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A Clambake of Queens
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Messiah of Evil
How did two hot film students pass the time while waiting to become immortal as the writers of American Graffiti? Gloria Katz…
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Halloween at Aunt Ethel’s
CineSavant reviews a (gasp!) DVD release. UK correspondent Lee Broughton returns with coverage of a low budget comedy-horror flick from Florida about…
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Horrors of the Black Museum
A dull novelist but an inspired serial killer, Edmond Bancroft collects rare artifacts with that special someone in mind—just now he’s gifted…
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The Terror + The Little Shop of Horrors
"Feed Me!" Female ghosts and man-eating plants! It's another good disc of Roger Corman favorites, especially for collectors hungry for an improved…
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Hollywood Babylon
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Dance, Fools, Dance
In this racy MGM pre-Code, the stock market crash dumps society playgirl Joan Crawford into the working class. She toils at a…
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Hustle (1975)
Robert Aldrich's second hardboiled detective tale is filtered through Steve Shagan's style of whining nostalgia. Cop Burt Reynolds wants to fix his…
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Days of Heaven 4K
Terrence Malick and Néstor Almendros rewrote the rule books for imagery and narrative on this story of quiet desperation in the agrarian…
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The Kids Aren’t Alright
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The Criminal Acts of Tod Slaughter
In 1934 a young filmmaker named George King jumpstarted his career with the help of Britain’s Cinematograph Films Act. The legislation required…
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Le combat dans L’île
'The Fight on the Island' Nine years before Bertolucci's The Conformist, Jean-Louis Trintignant played another right-wing zealot dispatched on a murder mission.…
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Barbarella 4K
It says so in the song: when Barbarella and I get together the planets all stand still! Arrow and Paramount bring Roger…
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More Movies You Never Heard of with Larry Karaszewski
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Terms of Endearment 4K
Everybody likes this picture. James L. Brooks' major hit movie, adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry, charts the rocky relationship of…
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The Great Train Robbery
Adventuresome crime generates high thrills in Michael Crichton's entertaining heist picture, adapted from his own novel set in 1855. Charming crook Sean…
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Have you heard The Word, NASA? The other name for Mars is Death. The nifty screenplay by Sci-fi scribe Jerome Bixby lends…
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The Scarlet Letter ’34
Hollywood's first talkie version of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic was also the final film of silent superstar Colleen Moore. The dramatization of…
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Boris-Bela Halloween Hangover
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
An MIA 'film prodigal' has been returned to the fold, thanks to this well-curated restoration and remaster. Long unavailable in good condition,…
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Stalag 17 4K
William Holden earned his Best Actor Oscar as J.J. Sefton, a POW who runs the rackets in the prisoners' barracks, and whose…
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T.R. Baskin
This overlooked and orphaned drama presents Candice Bergen as an alienated newcomer to Chicago. James Caan contributes a carefully modulated performance, and…
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World of Giants the Complete Series
Sci-fi completists and diehard fans of 'fifties TV fun will want to know about this remastered disc containing all 13 episodes of…
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Happy Halloween
‘Tis the season to be scary. On October 31, when the sun, goes to rest, that’s when drivers have to be extra…
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Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers
1931’s Dracula remains Tod Browning’s most enduring film but it’s often been maligned for its leisurely pacing and stage-bound theatricality. Even fans…