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 So why in the heck would I write a post on a comic book movie from over 15 years ago? The impetus for this entry was another of my discount purchases from Edward R. Hamilton. Last month I got a three-disc set of Superman movies for about $7. The main reason I bought it was to have the fir read more

 COME LIVE WITH ME (1941) is one of the few James Stewart films I had never seen. It's a (very) light romantic comedy, an MGM production that was helmed by Clarence Brown, one of the studio's top directors. Stewart plays Bill Smith, an unsuccessful writer struggling to make ends meet in Ne read more

 2024 has become a big year for Italian Gothic Horror on home video, and now what is considered the very first modern sound Italian Gothic gets a major release from Radiance Films. I VAMPIRI (1957) was co-directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava, two of the most important names in the genre of read more

 ALGOL is a 1920 silent German film with plenty of expressionist & science fiction/fantasy elements, staring Emil Jannings. The film's prologue establishes that Algol is the name of a distant star, and then details the life of miner Robert Herne (Emil Jannings) who toils away in an unn read more

 The Warner Archive continues its series of great Blu-ray releases of 1930s horror films with THE WALKING DEAD, a 1936 production starring Boris Karloff and directed by Michael Curtiz. This THE WALKING DEAD has nothing to do with that TV show. It's a unique tale from Warner Bros., part gan read more

 The 1946 RKO comedy-mystery GENIUS AT WORK is a vehicle for the studio's slapstick team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney, but the main reason anyone would discuss it now is that it also stars Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi. Wally Brown & Alan Carney were RKO's attempt at an Abbott & read more

 My last blog post was on a Blu-ray of Antonio Margheriti's CASTLE OF BLOOD, so I might as well follow that up with a look at a special edition release of the remake of that film: WEB OF THE SPIDER. This 1971 feature was also helmed by Margheriti, and it is included on a two-disc Blu-ray set fr read more

 One of the greatest representations of big-screen Italian Gothic Horror gets a special edition Blu-ray showcase courtesy of Severin. CASTLE OF BLOOD (1963) is the English version of DANZA MACABRA, and both cuts are featured on this two-disc set. (Severin also has a 4K version of the movie avai read more

 SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (1968) is an adaptation of three Edgar Allan Poe tales, but it has little in common with the Roger Corman/Vincent Price/AIP series featuring that author's work. The film can also be defined as a horror anthology, but it isn't in the class of the Amicus productions of multi- read more

 Last night Turner Classic Movies showed the notorious 1932 Fox Pre-Code film CALL HER SAVAGE, starring Clara Bow and Hitless Wonder Movie Blog favorite Thelma Todd. It was a first-time viewing for me. CALL HER SAVAGE starts out with a Native American attack on a wagon train, and that's on read more

 A Tarzan movie?? The main reason for this blog post is that TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN (1949) stars Evelyn Ankers, the lovely Universal scream queen of the 1940s. Ankers plays Gloria James, a famous aviatrix who has been presumed dead since she disappeared while flying over Africa 20 years a read more

 BARNACLE BILL (1957) was one of the last of the famed Ealing comedies made in England, and the last Ealing film that Alec Guinness appeared in. It's another very light comedy involving a naval theme, quite similar to THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE, the subject of my last blog post. (In America the mov read more

 Among my recent purchases from Edward R. Hamilton Booksellers was a $6 DVD, a Kino double feature of two 1950s British comedies starring Alec Guinness, one of my favorite actors. Today I'll be discussing THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE, a 1953 film produced & directed by Anthony Kimmins. THE C read more

 This is another entry in the German Rialto series of Edgar Wallace Krimi thrillers. THE STRANGE COUNTESS (1961) concerns a young London secretary named Margaret Reedle (Brigitte Grothum). Margaret is getting ready to take on a new position, but she's getting threatening phone calls, and there' read more

 Director Roland West's THE BAT WHISPERS is a 1930 sound remake of his silent 1926 film THE BAT, based on the popular play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. THE BAT was one of the main progenitors of the "Old Dark House" mystery thriller story that had a major impact on American popul read more

 This is another Krimi thriller from Germany, one of the earlier ones, actually the second in the Rialto series of Edgar Wallace films. THE RED CIRCLE (1960) was based on Wallace's THE CRIMSON CIRCLE. The movie gets your attention at the start, with a sequence showing a botched attempt at read more

 This is one of the better entries in the series of German films made in the 1960s based on the works of British mystery writer Edgar Wallace. This Krimi has an iconic title character, a hooded, cloaked figure who carries a whip and is quite proficient at using it. Like many of the other German read more

 PUBLIC HERO #1 is a 1935 MGM gangster story with some comedic elements. Much of the film is inspired by the criminal life of John Dillinger. The movie begins with Jeff Crane (Chester Morris) being incarcerated in a large prison. Once inside, Crane goes out of his way to cause as much trou read more

 I've seen most of the epic World War II movies made in the 1950s and 60s, but until last night THE VICTORS (1963) had eluded me. The movie has never been officially released on DVD or Blu-ray in North America, and I don't remember any TV showings of it in my area during my younger days. T read more

 Last night I had the great privilege of seeing the 70th anniversary restoration of Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI on the big screen, at the Browning Cinema on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, along with my good friend Paul Lyzun. Seeing SEVEN SAMURAI under any circumstances is read more