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TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (DVD)

By | July 1990

The film’s low-budget 16mm look just adds to the grimy atmosphere, creating the illusion of an underground snuff film…

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In the years since its initial 1974 release, Tobe Hooper's has developed a reputation for being horrifically violent--a reputation that a fresh viewing...

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Those who adhere to the wildly held, wildly wrongheaded notion that feature documentaries are "boring" obviously have not seen a film by the legendary team...

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Cosmos, the 13-episode astronomy series hosted by the late Carl Sagan, was a landmark for a number of reasons, the most prominent being two: (1) in terms...

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Masahiro Shinoda's 1969 screen adaptation of a 1720 banraku puppet play is striking and unusual in a number of respects--for a start, the minimalist sets...

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Given how she grew into perhaps the most annoyingly egocentric entertainer in all the world, it's difficult to imagine that Barbra Streisand was once an...

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Grey Gardens (PG) Criterion Collection #123 Movie: [***] ; Presentation: [****] Those who adhere to the wildly held, wildly wrongheaded notion that feature...

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It goes without saying that Jerry Bruckheimer's sweeping claim that Armageddon director Michael Bay is the David Lean of this generation is, at the very...

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In celebration of the film's 15th anniversary, New Line has issued a handsome DVD edition of the first installment of the far superior of the two defining...

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Without the sideshow that goes on around it at midnight shows every weekend across the country, would Jim Sharman's 1975 screen version of Richard...

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Thirty-two years after it premiered, Roman Polanski's adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller still unnerves--a fact shocking in itself, considering that the...

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