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A Walk in the Sun
Lewis Milestone's poetic character study of an infantry landing in Italy gives us a full dozen non-cliché portraits of men in war,…
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Loving
The story of Mildred and Richard Loving could easily have become a sledgehammer epic about social injustice. Writer-director Jeff Nichols instead sticks…
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The Edge of Seventeen
Teen comedies can be annoying, but every year seems to bring a good one. What work nicely are thoughtful movies that acknowledge…
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Manchester by the Sea
A major Oscar contender, Kenneth Longergan’s Manchester by the Sea is certainly sobering, yet is nowhere near as depressing as the initial…
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Hacksaw Ridge
Combat movies fascinate this reviewer — if you look at the Savant review index you’ll see that I review practically every war…
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Valkoinen Peura (The White Reindeer)
A few years back the pioneering disc boutique Mondo Macabro imported a number of exotic Eastern horror films, such as Purana Mandir…
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One Million Years B.C.
Here’s a title we haven’t seen in a while, and that we’ve never seen at this level of quality. Hammer Films’ most…
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth didn’t get much attention when released here early in March of 1971. Only film fanatics obsessed with…
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Inferno 3-D
(Note, 1.18.17: Twilight Time will be releasing a domestic disc of this title on May 16, licensed for U.S. distribution.) A fine…
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Gabriel Over the White House (revisited)
A Review Revisit. The unique political fantasy Gabriel Over the White House has become painfully topical lately. This is an update of…
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Connected film festival attendees learned about Pedro Almodóvar before everybody else, especially if they had an understanding of new developments in Spanish…
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Love in the Afternoon
A favorite of Billy Wilder-philes, Love in the Afternoon is a strong expression of the ‘romantic-Lubitsch’ vein in Wilder’s work. It’s essentially…
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What a Way to Go!
Want to know what the producer of Planet of the Apes was up to, before that milestone movie? Arthur P. Jacobs was…
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Mildred Pierce
James M. Cain’s 1941 novel Mildred Pierce offers a venal and self-destructive view of America not with a story of respectable bourgeois…
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The Lair of the White Worm
Wild man director Ken Russell struck back against commercial indifference with this alternately elegant and outrageous horror offering, that excepting a few…
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Dr. Orloff’s Monster
Arguing the merits of Jesús Franco seems a blind alley to me. I know academic film writers that have seen dozens of…
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The Yakuza
The Warner Archive Collection is on a roll with a 2017 schedule that has so far released one much-desired library Blu-ray per…
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Wagon Tracks
Last year we were gifted with an excellent Blu-ray of a silent John Ford western, 3 Bad Men, which turned out to…
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The Sicilian Clan
American crime fanatics wary of European imports now have access to a fully Region-A disc of a big-star, big budget French-Italian-American gangster…
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No Highway in the Sky
A few years back, whenever a desired title came up on list for a Fox, Columbia or Warners’ MOD (made-on-demand) DVD, my…
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Seddok, L’erede di Satana (Atom Age Vampire)
Let me herewith take a break from new discs to review an Italian release from six years ago, a movie that for…
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Stanley & Iris
There ought to be a place on a screen for every kind of film story. True, old movies fronted a mostly false…
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Who?
Today’s filmgoers say they want more cerebral science fiction films, and some moviemakers make an effort to comply. This year’s Arrival is…
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Two for the Road
Some so-called sophisticated ‘sixties romantic dramas have dated pretty badly, as it’s not easy to create a movie acceptable to a fickle…
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Gas-s-s-s
Roger Corman finally accepted himself as an iconic filmmaker for this, his final show for A.I.P.. Barely released and long considered a…
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The Mad Magician 3-D
Twilight Time, bless 'em, hands us another treat to go with their 3-D discs of Man in the Dark, Miss Sadie Thompson…