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Columbia Noir #1
Region B Blu-ray-capable noir fans have a formidable six-pack of noir crime pictures on tap: a WW2 espionage thriller, two caper pix…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Daughters of Darkness
Finally, a horror shocker that needs to make no excuses! Harry Kümel's interpretation of the Elizabeth Báthory legend excels in all departments…
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Dementia
This bizarre, creepy and maudit masterpiece of silent expressionist horror is an independent 1950s production that never had a chance commercially. Butchered…
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Shock Treatment
French filmmaker Alain Jessua comes up with a commercial thriller with a science-fiction, medical horror twist. Alain Delon and Annie Girardot don't…
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Lucía
The Cuban masterpiece has been restored, and is now viewable on the Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project 3 boxed set. Humberto Solás'…
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I, Monster
It's Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing together in a horror picture, a formula no shock feature fan can resist. Most of us…
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The Hit
If you like Euro-crime and haven't seen this one you're in for a real treat. English killers are on the road in…
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Joe Kidd
Clint Eastwood proves again that he Owns the western genre with this odd tale of land reform insurrection and establishment blowback, in…
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The Opposite Sex
This CinemaScope musical remake of 1939's The Women is highly watchable, especially in this flawless digital remaster. The actresses that bare their…
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Claudine
Easily the best family-oriented black experience movie of the early 1970s, the Third World Cinema Corporation's first film features Diahann Carroll and…
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DeepStar Six
This big, expensive and well-produced action-suspense Sci-fi epic mostly delivers on its promise to be Aliens at the bottom of the sea.…
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The Ipcress File
It's finally back on Blu in Region 1, the 'sixties spy movie beloved by enthusiasts that yearned for something a bit more…
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Brute Force
If you have to name ONE movie that's not likely to ever be screened in a prison, this one's a good bet.…
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The Secret Ways
Producer-star Richard Widmark may have thought he was inventing a new kind of spy film but his adaptation of an Alistair MacLean…
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A Place in the Sun
A bona fide film classic, George Stevens' movie is less revered as an excellent adaptation of Theodore Dreiser than for its intense,…
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S.O.S. Titanic
TV's 1979 Titanic movie comes to Blu in two versions. We liked it when new but didn't care for the cut-down theatrical…
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Sergeant York
Ya like quality pro-intervention propaganda? Warners' filmic call to arms inspired America's reluctant warriors via a superhuman feat by a highly decorated…
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The Face at the Window
And now for something we had read about but never before saw: Tod Slaughter's highly entertaining murder thriller is stylized in a…
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Warning from Space
Sci-fi alert! New classic science fiction discoveries are rare these days, which makes Arrow's rejuvenation of Japan's first science fiction tale in…
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Curse of the Undead
Ride 'em, rope 'em, bite 'em? Is this 'Dracula Goes West,' or 'Fangs of the High Chapparal?' The fading Universal-International house of…
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Eve
Is Joseph Losey's elusive, maudit masterpiece really a masterpiece? Stanley Baker's foolish lout of a writer ruins his life pursuing the wanton…
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The Elephant Man
Why is it that, when a horror film achieves something special, both the critics and the public tend to elevate it above…
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
It's a perfect movie for a dark time: Carlo Levi's famed novel about a political undesirable became a major Italian miniseries by…
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Lord Love a Duck
This mid-'sixties black comedy from the mischievous George Axelrod defines and dissects 'crazy California culture' just as West Coasters were being slandered…
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The Carpetbaggers
It's lurid, it's soapy, it's forbidden: where does the line form? Joseph E. Levine made hay from Harold Robbins' best seller, with…
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Love Me Tonight
Does a musical have to have big dance numbers, glorious cinematography and stereophonic sound? I agree with a consensus of critics and…