

Blu Ray Review: To Live and Die in L.A.
The recent passing of William Friedkin brought our attention to his work once again, including what may be the filmmaker’s masterpiece,...


Blu Ray Review: SOUNDIES: The Ultimate Collection
It is hard to accurately gauge the importance of this four disc collection of Soundies – musical films made for juke boxes in restaurants...


Book Review: Advertising Anarchy: Selling Bud Abbott and Lou Costello To War-Torn America
Uncannily surpassing his magnificent similar book on Martin and Lewis, author Richard S. Greene has compiled a massive near-800-page...


Blu Ray Review: Force of Evil (1948)
Setting up his second independent production, a screen version of the novel Tucker’s People, John Garfield, along with Bob Roberts, took...


Book Review: Celebrity Obituaries 2022
Harris Lentz has been compiling annual obit books for decades. For the past several years they have been self-published and, acting as...


Blu ray review: Stooge-o-Rama
A 3-disc blu ray set that promises 8 hours of rare Three Stooges material is sure to attract slapstick fans, and the material contained...


Blu ray review: The Oyster Princess
Kino Lorber has released a new blu ray of Ernst Lubitsch's slapstick satire The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin). Featuring the...


Blu ray review: The Package (1989)
Kino Lorber has released a sadly overlooked military action-drama from Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, Under Sieg, Code of Silence). Gene...


Blu Ray Review: Rin Tin Tin Double Feature
Kino Lorber has released two of the most significant Rin Tin Tin silent features, continuing to make available historically and...


Blu ray review: Mr Wong Collection
Usually when I cover blu ray sets, I review each film individually. Since the Mr. Wong series at Monogram followed a pretty consistent...

