Harper is a 1960s throwback to the great film noirs of the 1940s. While there’s a lot to like about it, this hard-boiled mystery starring Paul Newman and a cast of Hollywood heavyweights never quite lives up to the classic m...
Still creepy after all these years, Village of the Damned epitomizes the type of top-notch, low-budget horror film that unnerved audiences in the 1950s and ’60s. It’s just disturbing enough to give us nightmares today&...
A timeless cautionary tale and just a damn good thriller, the low-budget Gun Crazy takes us on a riveting ride into the dark, crooked world of film noir. This crime classic stands as one of the genre’s finest entries and des...
Wallace Beery may be the star, but it’s the fascinating Louise Brooks who grabs the focus of Beggars of Life, a rough-and-tumble tale of impoverished vagabonds and their steely will to survive. Produced in the twilight of th...
In Part 2 of our look at a couple of non-musical Vincente Minnelli films, we examine the Warner Archive Blu-ray release of Designing Woman, which highlights the director’s flair for comedy. Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall rom...
You thought he only directed musicals, right? Well, there’s a lot more to Vincente Minnelli than An American in Paris and Gigi. The father of Liza and ex-husband of Judy Garland also excelled at comedies and melodramas, and ...
Twilight Time nicely bookends Marilyn Monroe’s career at 20th Century Fox with her first and last starring roles at the studio. Though both Don’t Bother to Knock and Let’s Make Love are decidedly mediocre as film...
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford faced massive resistance from movie moguls when they shopped around ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?‘ in 1961. “I wouldn’t give you a dime for those two old broads,” Jac...
Of the forty-four sound films that Alfred Hitchcock directed over the course of his five-decade career, fifteen of them (or roughly one-third of his total output) are distinguished by one-word titles. Although I haven’t done...
Cool. Aloof. Clever. Calculating. Alluring. Mysterious. Sexy. In essence, that’s the Hitchcock Blonde, a creature indigenous and essential to some of the greatest films that the Master of Suspense ever made. Though the faces...
Packaging special edition Blu-rays isn’t easy for movie studios, especially in these challenging economic times. They’re expensive to produce, sport a hefty price tag (even when discounted by outfits like Amazon.com), ...
