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All Through the Night
We've rediscovered a new favorite from the Warner corral, a bright action comedy that raised spirits when America needed it most, fewer…
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The Bubble
The Bubble is back, new but somewhat the same: the 3-D Archive restores an original cut, extending the running time by 21…
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Threads
Back in 1984, England was terrorized by this special TV event. The apocalypse begins with trouble in Iraq. Maybe the last thing…
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Flight
Here's a picture from a decade ago that holds up well. It's another accomplished performance from Denzel Washington, who showed nary a…
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Macao
Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell light up the Portuguese colony, but on the studio backlot: mogul Howard Hughes hired the great Josef…
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The Elephant Man
Are you ready to see what 4K resolution and contrast do to high-quality B&W cinematography? David Lynch's most humane and sympathetic film…
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Mars Attacks!
One of Tim Burton's most creative pictures abandons his morbid-lite focus to find big fun in comic Sci-fi spectacle, a 'Mad, Mad,…
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Body Snatchers
The film adaptations of Jack Finney's book The Body Snatchers score rather well -- almost all of them are very good. For…
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Random Harvest
James Hilton's mystery romance takes audiences by surprise: IT'S GOOD. It might begin as a stack of cliché elements, but the development…
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World Noir Volume 5
So you think life is tough where you are? ... these three Italian crime tales teach a lesson beyond noir, that hope…
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Raoul Walsh's four-masted seagoing epic is an ambitious Technicolor production, a Hollywood film made in Europe. Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo bring…
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The Sheep Detectives
Different is Good in this pleasant, sometimes silly rural fantasy in which talking animals solve a crime. No, no, no ... it…
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Crime Wave
André de Toth's sordid crime tale is tops in all departments. Tough cop Sterling Hayden suspects parolee Gene Nelson of being in…
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Money From Home
Blu-ray 3-D should never die -- and they need to bring the players and monitors back! The latest and most polished vintage…
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The Deadly Companions
To put Sam Peckinpah's directing in better perspective, completists ought to catch up with this independently produced oater, his first credited feature.…
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Wonder of wonders -- restored to HD, Warners' ode to high art generates big magic through Shakepeare's giddy romantic comedy. Newcomer Olivia…
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Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson's second breakthrough film and the first to show his dramatic range is Bob Rafelson and Carole Eastman's portrait of an…
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The War Game
Severin Slays with disc virtuosity ... by reaching into the BBC archives for a 4K remaster of Peter Watkins' searing 'documentary' of…
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The Seventh Cross
For his third feature film Fred Zinnemann scored big with a grim story of Nazi terror that finally took note of the…
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Abandon Ship
Sony surprises us with another fine 4K upgrade for an unheralded classic in the Columbia library. It's a shipwreck survival tale that…
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A Man Named Rocca
This early starring feature for Jean-Paul Belmondo co-stars him with Christine Kaufmann in an episodic crime tale. One friend tries to spring…
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Oh! What a Lovely War — Import
Pacifism goes Panavision and color in Richard Attenborough's first directorial effort, a musical epic of the tragedy of World War One. The…
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Walk a Tightrope
Dan Duryea's slimy killer fesses up to a cold-blooded murder, but insists that the victim's wife Patricia Owens hired him to do…
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Harryhausen comes at last to 4K Ultra HD! We hoped that the improved scan would bring out more to see in the…
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Red Sun
The creative part of this international genre hybrid was assembling its dynamite all-star cast. The concept is unbeatable: what kid doesn't want…
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Stavisky
Alain Resnais' historical drama of the notorious l'affaire Stavisky is one of his most accessible movies. Producer-star Jean-Paul Belmondo was fascinated by…