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Hell in the Pacific
Class-act John Boorman continues to mix genre grit with European-flavored art cinema, and the result is another winner. Toshiro Mifune and Lee…
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They Live by Night
Don't look to this noir for hardboiled cynicism – for his first feature Nicholas Ray instead gives us a dose of fatalist…
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Running on Empty
These fugitives on the run aren't innocent young lovers. Still wanted for anti-war violence from years before, an ex-radical couple struggles to…
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Comfort and Joy
You never heard of the Great Glasgow Ice Cream Wars? They weren't exactly Armageddon. The gentle director Bill Forsyth makes a radio…
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Brother Can You Spare a Dime
It's 1930s America as seen in the movies, through music, and the evasions of newsreels. Franklin Delano Roosevelt preaches prosperity while James…
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Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy
Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany Year Zero: Filmed mostly on the streets in newly-liberated territory, Roberto Rossellini's gripping war-related shows are blessed…
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
This time they may have gotten it right! If a knife or a straight razor won't do, how about killing a victim…
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REST IN PEACE, BROTHER FLOUNDER: STEPHEN FURST (1955 – 2017)
“This is Kent Dorfman. He’s a legacy from Harrisburg…” Like we all must, Stephen Furst, the actor who brought Kent Dorfman, a.k.a.…
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The Man from Planet X
The first visitor from outer space in the '50s sci-fi boom is one very curious guy, dropping to Earth in a ship…
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Marcel Pagnol’s The Marseille Trilogy
No longer out of reach, Marcel Pagnol's stunning 3-feature saga of love and honor in a French seaport is one of the…
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8 Million Ways to Die
Tonight on 'movies we really want to like' we have Hal Ashby's final feature, an L.A.- based crime saga with a great…
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Death Line aka Raw Meat
This early gore-horror picture has a remarkable emphasis on human values, believe it or not, with a 'monster' that nevertheless is a…
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The Lodger (1927)
Hitchcock's first self-professed 'Hitch' picture is still a winner. Many of his recurring themes are present, and some of his visual fluidity…
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GOOD-BYE, ADAM WEST / UNINHIBITED REVENGE: WALTER HILL’S THE ASSIGNMENT
It’s kind of hard for me to undersell the impact Batman and Adam West had on me as a boy. I was…
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Good Morning (ohayo)
It's Yasujiro Ozu in light mode, except that his insights into the human social mechanism make this cheerful neighborhood comedy as meaningful…
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Robert Mulligan's late career gem is a beautiful, fad-free tale of teenage romance with universal appeal, famed for introducing Reese Witherspoon to…
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Blast-Off
An admiring nod to '60s dream siren Daliah Lavi! American-International leaps into an epic Jules Verne comedy about a trip to the…
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Joe versus the Volcano
"May you live to be a thousand years old, sir." Still the most widely unheralded great movie on the books, John Patrick…
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Le Désordre et la nuit
Lovers of hot-blooded French noir will love this 1958 B&W drama, which swaps violence for a dangerous sexual relationship between a cop…
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The Paradine Case
This isn't the only Alfred Hitchcock film for which the love does not flow freely, but his 1947 final spin on the…
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The Picasso Summer
Yet another puzzle picture, that came out on DVD back with the first wave of WAC films in 2010. An expensive romance…
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Spotlight on a Murderer
The uncanny Georges Franju strikes again, in an Agatha Christie-like thriller imbued with his special mood, the eerie music of Maurice Jarre…
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The Gumball Rally
Cars! Cars! Cars! What climate accord, when we're celebrating the internal combustion engine! One of the best of the breezy '70s action…
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MAD MAX: BEYOND FURIOUS
A couple weeks ago I was musing on the 2017 summer movie road ahead and found myself coming up somewhat disappointed in…
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Dracula & The Mummy: Complete Legacy Collections
The 2016 blu ray release of the Frankenstein and Wolf Man Legacy Collections was a moment of celebration for movie and monster…