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Arrow Video has just come out with a splendid Blu-ray/DVD release of the 1967 Spaghetti Western DAY OF ANGER, starring genre legend Lee Van Cleef. In DAY OF ANGER Van Cleef is once again paired with a younger male co-star. This time it is Giuliano Gemma as Scott, a poor orphan who acts as garbagema read more

A couple years ago Olive Films released a remastered version of John Ford's THE QUIET MAN on Blu-ray. Now the company has put out on home video a 92-minute documentary about that legendary film called JOHN FORD: DREAMING THE QUIET MAN. Many on the internet have wondered why Olive didn't include this read more

A couple years ago Olive Films released a remastered version of John Ford's THE QUIET MAN on Blu-ray. Now the company has put out on home video a 92-minute documentary about that legendary film called JOHN FORD: DREAMING THE QUIET MAN. Many on the internet have wondered why Olive didn't include this read more

The "Pre-Code" era in Hollywood--which ran approximately from 1930 through most of 1934--has now become so legendary that just about any movie made in that period is looked upon as a classic. Most of the attention given to Pre-Code features revolves around their presumed salacious content, rather th read more

The "Pre-Code" era in Hollywood--which ran approximately from 1930 through most of 1934--has now become so legendary that just about any movie made in that period is looked upon as a classic. Most of the attention given to Pre-Code features revolves around their presumed salacious content, rather th read more

This post is my contribution to the Favorite TV Show Episode Blogathon, hosted by Terence Towles Canote at the A Shroud of Thoughts Blog. http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-favorite-tv-show-episode-blogathon.html Growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was exposed to several examples read more

This post is my contribution to the Favorite TV Show Episode Blogathon, hosted by Terence Towles Canote at the A Shroud of Thoughts Blog. http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-favorite-tv-show-episode-blogathon.html Growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was exposed to several examples read more

*In the interests of full disclosure, I must admit that this blog post was written by a lifelong Chicago Blackhawks fan. One of the most powerful and feared sports teams of the 1970s and 1980s did not play for a North American professional league. The Soviet Union's Red Army Hockey Club was con read more

*In the interests of full disclosure, I must admit that this blog post was written by a lifelong Chicago Blackhawks fan. One of the most powerful and feared sports teams of the 1970s and 1980s did not play for a North American professional league. The Soviet Union's Red Army Hockey Club was con read more

*Or: Why I Am Never Have Any Money Okay people...this time it's about to get real up in here. Today's post will shine the spotlight on my collection of classic horror and science-fiction films. So sit back, relax, and strap it down. Hammer Films Universal Monsters read more

*Or: Why I Never Have Any Money Okay people...this time it's about to get real up in here. Today's post will shine the spotlight on my collection of classic horror and science-fiction films. So sit back, relax, and strap it down. Hammer Films Universal Monsters read more

Midnight Marquee Press has recently published the first volume in a new series of books on the history of horror films. Written by Christopher Workman and Troy Howarth, TOME OF TERROR--HORROR FILMS OF THE 1930S covers the decade in which many consider the true classic horror film as we define it was read more

Midnight Marquee Press has recently published the first volume in a new series of books on the history of horror films. Written by Christopher Workman and Troy Howarth, TOME OF TERROR--HORROR FILMS OF THE 1930S covers the decade in which many consider the true classic horror film as we define it was read more

THE SORCERERS is a 1967 British horror film starring Boris Karloff. The movie was directed by cult icon Michael Reeves. Believe it or not, I had never seen this picture until last week when it was shown one afternoon on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel (hey, even I can't see everything). THE read more

THE SORCERERS is a 1967 British horror film starring Boris Karloff. The movie was directed by cult icon Michael Reeves. Believe it or not, I had never seen this picture until last week when it was shown one afternoon on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel (hey, even I can't see everything). THE read more

Another famous silent film that I was able to see for the first time recently is Universal's 1928 mystery thriller THE LAST WARNING, directed by Paul Leni. Apparently THE LAST WARNING featured some talkie sequences upon its release, but the version I saw on YouTube did not include such scenes. Univ read more

Another famous silent film that I was able to see for the first time recently is Universal's 1928 mystery thriller THE LAST WARNING, directed by Paul Leni. Apparently THE LAST WARNING featured some talkie sequences upon its release, but the version I saw on YouTube did not include such scenes. Univ read more

This is my contribution to the Russia In Classic Film Blogathon, hosted by Movies Silently, and sponsored by Flicker Alley. moviessilently.com THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934) is the sixth collaboration between director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. Pictorially stunning and undeniably strange read more

This is my contribution to the Russia In Classic Film Blogathon, hosted by Movies Silently, and sponsored by Flicker Alley. moviessilently.com THE SCARLET EMPRESS (1934) is the sixth collaboration between director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. Pictorially stunning and undeniably strange read more

*Or: Why I Never Have Any Money More photos of my home video collection. Here's some Frank Capra. Sergio Leone. Alfred Hitchcock. Clint Eastwood. The original Lon Chaney. How many times can you buy Star Wars? read more