

DVD Review: FIXED BAYONETS! from Kino-Lorber
FIXED BAYONETS! Directed and written by Samuel Fuller. Cast: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill,...


Book Review: Keep Watching the Skies
This is, by this reviewer’s count, the third version of Sci-Fi movie historian Bill Warren’s KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES, the first one...


Book review: Pola Negri: Temptress of Silent Hollywood
One of the truly frustrating things about any study of film history is the incredibly poor survival rate of silent movies. The cinema of...


Book Review: Theda Bara, My Mentor
Joan Craig had a unique perspective regarding actress Theda Bara. As a little girl, she was treated like family by Theda and her husband....


DVD Review: Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Kino Lorber)
A new 270 minute restored blu ray of Fritz Lang's 1922 epic film “Dr. Mabuse The Gambler,” offers the sort of sharp pictorial clarity...


Book Review: Martha Raye: Film and Television Clown.
So much is written on some, and too little is written about others. This is why we excitedly welcome a book on the great entertainer...


Harold Lloyd -- the actor. A look at MOVIE CRAZY (1932)
I have always said that of the Big Three among silent movie comedians --- Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd – that Lloyd...


Book Review: Bebe Daniels, Hollywood’s Good Little Bad Girl
Author Charles Epting’s new biography from McFarland publishers is a thoroughgoing and fascinating look at one of the silent screen’s...


Women in silent comedies: Dorothy Devore
Often those who have only a rudimentary understanding of silent screen comedy will believe that it is, for the most part, a lot of...


Women in Silent Comedies: Fay Tincher
The survival rate of silent film is sometimes promising but mostly frustrating. This is especially maddening in the area of silent...