Joan Fontaine

Star-Packed New Releases Include Bruce Lee, The Marx Brothers and Other Legends

07.14.20 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Alan Ladd, Bob Hope, Bruce Lee, Burt Lancaster, Chico Marx, Criterion Collection, DC Comics, Edmund Gwenn, Emily Hampshire, Greer Garson, Groucho Marx, Hallmark Channel, Harpo Marx, Hoot Gibson, Jane Austen, Jane Russell, Joan Fontaine, John Ford, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Cattrall, Laurence Olivier, Lego, Mark Strong, Maureen O'Sullivan, Michael J. Pollard, Pete Postlethwaite, Preston Sturges, Robert Armstrong, Robert Carlyle, Rutger Hauer, Sean Astin, W.C. Fields, Warner Archives, Warner Archives Collection, William Bendix | no comments

Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits

There are few things in life as joyful as sitting down to watch a beloved film. This week’s new DVD and Blu-ray releases offer up plenty of those, packed with Hollywood legends past and present, talents whose works on screen…

Guest Review: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

07.03.20 | Constance Metzinger | Tags: Barbara Eden, Irwin Allen, Joan Fontaine, Peter Lorre, Walter Pidgeon | 1 comment

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

“Dive! Dive!” Film producer/director Irwin Allen let audiences dive deep into the waters of adventure with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, his second of three feature films that he made at 20th Century Fox studios in the early…

Joan Fontaine Meets “The Witches” In a Hammer Horror Favorite

10.05.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 1960s films, Joan Fontaine, Shout Factory, The Devil's Own, The Witches | 1 comment

Does witchcraft exist today? That question was posed to audiences in 1966 on the movie poster for the Hammer Horror release The Witches.(Released in the United States as The Devil’s Own). Not to be confused with the Roald Dahl-inspired movie…

Disney Classics, Favorites from the Warner Archives, and Plenty of Other Exciting New Releases!

09.24.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: 101 Dalmatians, Bette Davis, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Bryan Tyree Henry, Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Criterion Collection, Danny Boyle, Dick Miller, Disney, Ed Sheeran, Edmund O'Brien, Ginger Rogers, Hallmark Channel, Helen Mirren, Himesh Patel, James Corden, Joan Fontaine, Kate McKinnon, Leo McCarey, Mark Hamill, Ray Milland, Richard Roundtree, Robert Redford, Roger Corman, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone, Sleeping Beauty, Susan Sarandon, The Beatles, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Archive Collection | no comments

The classic and the contemporary collide in this week’s new releases. We’ve got several favorites fresh from the Disney vault, timeless titles from the Warner Archive Collection, recent theatrical offerings, and so much more. It’s always exciting when it’s new…

Guest Review: Ivanhoe (1952)

04.13.19 | Constance Metzinger | Tags: 1950s Films, Elizabeth Taylor, George Sanders, Ivanhoe, Joan Fontaine, Richard Thorpe, Robert Taylor | no comments

Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 epic medieval novel Ivanhoe was brought to the big screen in 1952 as a gorgeous Technicolor adaptation released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Like many medieval films of the era, it combined romance, drama, and a good deal of…

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” and More New Releases

03.19.19 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Academy Award Winners, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Caset, Colin Firth, Constance Bennett, Criterion Collection, Disney, Emily Blunt, George Brent, Ginger Rogers, Joan Fontaine, Joel McCrea, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins Returns, Meryl Streep, Pre-Code Hollywood, Shelley Long, Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse, Tamara Dobson, Tom Cryise, Walt Disney Studos, Warner Archive Collection | no comments

Thwip! Swinging to DVD and Blu-ray this week are the recent Academy Award-winning Best Animated Feature, a follow-up to a Disney classic, more great releases from the Warner Archive and Criterion Collections, and much more. Even though the weather is…

The Warner Archive Collection Rescues Classic Films from Obscurity

04.08.18 | Chris Cummins | Tags: Agatha Christie, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, George Cukor, George Sanders, Ida Lupino, Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Joe E. Brown, Margaret Rutherford, Miss Marple, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Rosalind Russell, Vincent Price, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Willis O'Brien | no comments

The Warner Archive Collection presents rare and beloved films from throughout the history of cinema. (Often rescuing films from obscurity and introducing them to new audiences). Recently, Warner Archives has released a variety of titles on DVD for the first…

First Time Watch: Suspicion

03.24.10 | Ed Weiss | Tags: 1940s Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine | 33 comments

Throughout the entire span of one’s own movie-watching career (for lack of a better word), there are always going to be films that get missed by individuals. Some of these celluloid efforts that escape a person’s experience are even considered…

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