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Moonfleet
It's Fritz Lang versus CinemaScope, for the first and last time. The format suited to snakes and funerals effectively hamstrings the great…
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4D Man
An old monster formula props up this fantastic film but at its heart is a brilliant premise that excites the imagination. Jack…
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Alice, Sweet Alice
This unique proto-slasher is not a rip-off of The Exorcist and for my taste is more meaningful, despite associating innocent children with…
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A Foreign Affair
If you like Billy Wilder but haven't seen everything he's done, this is the film for you, a sparkling but typically sharp-tongued…
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The Last American Hero
All-American race car mania is alive and well in this excellent Jeff Bridges movie, a true biographical story researched by Tom Wolfe.…
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Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula
William Beaudine, the human assembly line behind a warehouse full of movies that included Voodoo Man and Bowery Buckeroos, hauls John Carradine onto…
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Quatermass 2
What ought to be appreciated as one of the most prescient of 1950s suspense films holds a place among the best science…
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Behold a Pale Horse
Here's a highly suspenseful thriller with fine characterizations, set in a grim but meaningful place -- Fascist Spain in the late 1950s,…
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Someone save Judith Hearne, for she can't save herself. Jack Clayton's film of Brian Moore's novel has stunning performances by Maggie Smith…
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Lust for a Vampire
Courageous disc boutique Scream Factory takes on one of Hammer's biggest embarrassments, that almost everyone connected to it would like to disown.…
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Joe Dante and Arnold Leibovit Talk George Pal
Trailers From Hell Guru Arnold Leibovit has an extended conversation with TFH Fearless Leader Joe Dante about the work of George Pal,…
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Piranha
In 1968 Joe Dante and Jon Davison teamed up to make The Movie Orgy, a counter-culture take on 1941’s comic blitzkrieg, Hellzapoppin’.…
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Death in the Garden (Mort en ce Jardin)
Finally out on Blu-ray in Region A, Luis Buñuel’s beautiful color adventure is a worthy jungle tale shot through with his signature…
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The Reptile
Hammer's attempt at a budget monster romp for 1966 isn't quite as good as its sister film Plague of the Zombies, but…
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Merrill’s Marauders
Is this Samuel Fuller's biggest production? He tries to convey the harrowing reality of a military campaign that tested the limits of…
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QUINTESSENTIAL ARTIST/ACTIVIST, SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER/WRITER, JOHNNY CLEGG, MAKES HIS FINAL JOURNEY
South African singer and songwriter Johnny Clegg, one of the few white artists to openly confront the apartheid government in the late…
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PHOENIX ON SOUTH F STREET: The Re-Emergence of the Alger Theater
“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make…
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Weird Science
Woo Hoo! We're girl-starved teen nerds, and we're cooking up our own living sex toy with our home computers! John Hughes turns…
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Pin Up Girl
Personality is everything in the movies — even in the Golden Age, plenty of film performers ‘clicked’ for reasons having nothing to…
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Alphaville
My teenage introduction to art film culture was something of a science fiction auteur detour (R2-D2?). I discovered Alphaville at a tiny…
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Klute
Jane Fonda plays Bree Daniels, the hooker with a heart of glass in 1971’s Klute. The lanky vamp in the shag cut…
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The Muppet Movie
“A frog and a bear, seeing America!” -Fozzie Bear, The Muppet Movie There was a time, not too long ago, when the…
Fear of the Velvet Curtain
RETROFITTING: YESTERDAY
Yesterday, “the feel-fantastic movie of the summer” (Billboard magazine), jumps off from an undeniably juicy premise—What if you woke up one day…
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This Island Earth
"The supreme excitement of our time! Challenging the unearthly furies of an outlaw planet!" Big-budget space opera finally came to movie screens,…
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Jet Pilot
John Wayne! Janet Leigh! Nifty jet-age flying sequences! Goofy, bad-taste sex jokes! Hans Conreid as a chortling Russian army officer! Howard…