Shaft’s Big Score! / Shaft in Africa Blu ray Warner Archive 1972, 1973 / 2.35 : 1 / 104, 112 Min. Starring Richard Roundtree, Vonetta McGee, Frank Finley Directed by Gordon Parks, John Guillermin Released in 1971 during a notoriously divisive presidential campaign, Shaft was both a middle finger to the powers that be and…
Fantômas – Three Film Collection Blu ray Kino Lorber 1964, 1965, 1967 / 2.35 : 1 / 322 Min. Starring Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot Directed by André Hunebelle Eighteen years after playing the duel roles of an aristocratic monster and his swashbuckling adversary in Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Jean Marais got…
Princess Mononoke Blu ray Shout! Factory 1997 / 1.85 : 1 / 133 Min. Starring Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki spent much of his early career as an artist and animator on children’s fare like Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon and Puss in Boots, each as energetic as a school recess…
The House of the Seven Gables Blu ray Kino Lorber 1940 / 1:33:1 / 89 Min. Starring Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, George Sanders Written by Lester Cole Cinematography by Milton R. Krasner Directed by Joe May In 1940’s The House of the Seven Gables, Margaret Lindsay transforms from sunny romantic to stone-faced recluse in the blink…
The Nightcomers Blu ray Kino Lorber 1971 / 1:85:1 / 96 Min. Starring Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham Written by Michael Hastings Cinematography by Robert Paynter Directed by Michael Winner Between 1944 and 1992 Jack Clayton directed just nine movies but they included some of the most elegant yet clear-eyed films to come out of post-war…
The Strange Door Blu Ray Kino Lorber 1951 / 1:33:1 / 81 Min. Starring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest Written by Jerry Sackheim Cinematography by Irving Glassberg Directed by Joseph Pevney Charles Laughton is a vengeful aristocrat with a secret in the cellar and Boris Karloff is the family servant who holds the key…
Red Skelton Whistling Collection DVD Warner Archive 1941, 42, 43 / 1:33:1 / 78, 74, 87 Min. Starring Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford Written by Robert MacGunigle, Nat Perrin Cinematography by Sidney Wagner, Clyde De Vinnam, Lester White Directed by S. Sylvan Simon One night in 1950 during an especially frenetic episode of The Colgate Comedy…
Turn of the century detectives typically dispatched the bad guys with handcuffs or handguns – commonplace but effective best practices. In 1938 the aptly named Action Comics flipped that script with a new kind of crime fighter. This depression era RoboCop didn’t just brush off bullets – he snatched up getaway cars with one arm while corralling…
Frankenstein 1970 Blu ray Warner Archive 1958 / 2:35:1 / 83 Min. / Street Date – April 9, 2019 Starring Boris Karloff, Don Barry, Jana Lund Written by Richard H. Landau Cinematography by Carl E. Guthrie Directed by Howard Koch Color TVs, swimming pools and cars (especially cars). American culture of the 50s was fueled…
The Whole Town’s Talking Blu ray Twilight Time 1935 / 1:33:1 / 92 Min. / Street Date – March 26, 2019 Starring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur Written by Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin Cinematography by Joseph H. August Directed by John Ford Overworked, under-appreciated and ever optimistic, Arthur Jones’ humdrum existence takes a turn for…
The Road to Singapore, Zanzibar, Morocco and Utopia Blu ray Kino Lorber 1940, 41, 42, 43, 46 / 1:33:1 / 85, 91, 82, 90 Min. / Street Date – March 26, 2019 Starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour Written by Frank Butler, Don Hartman, Melvin Frank Cinematography by William C. Mellor, Ted Tetzlaff Directed…
Cleopatra Jones Blu ray Warner Archive 1973 / 2:35:1 / 89 Min. / Street Date – March 19, 2019 Starring Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey Written by Max Julien, Sheldon Keller Cinematography by David M. Walsh Directed by Jack Starrett A good-natured if rickety assemblage of action movie cliches, Cleopatra Jones is dominated by two bigger…
Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures by Daniel Zimmer and David J. Hornung 2009, The Illustrated Press, Hardcover, 224pp. ,$39.95 – 2017, Expanded version With the publication of an expanded edition of Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures, it’s official… Brown was responsible for illustrating every movie poster ever made. Ok, not really but it…
Psyche 59 Blu ray – All Region Powerhouse 1964 / 1:85:1 / 94 Min. / Street Date – February 25, 2019 Starring Patricia Neal, Samantha Eggar, Curd Jürgens Cinematography by Walter Lassally Directed by Alexander Singer The story of a troubled marriage and a tenacious home wrecker, Psyche 59 is a Brigitte Bardot movie without…
The Admirable Crichton Blu ray Twilight Time 1957 / 1:85:1 / 94 Min. / Street Date – February 12, 2019 Starring Kenneth More, Sally Ann Howes Cinematography by Wilkie Cooper Directed by Lewis Gilbert True love and the British Empire collide in 1957’s The Admirable Crichton, the riches to rags story of one hard-to-get butler…
Audition Blu ray Arrow Video 1999 / 1:85:1 / 115 Min. / Street Date – February 12, 2019 Starring Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina Cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto Directed by Takashi Miike It could be described as lyrically sadistic but de Sade himself might flinch at Audition – like its fragile leading lady, Takashi Miike’s film…