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Screamers
Screaming, flying 'Autonomous Mobile Swords' have decimated the enemy in a war on a far-off planet, but now the pesky smart weapons…
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The Last Command
The 'other' Hollywood studio version of the Alamo story is quite good, with strong production values, exciting stunt battle action and something…
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Forty Guns
Cult favorite Samuel Fuller explodes the mid-range Hollywood oater with elements we can all appreciate: a ritualistic fetishizing of the gunslinger ethos,…
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The Wasp Woman
Roger and Gene Corman's first 'The Filmgroup' production is a slick little programmer that belies its drive-in monster movie heritage: the trim…
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Bent
Too edgy for the mainstream, Martin Sherman's influential play is nevertheless transformed into an admirable, well-crafted show. In Hitler's Berlin of 1934,…
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The Prize
Already eclipsed by James Bond and sexier European films, Paul Newman does his best to energize this derivative but lively spy-chase thriller…
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Willie Dynamite
Here's something I never expected to see: I ran to the blaxploitation attraction Willie Dynamite because I like actress Diana Sands, and…
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Foxfire
Jane Russell heats up an Arizona mining town but she's just trying to help her new husband with his ethnic identity issues,…
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Panique
For directing skill and sensual sophistication this psychologically intense murder tale equals or betters the most sophisticated American noirs. Julien Duvivier gives…
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Symbiotic Earth
Just when we thought the world was doomed by the rejection of scientific rationalism, this lecture docu about the theories and discoveries…
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The Black Windmill
Secret agent Michael Caine must take on both the kidnappers of his son and his own suspect Army Intelligence colleagues in Don…
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CineSavant 2018 Favored Disc Roundup
CineSavant 2018 Favored Disc Roundup Savant picks The Most Impressive Blu-rays and DVDs of 2018 Welcome again to the most self-indulgent list…
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Anne of the Thousand Days
A movie for people who don't normally like costume dramas about kings and queens, this adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play is great…
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Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock's nearly perfect romantic spy thriller teams Cary Grant with Ingrid Bergman to yield just what audiences wanted in 1946, an…
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness
How to shake up a mid-sixties slump at Hammer Films? It's back to basics time, with Christopher Lee returning in a most…
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The True Story of Jesse James
Nicholas Ray's CinemaScope detour into outlaw Americana is yet another sincere artistic effort muffled by studio interference. Ray sought to examine a…
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The Sea Hawk
Grand action entertainment bursts forth on the high seas, showing us how much production value Golden Hollywood could lavish on an exciting,…
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Hollywood’s most tragic ‘mangled masterpiece’ gets a new lease on life with this special edition of what could have been Orson Welles’…
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The Atomic Cafe
Duck and Cover! And while you're down there, enjoy a Flaming Atomic Cocktail! Loader, Rafferty & Rafferty's influential documentary-satire uses authentic '50s…
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Dark of the Sun
It's tendon-biting combat, with guns, trains, planes, chainsaws, and an indestructible all-terrain vehicle (that still couldn't stand the potholes in the street…
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De Niro & De Palma The Early Films
No 1960s film student had more on the ball than Brian De Palma, who enlisted a smart group of collaborators to pull…
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Sawdust and Tinsel
Ingmar Bergman's 'sad comedy' finds desperation and adultery in his favorite milieu, the theater. He also gets to contrast the self-important thespians…
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Sunshine
Before TV movies were dissed with the phrase 'disease of the month,' this 1973 film surprised and moved audiences with the realistic…
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Horror of Dracula
The best of all Hammer horror pictures finally comes to Region A Blu-ray, with a bright transfer made to look like original…
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The Thing From Another World
Intrepid soldiers and scientists battle a bloodsucking alien invader at the top of the world! The Warner Archive Collection releases Howard Hawks'…
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The Outer Limits, Season Two
It’s here, the second half of the science fiction TV series from the 1960s, restored and remastered. It’s really only half a…