

Film review: The Last Jedi (2017)
This reviewer’s reaction to the “Star Wars” franchise is slightly different than those younger than he. I didn’t grow up with the films....


DVD Review: Bob Hope in Paris Holiday
Kino Lorber has released, on blu ray, the Bob Hope feature “Paris Holiday,” which Hope produced and wrote the original story. By the...


DVD Review: Kino releases Four Faces West (1948)
Continuing their great work in making vintage cinema readily available, Kino Lorber's classics division has released Alfred Green's "Four...


Abbott and Costello Coloring Book
Sometimes marketing ideas move away from the mainstream and visit something from cultural history that is happily timeless. Such is the...


Book Review: The Man Who Made the Movies
When a book runs over 900 pages one can pretty much be guaranteed to get all of the necessary information about the subject contained...


Humphrey Bogart - looking at a true cinema icon
“.... this is Duke Mantee...and he's hungry." Such is actor Humphrey Bogart's introduction in "The Petrified Forest" (1936), his entrance...


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...

