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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…
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
An MIA 'film prodigal' has been returned to the fold, thanks to this well-curated restoration and remaster. Long unavailable in good condition,…
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Stalag 17 4K
William Holden earned his Best Actor Oscar as J.J. Sefton, a POW who runs the rackets in the prisoners' barracks, and whose…
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T.R. Baskin
This overlooked and orphaned drama presents Candice Bergen as an alienated newcomer to Chicago. James Caan contributes a carefully modulated performance, and…
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World of Giants the Complete Series
Sci-fi completists and diehard fans of 'fifties TV fun will want to know about this remastered disc containing all 13 episodes of…
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The Devil-Doll
Tod Browning's final fantastic film is . . . totally bonkers. Humans are reduced in size and dispatched like zombies to take…
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The Giant Gila Monster + The Killer Shrews
Behold this mindless monster duo from the Feelin' Fine summer of '59, Texas- produced and ready to tear up drive-in screens. THE…
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The Edge of the World
Wow, this truly inspirational film sees modern realities vanquishing a traditional way of life -- and doesn't pull the usual reverential heartstrings.…
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The Night Runner
Somebody at Universal-International had a good, fresh idea for a psychologically-based murder thriller -- but was the studio system not conducive to…
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Paramount Scares Collection Vol 1 – 4K
Paramount's contribution to Halloween '23 -- and its signal of support for hard video media -- comes in the form of this…
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Videodrome 4K
David Cronenberg's most out-there ick-thriller precedes 30 years of weaker blow-your-mind sci-fi 'mind evolution' sagas, Matrices, etc.. It's the scary truth: humanity…
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Douglas Fairbanks Collection
We were already big fans of Douglas Fairbanks' fantastic silent The Thief of Bagdad; this double-bill disc gives us excellent encodings of…
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Beast from Haunted Cave + Ski Troop Attack
The latest double feature from the new label Film Masters yields two thrillers from dynamo producer Roger Corman, filmed in snowy South…
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Tombs of the Blind Dead
The skeletal claws of the DEAD reach out at us from Franco-era Spanish horror, where cruelty and oppression seem built into every…
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Salem’s Lot
Yes, it's a review of a 7 year-old disc release, but we're tired of waiting for new Halloween movies! We seize the…
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Nevada Smith
Big budget westerns from the past are looking better than ever -- the fine cinematography and big-star casts dazzle as contemporary films…
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Haunted Samurai
Let's pop back once again to take in an old-fashioned Lone Samurai saga -- this one's worth it. Preceding the Lone Wolf…
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Carlito’s Way 4K
Stylish and energetic, this gangster saga from Brian De Palma and David Koepp is solid both in characters and genre action. It's…