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Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning (DVD Review)   10 Nov, 2014

In this “American Masters” presentation, which avoids being episodic, director Dyanna Taylor...More>>

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Gold Is Where You Find It (DVD Review)   3 Nov, 2014

Take away a good supporting cast and one topical selling point of interest to the ecologically...More>>

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Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story (DVD Review)   22 Oct, 2014

This moving documentary sheds some light on transgender issues, as former Navy SEAL Christopher...More>>

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Lusty Men, The (DVD Review)   20 Oct, 2014

Newly remastered, this solid rodeo drama from director Nicholas Ray stars Robert Mitchum as an...More>>

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Al Capone: Icon (DVD Review)   20 Oct, 2014

This lukewarm bio makes some good points about Al Capone’s criminal career, a central thesis...More>>

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Dick Cavett's Watergate (DVD Review)   13 Oct, 2014

Just about the only non-news show that would touch the subject of Watergate during the period was...More>>

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Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (DVD Review)   13 Oct, 2014

Truth to tell, there’s really no shoot-out in this lukewarm but sporadically ticklish Randolph...More>>

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Desert Song, The (DVD Review)   6 Oct, 2014

This isn’t a movie that emboldens one to go to the mat even in a fixed wrestling match, but it is...More>>

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Trial (DVD Review)   22 Sep, 2014

Modified from screenwriter Don Mankiewicz’s 'Harper Prize' novel, 'Trial' deals with a racially...More>>

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Casting By (DVD Review)   15 Sep, 2014

This irresistible documentary primarily concerned with the late Marion Dougherty includes anecdotes...More>>

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Winning of Barbara Worth, The (DVD Review)   8 Sep, 2014

Gary Cooper’s first credited non-bit screen role was fairly substantial in this film about a...More>>

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Woman’s World (DVD Review)   14 Jul, 2014

One cannot be oblivious to the reality that 'Woman’s World' portrays a universe that must seem...More>>

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Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector (DVD Review)   7 Jul, 2014

It’s true, as one of the more wizened interviewees here notes, that people will collect anything,...More>>

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Top Hat & Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of ‘The New Yorker’ (DVD Review)   30 Jun, 2014

Released a year apart, the bio-docs 'Top Hat & Tales' and 'James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times'...More>>

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James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times (DVD Review)   30 Jun, 2014

Released a year apart, the bio-docs 'James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times' and 'Top Hat & Tales'...More>>

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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (DVD Review)   23 Jun, 2014

At just 76 minutes, Sophie Huber’s portrait of a remarkably durable character actor features more...More>>

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Test Pilot (DVD Review)   16 Jun, 2014

A huge one in its day that has somehow never before gotten a DVD release, this exercise in...More>>

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Bachelor Flat (DVD Review)   9 Jun, 2014

Based on a play — and the dialogue sometimes sounds like it — the premise springs from the fact...More>>

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Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' To Tell You (DVD Review)   2 Jun, 2014

Beyond its entertainment value, Whoopi Goldberg’s directorial debut fills in some valuable...More>>

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Forever Amber (DVD Review)   2 Jun, 2014

Otto Preminger’s sumptuously mounted adaptation of Kathleen Winsor’s once scandalous...More>>

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