Blu ray review: The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
Otto Preminger’s powerful dramatic treatment covering the real life trial of General Mitchell benefits from a top level cast that...
Book Review: Organized Crime on Page and Screen
Subtitled “Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, and Television Shows,” this new book by David Geherin from McFarland publishers is very...
Book Review: Phyllis Coates: Not Just Lois Lane
There has been quite a scuffle among Superman TV fans since around 1955 as to whether Phyllis Coates or Noel Neill was the best Lois...
Blu ray review: The Proud and the Profane (1956)
George Seaton takes an auteurist approach to this wartime romantic drama, newly released on bluray by Kino Lorber, acting as writer,...
Book review: Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother
For Marx Brothers fans, younger brother Zeppo is often dismissed as the dispensable “normal” brother who played the straight part and had...
Blu Ray Review: Body and Soul
Now acting as his own producer, John Garfield was able to choose projects that interested him. Garfield had not played a boxer since They...
Book Review: John Hodiak: The Life and Career on Film, Stage, Radio
Classic Hollywood has many actors who were not icons at the level of Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, James Stewart, or Joan Crawford. There...
Blu Ray Review: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXI
A new film noir set from Kino Lorber, this one containing three lesser known but truly significant films with top stars and directors. ...
Book Review: The Silents Go To War
Author Anita R. Appelbaum has released, thru McFarland publishers, an interesting and enlightening study that examines silent films...
Book Review: Story by Grover Jones
Whenever a book on a more obscure, underrated, and underappreciated figure in cinema’s history is released, there is something of a...