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DVD Review: “Nikkatsu Noir,” Japan Gone Wild

Bob Cashill September 11, 2009 3

Few genres are as absorbent as film noir. Science fiction (Blade Runner), horror (Seven), and high school movies (Brick) have soaked up the world-weary, hard-boiled attitudes and atmospherics of Double Indemnity, The Big Heat,

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DVD Review: “Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection,” including “Mothra”

Bob Cashill August 27, 2009 7

Godzilla doesn’t turn up anywhere in the three-film Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection, but the movies are so terrifically entertaining he’s hardly missed. Godzilla and friends stomped across my childhood and continue to leave

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