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The Hallelujah Trail
John Sturges' Road Show comedy western has more in common with 1941 than The Magnificent Seven, but Kino has MGM's new remaster…
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Reservoir Dogs 4K
Quentin Tarantino's first feature may not be to all tastes, but it is an admirable feat of commercial filmmaking -- what other…
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El vampiro negro
The Black Vampire! The most impressive Spanish-language noir restoration yet, Román Viñoly Barreto's superior serial murder thriller hails from 1953 Argentina. It…
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Warning Shot
This mid-60s detective story has the right ingredients -- a good mystery and interesting characters. David Jannsen gets to play a 'Bosch'-…
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French Noir Collection
Hungry for those wet Parisian streets, the city lights, and cadavres en lambeaux in the pale moonlight? Enter three highly atmospheric, star-studded…
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Putney Swope
The New York Underground invaded the mainstream with Robert Downey Sr.'s completely irreverent Madison Avenue satire, in which a token black executive…
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Ulzana’s Raid
Robert Aldrich gives the Cavalry Western a rough going-over in this brutal, unforgiving horror-western. Burt Lancaster gets in a fine late-career action…
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Silent Running 4K
Newly remastered in 4K! Bruce Dern's (literally) tree-hugging forest ranger Freeman Lowell commits space piracy to save the trees, dude, and becomes…
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Storm Center
The first movie to directly confront McCarthyism! Or so said the editorials touting this 'Long-Awaited Screen Event' in which 'Bette Davis Hits…
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Going Places
Bertrand Blier's edgy romp about a pair of ne'er-do-well petty-crooks will go too far for many viewers -- they're antisocially chauvinistic in…
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Blue Hawaii 4K
Elvis Presley's handlers found the formula that would keep his stardom solvent through the 1960s in this well-confected, calculatedly vacant star vehicle…
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WALL•E 4K
Pixar's save-the-world eco-epic actually begins with the world destroyed, before a pair of cute robots help put it back together again. Andrew…
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Le Soldatesse
Rarovideo is back, with an excellent Italo war drama that finds humanist values in an appalling situation: a young Italian lieutenant is…
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Universal Noir #1 Collection
Powerhouse Indicator's first foray into the Universal library yields six noir thrillers, all crime-related and all different: the list introduces us to…
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The Diamond Wizard 3-D
Yet another 3-D Blu-ray treat -- the 3-D Film Archive restores a rare English production, an international crime tale in 3-D. Dennis…
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I, the Jury (1953) 4K + 3-D
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer hit the big screen early in the 3-D craze, in a much tamed-down adaptation. The camera legend John…
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Lonelyhearts
Dore Schary's post-MGM personal production is a class act in every respect -- Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan and Myrna Loy are well…
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Die Nackte und der Satan (The Head)
Another classic-era Eurohorror title has surfaced on Blu-ray. Straight from the exploitation trenches of postwar Germany, this elusive opus jangles plenty of…
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La Llorona (2019)
With human justice absent in the awful political bloodshed in Central America, Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamente finds payback in cinematic fantasy. A…
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Zerograd
A truly fascinating rarity from the U.S.S.R., Karen Shahknazarov's wickedly droll satire proves that the country Reagan called an 'Evil Empire' was…
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Cutter’s Way
Ivan Passer's superb coda to the '60s counterculture generation now enjoys a formidable reputation; this new Fun City Editions release packs it…
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Still by far the best adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story, Paramount's glossy pre-Code is also one of the most prestigious…
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Night of the Living Dead 4K
Anticipating new interest in one of the most influential horror films of all time, Criterion gives George Romero's zombie classic the boost…
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House of Psychotic Women
Severin's October offerings include this investigation of Euro-weirdness curated with academic purpose and clarity by Kier-La Janisse, evoking the name of her…
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The Raid (1954)
This Civil War thriller has so much that's truthful to say about War, Patriotism and combatant-vs.-civilian terror that we can hardly believe…
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Creatures the World Forgot
Yes, it's Hammer's grimy rags 'n' rock prehistoric saga, the notorious third caveman vs. dinosaurs spectacle that has no dinosaurs, leaving the…