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...
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: 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...
Kino Lorber releases two more from Bob Hope
Because Bob Hope worked the balance of his career in tired TV specials where he read dull jokes off strategically-but-obviously placed...