3/27/2025

BARBARA BOUCHET STARS IN 'THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES'

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Title: THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES Year: 1972 Rating: **** Italian giallo director Emilio Miraglia created the gothic thriller THE RED Q...
3/26/2025

SUE LYON KILLING STANLEY KUBRICK FOR 'MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD'

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Sue Lyon in MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD Year: 1973 Rating: *** On the surface, Spanish low-budget director Eloy de la Iglesia's MURDER IN A ...
3/25/2025

MEGUMI ODAKA IN 'GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH'

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Title: GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH Year: 1992 Rating: ***1/2 The previous installment GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH , the first s...

STOMPING THROUGH THE JAPANESE SEQUEL 'GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN'

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Title: GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN Year: 1955 Rating: **1/2 In the original Japanese GODZILLA from 1954, it takes almost the entire third act to co...
3/24/2025

DIRECTOR ISHIRÔ HONDA'S 'GOJIRA' AKA THE ORIGINAL 'GODZILLA'

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Title: GORJIRA/GODZILLA Year: 1954 Rating: ****1/2 Ironically, the original grainy black-and-white GODZILLA, that spawned countless colorful...
3/23/2025

MEGUMI ODAKA & ANNA NAKAGAWA 'GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH'

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Title; GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH Year: 1991 Rating: **** Before Toho's comeback GODZILLA MINUS ONE , which was an all-out tribute to Am...
3/22/2025

MEGUMI ODAKA MINDING MONSTERS IN 'GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE'

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YEAR: 1989 RATING: ****1/2 Strange that a movie about Godzilla fighting a giant plant with the head of a red rose would be one of the best o...
3/21/2025

WINGS HAUSER, GARY SWANSON & SEASON HUBLEY IN 'VICE SQUAD'

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Wings Hauser in VICE SQUAD Year: 1982 Rating: **** Director Gary Sherman's VICE SQUAD combines three genres: involving a revenge-driven ...
3/17/2025

RICHARD WIMARK IN SAMUEL FULLER'S 'PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET'

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Title: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 Samuel Fuller's PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET is arguably his best movie... if not his...
3/16/2025

GENE BARRY IN SAMUEL FULLER'S NOIRISH WESTERN 'FORTY GUNS'

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Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan in FORTY GUNS Year: 1957 Rating: *** It's not that Samuel Fuller was an entirely overrated director,...
3/14/2025

CLINT EASTWOOD IN SERGIO LEONE'S 'FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE'

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Clint Eastwood in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE Year: 1965 Rating: ****1/2 Sergio Leone's Man With No Name or Dollars Trilogy was mainly inte...
3/11/2025

GENE HACKMAN IN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S 'THE CONVERSATION'

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Gene Hackman in THE CONVERSATION Year: 1974 Rating: ****1/2 By the time Gene Hackman's surveillance expert Harry Caul attends a conventi...
3/03/2025

GENE HACKMAN WITH ROY SCHEIDER IN 'THE FRENCH CONNECTION'

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Title: THE FRENCH CONNECTION Shown: Gene Hackman, Marcel Bozzuffi Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 After becoming a legendary yet sometimes diffic...
3/02/2025

GENE HACKMAN RETURNING FOR 'THE FRENCH CONNECTON II'

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Gene Hackman in THE FRENCH CONNECTION II Year: 1975 Rating: *** There's a kind of guilty pleasure watching a thinned-down Gene Hackman ...
3/01/2025

GENE HACKMAN MINING THROUGH NICOLAS ROAG'S 'EUREKA'

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Gene Hackman in EUREKA Year: 1983 Rating: **1/2 Following the game-changing THE FRENCH CONNECTION turning 2nd-lead and/or villain-role chara...
2/28/2025

GENE HACKMAN MAKING AND BREAKING 'THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS'

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Gene Hackman in THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Year: 2001 Rating: ****1/2 It's not so ironic that Gene Hackman was extremely (infamously) difficul...
2/27/2025

GENE HACKMAN SHOTGUNS 'GET SHORTY' STARRING JOHN TRAVOLTA

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Gene Hackman co-starring in GET SHORTY Year: 1995 Rating: ****1/2 One of the late Gene Hackman's least Gene Hackman-style roles is Barry...
2/26/2025

GENE HACKMAN AND AL PACINO TRAPISE THROUGH 'SCARECROW'

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Title: SCARECROW Stars: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 In a roundabout way, independent director Jerry Schatzberg made Al...
2/24/2025

AL PACINO AND KITTY WINN WEATHER 'THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK'

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Al Pacino in THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK Year: 1971 Rating: **** There are four minutes left of independent director Jerry Schatzberg's her...
2/19/2025

DANA ANDREWS AND GENE TIERNEY IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'LAURA'

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Year: 1944 Rating: ***** Dana Andrews as Det. Lt. Mark McPherson has fallen in love with a ghost, kind of, and that's not to be spoile...
2/14/2025

DANA ANDREWS & ALICE FAYE IN OTTO PREMINGER'S 'FALLEN ANGEL'

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Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 If you look at the filmography of two actresses who play sisters in the Otto Preminger Film Noir FALLEN ANGEL, Al...
2/12/2025

DANA ANDREWS & GENE TIERNEY IN 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'

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Dana and Gene a third time YEAR: 1950 A sort of Film Noir in reverse as a downright bad and brutal cop does something accidental and pretty ...
2/10/2025

BRIAN KELLY & LLOYD BRIDGES 'AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA'

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Title: AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 It takes exactly forty-minutes before the entire crew's aboard a relativ...
2/08/2025

CHARLES BRONSON AND JILL IRELAND IN 'FROM NOON TILL THREE'

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Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in From Noon Till Three Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 In another 1970's Charles Bronson vehicle that aesthe...
2/07/2025

MARLON BRANDO, ROBERT REDFORD & ROBERT DUVALL 'THE CHASE'

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Marlon Brando in THE CHASE Year: 1966 Rating: ** Whether deliberate or coincidental, director Arthur Penn attempts what Richard Fleischer pu...
2/06/2025

JAMES ARNESS, JAMES WHITMORE AND EDMUND GWENN IN 'THEM!'

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Title: THEM! Year: 1954 Rating: **** Director Gordon Douglas's THEM could have had three different lead perspectives: the investigation ...
2/04/2025

PRODUCER WILLIAM ALLAND PRESENTS 'THE DEADLY MANTIS'

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Title: THE DEADLY MANTIS Year: 1956 Rating: **** Various military compounds are attacked by an unseen yet formidable menace — an impenetrab...

STEVE COCHRAN DRIVING ROBERT CUMMINGS IN 'THE CHASE'

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Robert Cummings and Michèle Morgan in THE CHASE Year: 1946 Rating: *** Since  some 1940's film noirs are very surreal, it's not stra...
2/01/2025

JOHN GUILLERMIN'S 'THE BRIDGE AT REMAGEN' WITH BEN GAZARRA

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George Segal and Ben Gazzara in The Bridge at Remagen Year: 1969 Rates: *** George Segal had already played a resilient soldier in a World W...
1/28/2025

NEDA ARNERIC SPREADS 'VENOM' IN 'THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST'

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Neda Americ in VENOM Alternate: THE LEGEND OF SPIDER FOREST Year: 1971 Rating: *** After the grainy, low-budget VENOM aka THE LEGEND OF SPID...
1/26/2025

RALPH BATES & MARTINE BESWICK AS 'DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE'

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Martine Beswick in DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Seeking a new face during the late 1960's and early 1970's...
1/25/2025

ERIC PORTER & ANGHARAD REES IN HAMMER'S 'HANDS OF THE RIPPER'

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Title: HANDS OF THE RIPPER Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 In 1971, Hammer Films managed to get two films centering not really on Jack the Ripper...