Book Review: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2016
Harris Lentz has been compiling showbiz obits for decades, and is currently working on such a book for 2017. I have several of his...
Book Review: Laird Cregar – A Hollywood Tragedy
A strong acting presence who made a significant impact and later died as a young man of 31, Laird Cregar left an impact on such films as...
Film review: Death Wish (2018)
Back in 1974, Charles Bronson was cast in “Death Wish” as Paul Kersey, a peace loving architect who minded his own business until his...
Book Review: Looking For Good Times: Examining the Monkees Songs One by One
Michael Ventrella and Mark Arnold have teamed up to offer a song-by-song discography of The Monkees, in chronological order, and give us...
DVD Review: THE COVERED WAGON (1923)
Kino Lorber has released a beautifully restored DVD and blu ray of cinema’s first true epic western. Adapted by Jack Cunningham from...
Book Review: The Animated Marx Brothers
Coverage of the Marx Brothers’ career has been quite impressive during the past few years. Books discussing their films, their stage...
DVD Review: Judgment at Nuremberg
The 1960s is often considered a uniformly weak decade for cinema, being compared to the golden age of the 30s and 40s. This is true to a...
Remembering Tim Moore, the beloved Kingfish
There is an unfortunate stigma attached to the Amos N Andy television series, being dismissed as insulting stereotypes misrepresenting an...
DVD Review: Inherit the Wind (1960)
Kino Lorber’s classics division has released an outstanding blu ray of “Inherit the Wind,” the screen version of the 1955 play by Jerome...
Cinema Revisited: The Trap (1947)
The Trap is the first Charlie Chan film since The Black Camel (1931) to be shot mostly on location, this time Malibu Beach. It is also...