

Blu ray review – The Long Goodbye (1973)
Director Robert Altman’s penchant for long takes and overlapping dialog might have reached its zenith with his 1970s neo-noir masterpiece...


Blu ray review: To Hell and Back (1955)
Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier in WW2. He managed to parlay that fame into a movie career, with the help of James...


Blu Ray Review: Two westerns with Charles Bronson released
Kino Lorber is doing a great job of releasing Charles Bronson movies that cover his long movie career in the States and overseas. ...


Blu Ray Review: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Released on blu ray by Kino Lorber, John Farrow’s chilling noir is based on a story by the prolific Cornell Woolrich, who also notably...


Book Review: Time is Money: The Century, Rainbow, and Stern Brothers comedies
This massive, over 500-page, study of Julius and Abe Stern delves very deeply into an area of screen comedy that is very little known....


Cinema Revisited: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A classic Italian film in which a man, Salvatore, who has not been back to his home town, even to see his mother, for 30 years, is sent...


Cinema Revisited: Hopalong Cassidy (1935)
After being a Hopalong Cassidy fan my whole life, I finally have seen the very first film in the series. I don’t know that anyone at the...


Blu ray review: WC Fields in three of his best, from Kino Lorber
One of the true greats of screen comedy, W.C. Fields enjoyed a massive resurgence in popularity during the late 1960s and early 1970s...


Blu Ray Review: Devil and the Deep (1932)
Kino Lorber continues to offer outstanding pre-code dramas that are new to blu ray. Devil and the Deep is a 1932 Paramount feature...


Blu Ray Review: The Cheat (1931)
Another fascinating pre-code drama released to blu ray by Kino Lorber, The Cheat is a 1931 remake of Cecil DeMille’s 1915 film. Tallulah...