Watching the Dark
Lesser-Known Halloween Horror Film Suggestions
Lesser-Known Halloween Horror Film Suggestions Every year around this time media of all sorts try to get into the Halloween spirit and…
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Blood of the Vines
Make it Again, Sam
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. …
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Journey into Fear
It's the WW2 spy thriller that everyone once assumed Orson Welles directed without credit. Director Norman Foster does good things with Eric…
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
How can a silent film seem such a modern conception? Kino reissues the 2014 restoration of Robert Weine's horror landmark in 4K…
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I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim
Two of legendary Val Lewton's greatest achievements make it to 4K Ultra HD. In Jacques Tourneur's film the Gothic romance goes Voodoo…
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I Vampiri
Halloween '24 is looking good, as we chalk another genre landmark onto the list of excellent special edition discs. Riccardo Freda and…
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Biopix
Inquiring minds want to know. That’s why we people-watch. Why else would we care about what other people are doing, except to…
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Babylon Berlin
It's a dive into an intoxicating, anarchic slice of the 20th-century, the brief era that was Weimar Germany. The society still reels…
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The West Wing
Sure, it's a TV landmark. To liberals it is a dream vision of how responsible government, run by practical idealists, ought to…
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The Ladykillers
British comedy has always depended on an understated quality, and nothing was as understated as their black comedies. From Kind Hearts and…
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Words and Music
The Warner Archive's latest MGM Technicolor bon-bon is this strained musical bio -- Mickey Rooney as Lorenz Hart? -- that nevertheless can…
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Azrael review/Q&A event coverage
There’s been somewhat of a vogue for dialogue-free genre films in the past decade, including titles such as John Woo’s Silent Night,…
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Babs
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. …
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Clockwatchers
Corporate culture had been around for years when the 'Office Hell' genre arrived, and this sleek fable from cubicle-land is both one…
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Burn, Witch, Burn
No sooner do we dig up an old review for this horror masterpiece, than StudioCanal remasters it with a 4K scan and…
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The Project A Collection
Jackie Chan's legendary 'Project A' pictures reach 4K in a boxed set as lavish as home video can get. Chan's pals Sammo…
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The Lost Picture Show
A grungy mix of sex, violence, and mushroom clouds, Vinegar Syndrome‘s The Lost Picture Show is a radioactive slice of American cheese,…
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Happy 130th Jean Renoir
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. …
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Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella
"Space Flight: A Fantastic Story." As '50s kids we assumed that Soviet claims of 'firsts' in space science were a pack of…
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The Battle of Chile
Patricio Guzmán's 3-part 'you are there' documentary of the beleaguered presidency of Chile's Salvador Allende goes into great detail to show how…
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The Long Good Friday
It's still the best gangster film of the post- Godfather era. Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren are a striking couple at the…
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Film Noir the Dark Side of Cinema XXI
Kino's 21st noir series entry gives us two winners and a not-bad contender. Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger with Gary Cooper and…
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The Substance
The Substance There’s a certain kind of film fan that reacts positively when they hear that an upcoming movie is “outrageous” or…
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RIP James Earl Jones
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. …
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Three Little Words
All of the Warner Archives' newly-remastered MGM musicals are terrific, and this 1950 musical bio with Fred Astaire is no exception. His…