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Appointment With Danger (DVD Review)   2 Aug, 2010

This 1951 movie opens with a familiar-sounding announcer voice-overing standard boilerplate about...More>>

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Where Love Has Gone (DVD Review)   27 Sep, 2010

Two veteran actresses, both known for their off-screen toughness, battle it out as wealthy mother...More>>

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Knock on Wood (DVD Review)   4 Oct, 2010

Relatively obscure these days yet substantially acclaimed at the time, Danny Kaye’s head-trippy...More>>

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Once Is Not Enough (DVD Review)   11 Oct, 2010

Let’s all go to the Hamptons and take Kirk Douglas along.More>>

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Tropic of Cancer (DVD Review)   25 Oct, 2010

The picture is a curio and even gets off to a most promising start when American expatriate Henry...More>>

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Summer and Smoke (DVD Review)   1 Nov, 2010

A perfect example of a movie that’s not very good yet absolute eyewash in the most positive...More>>

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WUSA (DVD Review)   14 Feb, 2011

'WUSA' feels like a direct off-shoot of the Democratic Convention riots from Chicago in 1968.More>>

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On the Double (DVD Review)   7 Mar, 2011

There’s something kind of end-of-the-road-ish about this last “pure” Danny Kaye vehicle,...More>>

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Off Limits (DVD Review)   14 Mar, 2011

What Vietnam didn’t do to kill the service comedy, cessation of the draft did. Which means that...More>>

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Rope of Sand (DVD Review)   4 Apr, 2011

The Rains-Henreid-Lorre ‘Casablanca’ connection doesn’t exactly hurt this Hal Wallis action...More>>

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Mountain, The (DVD Review)   11 Apr, 2011

There are a lot of Blu-rays, especially of current movies, that aren’t up to the visual wonders...More>>

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Hurry Sundown (DVD Review)   16 May, 2011

This nearly 2½-hour Otto Preminger Southern opus may have been the most critically panned...More>>

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Such Good Friends (DVD Review)   23 May, 2011

This adaptation of Lois Gould’s novel about a woman’s interior thoughts brought on by her...More>>

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Skidoo (DVD Review)   18 Jul, 2011

Director Otto Preminger’s Jackie Gleason LSD movie is one of those legendary mega-bombs that not...More>>

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Sands of the Kalahari (DVD Review)   1 Aug, 2011

As a drama about the moral limitations of social Darwinism, ‘Sands’ has its provocative...More>>

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Breaking Glass (Blu-ray Review)   15 Aug, 2011

As with other movies that now come off as artifacts of an age, the late writer-director Brian...More>>

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Colossus of New York, The (DVD Review)   22 Aug, 2011

'Colossus' is pretty decent of its kind — with a 70-minute running time that keeps the picture...More>>

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Atomic City, The (DVD Review)   5 Sep, 2011

This agreeably modest black-and-white espionage thriller is enough of a time capsule — on levels...More>>

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Hellstrom Chronicle, The (Blu-ray Review)   16 Jan, 2012

Producer David Wolper’s rather astonishing documentary Oscar-winner comes close to being what...More>>

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Geisha Boy, The (DVD Review)   13 Feb, 2012

Jerry Lewis rarely got the lines between slapstick and sentiment to intersect as harmoniously as...More>>

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