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Bronson Caverns, the Hidden Hollywood Location
Let’s take a trip back to Bronson Caverns, but with new and better photos! Once you visit this hiding-in-plain-sight Hollywood location, you’ll…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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First Reformed
Paul Schrader's austere, intense thriller is billed as a return to the director's 'transcendental' roots, although we suspect he never really left…
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Missing (Region B)
Costa-Gavras' superlative political thriller begins with a skeptical attitude, but soon pulls viewers into the depth and breadth of a monstrous political…
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Creature From the Black Lagoon Complete Legacy Collection
It's controversy in the Black Lagoon! Universal releases a much-desired box of all three Gill Man epics -- but goes cheap on…
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The Naked and the Dead
One of the splashier WW2 combat sagas adapts Norman Mailer's respected book but ends up a bona fide mess. Aldo Ray, Cliff…
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The Hot Rock
Donald Westlake's lovably luckless crook John Dortmunder is brought to life by Robert Redford, in a lightweight crime caper engineered by top…
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Ministry of Fear
Fritz Lang's third wartime anti-Nazi film is an Alfred Hitchcock-type spy chase taken from a psychological novel by Graham Greene, with the…
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Gloria
"Come on, come on, I'd love it -- don't hang back!" dares Gloria Swenson, brandishing a gun at three mobsters that know…
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The Horror of Party Beach
Favorite camp hilarity -- a drive-in kick when new, Del Tenney's gloppy monsters 'n' bikinis epic has persevered as a nutty exemple…
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Filmworker
Stanley Kubrick had a dedicated assistant, and not one who simply held the master’s cinematic paintbrushes. He staffed research, production, post-production and…
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The Shape of Water
Miracle of miracles -- last year's Best Picture Oscar went to a genuine monster movie! Guillermo del Toro's overachieving Gill Man spectacle…
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The Last Hunt
Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger shine in Richard Brooks' engaging drama about the grim slaughter of the Buffalo -- a fairly appalling…
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Trapeze
Top stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida earn their keep in Carol Reed's powerful tale of ambition and excellence performing…
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Hammer Vol. 3 – Blood and Terror
Powerhouse Indicator continues its series of exotic attractions from the house of Hammer -- productions that found ways to shock audiences newer…
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Memories of Underdevelopment
Perhaps the top cinematic output of Cuban filmmaking is this investigation of a man that doesn't embrace the revolution. Wishing to remain…
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Deep Rising
Let's hear it for 'undiscriminating' audiences, the kind that want nothing more in a movie than a hundred minutes of combat action,…
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The Cat O’ Nine Tails
Dario Argento's second murder whodunnit is less stylized but almost as enjoyable as his first, Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Reporter James…
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It Happened Here
Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo were teenagers when filming began on this superlative wartime thriller. Taking over eight years to complete, it…
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Heaven Can Wait
This may be the year for new cinephile converts to the cult of appreciation for the great Ernst Lubitsch. One of his…
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Cradle Will Rock
Writer-director Tim Robbins goes all out to recreate a politically potent chapter of Broadway legend, the true story of the rebel WPA…
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Home from the Hill
He-bull womanizer Robert Mitchum spars with wife Eleanor Parker for the future of their son George Hamilton in Vincente Minnelli's attractive, sprawling…
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Need a laugh? Paul Newman shoots people, hangs others and runs a judiciary speed trap for unwary outlaw vagrants. John Huston's picture…
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Footsteps in the Fog
Could this be retitled "Dial 'F' for Fog?" Jean Simmon's greedy maid blackmails her employer Stewart Granger with proof that he murdered…
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover
Now it can be told! Or maybe, now it can't be told? William Bradford Huie's novel of creeping American ambition in Honolulu…
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The Complete Hal Roach Thelma Todd Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection
Vintage '30s comedy returns, with a beautiful blonde, a sassy brunette and elaborate location filming in a bygone Los Angeles. Hal Roach…
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A Clever, Resourceful Special Effect Surprise
Back in the 1970s I picked up from Larry Edmunds’ Bookstore a copy of a one-shot special effects fan magazine that I…