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DVD/Streaming (10 posts found)
The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (3/10/14 — 3/16/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) Toute la memoire du monde
This past Sunday, the international film community lost a giant, Alain Resnais. Over an eig...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (2/27/13–3/05/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Grosse Pointe Blank
Looking back, it seems the 1990s were a golden age for the quirky assassin-for-hire movie. Take, for ins...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (1/30/14 — 2/5/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Attack the Block
Joe Cornish's 2011 "inner city vs. out space" film Attack the Block is kind of like a Goonies in the ghetto...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (1/23/14–1/29/14)
The best films to watch through streaming services this week.
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DVD Review: ‘Vikingdom’
Vikingdom (dir. Ysury Abd Halim, 2013)
Epic Pictures
MSRP: $14.99
Film: C+/Video: B/Audio: B/Extras: C-
The skies in Vikingdom are never quite right. They are either too-bright and hazy, the way that a light screen of clouds can sometimes make the sun...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Cat People’
Cat People (dir. Paul Scrader, 1982)
Shout!/Scream Factory
MSRP: $29.93
Film: C/Video: B+/Audio: B+/Extras: C-
The original Cat People, produced by the great horror impresario Val Lewton and directed to chilled perfection by Jacques Tourneur, is a master...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (1/16/14–1/22/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) The Extraordinary Voyage
Released as an accompanying documentary on the 2012 Blu-Ray release of George Melies' groundbreakin...
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The Second Criterion: ‘Babette’s Feast’
The first time I watched Babette’s Feast, I must admit I misconstrued its themes. Here was a story that coalesced two opposing ways of living life and I was quick to see one as better than the other, when the film actually builds to something else entirely, a ...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear’
For a few years now, Isaac Florentine has been one of the bright lights of the direct-to-video scene, up there with Roel Reiné and John Hyams as a director whose ability to frame action coherently outpaces the majority of people making action blockbusters on a...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile: Christmas Edition
The five best Christmas-themed movies free on the Internet this holiday season.
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