

DVD Review: Hitchcock’s Under Capricorn (1949)
Alfred Hitchcock is frequently praised for his use of long takes in “Rope” (1948), but the very next year he employed the same filmmaking...


DVD Review: I Jane, Doe (1948)
A striking post-war courtroom drama, with John Auer’s artful direction and strong performances by a great cast, “I Jane Doe” addresses...


DVD Review: The Woman in the Window (1944)
Writer-producer Nunnally Johnson chose this adaption of the J.H. Wallis novel “Once Off Guard” as the first movie for his own production...


DVD Review: Scarlet Street (1945)
Director Fritz Lang reunited the stars from his 1944 film “The Woman in the Window” for "Scarlet Street," a 1945 film noir. Edward G....


Olive Thomas – A Talent Silenced Too Soon
In the January 6, 1920 issue of Exhibitor’s Trade Review, screen actress Olive Thomas gleefully announced during an interview that she...


Selected Short Subject: Little Daddy (1931) Our Gang
When the Hal Roach-produced Our Gang comedies were re-edited and released to television by King World, their new distributor, there were...


DVD Review: Kino releases a new master of A Fistful of Dollars
Kino Lorber has offered a new blu ray release of “A Fistful of Dollars,” Sergio Leone’s first “Spaghetti Western” featuring Clint...


DVD Review: John Wayne in a romantic comedy with Jean Arthur
Kino Lorber’s classics division continues to restore and release some of the most interesting films from Hollywood’s golden age. “A Lady...


Cinema Revisited: Joe E. Brown in “The Gladiator”
Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Dickie Moore, Lucien Littlefield, Robert Kent, Man Mountain Dean. ...


Book Review: Claire Trevor: The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir
There is a scene in William Wyler’s “Dead End” (1937), when Humphrey Bogart, playing a notorious gangster who changed his face with...

