Blu Ray review: Salt and Pepper Double Feature
When Peter Lawford was unceremoniously removed from The Rat Pack, he remained friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. In 1968 the two of them...
Blu Ray Review: Flower Drum Song (1961)
The first American film to have a predominantly Asian cast (and the last until The Joy Luck Club over 30 years later), Rogers and...
Blu Ray Review: Edgar Ulmer Sci-Fi Collection
Having written a book-length overview on William Beaudine, I am naturally inclined to appreciate the low-budget B movie filmmakers who...
Blu ray review: Kino Lorber offers two from Rock Hudson
It is good that Rock Hudson is getting some interest from younger film buffs who didn’t live in his time. Hudson was a very popular...
Cinema Revisited: The Bellboy (1960)
In 1946, when the hot new comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis burst onto the New York nightclub scene, their outrageous...
Blu Ray Review: Two with Burt Reynolds, 20 years apart, from Kino Lorber
The two new 2k Masters of Burt Reynolds movies nicely bracket his career, one from 1969 before he ascended to movie superstardom, and one...