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Hud – 4K
Much of the glamour of Western movies lies in their lack of glamour. Often filmed in black and white against some of…
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DEFA Fairy Tales
Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Roberto Rodríguez’s Little Red Riding Hood (1960) have nothing in common except the hirsute…
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King Creole – 4K
If you’ve never seen a movie or read a book, you might be surprised by the twists and turns of King Creole,…
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Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Financed by British royalty (George Harrison put up the lion’s share of the cash), the film’s low budget appearance is inescapable but…
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PlayTime 4K
PlayTime is work. Work for the audience who must adjust their own understanding as to how a movie should move, and work…
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One Battle After Another – 4K
You’re in the passenger seat and the driver is treating this winding mountain road like their personal speedway. It’s terrifying— there’s no…
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A Shot in the Dark – 4K
If a fountain is nearby he will fall into it, if a rake is close he will step on it, if an…
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Laurel & Hardy/ The Definitive Restorations Volume 2 (1929-1935)
Laurel and Hardy were a team so beloved they could unite even this country—it’s no small irony that they thrived in the…
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Nightmare Alley – 4K
Guillermo del Toro makes a living finding the humanity in monsters and the monsters in men. A boy who grew up identifying…
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Hollywood Legends of Horror Collection
Need help with your Halloween hangover? Here’s a cure for what ails you, a compilation of some of the finest horror films…
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The Snow Queen: Treasures of Soviet Animation Vol 2
The Magnificent Ambersons, Blade Runner, Once Upon a Time in America, each a member of an unlucky fraternity: films disfigured by studio…
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Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter – 4K
Having established itself as the Cadillac of contemporary gothic horror by the early 60s, Hammer Studios suddenly found itself staggering into the…
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Warner Archive Collection: 50s Sci-Fi Collection
While television in the 50s promoted a comforting vision of the American experience, the movies told a different story; we were a…
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Four Sided Triangle – 4K
Touted as Hammer Studio’s first brush with monsters and mad doctors, 1953’s Four Sided Triangle features a monster, alright—the green-eyed variety. The…
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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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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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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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The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost
No silent film star ever suffered quite so much as Yoshiko Fujishiro, the star-crossed heroine of The Tale of Oiwa’s Ghost. Fujishiro…
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Brazil 4K
It’s Christmastime in what appears to be wartime Britain yet the only sign of a blitz is the rampant kidnapping of citizens…
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Devil Doll/Curse of the Voodoo
Born in New York in 1928, Bryant Haliday’s better-than-average education included a stay at a Benedictine monastery and a stint at Harvard…
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Ugetsu – 4K
In 1941 Orson Welles was busy giving the film industry a hot foot with Citizen Kane, a distinctly American movie whose innovations…
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Anora – 4K
A low budget/high octane comedy about a working girl named Anora, Sean Baker’s film was a surprise favorite at the 2025 Oscars.…
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I’m All Right Jack
On Thursday, May 8, 1945, Winston Churchill appears before an adoring crowd to announce the end of the war in Europe. Well,…
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The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
An epic adventure seen through the wrong end of a telescope, Roger Corman’s bargain-basement monster fest boasts a title worthy of a…
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Murder by Decree – 4K
There’s a reason Buckingham palace was built like a fortress: to keep the lower classes out and the family secrets in. Murder…
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Two-Way Stretch
“Dodger” Lane, “Jelly” Knight and “Lennie the Dip” have been living large in Huntleigh Prison for several years; their Runyonesque nicknames all…