Mention the term “gladiator movies” to a film fan, and it’s inevitable you will get a response referencing the movie Airplane! The line was uttered by Peter Graves as airline pilot Captain Oveur, who asks a kid visiting his cockpit:…
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The camera focuses in on what is a homemade time bomb. An unidentified young man carries it to a car, placing it inside the trunk. Unknowingly, an American with his bimbo girlfriend gets into the car and drives off. The…
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Guest blogger Alex DeLarge presents this review of the 1958 film classic Touch of Evil: In the explosive purgatory between moral boundaries, two men seek Justice by different means: one servant to the Rule of Law and the other…master. This is…
Read more →October 15, 1915: The Supreme Court finds Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company guilty of restraint of trade against the independents, spelling the trust’s doom. October 10, 1939: Babes in Arms, the first in a popular quartet of Busby Berkeley musicals…
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Another week, another batch of great new DVD and Blu-ray releases! What really makes these offerings something truly special is the star power that is on display this week. We’ve got film favorites featuring Orson Welles, Claudette Colbert, Natalie Wood,…
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Another week, another batch of weird and wonderful new DVD and Blu-ray offerings. This time out, we’ve got everything from a completely wacko cult classic making its long-awaited DVD debut to a 1980s throwback comedy. So, what are you waiting…
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Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: What a dilemma The Lady from Shanghai provokes. Orson Welles is in my directors’ pantheon, so I want to like the movie more than I do. Individual parts of it contain moments of great brilliance,…
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The late master filmmaker Orson Welles once stated in an interview that The Trial was the best film he ever made. That’s highly unlikely since the American Film Institute voted Citizen Kane to be the greatest American film of all-time,…
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