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Warning from Space
Sci-fi alert! New classic science fiction discoveries are rare these days, which makes Arrow's rejuvenation of Japan's first science fiction tale in…
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The Phantom of the Opera ’62
Hammer Studios made their mark by viewing Universal’s classic horror films through a contemporary lens—which for the late 50’s and early 60’s…
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Curse of the Undead
Ride 'em, rope 'em, bite 'em? Is this 'Dracula Goes West,' or 'Fangs of the High Chapparal?' The fading Universal-International house of…
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Eve
Is Joseph Losey's elusive, maudit masterpiece really a masterpiece? Stanley Baker's foolish lout of a writer ruins his life pursuing the wanton…
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The Elephant Man
Why is it that, when a horror film achieves something special, both the critics and the public tend to elevate it above…
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Universal Horror Collection Volume 5
The Universal Horror Collection Volume 5 should appeal to ape suit fans everywhere—and spoiler alert—one of the films in the set is…
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
It's a perfect movie for a dark time: Carlo Levi's famed novel about a political undesirable became a major Italian miniseries by…
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Lord Love a Duck
This mid-'sixties black comedy from the mischievous George Axelrod defines and dissects 'crazy California culture' just as West Coasters were being slandered…
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The Cat and the Canary & The Ghost Breakers
Bob Hope’s brand of comedy may have been extinct by the sixties but it was alive and kicking in the pages of…
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The Carpetbaggers
It's lurid, it's soapy, it's forbidden: where does the line form? Joseph E. Levine made hay from Harold Robbins' best seller, with…
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Love Me Tonight
Does a musical have to have big dance numbers, glorious cinematography and stereophonic sound? I agree with a consensus of critics and…
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Dr. Who Double Feature—1965 & ’66
The story of Doctor Who turns on a distinctly British conceit; our hero, a grandfatherly type usually found puttering in the garden,…
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Five Graves to Cairo
It's smart, it's funny, it has a touch of romance... it's Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett's entertaining espionage thriller set between the…
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I’ll Get You + Fingerprints Don’t Lie
Witness one Robert Lippert, an American independent producer who flourished in multiple eras of Hollywood. We discuss his adaptation to changes in…
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The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K Ultra HD
Universal's top-of-the-line Alfred Hitchcock classics make the jump to Ultra HD in a worthy update. We've seen these before but they're always…
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When Worlds Collide
George Pal's second science fiction classic has conceptual imagination and visual wonder to spare, along with a million awkward and dated details.…
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Flash Gordon 4K
Arrow jumps into the 4K Ultra HD bracket with a knockout 40th anniversary presentation of this campy, music-filled and incredibly colorful Dino…
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The Naked City
Jules Dassin's most popular pre-exile crime thriller is many things: a cracking good police tale, a drama of human struggle and weakness,…
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Flying Leathernecks
John Wayne, Robert Ryan and some thrilling color combat footage grace this Howard Hughes WW2 aviation epic, that's famous for being the…
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Attack of the Crab Monsters
Roger Corman began his boom year of 1957 with a marvelous bit of 'way-out' sci-fi -- a 'Tidal Wave of Terror' no…
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Black Gravel
When they dig it up, what will they find? Fans will want to see this forgotten Deutsch-noir masterpiece. Helmut Käutner's tale of…
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The Paleface
In 1934 Al Christie directed Going Spanish, a 19 minute farce billed as “An Educational Musical Comedy.” The movie is notable only…
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The Balcony
When Jean Genet died in 1986, France’s Minister of Culture proclaimed “Jean Genet has left us and with him, a black sun…
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Mister Vampire
Guest reviewer Lee Broughton returns with an assessment of Ricky Lau's Hong Kong comedy horror show-cum-mystical martial arts romp. Introduced to the…
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Airplane!
Most people smile just at the mention of this show ... nothing is more healthy than an old fashioned laugh. Zucker, Zucker…
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Black Test Car + The Black Report
For vintage Japanese classics Arrow is the place to be this summer. Yasuzô Masumura's complicated tale of industrial espionage is an attack…