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Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 3
There may still be people unaware of the anarchic joy of Tex Avery, so we're making it our business to enlighten them.…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Captains of the Clouds
Michael Curtiz's flashy and splashy wartime morale booster began as a pre-Pearl Harbor show of support of our Canadian friends' contribution to…
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Broken Lullaby
The lasting horror of war is the blight it leaves on the lives of those left behind. Early sound pictures tried to…
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Ordinary People
This celebrated dysfunctional family story won four Oscars, the most deserved easily being Alvin Sargent's superb adapted screenplay. The viewer buzz initially…
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Le cercle rouge 4K
Jean-Pierre Melville in 4K? That's an inviting idea. All of Melville crime pictures are memorable, and this is one of his best-remembered,…
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Shakedown 1950
There's always somebody new in the rat race trenches whose motto is 'how to make friends and deceive people.' Howard Duff's photographer…
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RoboCop 4K
Arrow Video bumps yet another of its top special edition titles up to 4K Ultra HD, just for home theater enthusiasts after…
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Outrage
The only woman director to work in Hollywood in the 1950s, Ida Lupino earned full marks as a creative innovator and a…
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The Flight of the Phoenix
Now up for grabs in Region A, it's the Robert Aldrich movie that wins over all that see it. The epitome of…
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A Star is Born 1937
They've hit us with three remakes of this one, one about another actress and two about music stars -- maybe the next…
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The Godfather Trilogy 4K
The most prestigious franchise in the Paramount corral hasn't dimmed in esteem or popularity despite its somewhat lesser third installment. The whole…
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The big-scale Cinerama fantasy once thought unrecoverable is back -- a terrific restoration brings us George Pal's ode to fairy tales, filmed…
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What Color is Green Hell?
There’s nothing so good as being able to consult people who know more than we do, who deal in facts and can…
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The Devil Strikes at Night
It's the most impressive 'new' movie we've seen this year: Robert Siodmak's 1957 political thriller fictionalizes a true mass murder case in…
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Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was the most prolific of the New Wave directors. He didn't only do murder thrillers; this fine selection of Chabrols…
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Monster from Green Hell
Fondly remembered as a permanent resident on all-night movie channels, this patchwork concoction has just enough 'good stuff' to qualify as a…
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Expresso Bongo
Showbiz in Soho is artificial, gaudy and vulgar, but Laurence Harvey's slick promoter-con man thinks he can cheat at the pop music…
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An American Werewolf in London 4K
The smash hit monster-gore popcorn flick comes to 4K Ultra HD two years and four months after a deluxe Blu-ray, so we…
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Shake Hands with The Devil
Fierce Irish rebels go head-to-head with Brit occupation forces, and James Cagney is first on the barricades. Michael Anderson's thriller about terror…
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Delta Space Mission
It's an animated outer space adventure from Romania, made in the Cold War era but minus political messages. Old-school cel animation techniques…
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Love Affair (1939)
"This picture is perfect, end of review." That may not be 100% true, but Leo McCarey's unabashed leap into romantic Nirvana really…
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A Time for Dying
It's the final theatrical western of the legendary director Budd Boetticher, and he also wrote the screenplay! Ace cinematographer Lucien Ballard…
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Written on the Wind
"I'm filthy -- period!" With an ideal cast -- Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone -- director Douglas Sirk…
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Village of the Giants
Bert I. Gordon's career groove of shrinking and bloating various animals and people bottoms out in this trashy drive-in groaner: it's colorful…
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Repeat Performance
Who Shot Barney? Or should we say, who is going to shoot Barney? Chalk up another excellent Noir Rescue by The Film…
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Classic Mexican Horrors
La Llorona and El Fantasma del Convento: conceived as Mexican horror fables for Mexican audiences, these expressionist gems tap indigenous cultural riches…