Movies about plagues and pandemics with a few survivors used to be a lot of fun to watch in the “reel” world until a real pandemic hit over a year ago. Okay, they are still fun and enjoyable to watch, and taught us how to survive but viewing films like this today does add a…
Take Me Out to the Ball Game Blu-ray review
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, aka Everybody’s Cheering is a 1949 Technicolor musical comedy film starring the iconic singer-actor Frank Sinatra along with Gene Kelly and Ester Williams. The film is directed by Busby Berkeley, who was known for choreography in musicals and dance numbers such as 42nd Street and Footlight Parade. The…
Arise, My Love Blu-ray review
Several months ago, when Arise, My Love was announced and researched it, I became immediately interested in seeing this film. How can a classic film fan resist viewing a movie with two screen legends in Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland? This film is directed by Mitchell Leisen, who many may know was responsible for several…
Objective, Burma! Blu-ray review
Objective, Burma! is an American war film from 1945 that is based on, to some extent, the six-month raid by Merrill’s Marauders in the Burma Campaign during World War II. The film is directed by legendary director Raoul Walsh and stars screen legend Errol Flynn who discards swashbuckling tights for military clothing. The main crux…
Four Frightened People Blu-ray review
Four Frightened People is a pre-code film from 1934 directed by the legendary Cecile B. DeMille. This is another one of his exotic adventure films taking place in the jungle where dangers await his characters. The movie stars the great Claudette Colbert, who I have never seen before with her hair going down to her…
Step by Step Blu-ray review
The 1940s were filled with World War II propaganda films with the villains being Nazis. The 1946 film Step by Step from RKO Pictures is one such film, bet it a lesser known one where Nazis are still trying to take over the world, this time with a base in sunny California! This is a…
Blu-ray Review – House of Wax – Scream Factory
A bunch of twentysomething teen funsters are waylaid on their way to the big sporting teams event when they have vehicular malfunction. They discover a rather strange small town and its only attraction, a wax museum. Pretty soon, they’re almost all dead! Would you like to know more about these characters? Very well. Carly (Elisha…
Blu-ray Review – The Dead Zone – Scream Factory
Christopher Walken plays Johnny Smith, a high school English teacher who gains psychic abilities after a horrific (or hilarious) car accident puts him in a coma. All Johnny has to do is touch a person and he can see that something horrible is going to happen to them, like hosting a Tupperware party. After this…
Blu-ray Review – The EuroCrypt of Christopher Lee (Severin)
When I was 12 (well over 25 years ago), AMC showed Hammer’s Horror of Dracula one October evening. I had just read the Stoker novel for the first time, and was originally taken back by the divergence from the source material (Yes, I was that much of a nerd), and then Christopher Lee came onto…
Guns for San Sebastian Blu-ray review
Guns for San Sebastian is a spaghetti Western starring the late great legendary star Anthony Quinn, the iconic Charles Bronson and directed by French film director Henri Verneuil. This movie is based on the novel A Wall for San Sebastian and is noted for being an Italian film that was shot in Mexico. Taking place…