Blu Ray Review: Fu Manchu Double Feature from Kino Lorber
Before Boris Karloff took on the role of Fu Manchu in the MGM feature The Mask of Fu Manchu, Warner Oland played the role in two early...
Cinema Revisited: Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Back in 2006, Milestone Film and Video released the long elusive film Beyond The Rocks, a 1922 silent drama based on a novel by Elinor...
Cinema Revisited: Steamboat Bill Jr.
In Steamboat Bill, Jr., Buster Keaton, for his final independently produced feature, enjoyed a level of complete creative control...
Cinema Revisited: Dixie Madcaps (1918)
It isn’t uncommon to find silent comedies playing upon stereotypes for humor. Sometimes it is amusing, but mostly it is, at the very...
Cinema Revisited: Safety Last (1923)
The Roaring 20s are often depicted as one of carefree exuberance, economic growth, exciting jazz, and youthful go-getters. At the...
Book Review: Time is Money: The Century, Rainbow, and Stern Brothers comedies
This massive, over 500-page, study of Julius and Abe Stern delves very deeply into an area of screen comedy that is very little known....
Blu ray review: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
My first encounter with The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a Super 8mm silent print from Blackhawk Films that I got from my public library...
Blu Ray Review: Thunderbolt (1929)
One of the most significant blu ray releases by Kino Lorber, Thunderbolt is a Josef von Sterburg film that was not only his first talkie,...
Blu Ray Review: Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
I have always taken umbrage at those who dismiss actress Marion Davies as a semi-skilled wannabe thrust into the spotlight by her...
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Max Linder: The First Cinema Celebrity
Back around 1970 there was an informative book entitled Clown Princes and Court Jesters that offered chapters on lesser-known comedians...