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Alice's Restaurant (Blu-ray Review) 30 Mar, 2015
Here’s the only Arthur Penn achievement beyond 'Bonnie and Clyde' and 'The Miracle Worker' to be...More>>
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Appointment With Danger (Blu-ray Review) 22 Dec, 2014
Much underrated (or at least under-seen) purely on the “fun” level, Danger joins a new slew of...More>>
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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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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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Atomic Kid, The (Blu-ray Review) 15 Apr, 2013
Everything here is a lark, which is part of the movie’s demented fascination. More>>
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Bells of St. Mary's, The (Blu-ray Review) 18 Nov, 2013
Leo McCarey’s Oscar-winning 'Going My Way' for Paramount was the most popular movie released...More>>
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Big Combo, The (Blu-ray Review) 30 Sep, 2013
As gold standards go, Jean Wallace comes pretty close to filling the bill as noir’s definitive...More>>
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Blue Sky (Blu-ray Review) 4 May, 2015
Here’s another of Olive’s barebones transfers, though one certainly better than the old DVD;...More>>
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Body and Soul (Blu-ray Review) 30 Jul, 2012
The new Blu-ray of Hollywood’s first truly grown-up boxing movie is so pristine that the images...More>>
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Bound (Blu-ray Review) 20 Aug, 2012
In this jumpstart revitalization of the familiar double-cross/caper genre, the Wachowskis’ screen...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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Buccaneer, The (Blu-ray Review) 5 Mar, 2012
The gist of 'The Buccaneer.,’ which is true, is that Gen. Andrew Jackson (Charlton Heston, who...More>>
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Caught (Blu-ray Review) 21 Jul, 2014
Here’s another example of what used to be called a “woman’s picture,” in which Barbara Bel...More>>
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Champion (Blu-ray Review) 27 May, 2013
Kirk Douglas’ breakthrough performance in this 1949 boxing-pic landmark is still dynamic. More>>
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China Gate (Blu-ray Review) 22 Apr, 2013
Filmed during a kind of heyday for Samuel Fuller when the producer-director-writer found 20th...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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Come Blow Your Horn (Blu-ray Review) 9 Apr, 2012
It’s fun seeing Frank Sinatra in this kind of role.More>>
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Cry Danger (Blu-ray Review) 7 Apr, 2014
Like a lot of noirs from the era, this one affords some welcome location work, which often times...More>>
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Dark Command (Blu-ray Review) 24 Jun, 2013
For a Republic release that began showing up on TV when Eisenhower was still president, Olive’s...More>>
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Dark Mirror, The (Blu-ray Review) 10 Sep, 2012
If 'Dark Mirror' does (arguably) bring up the relative rear of the heyday of the career of Robert...More>>
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