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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
A special edition of this confirmed '70s crowd pleaser? I'm there. Robert Shaw has big plans to hijack a New York subway…
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99 River Street
Do you like your noir heroes bitter and bruised, and your noir dames daring and resourceful? Phil Karlson's gem of a thriller…
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The In-Laws
This Alan Arkin-Peter Falk show is finally being recognized as a comedy mini-masterpiece. Afraid of offending his daughter's future father-in-law, a dentist…
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Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Release the Kraken! They're only now releasing this Blu-ray in the U.S.. The patron saint of every special effect fan gets the…
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The Panic in Needle Park
Drug addicts! Who in 1970 really knew what life was like for them? Jerry Schatzberg, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's story…
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Forbidden Hollywood Volume 10
Woo hoo! The pre-Code marvels return for one last go-round -- tales of sin and moral turpitude but also serious pictures about…
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Appointment with Crime
Most British crime films of the '40s and '50s have been slow crossing the pond, but Olive Films has a winner here,…
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Night Will Fall
The Holocaust needs to be retold forever, but it's a tough topic to address without distortion or trivialization. André Singer's docu is…
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Fantastic Planet
René Laloux's marvelous animated Sci-fi tale is still in a class of its own, mainly because its imaginative- creative level is so…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Hammer hits one out of the park with this 'ripping good' Sherlock Holmes tale, tilted heavily toward gothic mystery and horror. Peter…
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Rollercoaster
A mad extortionist is blowing up rollercoaster rides. Put-upon George Segal must stop him because we all know that time, the tide…
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La chienne (1931)
It's the time-honored tale of the cuckolded lover, his heartless woman and 'the other guy,' told in terms that Émile Zola would…
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Gold (1934)
The Nazis can't even keep the National Socialist propaganda out of a simple science fiction fable. Hans Albers is the Aryan King…
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The Magnetic Monster
Ivan Tors and Curt Siodmak 'borrow' nine minutes of dynamite special effects from an obscure-because-suppressed German sci-fi picture, write a new script,…
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Shield for Murder
Dirty cops were a movie vogue in 1954, and Edmond O'Brien scores as a real dastard in this overachieving United Artists thriller.…
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They Were Expendable
John Ford's best war movie does a flip-flop on the propaganda norm. It's about men that must hold the line in defeat…
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Dr. Strangelove
Criterion's special edition of Stanley Kubrick's doomsday comedy is more powerful than ever in a 4K remaster; and it even comes with…
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The Wave
Norway gets the old-fashioned disaster film genre up on its feet again with a well-made, scary story set in a Northern fjord,…
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Hello, My Name is Doris
Sally Field bounces back in this story of mismatched love - or a romantic delusion... that is 3/4 charm and 1/4 wishful…
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Here's a sterling example of what Hollywood excelled at back in the golden age: Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains and Edward…
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Le amiche (The Girlfriends)
Michelangelo Antonioni's pre-international breakthrough drama is as good as anything he's done, a flawlessly acted and directed story of complex relationships --…
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
John Ford puts a Technicolor sheen on Monument Valley in this second cavalry picture with John Wayne, who does some of his…
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Antonia’s Line
Marleen Gorris' sightly absurdist, slightly magic realist movie about a strong woman who takes charge in a rural Dutch community is a…
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The Whip Hand
I guess Howard Hughes had a soft spot for Minnesota Nazis. William Cameron Menzies directs a Cold War thriller about an insidious…
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The Angry Hills
Robert Mitchum all but snoozes through this promising war-espionage thriller that pits lazy Gestapo agents against clueless partisans in occupied Greece. It's…
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Fellini’s City of Women
That naughty boy Federico Fellini goes all out with this essay-hallucination about women, a surreal odyssey that hurls Marcello Mastroianni into a…