

DVD Review: Thunder Bay (1953)
Anthony Mann's "Thunder Bay," starring James Stewart, Joanne Dru, and Dan Duryea, has historical significance as the first Universal...


DVD Review: Noir Archive Volume 2
Kit Parker Films through Mill Creek Entertainment has released another nine film set of offbeat films that are lesser known, but deserve...


Book Review: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018
For many years, Harris Lentz has been collecting celebrity passings and compiling them in a book. Not content with merely offering...


DVD Review: Charley Chase at Hal Roach - The Talkies - Volume 2 (1932-1933)
Kit Parker Films has released, again through Sprocket Vault, another volume of Charley Chase two-reel comedies, this time covering the 15...


Cinema Revisited: Blackmail (1939)
After filming a surprisingly effective gangster drama at MGM with "The Last Gangster" (1937), Edward G. Robinson returned to the studio a...


Cinema Revisited: Number One (1969)
There is an early scene in "Number One" where Charlton Heston, as aging football quarterback Ron "Cat" Catlan, leaves the locker room...


Book Review: Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant
In a lifetime that has exceeded a century, Olivia de Havilland went from journeyman actor, to movie star, to classic film icon, to...


DVD Review: Midnight Lace (1960)
Doris Day is generally thought of as the star of lightweight musical comedies, even by those who are aware of her dramatic turns in...


DVD Review: The Silent Partner (1978)
This Canadian production, shot entirely in Toronto, features Elliot Gould as a rather meek bank teller who discovers a clue to a robbery....


DVD Review: The Border (1982)
Released to blu ray and DVD by Kino Lorber, "The Border" was an enormous box office flop at the time of its release and has therefore...

