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Thunderbolt
This 'dawn of sound' classic from Josef Sternberg is an important early entry in the gangster genre, a romanticized tale of urban…
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Step by Step
More or less ignored for 75 years, this curious 'B' program picture now finds its way directly to a Warner Archive Blu-ray…
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More Movies You Never Heard Of
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Master of the World
One of Jules Verne's most popular sci-fi fantasies got the big screen treatment from American-International, which hopped on the Verne bandwagon that…
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4K
The newest addition to the stable of horror and sci-fi on Ultra HD is Dario Argento's debut feature, the game-changer that launched…
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Streaming Wars II: HBO Max, Disney+ Continue To Gain Steam
Today, we present the follow-up to our examination of the fraught battle between the big-money streaming sites, which covered the first quarter…
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Drawing a Bead
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La Piscine
It's French! It's hot! Jacques Deray's most unusual film is an intimate, minimalist murder story that digs deep into the affairs of…
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Ziegfeld Follies
Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean…
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Flight to Mars
The Wade Williams Collection yields more '50s sci-fi, Monogram Pictures' ambitious space travel movie filmed in glorious green-challenged Cinecolor. Cameron Mitchell and…
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What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?
George Seaton's literal feel-good comedy is the flipside of the pandemic film Contagion: a powerful virus 'cures' grumpiness and bad vibes, encouraging a…
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Working Girls
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I Wouldn’t Be in Your Shoes
Gotta love that title! Producer Walter Mirisch's small-scale Monogram noir was once assumed lost, but now it's making its home video debut…
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O.S.S.
Hollywood acknowledges the existence of America's proto- C.I.A. intelligence agency with this espionage tale of Yanks working with the resistance in occupied…
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The EuroCrypt of Christopher Lee
While Hammer Studios depended on bosoms and blood to rejuvenate a listless horror industry, their new contract player had some high octane…
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In Harm’s Way
Hollywood's last big all-star war epic in Black & White? Otto Preminger took a happy film company to Hawaii for this enormous…
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Feeling Peckish
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One Armed Boxer
High-quality chopsocky mayhem! Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of Jimmy Wang Yu's action-packed martial arts flick. The combat comes…
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The Web (1947)
It's smooth noir sailing with this polished noir from Universal-International and its choice cast of pros -- Edmond O'Brien, Ella Raines and…
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Pickup on South Street
Sam Fuller turns from combat in Korea to cat 'n mouse games in New York City, with America's stand-up defenders being exactly…
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Major Dundee
It's a new deluxe Limited Edition of Sam Peckinpah's mangled masterpiece, the third fancy boxed set in as many years. Arrow's presentation…
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Essential Film Noir Collection 2
Viavision's second deluxe Film Noir boxed finds real variety in the film style, with entries that range from low-budget efforts to a…
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The Human Condition
Masaki Kobayashi's six-part adaptation of the book by Jumpei Gomikawa may be the most ambitious, most truthful film about the big-picture reality…
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Stranger on the Run
Favorite director Don Siegel is in fine form in this 1967 TV movie, a keeper with qualities not seen in Hollywood's mega-westerns…
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Alias Nick Beal
The most sinister light comedian in Hollywood, Ray Milland was never more charming than when he was fixing to cut your throat.…