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Deep in My Heart
The gaudy MGM musical bio gets one last go-round, gathering an all-star cast to illustrate the songbook of composer Sigmund Romberg. Gene Kelly…
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Je t’aime, je t’aime
Yet another European art film director tries his hand at cerebral Sci-fi. Alain Resnais' openly experimental movie uses a generic time travel…
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Thieves’ Highway
It's just like the film industry, I tell ya! Director Jules Dassin teams with writer A.I. Bezzerides for one of filmdom's strongest slams at…
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Scream and Scream Again
Vincent Price's diabolical surgeon produces a new breed of supermen, except that his latest 'composite' creation is also a serial-killing vampire. While…
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FOR HALLOWEEN: ORPHAN
Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still…
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FOR HALLOWEEN: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still…
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FOR HALLOWEEN: EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Halloween doesn’t have to be over once the last trick-or-treater has crept back into the shadows of the night. You may still…
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TALES FROM A LIFE LIVED WITH MONSTERS
Over at my other haunt, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, there is currently posted, in honor of Halloween week, what…
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W.C. Fields Comedy Essentials Collection
He’s back and he’s funnier than ever. The mischievous, cagey entertainer William Claude Dukenfield starred in some of the best comedies ever.…
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My Darling Clementine + Frontier Marshal
We've already got a fine domestic disc with both versions of John Ford's fine Henry Fonda western. This Region B UK release…
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The High Cost of Loving
José Ferrer stars in his second dramatic feature as director, teamed with newcomer Gena Rowlands as a married working couple. Ferrer's executive…
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Jurassic World 3-D
Meet Indominus Rex, a designer dinosaur with the brain of Hannibal Lecter and a cloaking device like Predator! Steven Spielberg steps back…
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Cronenberg’s The Brood
David Cronenberg swaps his venereal ick-monsters for Samantha Eggar's mater furiosa, an annihilating female who commits her killings as would the villain of…
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Randall William Cook: As Never Seen Before, ‘New’ Vintage Stop-Motion on Blu-ray
In honor of Halloween, I once again have a special essay-article up, and this time I can name the contributor. Randall William Cook…
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Warners’ Special Effects Blu-ray Collection
I'll trade you two RKOs for two Warners', an even swap! This quartet of movie-magic wonderments offers a graduate course on old-school…
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Kwaidan
What makes a Ghost Story scary? This classic was almost too artistic for the Japanese. Masaki Kobayashi's four stories of terror work…
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Writer Jesse Andrews and director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon overturn the formula for the modern teen comedy: they lay on the quirky storytelling and…
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Spartacus — Restored Edition
Most of us love the Trumbo-Douglas-Kubrick thinking man's leftist gladiator epic, and after several iffy disc presentations this exacting digital restoration follows…
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
We still love John Ford's bitter-sentimental look back at the lost Myth of the West. John Wayne and James Stewart are at…
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Mad Men: The Final Season Part 2
The miniseries saga of Don, Betty, Roger, Joan, Peggy and Bert deserved a terrific finish, and at the end of seven plus…
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CineSavant’s Guide to the New Wave of Classic Hammer Blu-rays
Curious about all those Region B Hammer Blu-rays from overseas, the ones requiring a region-free player? As a public service, Savant has…
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THE MONSTER MAKER: AN ART TRIBUTE TO RICK BAKER
Trailers From Hell and Hero Complex Gallery present… THE MONSTER MAKER: An Art Tribute to Rick Baker We are proud and honored…
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Five Films by Patricio Guzmán
The masterful political documentaries of Chilean Guzmán, constitute a national epic for a beloved country traumatized for trying something new within a…
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Tomorrowland
Director Brad Bird and his co-writer Damon Lindelof take on a daring, ambitious science fiction project: chosen 'dreamers' are given glimpses of…
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The Sentinel
Michael Winner is the bad-taste choice to give The Exorcist a run for its money in the faux-religious horror shocker sweepstakes, and…