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Tarzan the Ape Man
Hopefully this release is just the beginning of a new series of WAC Tarzan remasters. The original pre-Code classic has everything we…
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Devil’s Partner + Creature from the Haunted Sea
A pact with Satan! A pop-eyed sea monster! The lurid artwork for this fairly obscure 1961 horror double bill looks like adult…
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The film adaptation of Mordecai Richler's book retains the original's richness and feeling for character, thanks to fine direction by Ted Kotcheff…
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Oppenheimer 4K
Christopher Nolan's biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a welcome departure from present film trends. The story of the 'father' of the…
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Essential Film Noir Collection 5
An eclectic stack of B&W thrillers -- Island of Doomed Men, The Red Menace, The Burglar, and 13 West Street -- is…
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The Warriors 4K
This is a Christmas movie? The 1980s began early with this high-concept, edgy-but-silly urban fantasy dreamed up by Walter Hill when an…
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Blast of Silence
This once-obscure item has accumulated a solid cult following. Allen Baron writes, directs and stars in a gritty on-the-streets tale of a…
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The Life of Emile Zola
Does it Creak? Not at all. Paul Muni brings this revered biographical drama to life, even if it's less about Zola and…
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Diamond Head
Take a full-blown soap opera and add scenery to die for . . . statehood brings changes to the islands, and a…
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The Last Picture Show 4K
Peter Bogdanovich's crowning achievement gets the 4K nod from Criterion, with additional Blu-ray extras plus the entire belated sequel Texasville -- in…
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The Quatermass Experiment
It's the one and only original Hammer Sci-fi thriller that changed the genre, inspiring good filmmakers and copycats alike. Val Guest adapts…
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Our Town (1940)
A new video remaster makes us want to ring bells -- ClassicFlix's improvement over earlier eyesore discs is like night and day.…
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The Exiles
Take a trip to Los Angeles in the late 1950s . . . but to the low-rent district of Bunker Hill, where…
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The Last Tycoon
Elia Kazan and Harold Pinter's classy adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel looks and plays better than ever, with a fine…
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Queen of Outer Space
"I hate her! I hate dat qveen!" Despite being one of the most maladroit sci-fiers of the '50s, color and 'scope and…
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Messiah of Evil
How did two hot film students pass the time while waiting to become immortal as the writers of American Graffiti? Gloria Katz…
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The Terror + The Little Shop of Horrors
"Feed Me!" Female ghosts and man-eating plants! It's another good disc of Roger Corman favorites, especially for collectors hungry for an improved…
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Dance, Fools, Dance
In this racy MGM pre-Code, the stock market crash dumps society playgirl Joan Crawford into the working class. She toils at a…
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Hustle (1975)
Robert Aldrich's second hardboiled detective tale is filtered through Steve Shagan's style of whining nostalgia. Cop Burt Reynolds wants to fix his…
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Days of Heaven 4K
Terrence Malick and Néstor Almendros rewrote the rule books for imagery and narrative on this story of quiet desperation in the agrarian…
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Le combat dans L’île
'The Fight on the Island' Nine years before Bertolucci's The Conformist, Jean-Louis Trintignant played another right-wing zealot dispatched on a murder mission.…
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Barbarella 4K
It says so in the song: when Barbarella and I get together the planets all stand still! Arrow and Paramount bring Roger…
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Terms of Endearment 4K
Everybody likes this picture. James L. Brooks' major hit movie, adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry, charts the rocky relationship of…
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The Great Train Robbery
Adventuresome crime generates high thrills in Michael Crichton's entertaining heist picture, adapted from his own novel set in 1855. Charming crook Sean…
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Have you heard The Word, NASA? The other name for Mars is Death. The nifty screenplay by Sci-fi scribe Jerome Bixby lends…
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The Scarlet Letter ’34
Hollywood's first talkie version of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic was also the final film of silent superstar Colleen Moore. The dramatization of…