

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...


Blu Ray Review: Hot Saturday (1932)
Kino Lorber has released the first film in which Cary Grant played the leading role (it was his sixth film), the seamy pre-code drama Hot...


Cinema Revisited: The Dancing Masters (1943)
By the 1940s, Laurel and Hardy were in their 50s. Being older and less spry, the boys weren’t engaging in a lot of knockabout gags...


Cinema Revisited: The Star Witness (1931)
With a screenplay by Lucien Hubbard (Smart Money, Three on a Match) and direction by William Wellman (The Public Enemy, Wild Boys of the...


Blu ray review: Change of Habit (1969)
By time he performed in his triumphant 1968 Christmas special on television, Elvis Presley had become weary of making movies that offered...

