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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:…
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Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics
A Warners reissue puts the cream of American gangster epics within easy reach, and at a better price. Robinson, Cagney and Bogart…
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Quatermass 2
The second Quatermass adventure sees Brian Donlevy's pushy Professor singlehandedly quash a totalitarian takeover of England in just 36 hours -- an…
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H.M.S. Defiant
We're always interested in movies about ships, and Lewis Gilbert's accomplished Napoleonic battle epic is back in a Region B disc with…
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Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Modest Z-picture Sci-fi groaners are an American staple, but this English effort is just as desperate. Landing on a moon of Jupiter,…
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Splendor in the Grass
William Inge's intense drama of teenage angst comes to HD with rich Technicolor hues. Elia Kazan's film has only improved, with performances…
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The Adventures of Antoine Doinel
Is he a feisty French everyman or a selfish jerk?  :Are we talking about the fictional character Antoine Doinel, or the actor…
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Shane
Resuming his career after WW2, George Stevens assumed the mantle of Hollywood's most serious producer-director. His 'super-western' is a beautiful piece of…
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His Kind of Woman
Howard Hughes' meddling fingerprints are all over this resort-set noir thriller. Even with RKO's dynamite stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell above…
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Executive Suite
When the big boss croaks, veepees maneuver to take the top slot in a furniture company. Ernest Lehman's first big screenplay was…
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The Big Heat
Crime fighting gets personal in Fritz Lang's progressive police vengeance saga. It's Glenn Ford as an ex-cop against the mob, and his…
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Danger: Diabolik
Mario Bava's big-scale fumetti adaptation hits 4K, an event of major interest in the fantasy fan-scape. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell and…
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The Stuff
Let's clear up a common misconception. Unlike The Blob, 'The Stuff' doesn't eat you. You Eat It ... and then it eats…
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Gwen
And now for something completely different -- an art-film creation that's a surreal delight. Jean-François Laguionie's allegorical animated fable extends what conventional,…
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I, Madman
Reissued for the delight of '80s horror fans is Tibor Takács' and Randall William Cook's ode to bibliophile terror, subcategory facial mutilation.…
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Cheyenne
We didn't know that this seven-season success had racked up so many 'TV firsts' on its scoreboard. Clint Walker clicked with America…