

DVD Review: John Wayne in Legend of the Lost (1957)
Kino Lorber’s classics division continues its tradition of releasing some of the more interesting films from the silent era through the...


D.W. Griffith and the birth of cinema
David Wark Griffith helped give cinema its syntax. His importance to the medium's basics is beyond measure. Griffith’s gradual discovery...


Book Review: Max Linder – Father of Film Comedy
Max Linder is one of the great visionary comedians of the silent screen, founding a basis from which stemmed some of the most significant...


DVD review: Hangover Square (1945)
There is some historical notoriety tagged onto the 20th Century Fox film “Hangover Square,” in that it was released two months after its...


DVD Review: I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)
Released at the end of 1944, “I’ll Be Seeing You” was inspired by the popular song from the 1938 Broadway play “Right This Way.” The...


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. ...