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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…
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Cinema of Discovery Julien Duvivier in the 1920s
If discovering brilliant filmmakers appeals, it's difficult to to better than this five-disc, nine-feature labor of recovery and restoration from Lobster films.…
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Edge of Darkness
Righteous propaganda fuels the patriotic fire: Lewis Milestone and Robert Rossen's blood-soaked ode to Norwegian resistance goes way over the top. These…
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Kitten with a Whip
Showbiz dynamo Ann-Margret tries on 'teenage hellion' for size. She terrorizes the straight, impossibly patient John Forsythe, sending him on a weekend…
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The Devil’s Men
Devil worshippers are running amuck in Greece, haven't you heard? This Greek-English horror show stars Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance, so it…
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
It's something completely different . . . a genuine obscurity, a Swiss spy fantasy from the 1960s with major appeal to fans…
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Busby Berkeley's musical comedy extravaganza not only gets away with a social message, it makes one of the best cultural statements ever…
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The Capture
It's a manhunt South of the Border -- Niven Busch's drama has violence and murder but is really a novelistic character study…
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The Brain Eaters
They're after you, and your wives and children! This Corman/VeSota/Ed Nelson shocker with the excellent poster is a Robert Heinlein knockoff that…
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Black Magic
Orson Welles in fine form! This lavishly produced costume drama, beautifully cast and directed, was filmed on location in gorgeous Italian palazzos,…