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All That Money Can Buy
William Dieterle's film of Stephen Vincent Benét's Faust-like folk tale is both traditional and experimental, part of a brief wave of ambitious,…
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The Abbott & Costello Show – Season 2
Familiarity breeds contempt someone said, but in the case of Abbott and Costello, that familiarity was an essential part of their appeal.…
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The Whip and the Body
The title sequence of Blood and Black Lace may be Mario Bava’s defining moment. Staged in a shadowy fashion salon, the cast…
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Faithless
Leave it to MGM to begin its dark Depression-Era pre-Code drama amid the top hat, silk gown & marble hall crowd. Talulah…
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Death Wishes
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The Playgirls and the Vampire
It's vintage, it's trashy, it's Italian. Bellissima! A vampire prowls in a castle, but all emphasis goes to cheesecake coverage of the…
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A Fistful of Dynamite
Kino reissues Sergio Leone's least loved epic, a movie he didn't want to direct but also the one with the most ambitious…
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Nothing But a Man
This dramatic masterpiece is perhaps the most accurate and compelling account of American racism in the 1960s, despite being made by two…
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The Shootist
John Wayne's final movie is a somber, blood-soaked farewell trimmed with sentimental guest-star cameos and closing-the-book gestures. Wayne is terrific as the…
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Prestige Picture Overload: The February JustWatch Top 10
As the 96th annual Academy Awards fast approach (they’ll be airing this Sunday, on ABC, at 4 p.m. PT), it certainly appears…
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A Path Forward For The Hollywood Genre Picture?
Has it finally happened? Have theatrical movies finally turned a narrative corner? That just might be the case! As a barrage of…
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Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe
Anthony Shelton’s book on Portuguese folk art, Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between, portrays the people of that historically unstable country as…
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Hiding in a box marked Noir is one of Universal's horror-adjacent '40s mystery thrillers, in a terrific new transfer. The talky adaptation…
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All failed revolutionaries take heart: the Taviani brothers' downbeat yet creatively magical story of the wrong rebels in the wrong insurrection at…
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McCabe & Mrs Miller 4K
Warren Beatty and Julie Christie help Robert Altman fashion one of his best pictures, a story of the Building of the West…
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Road Warriors
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Contagion 4K
If any motion picture can still be called important, this one qualifies. Scott Z. Burns and Steve Soderbergh's superb 'extrapolated' pandemic thriller…
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Cause for Alarm!
It's a micro-scaled domestic noir: Loretta Young's frantic housewife is tormented by a deranged husband, an invalid gone paranoid and determined to…
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The Roaring Twenties
It's all about James Cagney -- his every expression commands our attention. Writer Mark Hellinger recaps a decade of gangster tropes in…
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Blood on the Sun
Now it can be told -- even if it's total fiction! James Cagney takes his rough & tumble ways to Tokyo to…
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Happy Birthday, Sidney
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Afire
Aka Roter Himmel. Christian Petzold's movie wields a big impact on a deceptively modest scale. The problems of a young man sharing…
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Burn, Witch, Burn
What is worse, a demon from hell or academic politics? One destroys your soul with unimaginable horror, and the other involves the…
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Red Planet Mars
Faith-based madness! This 1952 sci-fi thriller is not a space opera, but a talky propaganda sermon. Peter Graves and Andrea King exchange…