

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...


Cinema Revisited: I Love That Man (1933) – a Paramount pre-code feature
I Love That Man (1933) Directed by Harry Joe Brown. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Warren Hymer, Lew Cody, Grant...


Snub Pollard in The Bum's Rush
The Bum’s Rush (1927) Directed by James Davis. Starring Snub Pollard, Mavis Clare, Otto Fries, Dick Gilbert, Max Asher, Bobby Nelson....


Butter Fingers (1925) is Mack Sennett at his best
Butter Fingers (1925) Directed by Del Lord. Cast: Billy Bevan, Madeline Hurlock, Ruth Taylor, Andy Clyde, Kewpie Morgan, Barney Hellum,...


Eddie Lyons solo comedy from 1922
Eddie Lyons was part of a comedy team with Lee Moran during the 1910s. Their many short subjects and handful of feature films for...


Book Review: Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
There are more than a few of us who have long wondered why director Michael Curtiz has not been elevated to the status of great directors...


Book review: Invasion USA
Sub-titled "Essays on Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s," this compilation of essays by editor David J. Hogan feature some of...

