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The Last Sunset
Kirk Douglas and Rock Hudson can't quite bring this all-star western fully to life, even with Robert Aldrich at the helm and…
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The Silence of the Lambs 4K
The best horror film of the 1990s and perhaps the only serial killer picture post- Psycho that can stand on equal terms…
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As Good As It Gets
Once upon a time a movie could really send you out of the theater with a smile on your face (Don't make…
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The Damned (La caduta degli dei)
Sex and swastikas! -- that combo shows up in both trash cinema and high art. Luchino Visconti's searing look at Nazi corruption…
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Hot Saturday
Core pre-Code excellence! This movie delivers sexy situations while nailing small town intolerance and hypocrisy. When push comes to shove, the slighted…
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Vera Cruz
Hollywood's most macho liberals pack this action western with cheating, double crosses, rampant greed, uncouth heroes and decadent sneering villains... and that's…
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Dementia 13 Director’s Cut
One of the best director debuts of the 1960s is Francis Coppola's earnest effort to deliver a marketable thriller to producer Roger…
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The Straight Story
Alvin Straight is not the twisted David Lynch character audiences expected... he's a well-adjusted old Iowan with the same kinds of regrets…
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Mona Lisa
Bucking the trends for '80s crime films, Neil Jordan's tale of a low-rung hood attached to a 'complicated' call girl becomes a…
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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…