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...
Cinema Revisited: You Can't Get Away With Murder (1939)
The bread and butter for Warner Brothers during the 1930s was its gangster dramas, and You Can't Get Away With Murder is a quintessential...
Blu Ray Review: Murphy’s Law (1986)
Charles Bronson settled into quite a niche during the 1980s when the sexagenarian actor built on his Death Wish vigilante screen persona...
Blu ray review: The Crime of the Century (1933)
Kino Lorber continues its release of Paramount pre-code classics with this outstanding drama about a mentalist (Jean Hersholt) who...
Blu Ray Review: Another great Film Noir set from Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber has released its fifth 3-movie Film Noir set with a trio of dark dramas from Universal during the 1950s. THE MIDNIGHT STORY...
Blu ray review: Mr. Majestyk
Kino Lorber continues to release some of actor Charles Bronson’s best films, the latest being Mr Majestyk (1974), directed by Richard...
Blu Ray Review: For Those Who Think Young (1964)
Kino Lorber’s release of For Those Who Think Young offers us a disarming throwback to the 1960s just before the Beatles came to redefine...
Book Review: Ma and Pa Kettle on Film
If ever a movie series demanded a book of its own, it is Ma and Pa Kettle. And it's especially grand that Lon and Debra Davis have...
Book Review: S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker
It has often been stated that MGM was a bad studio for comedians due to the fact that legendary comics like Laurel and Hardy and The Marx...
Book Review: Karloff in the East
The only character Boris Karloff played on film more than once, other than Frankenstein’s monster, is Chinese detective James Lee Wong. ...