This week’s Create-A-Caption comes to us from Lawrence of Arabia, director David Lean‘s multiple Academy Award-winning film biography of British army officer T.E. Lawrence, who helped unite and lead Arab rebels in their fight against Ottoman Turks during World War…
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Create-A-Caption: Rosemary’s Baby
Throughout the month of October, all of our Create-A-Captions are based on iconic horror films. And when it comes to masterpieces of the genre, few films have had as much of a creepy impact as 1968’s Rosemary’s Baby. This terrifying…
Read more →Guest Review: Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
Put Dick Van Dyke on a deserted island with a bevy of Polynesian beauties and a space chimp and you’d think you would have a winning comedy. Walt Disney certainly thought so. He liked the idea of remaking Robinson Crusoe…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: 101 Dalmatians
We think that you’ll have a doggone good time with this week’s Create-A-Caption, as it is based on Disney’s 1961 animated romp 101 Dalmatians. That film, along with its 1996 live-action remake and their respective sequels, are currently stored in…
Read more →The Original “Village of the Damned” Brings Its Classic Creepiness to Blu-ray
Every once in a great while, a horror film comes along that leaves audiences feeling deeply unsettled. So imagine what happens when two such efforts are issued in such a short period of time. Such was the case in late…
Read more →Fighting the Good Fight in “The Devil’s Brigade”
1968 saw the release of several notable war movies. War movies were still popular, even if the real ongoing war in Asia was not. Especially popular were movies that glorified the heroes of the previous generation. The biggest money maker, as far…
Read more →Steve McQueen Makes Use of “The Honeymoon Machine”
Before he played a sailor in The Sand Pebbles and gambled for high stakes in The Cincinnati Kid, Steve McQueen starred as a Naval officer gambling for big bucks in The Honeymoon Machine (1961). But whereas the later films were “A” list…
Read more →Paul Newman’s “Harper” Hits Blu-ray
Because of Paul Newman‘s success with “H”-titled films, Ross MacDonald’s cool private eye Lew Archer became Lew Harper for this crisp whodunit. Engaged by flinty socialite Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall) to track down her missing millionaire husband, Harper (Newman) encounters…
Read more →The 1967 Classic Thriller “Games” Arrives On Blu-ray
Newly available on Blu-ray from the Scream Factory imprint, Games is a diabolical thriller that stars Simone Signoret as Lisa Schindler, a German immigrant woman who, while peddling cosmetics door to door, happens upon bored Manhattan socialites Paul (James Caan)…
Read more →The Subtleties Behind the Wild Opening of “The Wild Bunch”
In today’s guest post, writer and actor Craig Pisani shares his thoughts on the seminal classic The Wild Bunch: In what many consider being the last of the great Westerns, Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 violent masterpiece The Wild Bunch stars Oscar…
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