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DVD Review: “Wind Across the Everglades”
Wind Across the Everglades opens with a train of progress barreling toward the southeastern tip of the United States, to the blossoming city of Miami. Yet the blend of hissing steam engines and screaming birds on the soundtrack announces, along with the narrat...
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Blu-ray Review: “The Hunger”
Tony Scott foregrounds the aesthetic context for his vampire-movie debut The Hunger before the first images roll. Over introductory credits comes the sound of goth outfit Bauhaus striking up their biggest hit, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” as the frame fades up on fron...
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DVD Review: “Run of the Arrow”
The problem with race as a subject in Hollywood is that the complexities of systemic oppression are fundamentally incompatible with the simplification necessary for narrative-driven filmmaking, where the priority of story resolution often results in laughably ...
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Blu-ray Review: “42nd Street”
Movies about backstage drama tend to fall into one of two emotional categories: awestruck wonder and cynical self-martyrdom. Classic behind-the-scenes melodramas and comedies burst with the joy of being in a boom industry in which even the most nobly starving ...
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Blu-ray Review: Possessed
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: October 21, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B+ / Video: B+ / Audio: B / Extras: C-
Joan Crawford may have been one of the few above-the-line stars to actively typecast herself, pursuing roles she k...
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Blu-ray Review: “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: October 14, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: A-
James Cagney’s fearsome energy, his preternatural ability to play human beings as honey badgers, at their most dang...
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DVD Review: “The Lusty Men”
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: September 16, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B+ / Video: B- / Audio: C+ / Extras: n/a
Nicholas Ray’s 1950s films were topical critiques of contemporary American society, from middle-class aspirati...
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Blu-Ray Review: Out of the Past
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: August 12, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: B+ / Extras: C
Jacques Tourneur’s three films for Val Lewton—Cat People, The Leopard Man and I Walked with a Z...
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DVD Review: Drum Beat
Distributor: Warner Archive
Release Date: July 15, 2014
MSRP: $21.99
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Film: B- / Video: C- / Audio: C / Extras: n/a
Alan Ladd’s Johnny McKay arrives at the White House at the start of Drum Beat on the invitatio...
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DVD Review: “Hell Divers”
Distributor: Warner Archive
MSRP: $21.99
Release Date: 05/13/2014
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Film: B, Video: B-, Audio: C+, Extras: D
From the moment Clark Gable’s gunner Steve Nelson comes into frame in Hell Divers, it’s ob...
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