DVD Review: The Woman in the Window (1944)
Writer-producer Nunnally Johnson chose this adaption of the J.H. Wallis novel “Once Off Guard” as the first movie for his own production...
DVD Review: Scarlet Street (1945)
Director Fritz Lang reunited the stars from his 1944 film “The Woman in the Window” for "Scarlet Street," a 1945 film noir. Edward G....
Book Review: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017
Every year, for research purposes, I compile a list of showbiz people who pass away. It is printed on my website, shared in social...
Olive Thomas – A Talent Silenced Too Soon
In the January 6, 1920 issue of Exhibitor’s Trade Review, screen actress Olive Thomas gleefully announced during an interview that she...
Selected Short Subject: Little Daddy (1931) Our Gang
When the Hal Roach-produced Our Gang comedies were re-edited and released to television by King World, their new distributor, there were...
DVD Review: Kino releases a new master of A Fistful of Dollars
Kino Lorber has offered a new blu ray release of “A Fistful of Dollars,” Sergio Leone’s first “Spaghetti Western” featuring Clint...
DVD Review: John Wayne in a romantic comedy with Jean Arthur
Kino Lorber’s classics division continues to restore and release some of the most interesting films from Hollywood’s golden age. “A Lady...
Cinema Revisited: Joe E. Brown in “The Gladiator”
Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Dickie Moore, Lucien Littlefield, Robert Kent, Man Mountain Dean. ...
Book Review: Claire Trevor: The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir
There is a scene in William Wyler’s “Dead End” (1937), when Humphrey Bogart, playing a notorious gangster who changed his face with...
Two early Douglas Fairbanks features directed by Allan Dwan on blu ray
Kino Lorber’s classics division continues to offer outstanding films from the silent era with the release of “The Half Breed” and “The...