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Captain Blood
He was the biggest unknown-to-major-star sensation of the Golden age of Hollywood. Errol Flynn's screen breakthrough is unique, as his 'dashing rogue'…
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The Ghost
Barbara Steele is back and Dr. Hichcock's got her, but it's not that Dr. Hichcock. The producers of The Horrible Dr. Hichcock…
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Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Tim Burton's debut feature elaborates on the alternate-universe world of Pee-Wee Herman, the alter-ego creation of comedian Paul Reubens. A non-conformist original…
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Steven Spielberg's celebration of Rod Serling's legendary TV show delivers mind-bending fantasy and horror, and maybe slips a bit when reaching for…
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Sirius
Dennis Bartok and Craig Rogers's Deaf Crocodile Films keeps coming up with surprises from Eastern Europe. This Hungarian fantasy throws us for…
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Illustrious Corpses
Watergate prompted Hollywood to launch a wave of paranoid thrillers about vast conspiracies, but Italian filmmakers long before presented the status quo…
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The best suspense TV of the 1950s has been released again, in a monster set with dozens of discs ... and its…
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Scars of Dracula
Any 4K Hammer release gets special attention; this one has Christopher Lee as Dracula so will spike the radar of collector completists.…
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The Pink Panther
This solid hit generated numerous sequels, a truckload of cartoons and a key character for Peter Sellers, who slipped into the movie…
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On Borrowed Time
For the sensitive, this high-toned tale of Death trapped in a tree can be an emotional sledgehammer, with enough weeping and wailing…
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The Beggar’s Opera
It's a movie musical ripe for rediscovery ... a film version of a classic ballad opera from 1728, a satirical lampoon of…
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His Girl Friday — 4K + The Front Page
When the 'talkies' arrived, Broadway's smartest wordsmiths wasted no time mining Hollywood gold. Hecht and MacArthur's cynical newspaper saga defined a brassy…
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Dead of Night
The StudioCanal restoration of one of the creepiest and most elegant fright films ever made comes to Region A on 4K Ultra…
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David Byrne’s American Utopia
"Maybe we can make some sense." David Byrne & Spike Lee's joyous concert film is just as energizing as Stop Making Sense;…
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Law & Order
Among monster boxes this one takes the prize: 104 DVD discs, holding twenty years of a series that’s been in constant TV…
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Red Planet
This decent space adventure might have been a hit, if another Mars-themed movie hadn't bombed a few months before. Cocky astronauts journey…
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The Miracle
Advertised like an action spectacle, Irving Rapper's religious epic is about a novice nun who spends most of the film on a…
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Columbia Noir #7: Made in Britain
Noir goes English, with U.S. studios looking for bargains and American talent looking for acting opportunities and tax breaks. These Columbia releases…
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Kansas City Confidential
Phil Karlson's nervous noir throws tough guy John Payne into the middle of a Pulp Fiction tangle, crashing the meet-up of four…
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I Know Where I’m Going!
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's imaginative romance is so good, it justifies a lifetime spent seeking out obscure movies. When bad weather…
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Silent Adventure: Grass + Chang
Milestone Film and Video re-premieres a double bill of landmark silent-era documentaries filmed in far-off lands by the dauntless adventurers Merian C.…
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Alec Guinness
He's Sidney Stratton, Henry Holland, Professor Marcus and a full eight members of the lofty D'Ascoyne family -- it's the best of…
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The House with Laughing Windows – 4K
It's an Italo horror with a surprising agenda ... the central theme is sadism and torture, but the approach is a slow-going…
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“Él”
Luis Buñuel's most personal drama billboards a 'strange obsession' yet ends up expressing the full injustice of polite society's sexual status quo.…
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A Summer Place
Look at She, she's Sandra Dee! 1959's most sexed-up soap drama came with beautiful actors, Technicolor scenery and a music tune that…
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Burden of Dreams
Is that Werner S. Herzog, for Sisyphus? What filmmaker goes out of his way to make his work impossibly difficult? Werner Herzog…