DVD Review: RKO Classic Adventures offer vintage pre-code excitement
KINO's release of four RKO pre-code romantic dramas (reviewed here), was accompanied by this similar release featuring three pre-code...
DVD Review: RKO Classic Romances offer pre-code melodrama
KINO has joined up with Lobster Films for this two-disc, five-film set of romantic melodramas from RKO Radio Pictures made from...
Book Review: Bela Lugosi and the Monogram 9
Bela Lugosi is best known as the movies' quintessential Dracula. It is somewhat remarkable that he only played the role on film twice,...
DVD Review: Noir Archive Volume 1
The popularity of film noir has been pretty consistent among film buffs, but it appears to have increased with historians like Eddie...
Book Review: AAAAALLLVIIINNN!
Sub-titled “The Story of Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Liberty Records, Format Films, and The Alvin Show,” this combination biography and career...
The Current Cinema: Cinevangelist: A Life in Revival Film
Matt Barry’s production of film historian and exhibitor George Figgs is a fascinating look at a man to whom cinema has always been of...
Cinema Revisited: The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
The Captain Hates the Sea. Directed by Lewis Milestone. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert Helen Vinson,...
DVD Review: The Alice Howell Collection
The concept of women in screen comedy has a rich and detailed history that is in danger of being unfairly overlooked or completely...
DVD Review: More Hope and Crosby Road Movies on Blu Ray
Continuing their consistent releasing of beloved classics from vintage Hollywood, KINO now offers, on DVD and blu ray, the remaining Road...
DVD Review: For a Few Dollars More
KINO has released, on blu ray, the second in the Dollars trilogy directed by Sergio Leone and featuring Clint Eastwood. Usually...