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No Country for Old Men
The Coen brothers' modern classic adapts Cormac McCarthy's book about drug violence on the border. Welcome to supply & demand economics at…
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The Hunted
William Friedkin whips up some terrific action and nasty knife-fighting with solid input from Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio Del Toro. Despite…
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Black Christmas
There are plenty of winter-set horror films, and that’s for good reason: if you’re looking to put a chill in the audience,…
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The Beast with Five Fingers
Long before The Addams Family made disembodied hands a punchline there was The Beast with Five Fingers, W. F. Harvey’s short story…
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Revenge of the Zombies
The living dead didn't hunger for brains back in the 1940s, but they did walk with Frances Dee, elect a King and…
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Slap the Monster on Page One
Some Italian thrillers post-1968 became very political. Marco Bellocchio's outright accusation against the power elite of Milan all but drops the thriller…
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Body and Soul
Abraham Polonsky and Robert Rossen's ringside classic is a key film noir and a key social issue film; John Garfield and Lilli…
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Clowning Around
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Scarface
Howard Hawks' ferocious, never-bettered gangster saga has the best of pre-Code thrills -- sex and violence at the service of basic All-American…
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Pulp Fiction — 30th Anniversary 4K
How soon will it be before Quentin Tarantino's films are considered 'old man's movies?' This time-twisted hit man tale made a big…
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Interstellar
Competing for gift box attention this holiday is this impressive 4K Ultra HD anniversary release of Christopher Nolan's intelligent answer to 2001,…
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The Return of Doctor X
Directed by Vincent Sherman with a screenplay by Lee Katz, The Return of Doctor X stars Wayne Morris as Walter Garrett, a…
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3 Great Westerns
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Little Women
This Winona Ryder version of Alcott's venerated page-turner is the most satisfying to date, as adapted by Robin Swicord, directed by Gillian…
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Galaxy Quest
Never give up, never surrender! A comic spoof of Star Trek and Trekkie worship does not sound promising, but this bright and…
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Top Cat – The Complete Series
In 1960, cartoon powerhouses William Hanna and Joseph Barbera found remarkable success with The Flintstones, a stone-age parody of Jackie Gleason’s kitchen…
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Thanksgiving
Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving began as one of the parody trailers in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 film, Grindhouse. Epitomizing the “grindhouse”…
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It’s a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point
Here I finally present It’s a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point, a feature-length essay film that began as an editing mashup, a bit…
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Apes of Wrath
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Nothing is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
Three Buñuel masterpieces arrive in remastered Blu-ray presentations, accompanied by excellent new extras. The Exterminating Angel clobbers élitist complacency. The irreverent Simon…
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Paper Moon
It's a seriocomic fable from the Great Depression: Ryan O'Neal's Moses Pray runs a predatory racket hawking expensive Bibles, and the only…
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The Walking Dead
The Dead Walk -- and accuse! One of the best non-classic horror films of the '30s is a polished production: Michael Curtiz…
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Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand's movie debut takes a slot in the Criterion Collection, and jumps to 4K Ultra HD. Opened up from Broadway and…
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The Vampire/The Vampire’s Coffin
Early American horror films usually favored human monsters over the supernatural variety, and it wasn’t till the arrival of playful agitators like…
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The Proud and Profane
Deborah Kerr shines as an emotionally troubled war widow who volunteers to do Red Cross work in the Pacific Theater of WW2.…