Blu ray review: Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Damon Runyon’s story Little Miss Marker had been filmed before, in 1934, with Shirley Temple as the star. In this 1949 remake, the title...
Blu ray review: Missing in Action series
Movie tough guy Chuck Norris has developed quite a cult following over the years as being fictionally invincible. The reason is due to...
Blu ray review: The Lady from Shanghai
It seems that often Orson Welles is highly noted for Citizen Kane, but his other work is not often explored. Kino Lorber has released...
Blu Ray Review: The Hallelujah Trail
One of the best blu ray releases of late is this John Sturges western comedy starring Burt Lancaster and available from Kino Lorber’s...
Blu Ray Review: Twilight (1998)
Not to be confused with the vampire movie of ten years later, this is a vintage-style noir featuring a cast packed with welcome veterans...
Blu ray review: Nobody's Fool (1994)
Kino Lorber has released this layered drama on blu ray and 4K. Paul Newman had been a 40 year veteran of movies when he starred as Sully,...
Blu Ray Review: Cinema's First Nasty Women
In my career of published articles on cinema that dates back to the 1970s, there have been a few real standouts that are so historically...
Book Review: The Annotated Abbott and Costello
There are several books on Abbott and Costello’s films, the last really good one being Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo’s Abbott and Costello...
Book review: You Sound Just Like…
Subtitled “Behind the Scenes with 40 Musical Tribute Artists, Sheree Homer’s new book from McFarland publishers is a fascinating look at...
Blu Ray Review: The Valachi Papers (1972)
Before Charles Bronson settled into his fast-paced niche of vigilante actioners, he played some layered roles in well crafted films like...