Blu Ray review: Salt and Pepper Double Feature
When Peter Lawford was unceremoniously removed from The Rat Pack, he remained friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. In 1968 the two of them...
Blu ray review: The Horse Soldiers (1959)
This exciting historical action drama from John Ford features John Wayne with William Holden in the lead roles. Kino Lorber has released...
Blu Ray Review: Fu Manchu Double Feature from Kino Lorber
Before Boris Karloff took on the role of Fu Manchu in the MGM feature The Mask of Fu Manchu, Warner Oland played the role in two early...
Blu Ray Review: Film Noir Volume VII from Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber’s latest three-film set of film noir on blu ray offers are all films made into the 1950s that explore issues contemporary...
Blu Ray Review: Flower Drum Song (1961)
The first American film to have a predominantly Asian cast (and the last until The Joy Luck Club over 30 years later), Rogers and...
Blu ray review: Francis The Talking Mule Collection
In the 1930s, monster movies sustained Universal studios. Abbott and Costello kept them going in the 1940s. And in the 1950s it was the...
Blu Ray Review: Violent City/The Family
I first saw the Charles Bronson movie Citta violenta (Violent City) via its American re-edit under the title The Family in the early...
Book Review: Marketing Mayhem: Selling Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to Post-War America
This new book from BearManor by Richard S. Greene fulfills an area of media scholarship that is often overlooked – the actual marketing...
Blu Ray Review: FILM NOIR: THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA VOL VI
Kino Lober’s sixth three-film blu ray set of Universal studios post war noir dramas contains new 2K masters of each movie, and strong...
Blu Ray Review: Shakedown (1950)
Kino Lorber is releasing a lot of solid lesser-known noir films from Universal, and Shakedown is an exceptionally strong one. Joe Pevney...