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Prince of the City
Sidney Lumet's harrowing film is a true-life account of a NY narcotics detective- turned government informant; its length and intensity can be…
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Columbia Noir #4
Powerhouse Indicator moves forward to their fourth fancy box of noirs from the studio of Harry Cohn, six pictures stretching from the…
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Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman (Part 1)
Yes, sometimes a producer could earn 'auteur' status making B pictures. A name that's never going to be uttered in the same…
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The Heroes of Telemark
Any WW2 action adventure involving the Norwegian resistance is OK in my book, and this big-star saga about sabotage efforts to stop…
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The Grifters
Every once in a while a movie makes me think, 'this one's too good to review, just tell them to see it…
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Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri Eccellenti)
It's yet another masterpiece from the Italian director Francesco Rosi, adapting a fiction novel about a political murder conspiracy that is altogether…
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A Life at Stake
It's low-rent Noir A Go-Go: Angela Lansbury is a double-crossing femme fatale in this independent cheapie with modest charms. You can't trust…
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Dune 4K
Ignored, maligned and hammered out into an 'Alan Smithee' extended cut for TV, David Lynch's outstanding Sci-fi epic arrives on 4K Ultra…
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Peter Ibbetson
Surreal delirium in cinema! Gary Cooper and Ann Harding are a tragic romantic pair, but even when separated by space, time and…
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Corruption
Foreseeing a relaxation of censorship on the horizon, England's Titan Films filmed this mad surgery opus with far more gore and cruelty…
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Union Pacific
Cecil B. DeMille delivers a satisfying western epic starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy & Akim Tamiroff; the story…
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Rancho Deluxe
Another unexpected comic treasure from the mid '70s! Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston make an irresistible pair of would-be outlaws in a…
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The Blind Beast (Moju)
Yasuzo Masumura takes horror into kinky territory in an Edogawa Ranpo shocker about obsession, namely, mixing sex and death. Michio is the…
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Silver Screams Cinema
It's a collection of 6 -- count 'em Six -- horror and sci-fi curiosities from the '40s and '50s, aimed straight at…
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Ashes and Diamonds
Andrzej Wajda's most celebrated film in the West is a serious thriller about doubt and corruption in a Poland 'liberated' by the…
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F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer
"Es ist eine schwimmende Plattform!" Here's something for committed Sci-fi followers, a lavish German production with big drama, big emotions, and impressive,…
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Counterblast
A review for a movie not on video disc. CineSavant bears down hard on a now-obscure UK thriller that proves a crossroads…
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Line of Demarcation
Claude Chabrol's 'minor' wartime drama is one of the best movies of its kind I've seen. A French town under German rule…
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Objective, Burma!
Errol Flynn goes to war! One of the last major direct-combat pictures to come out of Hollywood during the war, Raoul Walsh's…
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Thunderbolt
This 'dawn of sound' classic from Josef Sternberg is an important early entry in the gangster genre, a romanticized tale of urban…
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Step by Step
More or less ignored for 75 years, this curious 'B' program picture now finds its way directly to a Warner Archive Blu-ray…
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Master of the World
One of Jules Verne's most popular sci-fi fantasies got the big screen treatment from American-International, which hopped on the Verne bandwagon that…
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4K
The newest addition to the stable of horror and sci-fi on Ultra HD is Dario Argento's debut feature, the game-changer that launched…
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La Piscine
It's French! It's hot! Jacques Deray's most unusual film is an intimate, minimalist murder story that digs deep into the affairs of…
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Ziegfeld Follies
Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean…
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Flight to Mars
The Wade Williams Collection yields more '50s sci-fi, Monogram Pictures' ambitious space travel movie filmed in glorious green-challenged Cinecolor. Cameron Mitchell and…