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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XXII
22 is a lucky number for noir: D.A. Humphrey Bogart defies Murder Incorporated in The Enforcer. Sexpot Carol Ohmart lures Tom Tryon…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
🎶 Let's all get up and dance to a song movie that was a hit before your mother was born 🎶 ... or your…
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Seven Chances + Sherlock Jr.
We think these two silent comedies are fantastic examples of Buster Keaton's directorial genius. Seven Chances exaggerates the dilemma of a fellow…
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Godzilla
The original Japanese super-dragon is back, for the first time in the USA in an improved Toho remaster that restores the awesome…
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The Invasion
This fourth remake for Jack Finney's mind-bending Sci-fi horror tale didn't click at the box office, but our Pandemic experience has made…
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Night of the Blood Beast + Attack of the Giant Leeches
This '50s cult monster double bill was produced by the Corman brothers Roger and Gene. The first re-plays ideas from several Sci-fi…
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Circus of Horrors
Dr. Rossiter will give you something to scream about! Sidney Hayers' Big Top terror flick is luridly oversexed, excessively gruesome -- and…
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Enough Rope
Taken from a story by Patricia Highsmith, director Claude Autant-Lara's murder thriller can boast an attractive cast: Maurice Ronet, Gert Fröbe, Robert…
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Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
David Hinton's documentary celebration of the 'Archers' team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is a feature-length rumination filtered through Martin Scorsese's…
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I Remember Mama
George Stevens' back-from-the-war masterpiece honors family vaues and stability with the near-reverent story of a Norwegian immigrant family subsisting in San Francisco…
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The Tenant
Roman Polanski's twisted 'apartment horror' creepshow melds supernatural and psychological possession -- a meek clerk finds himself being possessed by the previous…
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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…