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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Hiding in a box marked Noir is one of Universal's horror-adjacent '40s mystery thrillers, in a terrific new transfer. The talky adaptation…
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All failed revolutionaries take heart: the Taviani brothers' downbeat yet creatively magical story of the wrong rebels in the wrong insurrection at…
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McCabe & Mrs Miller 4K
Warren Beatty and Julie Christie help Robert Altman fashion one of his best pictures, a story of the Building of the West…
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Contagion 4K
If any motion picture can still be called important, this one qualifies. Scott Z. Burns and Steve Soderbergh's superb 'extrapolated' pandemic thriller…
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Cause for Alarm!
It's a micro-scaled domestic noir: Loretta Young's frantic housewife is tormented by a deranged husband, an invalid gone paranoid and determined to…
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The Roaring Twenties
It's all about James Cagney -- his every expression commands our attention. Writer Mark Hellinger recaps a decade of gangster tropes in…
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Blood on the Sun
Now it can be told -- even if it's total fiction! James Cagney takes his rough & tumble ways to Tokyo to…
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Afire
Aka Roter Himmel. Christian Petzold's movie wields a big impact on a deceptively modest scale. The problems of a young man sharing…
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Burn, Witch, Burn
What is worse, a demon from hell or academic politics? One destroys your soul with unimaginable horror, and the other involves the…
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Red Planet Mars
Faith-based madness! This 1952 sci-fi thriller is not a space opera, but a talky propaganda sermon. Peter Graves and Andrea King exchange…
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 4K
Big stars, big action and a big sky canvas give Hal Wallis' super-western everything we love in vintage oaters. Burt Lancaster &…
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Gentleman Jim
This near-perfect Errol Flynn movie became a timeless classic the moment it hit television. The story of boxer Jim Corbett stands as…
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Blood Simple
Neo-noir hit big in this breakthrough thriller from the Coen Bros., with a new kind of hardboiled rural naturalism. A lonely dive…
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The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
What's the Czech word for eccentric? Oldrich Lipský's comic fantasy ribs 1890s thriller conventions in a story that combines gothic romance, sci-fi…
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He Walked by Night
The little studio Eagle-Lion Films was at the forefront of noir violence in 1948, skating on the edge to tell the story…
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 4K
Michael Cimino must have impressed Clint Eastwood -- the screenplay for this tough guy crime caper was so good, Eastwood didn't mind…
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Conan the Barbarian 4K
We kids ogled the '60s pocketbook covers that promised forbidden adult content, but a full-blown sword & sorcery Conan film adaptation wouldn't…
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House of Bamboo
This isn't a new disc; you might not even be able to find a copy. We're reposting a 2015 review because its…
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The Facts of Murder
The homicide detective in Pietro Germi's classic thriller knows the score: "A crime investigation is like when you lift a stone and…
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The Outside Man
Jean-Louis Trintignant's reluctant gambler and Roy Scheider's professional hit man shoot it out in the streets of Los Angeles in Jacques Deray's…
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Two War films by Lewis Gilbert
Fans of Brit war fare will like these mid-'50s look-backs at daring exploits in uniform, directed by Lewis Gilbert. Albert R.N. is…
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Cabin in the Sky
One of the most entertaining musicals ever, MGM's 'All Black' Broadway extravaganza wins over audiences with its big heart, tuneful song list…
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Lone Star 4K
Texas becomes a battleground for change: the law 'n' order image of the Texas Rangers, the attitudes of established immigrants, a soldier…
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Jinnah
And we thought we'd seen everything good from Christopher Lee! This rarely-seen national epic gives him a highly unusual role as Mohammed…
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Tomorrow may only be 'A Day Away,' but the important thing to remember is that it is a bleak gamble. Harry Belafonte…
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Castle of Blood (Danza Macabra) 4K
Wow, Severin's killer 4K restoration boosts Antonio Margheriti's bloodsucking ghost chiller nearer the apex of classic gothic Eurohorror. Barbara Steele seduces, swoons…