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Night of the Demon
A top horror title gets the Powerhouse Indicator treatment just in time for Halloween -- it's not a domestic release but it…
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Dracula A.D. 1972
Dracula and Van Helsing seem more than a little confused, fighting the good fight of virtue against evil in a modern setting…
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Shampoo
Beverly Hills 1968 -- Sunset Blvd., The Strip, The Bistro, the haze in the Hollywood Hills -- where a lowly hairdresser-stud is…
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Les Parents Terribles
Jean Cocteau's film work wasn't limited to fairy tales and art-house fantasies; this adaptation of his hit play shows us fine theater…
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
A super-classic receives a super 'Olive Signature' Blu-ray release. CineSavant clears up some online rumors complaining that the disc producers didn't do…
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The Swarm
It's time to celebrate the Irwin Allen disaster epics for what they are -- huge, indigestible spectacles that first seem funny and…
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The Official Story
Political terror hits home, as a Buenos Aires teacher and housewife discovers that her family life is not only a lie, it's…
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Trilogy of Terror
The 70s brought forth some well-remembered TV horror movies, that shocked impressionable kids back in the days of Watergate and Sonny &…
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The Last Hurrah
In the last decade of his career, John Ford produced and directed this ode to crony politics, with Spencer Tracy as an…
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Scenes from a Marriage
The marital discord in this show is a different animal than those Italian romps with Loren and Mastroianni -- Ingmar Bergman's miniseries…
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Joseph W. Sarno Retrospect Series 4
Let the debate about the incompatibility of film art and screen eroticism commence: Joe Sarno is back! His 1964 Sin in the…
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The Naked Prey
An excellent example of a thriller that improves with age, Cornel Wilde's survival tale is a lean 'n' mean exercise in first-person…
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The Bravados
Gregory Peck slips into vengeance mode full-tilt, riding down a quartet of blackhearted knaves: rapist Stephen Boyd, ambusher Albert Salmi, sneaky Lee…
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
One of the most jeered-at, overcooked sequels of all time thoroughly deserves its reputation as a train wreck of a movie. In…
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry's play has been given a masterful film adaptation, with the emotional truth of her words left intact. We're told of…
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Looker
It's always fun to peruse the impressive career of writer-director Michael Crichton, whose brilliant, commercially savvy ideas so often hit the mark.…
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The Cyclops
He's back -- looking meaner and uglier than ever! Bert I. Gordon's early sci-fi effort shapes up as a surprisingly entertaining monster…
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The Mind of Mr. Soames
Amicus tries for class-act science fiction: lifelong coma sleeper Terence Stamp is revived as an 'adult baby' and must be educated in…
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The Trip to Bountiful
Horton Foote strikes again, with a warm and thoughtful tale of life as it was lived in East Texas in 1950. Geraldine…
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Death in Small Doses
This '50s drug epic is not about hopheads on dope but working folk frying their brains on amphetamines. Peter Graves' undercover narc…
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My Man Godfrey
For my money this is the brightest, most endearing and wittiest '30s comedy to be given the name 'screwball.' Everyone on screen…
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The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann's counter-assassination thriller remains topflight filmmaking, torn from reality and shot through with an unsentimental dose of political realism. Edward Fox's…
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Sangaree (3-D)
'3rd Dimension!' 'Technicolor!' Paramount underwent a difficult post-production learning curve getting this early entry in the 3-D craze out the door and…
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
The Film Noir Foundation has helped revive yet another difficult-to-see noir gem -- the murder cover-up tale begins with a shooting in…
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The Farmer’s Daughter
A solid mainstream hit for 1947, Loretta Young and Joseph Cotten's political fairy tale maintains its charm despite the usual populist dodges…
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The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's magnum opus fully expresses what might be called his 'Unified Theory' of cinema -- which embraces the human experience from…