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Disney Classics on Blu ray
Treasure Island – 1950 Thanks to cinematographer Freddie Young and matte artist Peter Ellenshaw, 1950’s Treasure Island is a splendid translation of not…
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The True Story of Jesse James
Nicholas Ray's CinemaScope detour into outlaw Americana is yet another sincere artistic effort muffled by studio interference. Ray sought to examine a…
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The Sea Hawk
Grand action entertainment bursts forth on the high seas, showing us how much production value Golden Hollywood could lavish on an exciting,…
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The Magnificent Ambersons
Hollywood’s most tragic ‘mangled masterpiece’ gets a new lease on life with this special edition of what could have been Orson Welles’…
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True Stories
A concert film filmed over four nights at the Pantages Theater in 1983, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense has the redemptive quality…
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The Atomic Cafe
Duck and Cover! And while you're down there, enjoy a Flaming Atomic Cocktail! Loader, Rafferty & Rafferty's influential documentary-satire uses authentic '50s…
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Dark of the Sun
It's tendon-biting combat, with guns, trains, planes, chainsaws, and an indestructible all-terrain vehicle (that still couldn't stand the potholes in the street…
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Misery
Author’s Note: Some spoilers populate this review, because it’s impossible to thoroughly appraise Misery without unpacking some of the film’s more macabre elements. The…
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De Niro & De Palma The Early Films
No 1960s film student had more on the ball than Brian De Palma, who enlisted a smart group of collaborators to pull…
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Sawdust and Tinsel
Ingmar Bergman's 'sad comedy' finds desperation and adultery in his favorite milieu, the theater. He also gets to contrast the self-important thespians…
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Sunshine
Before TV movies were dissed with the phrase 'disease of the month,' this 1973 film surprised and moved audiences with the realistic…
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Mamie Van Doren Film Noir Collection
Mamie Van Doren, née Joan Lucille Olander, was born in Rowena, South Dakota in 1931. In 1942 the family relocated to Hollywood…
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Horror of Dracula
The best of all Hammer horror pictures finally comes to Region A Blu-ray, with a bright transfer made to look like original…
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THE FAVOURITE
Those who possess more than my cursory knowledge of the history of British royalty have made it clear Yorgos Lanthimos’s new movie The…
Allan Arkush: Music & Stories
Music and Stories – Reckless Youth Pt. 3
If you could travel back in time and see me during the summer of ’68, you would not see any noticeable differences…
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The Thing From Another World
Intrepid soldiers and scientists battle a bloodsucking alien invader at the top of the world! The Warner Archive Collection releases Howard Hawks'…
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The Outer Limits, Season Two
It’s here, the second half of the science fiction TV series from the 1960s, restored and remastered. It’s really only half a…
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The Puppet Masters
Robert Heinlein's frighteningly brilliant sci-fi horror concept spawned an entire generation of biological invasions from outer space. Stuart Orme's faithful, authorized adaptation…
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A Coffin for the Sheriff & Blood at Sundown
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with more vintage Spaghetti Westerns. Prolific Italo western star Anthony Steffen shoots first in Alberto Cardone's gothic…
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Hallelujah the Hills
Adolfas Mekas made his mark in American independent filmmaking with this avant-garde comedy that shook up film festivals circa 1963. Although it…
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Gosford Park
At least twenty fine actors and stars make Robert Altman's period piece about a party in a big English country house into…
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Music & Stories: Israel ’66 – Pt. 2
OK, I’ll just say it, this was one of the best summers of my life. What’s happened so far? I had graduated…
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Age of Consent
A dreamy tropic idyll ... or a dirty old man's movie? Our verdict chooses the first option for Michael Powell's retelling of…
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A Man Alone
Ray Milland directs a fine western drama, strong on character and tension; it garnered enough praise to set him on a second,…
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JOE DANTE’S 3D ACE IN THE HOLE
Trailers From Hell readers, as well as all film fans in the Los Angeles area, are getting a special treat this coming…