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- By Loron Hays
“Orson Welles had a perception of everything in the film, including the music. He knew. He truly understood film scoring. …Touch of Evil was one of the best things I’ve ever done.” - Henry Mancini And it shows, too. From Mancini’s score to ...
Read more: Touch of Evil - Kino Lorber 4K UHD Blu-Ray Review (1958)
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- By Emily Strong
“The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.” It starts on a boat – an ocean liner headed to New York. Two strangers who enjoy a life of indulgences have a chance meeting when a telegram caught in the wind brings them together. Despite being engaged to their own respective ...
Read more: Love Affair: The Criterion Collection (1939) - Blu-ray Review
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Elwood P. Dood has a really BIG secret. No, it’s not his constant drinking, which might be a cause for alarm in and of itself. It’s his friend; his drinking buddy; and the only person who shares his innermost secrets with. His best friend in the whole wide world is invisible. He’s also 6-foot tall ...
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We’re in the money! We’re in the money! Well, not everyone, but that doesn’t mean the star-studded comic song-and-dance spectacle of following the exploits of chorus girls Polly, Carol, and Trixie around New York City while they scratch about trying to land parts in the next BIG Broadway ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Talk to me later. I’m killing myself.” With a noose hanging around his neck, dramatically (and quite insincerely) calling out the name of the gorgeous chambermaid he is in love with, this is probably one of the most brilliantly understated ways of introducing Bob Hope’s title character in Monsieur ...
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- By Emily Strong
Cue the music and pull back the “safety curtain.” You are in for a fun one. It is one of the most over-looked projects in Alfred Hitchcock’s filmography, but Stage Fright, has no shortage of suspense from the master himself. In this piece of theater, virtually every character plays the roles of ...
Read more: Stage Fright: The Warner Archive Collection (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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“I like being shipwrecked!” As far as Hitchcock romantic comedies go, well…you probably did not even know one existed! (I did not even know one existed). In fact, the whole idea that Alfred Hitchcock has quite a few comedies credited to his filmography seems more unnerving than any of his ...
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Director Jack Arnold was Universal’s go-to guy when they wanted a quick hit. He proved himself mightily as he churned out classics like It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge of the Creature (1955), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume V: Outside the Law (1956) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having one giant family with the sense of comfort and love gushing from the community. Well, why ...
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Think it’s just the rainy day blues that has this mind reader down in the dumps? Think again. Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Night Has A Thousand Eyes might be classic B-movie material (due to its supernatural sources), but the film is both poetic and engaging as one mind reader ...
Read more: Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan was, at one time, a place of filth and absolute poverty. Back then, it was known as one of the roughest neighborhoods in Manhattan; a better place to be from than to be in. Bordered by the Hudson River on the west, Eighth Avenue on the east, 59th Street on the ...
Read more: Angels with Dirty Faces: Warner Archive Collection (1938) - Blu-ray Review
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Loretta Young is a wholesome brunette no more! As a naive blonde bombshell, this one-time gangster’s moll finds herself with a deep, dark secret. Because of You is the film that launched Tony Bennett's career as the title song became his first Number 1 hit, but it is also progressive for its era ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume V: Because of You (1952) - Blu-ray Review
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Sometimes the good country air can be harmful to your health. Such is the frightening territory of this atmospheric thriller which sees a small-town recluse turn murderer. The woman projects nothing but EVIL while, at the same time, being nothing but pleasant in conversation. She’s a ...
Read more: The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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“The mob doesn’t think. It has a mind of its own.” In 1933, some loud-mouthed man with a tiny mustache and a weird haircut rose to power in the country of Germany. His name, I believe, was Adolf Hitler. You may have heard of him, no? Well, he established a dictatorship to replace ...
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When the “Yes” men start telling you “NO”, you are probably approaching the trash-lined gutters along Sunset Boulevard. Hollywood is clearly sending you a message. You are no longer needed . . . or are you?!?! Well, if Billy Wilder (director of The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, ...
Read more: Sunset Boulevard: 4K Restoration (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House: Warner Archive Collection (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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- M: The Criterion Collection (1931) - Blu-ray Review
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