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 ALBERT R.N. is a 1953 British WWII POW story, included on a Blu-ray disc along with THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM that has been recently released by the Cohen Media Group. Both films were directed by Lewis Gilbert, both are in black & white, and both pictures share many of the same cast & read more

 SERGIO LEONE: THE ITALIAN WHO INVENTED AMERICA is a 2022 documentary on the great filmmaker, written & directed by Francesco Zippel, and co-produced by the company run by two of Leone's children. I watched the film on the Max streaming channel. This documentary has a number of big nam read more

 The Cohen Media Group and Kino Lorber have released a double feature of British 1950s black & white WWII films directed by Lewis Gilbert. The movies are ALBERT R.N. and THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM, which I will be covering in this post. British director Lewis Gilbert had a long and di read more

 This is a fantastic four disc, eight movie set, dedicated to the British actor Tod Slaughter. Slaughter was referred to as "The Horror Man of Europe", but these films are really Victorian melodramas, while Slaughter himself doesn't play monsters in the traditional sense. He plays over-the-top read more

 My last post dealt with VAMPIR-CUADECUC, which Severin has put on a Blu-ray also containing UMBRACLE. Both films were directed by Spanish artist Pere Portabella, and both feature Christopher Lee, who is the main reason to watch these films. UMBRACLE has a lot in common with VAMPIR-CUADECU read more

 In 2023 Severin did not release a third THE EUROCRYPT OF CHRISTOPHER LEE Blu-ray set, but they did make available two of Lee's most obscure appearances. VAMPIR-CUADECUC and UMBRACLE are a couple of almost undefinable productions directed by avant-garde Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella, and th read more

 The Film Masters Blu-ray release of THE TERROR (1963) contains a second disc with another famed public domain cult film: the original THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. The production history of the original LITTLE SHOP has become a film geek legend. Roger Corman's ultra-cheap, ultra-quick black read more

 One of the best things about the Tubi streaming channel is that it has a great selection of Euro Westerns, and for the most part these films are presented uncut and in their original aspect ratio. One Spaghetti Western recently added to Tubi is the 1966 ARIZONA COLT, starring one of the genre' read more

 Film Masters has been doing a series of Blu-ray releases involving low-budget horror/sci-fi films from the late 1950s and early 1960s. One of these releases is a two-disc set featuring a couple of films from Roger Corman that are among the most famous public domain titles of all time: THE TERR read more

 Another movie I picked up cheap from Edward R. Hamilton, RAID ON ROMMEL is a standard 1971 WWII action-adventure produced by Universal.The director of RAID ON ROMMEL, Henry Hathaway, had helmed THE DESERT FOX, a biography of Erwin Rommel with James Mason as the famed Field Marshal. The star of read more

 Joseph Cotten appeared in some of the most famous films ever made, such as CITIZEN KANE, THE THIRD MAN, and SHADOW OF A DOUBT. He also was in Mario Bava's BARON BLOOD, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, Ishiro Honda's LATITUDE ZERO, and he even pops up in HEAVEN'S GATE. Cotten even wound up in a coupl read more

 It's time for another end-of-the-year best Blu-rays post. As usual, I tried to cut back on my home video purchases, and, as usual, I failed miserably. But it's my life. I must point out that all the choices were releases that I actually bought and watched in 2023. If you are wondering why read more

 I recently received another batch of discount movies from Edward R. Hamilton, and among them was a DVD of the 1973 British-Italian co-production HITLER: THE LAST TEN DAYS, with Alec Guinness in the title role. Any film dealing with Hitler now has to be compared with DOWNFALL, starring Bru read more

 This is another of the many crime-mystery movies Terence Fisher directed for Hammer in the early 1950s. MANTRAP (known in the U.S. as MAN IN HIDING), released in 1953, has the advantage of a fine cast including Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, and Kay Kendall. The story literally begins with a read more

 So it's finally come to this. The most notorious title in Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set is the 1974 French film TENDER DRACULA, also known as LA GRANDE TROUILLE. TENDER DRACULA is known among Peter Cushing fans for being the strangest, and possibly the worst, movie in the read more

 Included in Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set is BLOODSUCKERS, one of the weirdest English Gothic entries ever made. BLOODSUCKERS is also known as INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED, and it also has an alternate title of FREEDOM SEEKER. There's a number of different versions of this movie read more

 This is the first part of a major production adapting Dumas' famed novel. There have been several Three Musketeers films over the years, and this new one has the advantage of being filmed in France, and featuring a French cast & crew. Richard Lester's two Musketeer films in the 1970s read more

 THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED (1963) shares a disc along with SUSPECT in Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set. The movie is based on a British TV serial, and both projects were directed by Quentin Lawrence. A man who calls himself Joe Newman (Stanley Baker) arrives in a town in Bavari read more

 The 1960 film SUSPECT (also known as THE RISK) is included on Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set. The movie shares the same disc with THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED. SUSPECT is a very effective low-budget realistic espionage tale produced and directed by the Boulting Brothers. A rese read more

 GODZILLA: MINUS ONE isn't just a great Godzilla film, it's a great film, period. Writer-Director Takashi Yamazaki's kaiju tale strikes the right balance between FX spectacle and human drama, and it's far more memorable than any brand-name franchise movie made in the last five years. It mu read more