Book Review: Mack Sennett's Fun Factory
"Mack Sennett's Fun Factory" was released in a thick, oversized hardcover volume in 2010. The information in contained was encyclopedic,...
DVD Review: Since You Went Away (1944)
There is a scene in “Since You Went Away,” David O. Selznick’s sweeping epic, where a soldier (Robert Walker) is on a train as his girl...
DVD Review: Sam Peckinpah’s “Junior Bonner” with Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen’s iconic presence in the title role, Sam Peckinpah’s direction, a supporting cast that includes Ida Lupino, Robert Preston,...
DVD Review: Take the Money and Run (1969) is Woody Allen’s first screen triumph
Kino Lorber’s blu ray release of Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run” allows us to clearly see the foundation of Allen’s “early, funny”...
Book review: The Complete Married With Children Book
In the history of television, there have been several innovative shows from both a technological as well as a sociocultural perspective. ...
Film review: “Why Him?” (2016)
Perhaps the reason all ages are exploring deep into cinema’s history and discovering the work of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and...
DVD Review: The Champion-The Story of America’s First Film Town
During cinema’s early days at the turn of the 20th century, two locations were most noted for moving picture production. One, of course,...
Cinema Revisited: It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
“What is your favorite movie?” People who study and write about film history are asked this constantly. And, honestly, I always answer...
DVD Review: Beggars of Life (1928)
“But I guess it’s about even when you boil it down. Even them people in feather beds ain’t satisfied – we’re all beggars of life.” --...
DVD Review: The Adventures of Captain Marvel
In this era of binge watching entire seasons of television shows, slogging through an entire twelve chapter serial is comparatively easy....