No Gun, No Plea Of Self-Defense: ‘Warning Shot’ Reviewed
It isn’t a question of whether Sergeant Tom Valens (David Janssen) killed Dr. James Ruston (Donald Curtis). It’s a question
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Esther Williams’ Technicolor Neo-Noir: ‘The Unguarded Moment’ Reviewed
As much as her colleagues would love to blame her marital status for everything, being single isn’t the reason Lois
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Pre-Code Horror: ‘Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde’ Reviewed
Science is about testing boundaries. In Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, that’s exactly what Dr. Jekyll (Frederic March) does
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Noir Double Feature: ‘Kiss The Blood Off My Hands’ And ‘Larceny’
From Key Largo to The Big Clock, 1948 was a great year for film noir. That statement holds true in
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Hunger During Wartime: ‘Le Soldatesse’ Reviewed
There have been many films about WWII. Valerio Zurlini’s Le Soldatesse (also known as The Camp Followers) is a film about hunger and what
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Boxing And Barbara Stanwyck: ‘Golden Boy’ Reviewed
In cases where a film has a predominately male cast, it’s always best to be wary about how plum a
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Spend Halloween With Roger Corman’s ‘The Raven’ (1963)
While one could argue that the speaker’s language in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is good for a chuckle or
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Walter Huston Rains On Joan Crawford’s Parade: Lewis Milestone’s ‘Rain’ Reviewed
Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is a prostitute with a heart of gold. Mr. Davidson (Walter Huston) is the missionary who
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The Little Red Dress That Sparked A Murder Spree: ‘I’m Dangerous Tonight’ Reviewed
They say every woman should have a little black dress in their closet. A murderous red dress might not be
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The Vulnerability Of Joanne Woodward: ‘Rachel, Rachel’ Reviewed
Warner Archive provided me with a free copy of the Blu-Ray I reviewed in this article. The opinions I share
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Revenge And Creepy Stepsisters: ‘Jack Be Nimble’ Reviewed
Early in Garth Maxwell’s Jack Be Nimble, Jack and Dora’s mom (Patricia Phillips) turns on a record of a fairy
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Wartime From A Female Perspective: ‘So Proudly We Hail’ Reviewed
Mark Sandrich’s So Proudly We Hail isn’t the only film to have been made about the battle of Bataan. In
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‘Salt & Pepper’ / ‘One More Time’ Double Feature Reviewed
Before he directed the Lethal Weapon movies, Richard Donner directed Salt & Pepper, a buddy comedy starring Rat Pack members,
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Short Shorts And The Viking Movie: ‘The Long Ships’ Reviewed
Shorts don’t come shorter than the ones Tony Curtis wears in Richard Fleisher’s The Vikings, but ever wish there was
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Love, Marriage, And A Fiddler On The Roof: ‘Fiddler’s Journey To The Big Screen’ Reviewed
There would be no film version of Fiddler on the Roof without the Broadway show. How cool is it, though,
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‘The Eurocrypt Of Christopher Lee Collection’ Volume 2
The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection Volume 2 might not be the best showing of Christopher Lee as an actor
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Emeralds, Amnesia, And Murder: ‘Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VIII’ Reviewed
For their eighth box set Kino Lorber have taken some liberties, in terms of what qualifies as “noir,” but they’ve
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
Going into Everything Everywhere All At Once, it helps to know that the Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) are
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Pastor Hall’
Pastor Hall is about a German priest (Wilfrid Lawson) who stands up to the Nazi Stormtroopers that have taken control of
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Lubitsch’s Postwar Drama: ‘Broken Lullaby’ Reviewed
Early in Ernst Lubitsch’s Broken Lullaby, Paul (Phillips Holmes) voices his concern that a second war is coming. Today, we
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The Boy Who Cried Submarine: ‘Murphy’s War’ Reviewed
Murphy (Peter O’Toole) isn’t trying to take out a sub because he believes in the war effort. Murphy wants revenge.
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Telekinesis And The Greek System: ‘The Initiation of Sarah’ Reviewed
Sisters who pledge together, stay together. If only that were the case in The Initiation of Sarah, Robert Day’s TV
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A Somber Shirley Temple Film — ‘Now And Forever’ Reviewed
The trick with Shirley Temple movies is while her characters usually have to face a lot of adversity, they tend
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Audrey Hepburn, The Paramount Years: A Review of The ‘Audrey Hepburn 7-Movie Collection’
I don’t remember what year it was that my family got their first DVD player. It had to be the
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What’s So Great About Being President: ‘The Whistle At Eaton Falls’ Reviewed
Losing the Granite State Shoe Company was hard enough. The last thing Eaton Falls needs is to see another factory
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Blu-Ray Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’
In geometry, parallel lines don’t have to be identical. One can be thick, one can be thin. One can be
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A Solid Diamond Caper: ‘Grand Slam’ Reviewed
While money has been known to tear families apart, diamonds are what bring criminals together in Giuliano Montaldo’s Grand Slam.
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Musical Romance: Joe Wright’s ‘Cyrano’ Reviewed
Besides the many other film adaptations of Edmond Rostand’s play, Cyrano de Bergerac, that have been done, the premise of
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A Tale Of Two Brothers: Lino Brocka’s ‘Cain And Abel’ Reviewed
Action movies sometimes have a habit of treating female characters like window dressing. Melodramas, on the other hand, often center
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Severin’s Release Of ‘Blood For Dracula’ Reviewed
Being undead, it makes sense that vampires are usually pale. They don’t usually look old, though. That’s the whole perk
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Cotton Gins And Coca Cola: Reviewing Elia Kazan’s ‘Baby Doll’
For all the harmless nicknames out there, there are just as many damaging ones. In Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll, Baby
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