The Food of the Gods, Empire of the Ants, Kingdom of the Spiders Blu-ray Kino Lorber 1976-77 Starring Ida Lupino, Joan Collins, William Shatner Written by Bert I. Gordon, Alan Caillou Photographed by Reginald Herbert Morris, John Arthur Morrill Directed by Bert I. Gordon, John Cardos Underestimate Bert I. Gordon at your peril, his movies…
Lolita Starring James Mason, Peter Sellers, Sue Lyon, Shelley Winters Written by Vladimir Nabokov and Stanley Kubrick Photographed by Oswald Morris and Gil Taylor (title sequence) Directed by Stanley Kubrick The headline was inescapable; “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” Thanks to the persistence of the Hollywood hype machine, the paying public…
Macbeth Blu-ray Kino Lorber 1948 Starring Orson Welles and Jeanette Nolan Written by Orson Welles and William Shakespeare Photographed by John Russell Directed by Orson Welles In 1948 Orson Welles went to toe to toe with fellow Shakespearean Laurence Olivier and it didn’t take long for critics to declare the winner. Olivier’s new film was…
Columbia Noir #6: The Whistler Blu-ray – Region B Powerhouse Indicator 1944 – 1948 Starring Richard Dix, Michael Duane, Leslie Brooks Written by Eric Taylor, William Castle Photographed by James S. Brown Jr., Allen G. Siegler Directed by William Castle, Lew Landers, George Sherman A crime drama with a horror movie heart, The Whistler premiered…
Republic Pictures Horror Collection Blu-ray Kino Lorber 1944 – 1946 Starring Erich von Stroheim, Richard Arlen, Tom Powers Written by Dane Lussier, John K. Butler Photographed by John Alton, William Bradford Directed by George Sherman, John English Founded by Herbert J. Yates in 1935, Republic Pictures was the Frankenstein monster of movie studios, pieced together…