Posts Tagged ‘1950s’
Strange Invaders Blu-ray Review: I Married a Woman from Outer Space
Strange Invaders is 93 minutes of fun that is best enjoyed if one does not take it too seriously.
Read MoreLa Bamba Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Soars Far Above Other Hollywood Biopics
The Luis Valdez classic gets the full Criterion treatment.
Read MoreCommemorate the 70th Anniversary of Robot Monster with a Newly Restored 3-D Version on 7/25
This is your opportunity to finally see the incredible Ro-Man as director Phil Tucker intended — in the miracle of Tru-Stereo Three Dimension!
Read MoreThe Loveless Blu-ray Review: A Stylish Mash-Up of Two Very Different Outlaw Biker Classics
The Loveless opens like The Wild One, postures like Scorpio Rising and speaks like Brando’s Johnny while lacking the action of both but that’s okay as it all jibes together well
Read MoreDamn Yankees Blu-ray Review: Lola Wants (and Gets) 4K
Warner Archive has done terrific job with this new release of the classic musical.
Read MoreRoman Holiday Blu-ray Review: Audrey Hepburn Epitomizes Charm in Italian Locations
It’s one of the best and most memorable romantic comedies of all time.
Read MoreAll I Desire Blu-ray Review: Can Barbara Stanwyck Go Home Again?
An entertaining vehicle for Stanwyck, who couldn’t help but make anything watchable, but its turn-of-the-century setting amplifies its distant, almost quaint feeling.
Read MoreScotty and the Secret History of Hollywood DVD Review: Sheds a Light on Hollywood’s Golden Era
The documentary gives us an interesting glimpse Hollywood’s gay “underground” during the 1940s and ’50s.
Read MoreInferno (1953) 3D/2D Blu-ray Review: Survival of the Richest
The line between film noir and technicolor melodrama is finely drawn in the sand, as this must-see Twilight Time offering proves.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Go Big, but Don’t Go Home!
Four classic titles ranging from suffocating small town drama to the wonderful world of corporate corruption highlight this must-see wave of new Blu-ray releases.
Read MoreKiss of Death (1947) / Edge of Eternity (1959) Blu-rays Review: Homicidal Tendencies
Twilight Time brings us two remarkable, unforgettable, trend-setting thrillers from yesteryear in two equally beautifully transfers.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Odd Men Out (and the Women Who Drive Them)
Vindictive villains, stereoscopic Stooges, speculative spouses, heroic horsemen, and illiterate inventors highlight this quartet of New-to-Blu releases.
Read MoreBlu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes Around the World (and Then Some)
Six globetrotting adventures and dramas make their HD home video debuts, including a Sonny Chiba disaster flick and that missing title from you Ray Harryhausen collection.
Read MoreThe Searchers Blu-ray Review: Revisionist Western Before There Were Revisionist Westerns
John Ford’s justly praised western classic explores the contradictions of glory and brutality in the settling of the West.
Read MoreWoman’s World DVD Review: It’s Frothy, ’50s Fun
This welcome arrival to DVD is good fun and should be enjoyed on repeat viewings.
Read MoreThe Bigamist (1953) DVD Review: A Sensitive Treatment of the Subject
With a tagline like “Wanted by Two Women!” who could resist?
Read MoreThe Blob (1958) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Oldie but Goodie Returns in High Def
Still stands as one of the classics.
Read MoreThe Hour Series 1 Blu-ray Review: Would Have Been Better at That Length
First series stretches a glacially-paced tale over six hours.
Read MoreCall the Midwife: Season One Blu-ray Review: Call a Doctor, My Retinas Are Burned
Lushly produced UK period drama takes a nauseating look at a profession I’d prefer to ignore.
Read MoreLili DVD Review: When Is a Musical Not a Musical?
A surprisingly song-less song-and-dance film with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer.
Read MoreSpin a Dark Web [aka Soho Incident] DVD Review: Forgotten British Film Noir
Ever wonder where both Bernard Fox and Ken Adam got their start?
Read MoreThe Samurai Trilogy Criterion Collection DVD Review: Mifune in His Physical Prime
Director Hiroshi Inagaki and acting legend Toshiro Mifune combine to tell the epic story of folk hero Musashi Miyamoto.
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