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  Fear on Trial 1975

  

  johnlease ★★★

  With the Fall of Saigon and the Republican election year disaster of 1974 following Watergate, there was a Liberal ascendency, which included some introspection on the 1950s, with such movies…

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  The Vault of Horror 1973

  

  threepenny ★★★

  More adaptations from the classic William Gaines comics, as five men are let out of an elevator in the sub-basement to tell tales of their own demise. First up, Daniel…

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  The Last House on the Left 1972

  

  Addison ★★★★★ 2

  For me this gets full marks for its influence alone, the fact that it is the debut feature of a maestro horror director is just the cherry on top. The…

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  Duck Soup 1933

  

  Michael DiBella ★★★★★

  Pure comedy magic. My personal favorite Marx Brothers comedy and one of my all time favorite comedies.

  Original Review:
  The Marx Brothers comedy masterpiece, misunderstood when released, is now rightly…

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  The Girl on the Train 2016

  

  Lisa ★★★

  I first saw this movie not long after I had read the novel by Paula Hawkins, and while the stories align reasonably closely, I was a bit thrown when the…

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  The Apartment 1960

  

  Gabe Rodríguez ★★★★½

  "Why can't I ever fall in love with somebody nice like you?"
  "Yeah, well, that's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise."

  THE APARTMENT is one of the great screenplays and perhaps…

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  Sonatine 1993

  

  corey ★★★½ 4

  breezy, dreamy yakuza joint pierced by Takeshi Kitano’s ever-brutal sensibilities, fusing nihilism with keen deadpan touches of humor and cynicism only made possible and functional by the director’s hand dipped…

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  The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997

  

  Not Anna Faris ★★★ 8

  "it's not polite to sneak up on ppl."

  The Lost World or: Look Who's Hangry, Too

  Sequels are purposed to deliver MORE of what audiences loved from the original...& apparently,…