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  Vice Squad (MGM/MOD)

  Reviewed by MattH.
  A kind of low budget combination of Jules Dassin’s The Naked City and William Wyler’s Detective Story, Arnold Laven’s Vice Squad offers an entertaining West Coast twist to the police work shown...
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  The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]

  Reviewed by Kevin EK
  The Phantom of the Opera gets a great showcase on Blu-ray with this performance at the Royal Albert Hall last October, in honor of its 25th anniversary.   Like last year’s Blu-ray of Les...
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  Downton Abbey: Season 2 (Original U.K. Edition) [Blu-ray]

  Reviewed by MattH.
  After scoring as an international sensation and winning six 2011 Emmy Awards, Downton Abbey became last season’s most buzzed about new show (curiously, the first season won no major prizes in...
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  Tiny Furniture (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

  Reviewed by MattH.
  Winning the Best Narrative Feature prize at the SXSW Film Festival and being called “the next Woody Allen” must be heady stuff indeed for young filmmaker Lena Dunham. In Tiny Furniture, she...
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  Three Outlaw Samurai (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

  Reviewed by MattH.
  When one hears the phrase “Japanese samurai movie,” naturally one’s thoughts immediately go to Akira Kurosawa who directed some of the finest ones ever made. But Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw...
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