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Blue Sunshine
Having an LSD flashback? Can you really remember every controlled substance you regularly imbibed in your wild days? Freaky homicides figure in…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Donovan’s Reef
John Ford and John Wayne's best 'old man's movie' is deceptive -- on the outside it's as square as can be, an…
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Sadie McKee
Glamorous Joan's screen image is now fully defined, and her improved acting carries her pictures with grace and assurance. Director Clarence Brown…
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The New Adventures of Tarzan
Known to Tarzan fans and almost nobody else is this four-hour serial filmed parallel with MGM's series, and officially produced by Tarzan…
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Night Moves
It's the best detective movie of the 1970s, now on 4K. Arthur Penn and Alan Sharp give us a 'Southern California Sordid'…
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Topkapi
A heist caper classic just got a new lease on life -- after languishing in so-so encodings for 50 years, Jules Dassin…
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Cannibal Girls
From the Canadian branch of exploitation filmmaking comes this quirky stab (and chop, and bite) appetizer, an early production by Ivan Reitman.…
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The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot's suspense ordeal is back, with additional minutes of footage and remastered in flawless 4K. Few films express such a poisonous…
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The 10th Victim
This is the movie with the spiky bra that doubles as a gun. Pop Art meets progressive social Sci-fi in a wicked…
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
It's Chlorophyll in Motion, writ large: in Godzilla's most interestingly stylized franchise entry, the mean-tempered monster faces off with a colossal surrealist…
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Outpost in Malaya
The territorial imperative gets a curious workout: English planters in Malaya defend their homesteads against 'bandits' with undefined aims. Ken Annakin contributes…
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Monster from the Ocean Floor
How can such a tiny production be so noteworthy? Roger Corman's cleverly-assembled monster romp has simplicity and sincerity going for it, not…
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The Mansion of Madness
Juan López Moctezuma's bizarre Edgar Allan Poe adaptation gets new life in a new 4K transfer with a correct widescreen aspect ratio.…
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The Killer Is Loose
Late-cycle noir introduces us to Leon 'Foggy' Poole, a new kind of polite psychotic menace who kills because, 'sigh,' people just don't…
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The Spectacular Sci-Fi Visions of East German Director Gottfried Kolditz
We love the handful of fantastic Soviet-bloc space pictures from the Yuri Gagarin era; this exacting disc release gives us two East…
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The Glass Web
Universal's second 3-D picture of the classic era has an edge on its competition: direction that takes full advantage of the depth…
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The Naked Maja
This one is for fans of Ava Gardner -- an expensive Italian production we have never seen in a decent video copy,…
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The Keep
Michael Mann's WW2 horror disaster is still a fascinating item, especially in 4K. We marvel at its moody 'architectural' atmosphere, that generates…
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Paint Your Wagon
This great-looking (especially now) musical splits opinions right down the middle. It charms many who love the songs and the rustic comedy;…
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Joan Crawford: Toxic Times Two
She said she preferred to play 'bad' women because they were more interesting than virtuous characters, but it's tempting to speculate that…
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The Cat
Düsseldorf is ground zero for a superior Deutscher Kriminalfilm that never made it to the U.S.. Heist mastermind Götz George guides a…
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The Conqueror
This Golden Turkey embarrassment is far too entertaining to be dismissed as a mere Bad Movie -- Howard Hughes' ode to Mongol…
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Performance
Donald Cammell's collision of gangster brutality and drug-soaked decadence steps up to 4K clarity. Excellent extras properly credit the writer-director, whose name…
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Cronos
Guillermo Del Toro's first feature is a mini-masterpiece that revitalized the Mexican fantastic film. Inventing his own macabre horror concept, Del Toro…
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Fade-In
This movie sat on a shelf for 5 years, and was shown on TV only when Burt Reynolds became a big star.…
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Yojimbo + Sanjuro
Kurosawa's witty samurai classics are back, in 4K Ultra HD. The master of cinema greeted the 1960s with American pulp cynicism in…