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Monthly Archive: August 2025

The Deadly Spawn

            This scrappy, gory 1982 sci-fi cult classic, locally made on a low budget but with phenomenal special effects, is about a meteorite that crashes to earth carrying toothy little alien horrors which take up residence in the watery basement of…
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This Property is Condemned

            Out now from Imprint is a stunning-looking Blu-ray of an oddball 1966 Tennessee Williams adaptation, This Property is Condemned, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson and Mary Badham. Studios at the time were strip-mining anything Tennessee Williams,…
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An Officer and a Spy

            Roman Polanski’s mesmerizing, exquisitely told account of the notorious “Dreyfus Affair” in France in 1894 when a 35-year-old Jewish French artillery officer- Alfred Dreyfus (Louis Garrel)- was wrongfully accused of treason, stripped of his rank and exiled to solitary confinement…
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