

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...


Book Review: S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker
It has often been stated that MGM was a bad studio for comedians due to the fact that legendary comics like Laurel and Hardy and The Marx...


Blu Ray review: Second 3-film set of Western Classics from Kino Lorber
Some of the most exciting and anticipated blu ray releases from Kino Lorber are its classic westerns from Paramount and Universal studios....


Blu Ray Review: Runaway Train (1985)
There is a scene in Andrei Konchalovsky’s “Runaway Train” when a shocked, disgusted Rebecca DeMornay looks up at escaped prisoner Jon...


Book Review: Karloff in the East
The only character Boris Karloff played on film more than once, other than Frankenstein’s monster, is Chinese detective James Lee Wong. ...


Blu Ray Review: Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Arguably Sam Peckinpah’s finest film, Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia has just been released on blu ray by Kino Lorber in a new HD...

