

Book Review: “That’s Me, Groucho! The Solo Career of Groucho Marx"
The Marx Brothers exploded onto the screen, and their 13 feature films continue to win over new generations. Groucho Marx is the only...


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...

