

Blu Ray Review: Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
I have always taken umbrage at those who dismiss actress Marion Davies as a semi-skilled wannabe thrust into the spotlight by her...


Blu Ray Review: For Those Who Think Young (1964)
Kino Lorber’s release of For Those Who Think Young offers us a disarming throwback to the 1960s just before the Beatles came to redefine...


Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Max Linder: The First Cinema Celebrity
Back around 1970 there was an informative book entitled Clown Princes and Court Jesters that offered chapters on lesser-known comedians...


Blu Ray Review: HORIZON’S WEST (1952)
Kino Lorber has released Budd Boetticher’s taut western drama about two brothers who return to Texas after the Civil War and end up on...


Blu Ray Review: QUANTEZ (1957)
For those of us who grew up in the 60s, Fred MacMurray’s entire career was defined by the TV series My Three Sons until we grew up and...


Book Review: Ma and Pa Kettle on Film
If ever a movie series demanded a book of its own, it is Ma and Pa Kettle. And it's especially grand that Lon and Debra Davis have...


Book Review: Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy
In one of the most insightful books on a Hollywood star, Olympia Kiriakou’s Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy...


Blu Ray Review: Kino Lorber releases two from Lois Weber
One of the great pioneer filmmakers of silent era cinema, Lois Weber’s work has become more readily available for our enjoyment and...


Book Review: Anita Page: A Career Chronicle and Biography
Authors Allan R. Ellenberger and Robert Murdoch Paton have released, through McFarland and Co., publishers, a book length study of one of...


BluRay Review: The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
One of the most interesting and amusing silent features to be released on blu ray by Kino Lorber, Robert Z. Leonard’s The Delicious...

