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They Died with their Boots On
Whoa! We saw this endlessly as kids and pretty much set it aside in favor of later revisionist westerns of the 1950s.…
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Invasion USA
This atom fear thriller grabbed audiences by the Conelrads. Albert Zugsmith spun Cold War hysteria into gold with this cheap but effective…
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Lost in Space
Irwin Allen started a franchise with his 1965 TV show: there has even been a second TV series with Parker Posey as…
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7 Women
Now back in a dazzling remaster, John Ford's final feature is a 'problematic masterpiece.' The director reaches back to the expressionist 1930s…
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Out of the Clouds
Aviation buffs will see plenty to admire in Basil Dearden's drama of events at London's Heathrow Airport. The show comes off as…
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman: The Complete Collection
Hector J. Peabody is an American-born multi-hyphenate who graduated from Harvard at the age of three and conquered Wall Street when he…
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Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet shine as Jane Austen heroines that endeavor to maintain their composure while swooning over the highly eligible…
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The Cobweb
William Gibson's multi-character soap about a psychiatric clinic has a severe case of Caligari Syndrome: the doctors need more counseling than do…
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Sands of the Kalahari
Cy Endfield's intense African survival adventure purports to teach lessons about the Territorial Imperative and the easy slide to savagery when civilization…
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Sylvia Sidney pre-Code Classics
The early pre-Code era yields two star vehicles from the dawn of Sylvia Sidney's long career. In Confessions of a Co-Ed her…
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Frantic
Another reissue disc that we wish were revived in an extras-laden 4K edition. Roman Polanski's exceedingly rewarding thriller gives us Harrison Ford…
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The Enchanted Cottage
Is it a Gothic fairy tale, a fantastic romance, or a backhanded comment about wounded war veterans? Mutilated flier Robert Young and…
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Bonjour Tristesse
Otto Preminger's take on the Françoise Sagan's novel finds the right tone despite the drawback of censorship limitations and Englanders and Americans…
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Hearts of Darkness
One of the best-ever documentaries about the making of a movie returns in a fresh 4K restoration, with its feature film clips…
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The Wild Bunch
No, it's not a new disc. This is also not exactly a disc review, but Warner's reissue allows us to write about…
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Sorcerer 4K
The son of a French politician, Henri Girard was 28 years old when he was imprisoned for the murder of his father—19…
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Town without Pity
MGM's in-house Blu-ray label is back with another worthy remaster: a Mirisch- supervised West German production that leads with a Gene Pitney…
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The Citadel
Once restored, old movies with 'creaky' reputations can yield surprising qualities, especially when the filmmaker is as earnest and creative as the…
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Senso
Italian maestro Luchino Visconti set the '50s high mark for epic period reconstruction and historical authenticity. Alida Valli and Farley Granger's doomed…
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The Diabolik Trilogy
Italy's anarchic master thief gets a Covid-era trilogy of films that hew fairly closely to stories from the original Giussani comic books:…
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Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics
A Warners reissue puts the cream of American gangster epics within easy reach, and at a better price. Robinson, Cagney and Bogart…
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Quatermass 2
The second Quatermass adventure sees Brian Donlevy's pushy Professor singlehandedly quash a totalitarian takeover of England in just 36 hours -- an…
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H.M.S. Defiant
We're always interested in movies about ships, and Lewis Gilbert's accomplished Napoleonic battle epic is back in a Region B disc with…
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Carnal Knowledge 4K
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who passed away this year at the age of 95, spent a lifetime documenting the pratfalls of young men…
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Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Modest Z-picture Sci-fi groaners are an American staple, but this English effort is just as desperate. Landing on a moon of Jupiter,…
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Splendor in the Grass
William Inge's intense drama of teenage angst comes to HD with rich Technicolor hues. Elia Kazan's film has only improved, with performances…