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What a Way to Go!
Want to know what the producer of Planet of the Apes was up to, before that milestone movie? Arthur P. Jacobs was…
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Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain’s 1941 novel Mildred Pierce offers a venal and self-destructive view of America not with a story of respectable bourgeois…
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The Lair of the White Worm
Wild man director Ken Russell struck back against commercial indifference with this alternately elegant and outrageous horror offering, that excepting a few…
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Dr. Orloff’s Monster
Arguing the merits of Jesús Franco seems a blind alley to me. I know academic film writers that have seen dozens of…
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The Yakuza
The Warner Archive Collection is on a roll with a 2017 schedule that has so far released one much-desired library Blu-ray per…
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Wagon Tracks
Last year we were gifted with an excellent Blu-ray of a silent John Ford western, 3 Bad Men, which turned out to…
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The Sicilian Clan
American crime fanatics wary of European imports now have access to a fully Region-A disc of a big-star, big budget French-Italian-American gangster…
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No Highway in the Sky
A few years back, whenever a desired title came up on list for a Fox, Columbia or Warners’ MOD (made-on-demand) DVD, my…
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Seddok, L’erede di Satana (Atom Age Vampire)
Let me herewith take a break from new discs to review an Italian release from six years ago, a movie that for…
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Stanley & Iris
There ought to be a place on a screen for every kind of film story. True, old movies fronted a mostly false…
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Who?
Today’s filmgoers say they want more cerebral science fiction films, and some moviemakers make an effort to comply. This year’s Arrival is…
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Two for the Road
Some so-called sophisticated ‘sixties romantic dramas have dated pretty badly, as it’s not easy to create a movie acceptable to a fickle…
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Gas-s-s-s
Roger Corman finally accepted himself as an iconic filmmaker for this, his final show for A.I.P.. Barely released and long considered a…
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The Mad Magician 3-D
Twilight Time, bless 'em, hands us another treat to go with their 3-D discs of Man in the Dark, Miss Sadie Thompson…
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Revenge of the Blood Beast
It’s back into the genre argument pits with the interesting director Michael Reeves. Reeves has persisted as a cult figure far longer…
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David and Bathsheba
Right in the middle of WW2, 20th Fox struck religious pay dirt with two respectful religion-themed movies, one about a miracle and…
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Something Wild (1961)
After writing up an earlier MOD disc release of the 1961 movie Something Wild, I received a brief but welcome email note…
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The Accountant
Comic book action thrillers are so influential today, that more naturalistic suspense thrillers are giving way under the strain. Just winding up…
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The Keys of the Kingdom
The Twilight Time label has access to much of the Fox library, and draws from the vault what’s been fully restored and…
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The Barefoot Contessa
As a teenager, many of my first and strongest movie impressions came not from the movies, but from certain critics. I memorized…
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The Internecine Project
Don’t let the ugly Italian poster art on the disc box throw you — The Internecine Project is a clever plot-driven murder…
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Battleground
“The Guts, Gags and Glory of a Lot of Wonderful Guys!” — say, what kind of movie is this, anyway? Action movies…
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The People vs. Fritz Bauer
What happens when a prosecutor tracks down one of the most evil criminals of the century, only to find that politics and…
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His Girl Friday / The Front Page
The restoration of a newly rediscovered director's cut of the 1931 The Front Page prompts this two-feature comedy disc -- Lewis Milestone's…
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The Driller Killer
It's icky, drippy and grindingly gross -- and will make your forehead itch -- but Abel Ferrara's Bowery-set dime store horror opus…
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Wait Until Dark
Is this a genuine classic? I think so. Sure, it's the old story of the blind girl in jeopardy, but it's been…