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Donovan’s Brain
Blinded by science! And no, it's not a sequel to Donovan's Reef. Lew Ayres yanks the living brain out of a dying…
Articles by Glenn Erickson
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The Hawaiians
The sequel to the epic Julie Andrews road show picture wasn't a hit, but it tells a good story of its own.…
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Revolt of the Slaves
Let's give a cheer for the lowly sword 'n' sandal epic. This persecution and torture spectacle also takes in the martyrdom of…
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The Vincent Price Collection III
Shout Factory opens the crypt once more, for the last remaining UA and AIP fright movies starring our favorite gentleman of horror.…
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Cowboy
Delmer Daves' easygoing cattle drive western can't make an action hero out of Jack Lemmon, but with fine work from co-star Glenn…
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The Graduate
What can you say to such success? Mike Nichols and Buck Henry's sex satire defined 'the generation gap' for the sixties. Dustin…
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Key Largo
Bogie and Bacall are back, but with Edward G. Robinson's oily gangster breathing down their necks -- "Nyah!" Excellent direction (John Huston)…
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Childhood’s End
After 63 years somebody has taken a crack at Arthur C. Clarke's monumental sci-fi novel. This interpretation throws the emphasis way out…
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The Black Sleep
It's an All Star monster rally -- Lon Chaney Jr.! John Carradine! Bela Lugosi! Basil Rathbone! Tor Johnson!…
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5 Dolls for an August Moon
A "lesser" Mario Bava is still a fountain of great filmmaking; and this annihilating melodrama sees a score of greedy folk wiped…
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Oh! What a Lovely War
A pure-gold Savant favorite, Sir Richard Attenborough's first feature as director is a stylized pacifist epic of the insane tragedy of WW1,…
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Spotlight
One of the best pictures of 2015 is an accurate and relevant movie about a truly difficult subject. Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton,…
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Otto Preminger looks at police corruption and comes up with a classy noir starring Dana Andrews as a rogue cop and Gene…
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Millennium / R.O.T.O.R.
Two 1980's science fiction efforts from the 'eighties: Millennium is an expensive book adaptation with Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd navigating a…
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Remember Tower Records? The saga of the massive brick & mortar music retailer is a great story with marvelous characters. When you…
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel and Ethan Coen drop most of the sarcasm for their deeply felt character study. Everything's a big problem for Llewyn: a…
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The Vikings
Richard Fleischer's Viking saga is a great star showcase for the grinning one-eyed Kirk Douglas, sullen one-handed Tony Curtis and the heavy-breathing,…
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The Big Sleep
We've waited long enough: Bogart's take on Raymond Chandler's tough guy Philip Marlowe is finally on Blu-ray, with Lauren Bacall hyped as…
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The Emigrants & The New Land
Jan Troell knocks us for a loop with his masterful epic of a Swedish farming family in the 1840s, making the big…
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The Happy Ending
Jean Simmons is the original frustrated Mad Housewife who runs away from a 'dream marriage' in search of something more fulfilling. Uncompromising,…
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GOG 3-D
Now, after 62 years, viewable again in beautiful 3-D! Scientists are being murdered in a secret underground laboratory overseen by a super-computer…
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Woman in the Moon
Fritz Lang applies rigorous realism and excellent science in the first half of his final silent film, a treat for fantasy fans…
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Deep Red
Stabbings, scaldings, hideous lacerations from broken glass and even more brutal manglings for our sanguinary delectation! Dario Argento's smartly directed murder mystery…
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Station West
Army investigator John Haven is out to catch some crooks using stealth, his wits and a limitless supply of marvelous hardboiled dialogue.…
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Harlock Space Pirate 3-D
Ray guns! Space armadas! Storm troopers! Toei's manga became a pricey 3-D animated motion capture epic just three years ago, but was…
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Crimson Peak
Here's where angels sit down to weep next to devils -- the often-brilliant Guillermo del Toro's big Gothic romance / gory ghost…