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Requiem for Gringo
We've got more Spaghetti western action from Guest Reviewer Lee Broughton -- the more obscure they become, the more fanciful the concept.…
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Madigan
Manhattan detective Richard Widmark is up the creek without his .38 special -- a maniac killer has stolen it. He's desperate to…
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The Far Country
Did star James Stewart and director Anthony Mann corner the market on upscale 'A' '50s westerns? This beauty sends Stewart, Ruth Roman…
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Konga
Like any actor worth their salt, Michael Gough contained multitudes. And so did his fans – from the West End to 42nd…
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The 3-D Nudie-Cuties Collection
Oh, have you reached the right page? We know you were looking for the review of Aunt Minerva's Hymns of Faith in…
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Sinister stabbings, women kicked and beaten, perverse hoodlums selling cocaine and murdering street-beat bobbies: what happened to civilized English crime? Cavalcanti's…
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Great Day in the Morning
Jacques Tourneur's 'big sky' western gives us the beauty of Colorado mountains plus stunning color images (originally Technicolor) of his attractive cast:…
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DOCTOR SLEEP AND SOME OTHER MOVIES YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT
I’ve spent the last 39 years trying to love, or even like, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version of Stephen King’s The Shining,…
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Spirited Away
The story of a lonely child lost in a beautiful and bizarre dreamscape, Spirited Away naturally begs comparison to Alice in Wonderland…
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The Man Between
Critics compare this sophisticated spy thriller to Carol Reed's earlier Triumph set in Vienna with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles -- but…
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Eegah
Mean-spirited 'Bad Movie' satirists forget that production values aren't everything, even if the collected works of Barry Mahon and Coleman Francis say…
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Operation Crossbow
'Mission impossible' escapism about high-stakes wartime sabotage looks at an authentic, dramatic episode of WW2 -- the onslaught of futuristic V-Weapons on…
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Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory
Italian horror from the early 1960s covers a wide range of quality, from eerie hauntings to tacky vampire romps. For one of…
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Hammer Volume Four Faces of Fear
Powerhouse Indicator continues its series of exotic attractions from the house of Hammer with four more titles, three of which are front-rank…
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Seven Days to Noon
Is this movie ground zero for Atom-fear science fiction? The Boulting Brothers assemble the very first movie about a nuclear terror plot,…
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The World The Flesh and The Devil
The world could come to an end in a lot of ways but 1950s sci-fi was fond of making it end like…
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Matewan
John Sayles' coal strike epic is grand American filmmaking bolstered by fine Haskell Wexler cinematography, great performances by dedicated actors, and a…
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Hammer Horror 8 Film Collection
Have the classic films of Hammer been subjected to more reissues than The Beatles? Not by a long shot but it can…
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MAURY THE MISERABLE VAMPIRE
“One of us! One of us!” That three-word mantra is, of course, the perversely welcoming chant offered by Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)…
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Scarface 4K Ultra HD
Brian De Palma's 1983 saga of hoodlum Tony Montana is an exceptional remake that's become a classic almost by default -- it's…
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An American Werewolf in London
An old-fashioned monster movie gore-fest that hasn't dimmed in popularity, John Landis's slightly twisted telling of a hiking mishap pulled nervous laughter…
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The Queen of Spades
One of the pleasures of discovering 1949’s The Queen of Spades is also discovering its director, Thorold Dickinson. Born and educated in…
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3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
The experts were right when they said that silent filmmaking was developing something unique and beautiful, before talkies came along and spoiled…
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Quatermass and the Pit
Don't run away because we use the word 'profound' to describe this 1967 sci-fi classic -- some call it the best of…
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The Devil Rides Out
Hammer's key Satanic Mass epic comes to Blu-ray in a terrific improved transfer. Christopher Lee's pitched battle with Charles Gray's necromancer Mocata…