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How Much Shock Can You Stand?
Ghosts are famous for their flexibility, spiraling through keyholes and up from the floorboards in search of their next mark. But movies…
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Hypnotic Chill! Monster Thrill!
This short article is in the spirit of the crowded ad-mat advertising blurbs that, once upon a time, would show up in…
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Dawson City: Frozen Time
This Blu is a fascinating hybrid of experimental film and historical documentary by Bill Morrison of Decasia fame. Lost film history and…
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Captain from Castile
One of the best Hollywood historical epics takes Technicolor to Mexico for a Production Code version of La conquista: the Inquisition is…
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Marty Melville’s Halloween Frenzy
From the movie pages, the many faces of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolf Man .
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In this Corner of the World
Away from Hollywood's stifling commercial limits, Fumiyo Kouno's manga about a young bride in wartime Japan has no illusions regarding the human…
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Blood Feast
1963’s Blood Feast, the infamous gorefest from director Herschell Gordon Lewis, is a pox on our culture; grossly stupid, comically inept and…
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The Killer is Loose
Psycho killers long ago lost their novelty, but in 1956 Budd Boetticher and Wendell Corey gave us Leon 'Foggy' Poole, a screen…
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Play Dirty
In a war film, what's the difference between nasty exploitation and just plain honest reportage? André De Toth made tough-minded action films…
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City of Industry
Harvey Keitel takes center stage as a double-crossed crook goes for blood after a major jewel heist turns sour -- and bloody.…
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Nest of Vipers & Tails, You Lose…
Guest Reviewer Lee Broughton is back, with another Italo Western double bill DVD review. Wild East’s ongoing Spaghetti Western Collection continues to…
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Hell on Frisco Bay
I tell you it's rough out there on Frisco Bay, especially when you say the word 'Frisco' within earshot of a proud…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
HALLOWEEN HAUNTED HAUSU PARTY!
How often have you heard someone (usually a blurb whore, but sometimes someone you actually know) describe a movie as being “indescribable”…
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Othello
Shakespeare didn’t invent Orson Welles but he did define him; it can be said that if any one director took arms against the…
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Porky Pig 101
A welcome to new CineSavant guest reviewer "B", whose encyclopedic knowledge has been a boon to the page since it began. This…
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Topper
They're non-corporeal cut-ups, rich ghosts on the town with nothing better to do than spice up the love life of Roland Young's…
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Junior Bonner
Sam Peckinpah was a fine director of actors when the material was right, and his first collaboration with Steve McQueen is an…
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FOR THE POSTSEASON: JOE E. BROWN AS ALIBI IKE
If you’re a baseball fan, particularly if you’re a Dodgers, Astros, Cubs or Yankees fan, the real baseball season started this past…
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The Old Dark House — 1932
It's a genuine Universal horror classic that to my knowledge has never been available in a decent presentation -- but The Cohen…
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The Sea Wolf
Now restored to perfection, this genuine classic hasn't been seen intact for way over sixty years. Michael Curtiz and Robert Rossen adapt…
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T-Men — Special Edition
Found: a must-see Film noir in all its brutal glory, restored to a level of quality not seen in years. Anthony Mann…
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Lost Horizon (1937)
It's a wonder movie from the 1930s, a political fantasy that imagines a Utopia of peace and kindness hidden away in a…
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Superman: The Movie – 2 Film Collection
I guess there are plenty of adults now too young to remember when Christopher Reeve made his debut as The Man of…
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The Hidden
After a demanding evening spent bumping and grinding at The Harem Room, a weary young dancer packs up her gear and exits…
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Portrait of Jennie
David O. Selznick's marvelous romantic fantasy ode to Jennifer Jones was almost wholly unappreciated back in 1948. It's one of those peculiar…