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  Watch This White Zombie is the granddaddy of all zombie flicks

  Béla Lugosi plays a Haitian lord of the undead in this horror classic.

  June 18, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Planet Terror pays gleeful tribute to B zombie movies

  Robert Rodriguez’s contribution to Grindhouse is infectiously entertaining.

  June 17, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Amer offers all the formal pleasures, and none of the clunky narrative filler, of your average giallo

  French filmmakers strip the genre down to its dazzling essence.

  June 14, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This A few drops of humor distinguish Stage Fright from its fellow giallos

  Michele Soavi’s theater-set slasher boasts gore, suspense, and even a joke or two.

  June 13, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Don’t Torture A Duckling is an uneven but memorable addition to the giallo canon

  A sleuthing reporter and the town sexpot join forces to solve a murder-mystery in one of Lucio Fulci’s best thrillers.

  June 12, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Our week of giallo continues with Dario Argento’s seductively menacing Deep Red

  David Hemmings tracks a madman in this stylish killer-on-the-loose classic.

  June 11, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Twitch Of The Death Nerve has as many bravura murder scenes as alternate titles

  The bodies pile up, stylishly, in Mario Bava’s proto-slasher.

  June 10, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton act out a wacky feminist revenge fantasy in 9 To 5

  A comedy about women overthrowing their boss could get by on star power alone, but shoots for more.

  June 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Savage satire and show tunes mix remarkably well in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

  Ruthless careerism is rarely this hummable.

  June 5, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Work is hell for the beleaguered temps of Clockwatchers

  Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, and Toni Collette shine in this ’90s office comedy.

  June 4, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Personal and professional tensions collide in Broadcast News

  James L. Brooks’ newsroom comedy is one of his best, and funniest, films.

  June 3, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Die Hard 2 loses the soul of the original, but succeeds as dumb fun

  How do you top the best action film of all time? You don’t.

  May 31, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Zack Snyder delivers a passion project with Sucker Punch

  Not the fanboy sop it was mistaken for, this excessive fantasia is instead Snyder’s most personal effort.

  May 30, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The Lost Boys is a lovably cheesy teen horror flick

  Before his name became synonymous with hackery, Joel Schumacher made this enjoyable ’80s vampire movie.

  May 29, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Soldier’s sci-fi Western is inadvertent B-movie poetry

  Paul W.S. Anderson knows how to make someone look like a badass.

  May 28, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The wages and the fear remain high in William Friedkin’s Sorcerer

  The director of The Exorcist remakes a French classic, retaining much of the original’s white-knuckle suspense.

  May 24, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Vanishing Point caters to car nuts and existentialists alike

  From out of the ’70s, here comes a parable built for speed.

  May 23, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Ronin is a triumph of crime-flick economy

  Come for the car chases, stay for one of Robert De Niro’s last exceptional performances.

  May 22, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Thunder Road is one of the first, and finest, automotive action movies off the Hollywood lot

  Robert Mitchum puts pedal to metal in this influential genre film.

  May 21, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Walter Hill’s The Driver is all about work done well

  Crime is the job, and Ryan O’Neal the man for it, in this existential noir.

  May 20, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures

  MTV’s couch-potato satirists “huh-huh” their way through an epic quest.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Laura Palmer lives—however briefly—in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

  David Lynch’s coda/prologue to his hit TV series has a power all its own.

  May 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The second half of Twilight Zone: The Movie more than makes up for the first

  Two out of four ain’t bad for a horror omnibus film.

  May 15, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This In The Loop is as merciless as its spiritual ancestor, TV’s The Thick Of It

  Armando Iannucci (Veep) moves his savage political satire from the small screen to the big one.

  May 14, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Michael Mann twisted Miami Vice into something thrillingly new

  Largely ignored upon initial release, this moody re-imagining of the ’80s cop show is a major work.

  May 13, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Alfonso Cuarón puts a steamy spin on Great Expectations

  Pip, er, Finn gets some action in this unusually sexy Charles Dickens adaptation.

  May 10, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Beau Travail loosely and gorgeously re-imagines Billy Budd

  The Herman Melville classic is just a jumping-off point for French director Claire Denis.

  May 9, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The Archers’ A Canterbury Tale plays fast and loose with Chaucer

  You won’t ace your English final by watching Powell & Pressburger’s unusual take on the 14th-century stories.

  May 8, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This The Bard gets a millennial makeover in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet

  To see or not to see? Spare yourself the debate. This Shakespeare adaptation is stellar.

  May 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Between Cape Fear and Casino, Martin Scorsese jazzed up Edith Wharton in The Age Of Innocence

  In one his most undervalued films, Marty applies his electrifying techniques to a faithful literary adaptation.

  May 6, 2013 | 1:00pm -