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Slave of the Cannibal God
At the same moment the Korean War was ending and Eisenhower entered the White House, illustrator Samson Pollen found his niche; illuminating…
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Wild About Wilder
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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Raggedy Man
Here's a story about a different kind of 'lockdown.' This near-perfect Americana drama might be the real pinnacle of Sissy Spacek's wonderful…
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Orgasmo
Severin's extravagant four-film six-disc The Complete Umberto Lenzi / Carroll Baker Giallo Collection is a luxurious trip into sexy, violent Italo thrill territory.…
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Oscar Bait
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The Lady Eve
In The Lady Eve a wealthy ophiologist named Charlie Pike and a sexy card shark named Jean Harrington fall in love. It’s a rapid-fire…
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
We love Cassandra Peterson, a smart woman who made a go of horror host work in the tough Los Angeles TV market,…
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The Lost Boys
“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach … All the damn vampires.” -Grandpa (Barnard Hughes), The Lost Boys…
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Media Darkness
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The Public Eye
Howard Franklin's absorbing tale of the New York underworld is told from the point of view of a night-prowling shutterbug who documents…
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Romance on the High Seas
A bigger and brighter film debut couldn't be imagined ... Doris Day became America's sweetheart in Michael Curtiz's peppy production, graced with…
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
A near-spotless restoration on the 104 year-old adaptation of the Jules Verne classic finally presents it in a form where we can…
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America as Seen by a Frenchman
This marvelous proto-documentary is a cultural travelogue, before such films became a conduit to express social outrage or moral condemnation. To the…
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A Bullet for the President
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton tackles Tonino Valerii's Spaghetti Western-cum-political conspiracy thriller. By brazenly transposing key aspects of John F. Kennedy's assassination onto…
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Pride and Prejudice (1940)
MGM in 1940 was just the movie factory to turn out a smart, compact version of the Jane Austen novel, with Greer…
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STILL YET MORE MOVIES YOU NEVER HEARD OF
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The Flesh and the Fiends
The Flesh and the Fiends lives up to its name and then some. The setting is Scotland but the squalid streets and…
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The War of the Worlds
"It neutralizes mesons somehow. They're the atomic glue holding matter together!" For most of the 1950s George Pal's Martian invasion tale reigned…
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
What's the best Ecological Thriller of all time? Finally available in a good Region A disc is Val Guest and Wolf Mankowitz's…
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The Thief of Baghdad
When he shuffled off this mortal coil in 1995, Arthur Lubin’s New York Times obituary was titled “Arthur Lubin, 96, Director Of…
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Palm Springs
Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat: Groundhog Day can never be touched. The “time loop” narrative conceit…
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
If Larsen E. Whipsnade ever laid eyes on Harold Bissonette, his mouth would water. Bissonette, a mild-mannered grocer for whom no good…
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Britannia Hospital
Lindsay Anderson's third 'Mick Travis' movie is a crazy comedy eager to overstep lines of cinematic decorum. Britain in 1982 is a…
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Remembering Carl Reiner
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Come and See
The director of this unblinking account of the genocide in Belarus in 1942 and 1943 said that "people in America can't watch…