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Columbia Horror
This collector's box of Columbia odds 'n' ends has a couple of movies that are only marginal horror, but all have at…
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Pandora’s box
Director G.W. Pabst imported the notorious Hollywood showgirl Louise Brooks to Germany, to star in one of the greatest of Weimar-Era films.…
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Black Gravel
Keeping relations good with the U.S. and NATO may have doomed Helmut Käutner's grim tale of trouble on an American air base…
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Journey into Fear
It's the WW2 spy thriller that everyone once assumed Orson Welles directed without credit. Director Norman Foster does good things with Eric…
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
How can a silent film seem such a modern conception? Kino reissues the 2014 restoration of Robert Weine's horror landmark in 4K…
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I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim
Two of legendary Val Lewton's greatest achievements make it to 4K Ultra HD. In Jacques Tourneur's film the Gothic romance goes Voodoo…
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I Vampiri
Halloween '24 is looking good, as we chalk another genre landmark onto the list of excellent special edition discs. Riccardo Freda and…
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Babylon Berlin
It's a dive into an intoxicating, anarchic slice of the 20th-century, the brief era that was Weimar Germany. The society still reels…
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The West Wing
Sure, it's a TV landmark. To liberals it is a dream vision of how responsible government, run by practical idealists, ought to…
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Words and Music
The Warner Archive's latest MGM Technicolor bon-bon is this strained musical bio -- Mickey Rooney as Lorenz Hart? -- that nevertheless can…
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Clockwatchers
Corporate culture had been around for years when the 'Office Hell' genre arrived, and this sleek fable from cubicle-land is both one…
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Burn, Witch, Burn
No sooner do we dig up an old review for this horror masterpiece, than StudioCanal remasters it with a 4K scan and…
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The Project A Collection
Jackie Chan's legendary 'Project A' pictures reach 4K in a boxed set as lavish as home video can get. Chan's pals Sammo…
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Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella
"Space Flight: A Fantastic Story." As '50s kids we assumed that Soviet claims of 'firsts' in space science were a pack of…
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The Battle of Chile
Patricio Guzmán's 3-part 'you are there' documentary of the beleaguered presidency of Chile's Salvador Allende goes into great detail to show how…
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The Long Good Friday
It's still the best gangster film of the post- Godfather era. Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren are a striking couple at the…
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XXI
Kino's 21st noir series entry gives us two winners and a not-bad contender. Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger with Gary Cooper and…
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Three Little Words
All of the Warner Archives' newly-remastered MGM musicals are terrific, and this 1950 musical bio with Fred Astaire is no exception. His…
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Bringing Out the Dead
Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader teamed several times, and this harrowing nightmare about Ambulance EMTs trying to wade through the chaos of…
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Perfect Days
Wim Wenders' tale of one man's attainment of personal harmony is halfway between documentary and drama, with a strong dose of clear-headed…
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Le Doulos
Enjoy one of Jean-Pierre Melville's finest, remastered on 4K and looking good. It's a complicated story of thieves betraying thieves, the wrinkle…
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
One of the most accomplished Czech fantasies comes to Blu-ray -- nostalgic pulp fiction set in 1900 Prague. Yankee detective Nick Carter…
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Bad Company
Fans of westerns will love Robert Benton's takedown of wild west mythmaking: Civil War draft evaders Jeff Bridges and Barry Brown learn…
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We Still Kill the Old Way
It's a paranoid murder thriller without shoot-outs or car chases. The 'we' administer an entirely corrupt system of law and justice that…
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Doubt
Doubt and uncertainty have a life of their own. John Patrick Shanley's film of his powerhouse play studies the cloud of suspicion…
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The Shape of Night
Yet another eye-opener from 1960s Japan -- the story of a young woman's downfall is told with truth and conviction, with an…