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Ex Machina
Is this not the most brilliant screenplay from 2015? Alex Garland assembles a perfect fable about robots, artificial intelligence and the hubris…
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Let There Be Light: John Huston’s Wartime Documentaries
When John Huston went to war he took his mission seriously... as an artist. He made four wartime docus for the army.…
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Wind Across the Everglades
The Audubon Society battles plumage poachers in the Everglades, circa 1900. Legendary director Nicholas Ray suffered an on-location meltdown filming this early…
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From the Terrace
This is as sexy as Hollywood pix got in 1960. John O'Hara's novel about class snobbery and the drive for success posits…
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Figures in a Landscape
Where was Leonard Pinth Garnell when we needed him? Joseph Losey is often accused of pretension but in this case he may…
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Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
Hey, let's dig up a rotting corpse, just for fun! A group of crazy Florida theater students plays a group of crazy…
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Where do I get my Big Brother campaign pin and yard poster? Michael Radford's elaborate Orwell adaptation sticks closely to the original…
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The American Friend
Wim Wenders goes neo-noir in this wonderfully moody character-driven crime tale. Soulful art framer Bruno Ganz is the patsy in a murder…
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Bitter Rice
Forget the proletarian messages, this Italian Neorealist classic is really an exploitation film about ogling brazen, buxom babes in short-shorts, up to…
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Hitler’s Children
RKO's morale-building wartime thriller adds an element of sexual perversion to its story of Nazi crimes against children, thus creating one of…
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Everest 3-D
At last, an adventure movie that does without action-epic superhero BS. It's simply You Are There with a dozen likeable, determined climbers…
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The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary feature takes his earlier The Act of Killing one step further. An Indonesian optometrist dares to interview death squad leaders…
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The Complete Lady Snowblood
The bloody adventures of a swordswoman dedicated to murderous revenge provided Quentin Tarantino with a major inspiration. Director Toshiyo Fujita's impeccable images…
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Four Men and a Prayer
It's the John Ford film you never heard of, not because it's bad, but because it's a little confused. Richard Greene, David…
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The Captive City
Robert Wise's taut noir suspenser about the Mafia takeover of a small city is like an underworld Invasion of the Body Snatchers.…
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The Beginning or the End
Stop! Don't touch that dial... If you like your atom-age propaganda straight up, MGM has the movie for you, an expensive 1946…
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Mysterious Island (Encore Edition)
Fans that missed Twilight Time's initial Blu-ray release of Ray Harryhausen's Jules Verne spectacle get a second chance with this Encore Edition. It includes…
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Nightmares
It's a TV movie graduated to feature status, with four imagination-challenged tales of terror. The script has lots of variety -- a…
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Born Free
Do you love movies about cute animals? The original pet-lion-in-Africa romp is actually a well balanced nature film about the separation between…
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Faust (1926)
The latest restoration of a German silent classic is F.W. Murnau's lavishly mounted version of the Goethe tale, starring Emil Jannings as…
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The Girl Most Likely
RKO's final in-house production is a good end-of-an-era film, a spirited and well-made musical comedy. Bright-eyed Jane Powell can't stop accepting marriage…
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Sweet Adeline
It's sweet, all right, not to mention sentimental and corny -- as Adeline Schmidt, Irene Dunne leaves her father's beer garden to sing…
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The Detective
Frank Sinatra shines in a story of police corruption that tries to say it like it is -- or like it was…
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Gunman’s Walk, Land Raiders & A Man Called Sledge
Germany's Explosive Media company has a serious itch for American westerns, and they have a trio of new releases. One is a minor Hollywood…
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Ant-Man 3-D
The latest Marvel franchise hero is an incredible shrinking secret agent with powers wholly unlike his fellow Avengers. Ex-con Scott Lang (Paul…
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The Knack…and how to get it
Meet Rita Tushingham, the cutest comic (and dramatic) actress of swinging London. This '60s masterpiece applies director Richard Lester's talent for comedy…