

Cinema Revisited: Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers
I wish I could remember her name. It was a pretty girl attending high school with me back in the Spring of 1974 when this movie first...


Cinema Revisited: Black Fury is a stirring and powerful social drama from 1935
Black Fury Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morely, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, John Qualen, J. Carroll Naish,...


Cinema Revisited: 42nd Street is the quintessential backstage musical
42nd Street Directed by Busby Berkeley. Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger...


Cinema Revisited: Fireball 500 (1966)
Fireball 500 Directed by William Asher. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Fabian, Chill Wills, Harvey Lembeck, Julie Parrish....


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...

