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Jill Schoelen found “final girl" fame in Joseph Ruben’s sublime The Stepfather and rode that wave into 1991’s Popcorn, a more conventional teen/slasher thriller set, conveniently, within the confines ...

When the first Resident Evil game was released in the United States in 1996, I don’t imagine anybody thought that it would inspire a still-thriving series of games thirty years later, much less a seri...

FX maestro Ray Harryhausen's first solo gig is a modestly budgeted indie that made a huge splash when picked up by Warner Bros. Director Eugene Lourie essentially remade this film twice, once as The G...

When I was growing up in the '70s, there were two kinds of Japanese films that were playing in America. They either starred Godzilla or were directed by Akira K

Zany yet consistently exciting, writer, director, and star Stephen Chow one-ups Jackie Chan—and perhaps Tex Avery—in the kung fu and comedy department. A classic underdog plot featuring a poor village...

Scott Waugh, director of the acclaimed new Alan Ritchson/Owen Wilson starrer Runner, sits down with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down his favorite scenes from action movies! Sometimes, they...

Amazon Women on the Moon Blu ray  Kino Lorber 1987 / 85 Min. / 1:85 Starring Lots of Actors Cinematography by Daniel Pearl Directed by Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. We...

Executive Producer of the all-new animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai (and our pal) Brendan Hay joins us, for Elliott's canonical sexiness rankings of those compact green snacks, the

Bullets fly and so does John Woo’s camera in the aptly named Hard Boiled, perhaps the apex of the director's films. The movie made a permanent stateside star of Chow Yun-fat who plays a ruthless polic...

Two decades later, this daring documentary is still the only authoritative reportage on a near-taboo subject: the gross and gory graphic auto accident movies once shown to high schoolers with the idea...

At the peak of the style called film noir are a few classics that approach perfection, and Jacques Tourneur’s supremely poetic film is certainly in the top ten. Daniel Mainwaring’s pulp novel has plen...

The fairly elaborate 1959 Soviet space-race movie The Heavens Call was acquired in 1962 by Roger Corman, who assigned fledgling filmmaker Francis Coppola to rejigger it for the US market by cutting, r...

Paul Morrissey wrote and directed this sprawling, comic/serious neighborhood saga that scrambles ethnic identities, lopsided honor codes and the twisted ‘normality’ of mob rule in the borough of Brook...

In this controversial career-capping Japanese thriller from director Kinji Fukasaku, middle-school children are rounded up by the government and sent to an island where they're made to compete in a pa...

Hud 1963 – 112 min. – 2.35:1 Criterion – 4K Blu-ray Starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon de Wilde, Patricia Neal Written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.  Directed by Martin Ritt Much of ...

Why does Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) choose to spend his vacation at home? It’s the great secret at the heart of The ’Burbs. I’d wager it’s the riddle at the heart of the American suburbs, too.

Podcast Episode · The Movies That Made Me · September 8 · 1h 14m

Contemporary audiences could be forgiven for thinking Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers is a documentary; this shocking and powerful war movie is neorealism to the nth degree. A jittery, hand-h...

Podcast · SpectreVision Radio · Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director ...

Reviewer Denise Morrison is back with another silent movie on disc, or actually, two separate releases starring the huge silent star Gloria Swanson. One is hard to find and was mastered/restored from ...

Robby the Robot is back, this time in 4K UHD. Arrow Video’s 4K restoration brings back the full early width of CinemaScope, along with re-created ‘Perspecta’ stereophonic sound. Hollywood’s one full-o...

I saw this film in a theater, and two women were sitting next to me. During the credits, one asked the other, with a hopeful tone, what she thought of the movie. The recipient of the question answered...

The Bubble is back, new but somewhat the same: the 3-D Archive restores an original cut, extending the running time by 21 minutes. Arch Oboler’s 1966 feature introduced the impressive 3-D system calle...

Before Battleship there was another movie based on a board game, and this one came with multiple endings, introducing the interactivity that has now become commonplace on the web after being pioneered...

We’ve rediscovered a new favorite from the Warner corral, a bright action comedy that raised spirits when America needed it most, fewer than 60 days after Pearl Harbor. It’s an all-star comic delight,...

UK correspondent Lee Broughton returns with a review of Vincent Price’s final film for American-International Pictures. Behind-the-scenes tussles amongst its producers and a series of hasty re-writes ...

As Frank-N-Furter, the pansexual mad scientist from the planet Transexual, Tim Curry channels the better parts of Mae West and Mick Jagger with a side helping of Bela Lugosi. Although virtually ignore...

Gloria Steinem — the trailblazing feminist, pop culture icon, and journalist — died on Wednesday, her family announced on her social media pages. She was 92.

Podcast Episode · The Movies That Made Me · September 1 · 1h 8m

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell light up the Portuguese colony, but on the studio backlot: mogul Howard Hughes hired the great Josef von Sternberg to direct, and then had three other directors reshoot...

Here’s a picture from a decade ago that holds up well. It’s another accomplished performance from Denzel Washington, who showed nary a stumble in at least twenty good movies. His talented, intuitive p...

Back in 1984, England was terrorized by this special TV event. The apocalypse begins with trouble in Iraq. Maybe the last thing we need to see now is something this unsettling … yet Severin’s atom-age...

Long before Gordon Gekko told us "greed is good," Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) embarked on a mad quest to prove that everyone has their price. Terry Southern transforms his cynical novel into a nihil...

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DEFA Fairy Tales 1961 – 1979 – 354 min. – 1.37:1, 1.78:1 Deaf Crocodile – Blu-ray Starring Doris Weikow, Blanche Kommerell, Julie Jurištová, Katrin Martin Written by Günter Kaltofen, Siegfried Hartman...

Good luck comes to CineSavant: Silent movie film historian Denise Morrison will be writing special disc reviews for us. She’s long been associated with  The Kansas Silent Film Festival and knows her s...

Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers approach silent-movie purity in this non-stop, quintessentially '60s gag fest set at the kind of Hollywood party that Fatty Arbuckle wishes he'd lived to see.