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...
Blu Ray Review: Three More W.C. Fields Classics from Kino Lorber
Kino-Lorber's classics division has been notable for offering some of the great movies of classic Hollywood featuring its most beloved...
Cinema Revisited: You Can't Get Away With Murder (1939)
The bread and butter for Warner Brothers during the 1930s was its gangster dramas, and You Can't Get Away With Murder is a quintessential...
Cinema Revisited: The Great Dictator (1940)
Released in 1940, a “Baker’s Dozen” years after the talking-picture revolution, The Great Dictator shows silent-screen icon Charlie...
Cinema Revisited: The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties opens with three men on the battlefield during World War I. James Cagney is Eddie Bartlett, a working-class type...
Blu ray review: The Crime of the Century (1933)
Kino Lorber continues its release of Paramount pre-code classics with this outstanding drama about a mentalist (Jean Hersholt) who...
Blu Ray Review: Broken Lullaby (1932)
Ernst Lubitsch’s brilliant screen version of the 1930 play L'homme que j'ai tué by Maurice Rostand and its 1931 English-language...
Cinema Revisited: Hopalong Cassidy (1935)
After being a Hopalong Cassidy fan my whole life, I finally have seen the very first film in the series. I don’t know that anyone at the...
Blu ray review: WC Fields in three of his best, from Kino Lorber
One of the true greats of screen comedy, W.C. Fields enjoyed a massive resurgence in popularity during the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Blu Ray Review: Devil and the Deep (1932)
Kino Lorber continues to offer outstanding pre-code dramas that are new to blu ray. Devil and the Deep is a 1932 Paramount feature...