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...
Book Review: Marketing Mayhem: Selling Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to Post-War America
This new book from BearManor by Richard S. Greene fulfills an area of media scholarship that is often overlooked – the actual marketing...
Book Review: Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol’ One-Two
Having been a fan of the Barney Miller TV series back during its first run, I’ve continued to enjoy reruns and home video releases. Over...
Blu Ray Review: Three More W.C. Fields Classics from Kino Lorber
Kino-Lorber's classics division has been notable for offering some of the great movies of classic Hollywood featuring its most beloved...
Cinema Revisited: Steamboat Bill Jr.
In Steamboat Bill, Jr., Buster Keaton, for his final independently produced feature, enjoyed a level of complete creative control...
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...
Cinema Revisited: Dixie Madcaps (1918)
It isn’t uncommon to find silent comedies playing upon stereotypes for humor. Sometimes it is amusing, but mostly it is, at the very...
Cinema Revisited: The Great Dictator (1940)
Released in 1940, a “Baker’s Dozen” years after the talking-picture revolution, The Great Dictator shows silent-screen icon Charlie...
Cinema Revisited: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
American films of the 1940s were far different from their predecessors of the 1920s and 1930s. Brash upstart comics from radio and...