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Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, New Releases
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HBO Max’s The Head is Chilling Escapist TV
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Sundance 2021: Passing, Eight for Silver, Mass
Entertaining 30 Coins Examines Depths of Evil with Style
Fantasia 2020: Come True, The Dark and the Wicked, Time of Moulting, Unearth
Wilford Brimley: 1934-2020
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
Ennio Morricone: 1928-2020
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TIFF 2019: Atlantics, Bacurau, Zombi Child
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Stranger Things Returns with Phenomenally Entertaining Third Season
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A Look Back at the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival
Larry Cohen: 1941-2019
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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 27, 2018
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RIFF 2018: Phoenix, Styx
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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 2, 2018
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Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
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The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 15, 2018
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Sundance 2018: Assassination Nation, Arizona, Never Goin’ Back, Summer of ‘84
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Tobe Hooper: 1943-2017
Pens to Lens 2017: Stop Motion, Psychological Horror and Chief Illiniwek
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Viva Bava, Celebrating a Master Craftsman
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Sundance 2017: Midnight Madness
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Herschell Gordon Lewis: 1929-2016
Hollywood Gave Up on You: The Summer Movies of 2016
Pens to Lens Gala Empowers Emerging Filmmakers
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