Blu ray review: Gloria (1980)
Not to be confused with Sidney Lumet’s 1999 remake, this is the original John Cassavetes film from 1980 with his wife Gena Rowlands in...
Blu ray review: Nevada Smith
Newly released on bluray from Kino Lorber is this 1966 western with Steve McQueen in the title role as Nevada Smith. The story has Smith...
Blu Ray Review: To Live and Die in L.A.
The recent passing of William Friedkin brought our attention to his work once again, including what may be the filmmaker’s masterpiece,...
Blu Ray Review: SOUNDIES: The Ultimate Collection
It is hard to accurately gauge the importance of this four disc collection of Soundies – musical films made for juke boxes in restaurants...
Book Review: Advertising Anarchy: Selling Bud Abbott and Lou Costello To War-Torn America
Uncannily surpassing his magnificent similar book on Martin and Lewis, author Richard S. Greene has compiled a massive near-800-page...
Blu Ray Review: Force of Evil (1948)
Setting up his second independent production, a screen version of the novel Tucker’s People, John Garfield, along with Bob Roberts, took...