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...
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: Impact (1949)
The post-war era in American cinema was filled with dark mysteries that were later referred to as film noir, and that is how they...
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...
Cinema Revisited: Safety Last (1923)
The Roaring 20s are often depicted as one of carefree exuberance, economic growth, exciting jazz, and youthful go-getters. At the...
Cinema Revisited: The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties opens with three men on the battlefield during World War I. James Cagney is Eddie Bartlett, a working-class type...
Blu Ray Review: A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Back in 1930, Lewis Milestone made the quintessential World War One drama All Quiet on the Western Front, which became an early Best...
Blu Ray Review: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Kino Lorber has released, on blu ray, the first of a proposed series that never came to pass. Only this first movie, Remo Williams: The...