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From Beyond
Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of alien,…
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The Cremator
Horror films aren't only about vampires and goblins -- Czech director Juraj Herz's mind-chilling study of a Fascist opportunist communicates truths about…
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Not all Tennessee Williams film adaptations are successful, but Richard Brooks' blend of romance, show biz venality and political thuggery is just…
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Alastair Sim’s School for Laughter
Ronald Searle published his first St. Trinian’s cartoon in a 1941 issue of the English humor magazine, Lilliput. The sketches, done in…
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Europa Europa
Director Agnieszka Holland pulls off a difficult task -- her true-life Holocaust tale neither trivializes the horror nor glamorizes individualized victims at…
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Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson
Exploitation films have their mavericks, their patron saints and their bad boys: this well-researched and lovingly assembled shock-bio introduces us to a…
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More Movies You Never Heard Of
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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Rachel and the Stranger
Here's a pleasant surprise: one of RKO's most popular releases of 1948 has suddenly emerged in an uncut version that's a full…
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Billy Liar
Do you ever lapse into daydream fantasies to escape from everyday life? Tom Courtenay and John Schlesinger changed their destinies and that…
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The Head
A scientist who operates out of a starkly Modernist laboratory of glass and steel, Dr. Ood comes from a long line of…
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Outcast of the Islands
Lust-filled treachery in the steaming tropics! He dared to love a cannibal empress! Taglines like that suggest that it wasn't easy to…
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Son of Pandemic in the Streets
The 2011 thriller Contagion plays like it was ripped from today’s headlines. A respiratory illness spreads rapidly and … pandemic time! The…
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The Sound Barrier
Why is David Lean's stirring ode to British aviation so historically and technically bogus? Because at heart it's a science fiction film!…
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The Great Gildersleeve Movie Collection
Like the transition from silent movies to the talkies, the progression from radio to film was a rocky road for some performers.…
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Timothy Spall stars in a fascinating, surprisingly non-morbid look into the life of Albert Pierrepoint. England's reluctant celebrity hangman dispatched hundreds of…
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Night Passage
James Stewart's final western of the 1950s is a high-gloss family show with more than its share of spirited desperados and adventuresome…
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Our Hospitality
Buster Keaton's first full feature is a real accomplishment, a little masterpiece that deftly balances comedy and drama. Buster's star appeal is…
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville's most accomplished, most personal movie gets a new reissue. Ignored in 1969 and released in the United States only 37…
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Terminal Station & Indiscretion of an American Wife
Don't do it Vittorio! The Italian master's last neorealist project was done 'in collaboration' with American producer David O. Selznick, who proceeded…
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Pandemic in the Streets
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated self-isolation and quarantine measures have given many of us a lot of extra time. I’ve been…
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Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics
Can a war movie be reassuring in a time of crisis? Each of the films in this excellent collection stress people working…
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Action of the Tiger
Van Johnson steps into adventure-guy shoes more suitable for Humphrey Bogart in this European-shot thriller. Daring Martine Carol provides the sex appeal…
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The Uninvited
The story of a lonely young woman and the ghosts in her life, Dorothy Macardle’s Uneasy Freehold was published in 1941 and…
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The Intrigue
Look out, it's an X-Ray Death Ray! We rushed this review out, and it's only 104 years late. One of the feature…
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Abbott and Costello Go to The Black Lagoon
A CineSavant Article A mention in a book by Tom Weaver of an odd shared visual in two Universal-International movies of the…