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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Hammer special editions are the craze in 2025, and another fine disc label gets in on the action with a vintage title…
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Outland
Peter Hyams both wrote and directed this lavish 'space hardware' movie, set in an off-world mining colony of the future. The show…
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Malpertuis
In a strange house, strange people await a new spiritual life ... or will it be a new imprisonment? Orson Welles' Cassavius…
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Flow
A philosophical animated film about animals in peril? This thoughtfully conceived, beautifully-crafted winner for Best Animated Film gives us something new in…
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The Amazing Mr. X
It's part film noir, part haunted house movie and a 100% atmospheric triumph for director Bernard Vorhaus and cameraman John Alton. Eagle-Lion's…
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Eyes without a Face
It was the impossible, intolerable taboo horror of its day ... does it still shock as it once did, or are audiences…
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Ms .45
An 'almost' icon and a vivid memory from the New York cinema front of the early '80s, Zoë Tamerlis graced exploitation screens…
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The Strange Woman
The independent-minded Hedy Lamarr put this 'Americana noir' into motion with director Edgar G. Ulmer and excellent talent on both sides of…
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The Hard Way
Underdog Warners actress Ida Lupino could hold her head high, turning out pictures like this -- a Bette Davis reject that proved…
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Nate and Hayes
This New Zealand pirate adventure had bad luck theatrically, but we welcomed its old-fashioned thrills when it appeared on cable TV. It…
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The Cinema of Powell & Pressburger Collection One
This impressive import collection of 'Archers' pictures is just one classic after another, including three of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Technicolor…
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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…
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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…