The Brass Bottle Blu ray Kino Lorber 1964/ Color / 1.85:1 / 89 Minutes Starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden Directed by Harry Keller Possessed of a commanding baritone and an even more elegant delivery, Tony Randall was a natural for radio, cutting his teeth as program announcer for WTAG in Worcester before landing…
The Mystery of Picasso Blu ray Milestone/Kino Lorber 1956/ B&W, Color / 1.33:1, 2.35:1/ 78 Minutes Starring Pablo Picasso Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Attending a performance in the artist’s studio is one thing—to be there at the precise moment that inspiration strikes is quite another. Peter Jackson gives us the next best thing in Get…
The Little Rascals Volume 3 Blu ray – The ClassicFlix Restorations ClassicFlix 1932, ’33 / 1.37:1 / 210 Min. Starring George McFarland, Dorothy DeBorba, Dickie Moore Written by H.W. Walker Directed by Robert F. McGowan The third volume in ClassicFlix’s Little Rascals series introduces the show’s most celebrated performer, George McFarland, otherwise known as Spanky….
The Old Fashioned Way, It’s a Gift, The Bank Dick Blu ray Kino Lorber 1934, 1940 / 71, 68, 72 minutes / 1.33:1 Starring W.C. Fields, Judith Allen, Kathleen Howard, Franklin Pangborn Directed by William Beaudine, Norman McLeod, Edward Cline W.C. Fields divided the country into factions—con men and those who would be conned. Throughout…
Fritz the Cat – The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat Blu ray Kino Lorber 1972, 74/ 1.85:1/ 80, 76 Minutes Starring Skip Hinnant Directed by Ralph Bakshi, Robert Taylor The typical toddler tends to relate more to the cuddly animals in a Disney cartoon than their own flesh and blood playmates. Robert Crumb and…
Children of the Damned Blu ray Warner Archive 1964/ 1.85:1/ 89 Minutes Starring Ian Hendry, Alan Badel Directed by Anton Leader Wolf Rilla’s Village of the Damned was an alien invasion thriller that was genuinely invasive—all around the world women of child-bearing age are suddenly and mysteriously pregnant. No matter the circumstances, whether a virgin…
Kolchak: The Night Stalker – The Complete Series Blu ray Kino Lorber 1974/ 1.33:1/ 1,020 Minutes Starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland Directed by Gordon Hessler. Alexander Grasshoff “I saw what I saw when I saw it.” That was the mantra of Wilbur Grey, an anonymous shipping clerk who made a habit of bumping into some…
Onibaba Blu ray Criterion 1964/ 2.39:1/ 102 Minutes Starring Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura Directed by Kaneto Shindô Kaneto Shindô’s Onibaba is a campfire tale not for the faint of heart. The director was just a child when he first heard the Buddhist fable about a bewitched matriarch, told to him by his own mother in…
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the ’70s and ’80s 1984 Publishing, October 5, 2021 Michael Gingold (Author), Joe Dante (Foreword) Ballyhoo, the art of selling the public something they don’t want, has never changed—but like the devil it has assumed many disguises. In the 19th century small towns were inundated with colorful broadsides, barn-sized murals promoting…