

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...


Two early Douglas Fairbanks features directed by Allan Dwan on blu ray
Kino Lorber’s classics division continues to offer outstanding films from the silent era with the release of “The Half Breed” and “The...


Sample chapter from my Jean Harlow book
RED DUST Director: Victor Fleming Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Donald Ogden Stewart based on the play by Wilson Collison Producers: Victor...


Film review: Death Wish (2018)
Back in 1974, Charles Bronson was cast in “Death Wish” as Paul Kersey, a peace loving architect who minded his own business until his...


Cinema Revisited: The Trap (1947)
The Trap is the first Charlie Chan film since The Black Camel (1931) to be shot mostly on location, this time Malibu Beach. It is also...


Snub Pollard in The Bum's Rush
The Bum’s Rush (1927) Directed by James Davis. Starring Snub Pollard, Mavis Clare, Otto Fries, Dick Gilbert, Max Asher, Bobby Nelson....


Film review: The Last Jedi (2017)
This reviewer’s reaction to the “Star Wars” franchise is slightly different than those younger than he. I didn’t grow up with the films....

