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"Hot Fuzz is everything an action-comedy should be. It achieves through parody what most films in the genre can't accomplish straight." - Nathan Rabin, The AV Club Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), the finest cop in London, is so good that…
"Aligning closely with Gore Vidal’s original script, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut climbs out of its salacious cocoon to become what it was always meant to be: a genuine masterwork tracking one man’s descent into madness painted on a canvas of…
"Terse and tough, Kansas City Confidential is one of the great lean, mean B crime thrillers, with a bang-up opening, a deadly payoff and a shifting set of identities and alliances that keep pulling the rug from under our hero."…
“It never gets dull for a single second! There’s a constant non-stop manic energy which never wavers, that puts this on the same footing as legendary cult favorites like Tobe Hooper or Tetsuo: The Iron Man... Extremely reckless and energetic.”…
“Every war movie since owes it an irredeemable debt… Vidor energizes The Big Parade by smashing together two atoms, a nation’s pride and a mother's sorrow, the combination refracting the audience’s emotions into an unsettling tangle. It all concludes on a decisive note…
"★★★★★ - Radiates with rage and comedy... La Haine is an unmissable response to an unending emergency." - The Guardian Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La Haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the…
The Fantasy Shop has been bringing the St. Louis Metro area the very best in comics, graphic novels, board games, role-playing games, card games, and all kinds of other wonderful geeky stuff since 1981. “It's vibrating with energy, you can…
"A technically impressive comic thriller about a rebellious hen on the run from the chicken-industrial complex." - The Film Verdict Just in time for Thanksgiving, Arkadin brings you a poultry protagonist you won't soon forget! Told entirely from the perspective of…
“Beat the Devil went straight from box office flop to cult classic and has been called the first camp movie... The movie has above all effortless charm." - Roger Ebert A sun‑baked, off‑kilter caper starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by…
“Kurosawa's moody, unnerving film continues to spook us even after the lights have gone on” - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the emerging new wave of Japanese…