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Devil’s Doorway
Guy Trosper, Anthony Mann and John Alton's western is shocking stuff for 1950 -- Hollywood did address the historical raw deal handed…
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Gravity
This one played like gangbusters in the theater. The only negative flak we heard came from a) people that don't like Sandra…
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I Am Cuba
Milestone films and the Criterion Collection team together for this 1964 epic, a a joint Cuban-Soviet super-travelogue celebration of the revolutionary spirit.…
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Deep in the Heart
Ignore the exploitative original posters ... this thriller from 1983 is a clear-eyed view of America's gun problem, expressed, wouldn't you know…
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The Tin Star
Anthony Mann's high-quality conventional western has top stars Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, plus good input from Neville Brand, John McIntire and…
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Household Saints
Nancy Savoca belongs in the top rank of creative filmmakers of the 1990s. This unorthodox telling of a 'neighborhood miracle' may be…
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*batteries not included
Family-friendly Steven Spielberg once again seeks out the sentimental corner of sci-fi, with memorable roles for his lovable cast and a technical…
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Bombs over Burma
This Poverty Row PRC opus was thrown together in just a few weeks, in the first months of World War II. Cult…
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Colt .45
Swing back with us to 1958, when all three TV networks were crammed with westerns, each of which needed a gimmick. Wayde…
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Accidentally Preserved Volume 5
It’s what a real movie marquee might have offered in the second half of the 1920s. Disc producers Jon C. Mirsalis and…
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3 Godfathers ’48
John Ford's outlaw trio rescues an orphaned baby, evoking the sentimental innocence of silent-era westerns. With John Wayne, Ward Bond and Pedro…
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Snapshot
Pegged as a slasher-type horror, Simon Wincer's drama hews closer to the emerging 'artful' trend in Australian filmmaking -- with some of…
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They Drive by Night
Warners star power triumphs in a patched-together screen classic about the hard life of truckers on the road -- that turns into…
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Suits: The Complete Series
It was slick, glamorous, sexy -- the cable series tickled TV viewers with fantasies of Wall Street wealth and power, adding extra…
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The Dresser
The Dresser Blu-ray Viavision [Imprint] #290 1983 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 118 min. / Street Date February 28, 2024 /…
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Sayonara
This import shows what's uniquely terrific about a Home Video disc done well -- the combined audio commentaries tell us so much…
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Phase IV 4K
The celebrated filmic designer Saul Bass took on a tall cinematic challenge, directing a cerebral sci-fi thriller designed to rely heavily on…
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The President’s Analyst
Now available in a domestic Blu-ray -- if The Phone Company doesn't suppress it -- is one of the smartest, funniest political…
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LOLA
It's an 'alternate future' time warp tale of the kind that seldom works ... but this is an exception. Andrew Legge's modest…
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Noir Times 3 with Eddie G.
Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XVII 17th time is charmed! Kino's long running noir series hits a winner: all three…
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All That Money Can Buy
William Dieterle's film of Stephen Vincent Benét's Faust-like folk tale is both traditional and experimental, part of a brief wave of ambitious,…
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Faithless
Leave it to MGM to begin its dark Depression-Era pre-Code drama amid the top hat, silk gown & marble hall crowd. Talulah…
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The Playgirls and the Vampire
It's vintage, it's trashy, it's Italian. Bellissima! A vampire prowls in a castle, but all emphasis goes to cheesecake coverage of the…
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A Fistful of Dynamite
Kino reissues Sergio Leone's least loved epic, a movie he didn't want to direct but also the one with the most ambitious…
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Nothing But a Man
This dramatic masterpiece is perhaps the most accurate and compelling account of American racism in the 1960s, despite being made by two…
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The Shootist
John Wayne's final movie is a somber, blood-soaked farewell trimmed with sentimental guest-star cameos and closing-the-book gestures. Wayne is terrific as the…