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Peeping Tom
Michael Powell and Leo Marks encode their tale of a sick serial killer with 1001 wicked observations, insights and unflattering jokes about…
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Philo Vance Collection
Between 1928 and 1930, Paramount fast-tracked three films about a high society sleuth known as Philo Vance. The movies were based on…
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Friendly Persuasion
Jessamyn West's bright vision of America's agrarian dream has plenty to say about anxious times: a family of Quakers try to maintain…
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Dellamorte Dellamore
In I Bury the Living, one of the more eccentric horror films of the fifties, Richard Boone inherits a cemetery where the…
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The Great Bait-And-Switch Of 1999: The Billion Dollar Blockbuster That Failed
I was -10 years old when the original Star Wars came out in 1977, but even I was swept up in the…
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Massive Monsters
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The Rain People
Francis Ford Coppola's first personal film through his Zoetrope experiment is an acting tour-de-force for Shirley Knight, a purposely marginal road movie…
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Back from the Dead
When is a horror movie not a horror movie? Does the absence of most horror content make a difference? This Regal Films…
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Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors
Universal’s classic horror films were inspired by Victorian literature, Hammer Films was inspired by Universal, and Amicus Productions was inspired by Universal,…
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Dune ’84
Shot for shot, David Lynch's galactic epic is as brilliant as any of his films, with vivid characterizations, strong performances and a…
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Planet of the Vampires
Radiance comes through again, giving us Mario Bava's haunted space opera in multiple versions. The original Italian encoding improves greatly on everything…
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Submarine Command
This little-seen Paramount war picture finishes William Holden's run with lovely Nancy Olson as his co-star; John Farrow's direction gets serious about…
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Hopefully the passing of Roger Corman, my former boss, mentor and friend of nearly 50 years, will shine more light on the…
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu is not so much a movie as an issue of Architectural Digest brought to life, a high-gloss…
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Once Upon a Time in the West
"Only at the point of dying." Hailed in Europe but ignored here, Sergio Leone's most prestigious western transcends classic status. Its…
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Wacky Westerns with Michael Schlesinger
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Devil’s Doorway
Guy Trosper, Anthony Mann and John Alton's western is shocking stuff for 1950 -- Hollywood did address the historical raw deal handed…
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Gravity
This one played like gangbusters in the theater. The only negative flak we heard came from a) people that don't like Sandra…
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Two from Jean Rollin
Which came first, the art of Philippe Druillet or the films of Jean Rollin? There’s an easy answer; Druillet began his long…
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A Bounty on Larry K.
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The Borderlands
UK correspondent Lee Broughton returns with coverage of an original and engaging British folk horror film. Director Elliot Goldner's found footage show…
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I Am Cuba
Milestone films and the Criterion Collection team together for this 1964 epic, a a joint Cuban-Soviet super-travelogue celebration of the revolutionary spirit.…
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Deep in the Heart
Ignore the exploitative original posters ... this thriller from 1983 is a clear-eyed view of America's gun problem, expressed, wouldn't you know…
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The Tin Star
Anthony Mann's high-quality conventional western has top stars Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, plus good input from Neville Brand, John McIntire and…
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On the Fritz
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