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The Quatermass Xperiment
Wonder of wonders -- Hammer's massive boxed sets seem unreasonable until one sees the depth and breadth of the extras. Nigel Kneale's…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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High and Low
Akira Kurosawa's modern crime masterpiece takes the leap to 4K. It's a kidnapping tale in a context of social friction -- the…
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1984
Here we take a 'Missing on Blu' Review break thanks to the Public Domain availability of a show we aren't convinced was…
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Fires on the Plain
It's a chronicle of defeat and doom, hopelessness and horror ... yet director Kon Ichikawa turns it into an engrossing experience. Foot…
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Get Carter
Crime movies have grown a lot more vicious since 1971, but few pack the hard crime impact of Mike Hodges' gangster revenge…
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Airport
The blizzard looks real and the big stars are flashy, but Ross Hunter's 70mm ode to supermarket best sellers still plays like…
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Patterns
Is this the best teleplay ever written by Rod Serling? It's almost too good, even for him. Van Heflin, Everett Sloane and…
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
A striking digital Technicolor restoration brings Ealing Films' unique costume romance to vivid life. The tragedy of Princess Sophie Dorothea has a…
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They Died with their Boots On
Whoa! We saw this endlessly as kids and pretty much set it aside in favor of later revisionist westerns of the 1950s.…
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Invasion USA
This atom fear thriller grabbed audiences by the Conelrads. Albert Zugsmith spun Cold War hysteria into gold with this cheap but effective…
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Lost in Space
Irwin Allen started a franchise with his 1965 TV show: there has even been a second TV series with Parker Posey as…
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7 Women
Now back in a dazzling remaster, John Ford's final feature is a 'problematic masterpiece.' The director reaches back to the expressionist 1930s…
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Out of the Clouds
Aviation buffs will see plenty to admire in Basil Dearden's drama of events at London's Heathrow Airport. The show comes off as…
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Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet shine as Jane Austen heroines that endeavor to maintain their composure while swooning over the highly eligible…
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The Cobweb
William Gibson's multi-character soap about a psychiatric clinic has a severe case of Caligari Syndrome: the doctors need more counseling than do…
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Sands of the Kalahari
Cy Endfield's intense African survival adventure purports to teach lessons about the Territorial Imperative and the easy slide to savagery when civilization…
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Sylvia Sidney pre-Code Classics
The early pre-Code era yields two star vehicles from the dawn of Sylvia Sidney's long career. In Confessions of a Co-Ed her…
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Frantic
Another reissue disc that we wish were revived in an extras-laden 4K edition. Roman Polanski's exceedingly rewarding thriller gives us Harrison Ford…
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The Enchanted Cottage
Is it a Gothic fairy tale, a fantastic romance, or a backhanded comment about wounded war veterans? Mutilated flier Robert Young and…
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Bonjour Tristesse
Otto Preminger's take on the Françoise Sagan's novel finds the right tone despite the drawback of censorship limitations and Englanders and Americans…
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Hearts of Darkness
One of the best-ever documentaries about the making of a movie returns in a fresh 4K restoration, with its feature film clips…
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The Wild Bunch
No, it's not a new disc. This is also not exactly a disc review, but Warner's reissue allows us to write about…
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Town without Pity
MGM's in-house Blu-ray label is back with another worthy remaster: a Mirisch- supervised West German production that leads with a Gene Pitney…
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The Citadel
Once restored, old movies with 'creaky' reputations can yield surprising qualities, especially when the filmmaker is as earnest and creative as the…
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Senso
Italian maestro Luchino Visconti set the '50s high mark for epic period reconstruction and historical authenticity. Alida Valli and Farley Granger's doomed…
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The Diabolik Trilogy
Italy's anarchic master thief gets a Covid-era trilogy of films that hew fairly closely to stories from the original Giussani comic books:…