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: Film Noir Volume VII from Kino Lorber
Kino Lorber’s latest three-film set of film noir on blu ray offers are all films made into the 1950s that explore issues contemporary...
Blu Ray Review: Violent City/The Family
I first saw the Charles Bronson movie Citta violenta (Violent City) via its American re-edit under the title The Family in the early...
Blu Ray Review: Edgar Ulmer Sci-Fi Collection
Having written a book-length overview on William Beaudine, I am naturally inclined to appreciate the low-budget B movie filmmakers who...
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: Impact (1949)
The post-war era in American cinema was filled with dark mysteries that were later referred to as film noir, and that is how they...
Blu Ray Review: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Kino Lorber has released, on blu ray, the first of a proposed series that never came to pass. Only this first movie, Remo Williams: The...
Blu Ray Review: Murphy’s Law (1986)
Charles Bronson settled into quite a niche during the 1980s when the sexagenarian actor built on his Death Wish vigilante screen persona...
Book Review: Ma and Pa Kettle on Film
If ever a movie series demanded a book of its own, it is Ma and Pa Kettle. And it's especially grand that Lon and Debra Davis have...
Cinema Revisited: Police Bullets (1942)
Police Bullets Directed by Jean Yarbrough. Starring Milburn Stone, John Archer, Warren Hymer, Joan Marsh, Tristam Coffin, Fern Emmett,...