

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...


Book Review: Celebrity Obituaries 2021
Harris Lentz has been compiling showbiz obits for decades now, and since 2020 has been independently publishing his annotated lists of...


Book Review: Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol’ One-Two
Having been a fan of the Barney Miller TV series back during its first run, I’ve continued to enjoy reruns and home video releases. Over...


Blu Ray Review: Breakout (1975)
Kino Lorber’s release of this action-filled Charles Bronson feature from the 70s is a good look at the actor in a somewhat offbeat role. ...


Blu Ray Review: Three More W.C. Fields Classics from Kino Lorber
Kino-Lorber's classics division has been notable for offering some of the great movies of classic Hollywood featuring its most beloved...

