Collection
Paranoid, vengeful, with skin so thin you can see through it, The Invisible Man is the most nakedly neurotic of Universal’s classic…
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The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann's counter-assassination thriller remains topflight filmmaking, torn from reality and shot through with an unsentimental dose of political realism. Edward Fox's…
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Sangaree (3-D)
'3rd Dimension!' 'Technicolor!' Paramount underwent a difficult post-production learning curve getting this early entry in the 3-D craze out the door and…
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
The Film Noir Foundation has helped revive yet another difficult-to-see noir gem -- the murder cover-up tale begins with a shooting in…
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The Farmer’s Daughter
A solid mainstream hit for 1947, Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten's political fairy tale maintains its charm despite the usual populist dodges…
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The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's magnum opus fully expresses what might be called his 'Unified Theory' of cinema -- which embraces the human experience from…
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Bronson Caverns, the Hidden Hollywood Location
Let’s take a trip back to Bronson Caverns, but with new and better photos! Once you visit this hiding-in-plain-sight Hollywood location, you’ll…
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First Reformed
Paul Schrader's austere, intense thriller is billed as a return to the director's 'transcendental' roots, although we suspect he never really left…
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Missing (Region B)
Costa-Gavras' superlative political thriller begins with a skeptical attitude, but soon pulls viewers into the depth and breadth of a monstrous political…
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Creature From the Black Lagoon Complete Legacy Collection
It's controversy in the Black Lagoon! Universal releases a much-desired box of all three Gill Man epics -- but goes cheap on…
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The Naked and the Dead
One of the splashier WW2 combat sagas adapts Norman Mailer's respected book but ends up a bona fide mess. Aldo Ray, Cliff…
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Strait-Jacket
The planets aligned in 1964 as William Castle’s Strait-Jacket premiered in January and Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp was published later that…
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The Hot Rock
Donald Westlake's lovably luckless crook John Dortmunder is brought to life by Robert Redford, in a lightweight crime caper engineered by top…
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Ministry of Fear
Fritz Lang's third wartime anti-Nazi film is an Alfred Hitchcock-type spy chase taken from a psychological novel by Graham Greene, with the…
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Gloria
"Come on, come on, I'd love it -- don't hang back!" dares Gloria Swenson, brandishing a gun at three mobsters that know…
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The Horror of Party Beach
Favorite camp hilarity -- a drive-in kick when new, Del Tenney's gloppy monsters 'n' bikinis epic has persevered as a nutty exemple…
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Filmworker
Stanley Kubrick had a dedicated assistant, and not one who simply held the master’s cinematic paintbrushes. He staffed research, production, post-production and…
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The Shape of Water
Miracle of miracles -- last year's Best Picture Oscar went to a genuine monster movie! Guillermo del Toro's overachieving Gill Man spectacle…
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The Last Hunt
Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger shine in Richard Brooks' engaging drama about the grim slaughter of the Buffalo -- a fairly appalling…
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Trapeze
Top stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida earn their keep in Carol Reed's powerful tale of ambition and excellence performing…