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Lust for a Vampire
Courageous disc boutique Scream Factory takes on one of Hammer's biggest embarrassments, that almost everyone connected to it would like to disown.…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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Death in the Garden (Mort en ce Jardin)
Finally out on Blu-ray in Region A, Luis Buñuel’s beautiful color adventure is a worthy jungle tale shot through with his signature…
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The Reptile
Hammer's attempt at a budget monster romp for 1966 isn't quite as good as its sister film Plague of the Zombies, but…
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Merrill’s Marauders
Is this Samuel Fuller's biggest production? He tries to convey the harrowing reality of a military campaign that tested the limits of…
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Weird Science
Woo Hoo! We're girl-starved teen nerds, and we're cooking up our own living sex toy with our home computers! John Hughes turns…
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Pin Up Girl
Personality is everything in the movies — even in the Golden Age, plenty of film performers ‘clicked’ for reasons having nothing to…
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Alphaville
My teenage introduction to art film culture was something of a science fiction auteur detour (R2-D2?). I discovered Alphaville at a tiny…
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This Island Earth
"The supreme excitement of our time! Challenging the unearthly furies of an outlaw planet!" Big-budget space opera finally came to movie screens,…
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Jet Pilot
John Wayne! Janet Leigh! Nifty jet-age flying sequences! Goofy, bad-taste sex jokes! Hans Conreid as a chortling Russian army officer! Howard…
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The BRD Trilogy
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's national epic tells the story of Germany's 'economic miracle' recovery through the experiences of three strong women, each resilient…
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Footlight Parade
This amazing Busby Berkeley extravaganza is the best choice to impress newbies to pre-Code musical madness: it is absolutely irresistible. James Cagney's…
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Mothra
Toho's fabulous, kid-safe Kaiju spectacle about the super-moth from Infant Island might be a stealth Cold War fairy tale. Kids respond to…
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Gone to Earth / The Wild Heart
Classic cinematics from first-rank filmmakers. No ballet or heroism, so not a crowd pleaser, but Michael Powell's original version of Gone to…
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These Are the Damned
"Kinder der Eisigen Dunkelheit!" If those words don't give you a chill, you may be one of 'The Damned.' Joseph Losey's fascinatingly…
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Hold Back the Dawn
All hail Olivia de Havilland, America's longest living movie star. The more de Havilland pictures we see, the more we admire her…
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Hidden behind the membership-only barrier of The Disney Movie Club is a long-delayed, long-missed key feature from The Mouse, Walt's masterful super-production…
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Le Doulos
Auteurist film books from the early '70s touted the crime pictures of Jean-Pierre Melville, a Yankeephile Frenchman who chose a new name…
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Morituri
Marlon Brando had few if any hits in the 1960s, but this wartime spy picture is a not-bad thriller with some tense…
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The Golden Arrow
It's Tab Hunter as you've never seen him before! Antonio Margheriti's limp but colorful Arabian Nights adventure romance is a real head-scratcher…
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War and Peace (1966)
Amazing! Colossal! And it's good, too! 'Gone With the Wind' is a tempest in a teacup compared to this jaw-dropping adaptation of…
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The Silent Partner
The absolute best small scale 'perfect crime' thriller has nail-biting suspense, humor, sexy scenes, a shocking violent scene and apparently a terrific…
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Cinderella
After five years of combining animated short subjects, and a combo live-action/animation feature, Disney dove into full feature animation fantasy again with…
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The Running Man (1963)
Sir Carol Reed takes on a movie about insurance fraud in sunny Spain -- with a great trio of actors for 1963.…
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The Bostonians
Henry James novels have made terrific movies; this precise, strongly-felt adaptation expresses interior feelings that James -- the master of ambiguity --…
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A Patch of Blue
Sidney Poitier's films of the 1950s and '60s almost always put a statement about race in the forefront, and even when the…
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Earthquake
1974 was ground zero for a 7.0 magnitude shaker on the clumsy, kitschy disaster-movie Richter Scale with Universal's ambitious, tossed-together epic of…