Screen great Richard Widmark, known for his lead roles in some of the best Noirs from the forties and fifties such as Road House, Kiss of Death and Night and the City, stars in a crime-espionage thriller called The Secret Ways. This movie is one I had not heard of, but when Kino Lorber announced…
Apache Blu-ray review
Burt Lancaster is one of the great American actors and had a brilliant career starring in Film Noirs, dramas, Westerns and comedy. He had great range as an actor. Perhaps his greatest ‘range’ was in the 1954 Western film Apache where he plays an Apache Indian! The film was based on the novel Broncho Apache…
P.J. Blu-ray review
P.J. is a neo-noir crime mystery thriller from 1968 directed by the great John Guillerman(King Kong ‘76) and starring George Peppard(The Blue Max) and screen legend Raymond Burr(Perry Mason). For those who have seen The Long Goodbye, Busting and Shadows of an Empty Room, P.J. has similar elements. New York private eye “P.J.” Peter Joseph…
Dragnet (1954) Blu-ray review
During the 1950s, Dragnet was one of the most famous and successful television series. The series starred Jack Webb as hard-nosed Sgt. Joe Friday. The show was popular enough to give it a full-length feature film in 1954 with Jack Webb in his usual role, and also handled the directing chores. The story is simple…
EuroCultAV’s Best of and Holiday Gift Guide 2020
I can’t believe I’m already writing a best of for 2020. I feel like I’m speaking for the entire population of the planet when I say that his year just dragged. That being said in the midst of this there has been lots of cool pop-culture awesomeness released into the market. I don’t order these…
Seven Sinners Blu-ray review
Seven Sinners is a romance drama starring screen icons John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich. This is the first of three films they did together, the other two being The Spoilers and Pittsburg. In this picture, Bijou Blanche (Dietrich) is a femme-fetale singer who continuously gets kicked out of various South Sea Islands because she is…
The Lost Weekend Blu-ray review
For my entire adulthood I have avoiding drinking alcohol. For one thing, I never really liked the taste of alcoholic beverages, but I have also seen first-hand how being a compulsive drinker affected people that I know. Being acquainted with those who were alcoholics turned me off to drinking. Alcoholism is one of our biggest…
Joe Kidd Blu-ray review
Joe Kidd was one of the few Clint Eastwood films I had not had the opportunity to watch until this year. Since I had since just about every other Eastwood Western, and was being announced for an upgraded Blu-ray release, I felt now was the right time and I am glad that it gave it…
High Plains Drifter Blu-ray review
If there ever was an actor outside of John Wayne who is synonymous with Westerns, it would have to be iconic actor Clint Eastwood. In the Western classic High Plains Drifter not only did he star in the movie, but he was also the film’s director. This is the second film he directed. In this…
Shock Treatment Blu-ray review
Shock Treatment, known as Traitement de choc is a French/Italian production starring the legendary actor Alain DeLon in one of his most outrageous roles, iconic French actress Annie Giradot and directed by Alain Jessua. The film is a cult favorite among fans of the genre. The story is about what lengths a person is willing…