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Invasion of the Bee Girls
Is it exploitative junk or a radical feminist manifesto? Or just an out-of-control genre mashup between Sci-fi and a skin flick? It's…
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Gabriel Over the White House
With the economy in collapse and millions out of work during the Great Depression, a few Hollywood thrillers proposed radical political changes.…
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XXIII
Kino keeps finding noir thrillers for its Dark Side series; classic-era stars decorate collection Number 23. Paul Henreid tortures Burt Lancaster for…
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Il posto + I fidanzati
Italian neo-realism and humanitarian sentiment meet in writer-director Ermanno Olmi, whose docudrama style wins over all that see it. In Il posto…
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Alice, Sweet Alice
It's the notorious slasher horror noted for 'starring' Brooke Shields ... although she exits the picture very quickly. New York filmmaker Alfred…
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The Spanish Main
The Warner Archive Collection comes through with a splendid restoration of this great pirate picture. Paul Henreid is a superb Dutch colonial-turned…
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Domo Arigato
The 3-D Archive continues its quest to revive our heritage of stereoscopic features with Arch Oboler's obscure romantic travelogue. That the movie…
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Teacher’s Pet
Clark Gable and Doris Day shine in an overlooked, bright romantic comedy: Kay and Michael Kanin's elegant screenplay gets in some punches…
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The Lion in Winter
Katharine Hepburn gets one more first-class filmic go-round, in James Goldman's highly entertaining story of home life with those wild and crazy…
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
While gearing up to take on the hypocrisy of the Production Code, producer-director Otto Preminger hired out for Milton Sperling & Gary…
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Miracle Mile
Los Angeles bursts into flames, total disaster, no mercy .... but it's not a firefighting problem. Steve De Jarnatt's classic apocalyptic thriller…
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Mr. Lucky
Whoa -- RKO's wartime hit is a bright spot for mainstream filmmaking: major studio talents turn an unpromising idea into a sweetheart…
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Winchester ’73
What at first seems a plain-wrap generic western is actually anything but; Borden Chase's circular storyline pulls in a bit of every…
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Mountains of the Moon
It's an excellent 'thinking man's safari picture': Bob Rafelson's beautifully produced epic examines the partnership of two of the 19th century's greatest…
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Conclave
Wow, this time we review a picture just a couple of months old. Good director Edward Berger guides some fine performances in…
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The Grifters
What a great picture to see bumped to 4K ... when that grinding Elmer Bernstein cue launches the titles, we know we're…
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Nora Prentiss
It's another intense film noir with a strong woman dealing with a weak man. Ann Sheridan comes through with a great performance…
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Inglourious Basterds
It's one of Tarantino's best: Arrow Video repackages his celebration of absurd wartime action thrillers with a battery of new featurettes and…
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Russ Meyer’s Vixen!
Whoa! What was once 'raw adult' fare now plays as quaint -- yet still hot. Voyeurism becomes entertainment -- America's mammary-obsessed independent…
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Weak Spot
aka Le faille. Radiance comes up with yet another exotic Eurothriller. Author Antonis Samarakis' first-person experience informs this sophisticated study of the…
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Sahara
Where has this one been? The excellent war drama features Humphrey Bogart in one of his most satisfying roles, as a get-it-done…
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A Bridge Too Far — 4K
Joseph E. Levine's multi-star WWII epic is one of the last Road Show blockbusters: Robert Redford, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Dirk Bogarde,…
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The Searchers
The Warner Archive Collection's first 4K Ultra HD release is a glowing digital restoration of John Ford's unequalled western classic, considered to…
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Incubus
One of the strangest American films of the '60s is Leslie Stevens' occult thriller starring William Shatner -- who speaks all his…
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The Tall Target
An 1861 plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln is smartly styled as a 'film noir in costume.' Southern secessionists want Abe dead, and…
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No Country for Old Men
The Coen brothers' modern classic adapts Cormac McCarthy's book about drug violence on the border. Welcome to supply & demand economics at…