Posts Tagged ‘drama’
Cry of the Hunted / Wind Across the Everglades DVDs Review: Attack of the Swamp Features
Two entirely different ’50s bayou flicks ‒ now available on home video from the Warner Archive Collection ‒ receive a mite good scrutinizin’.
Read MoreWalt Before Mickey Movie Review: Missing the Magic that Made Disney Disney
A difficult film to recommend to even the most die-hard Walt Disney fan.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Hard Pills to Swallow and Hard Acts to Follow
From tales of vengeance to yarns of violence, this quintet of feature films shows some great men who are truly down on their luck.
Read MoreThe Beginning or the End (1947) DVD Review: Are You Gonna Drop the Bomb or Not?
Hollywood’s first depiction of the Manhattan Project ‒ itself a bomb at the box office ‒ hits home video at last thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Hoodlum Saint DVD Review: When Nick Charles Met Jessica Fletcher
William Powell, Esther Williams, and Angela Lansbury star in a forgotten footnote of film history, newly available to DVD via the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreTrader Horn (1931) / Eskimo (1933) DVD Reviews: A Pair of Van Dykes
W.S. Van Dyke’s early pre-Code adventures shot in Africa and the Arctic make their digital media debuts thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreGentleman’s Fate / The Phantom of Paris DVDs Review: John Gilbert, Cinema’s Forgotten Heartthrob
The Warner Archive Collection unburies several talkies from one of the Golden Age of Hollywood’s many fallen stars.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Five Features from the Escalator of Life
“The Best Country Places in the Fabulous World,” or “The Month Henry Baker Hearts Everything.”
Read MoreCount Your Blessings (1959) DVD Review: More of a Curse, Really
Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, and Maurice Chevalier sink in a dreary comedy set across the English Channel.
Read MoreJohnny Angel / Riff-Raff (1947) DVDs Review: Double Fistin’ RKO Film Noir
The Warner Archive Collection unleashes several underrated film noir gems from the iconic studio.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Absolute Beginnings and Bitter Endings
From Bowie to Brando to Blofelds, this selection of five fairly forgotten flicks has an awful lot going on.
Read MoreFive Came Back (1939) DVD Review: The Birth of the Disaster Film Genre
The powerful melodrama, co-written by Dalton Trumbo, makes its long-overdue debut from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Diary of a Teenage Girl Movie Review: A Refreshing and Honest Look at Female Adolescence and Sexuality
A stunning debut for Marielle Heller as a director.
Read MoreOnce a Thief (1965) DVD Review: Post-Beat America Meets the French New Wave
The Warner Archive Collection releases an excellent, atmospheric, innovative, and gritty crime drama from yesteryear. A definite must-see.
Read MoreSignpost to Murder DVD Review: Stuart Whitman Goes Loco for Joanne Woodward
The Warner Archive Collection brings us a seldom seen psychological thriller that has trouble finding its own direction.
Read More42nd Street / Ladyhawke / Wolfen Blu-rays Review: The Musical, Magical, and Mythical
The Warner Archive Collection brings us three classic catalogue titles out of the Standard and into the realms of High-Definition.
Read MoreRush (1991) Blu-ray Review: The ’90s Drug Genre Looks Inward
A slow-burn examination of drugs and police corruption is revealed in Kino’s recent Blu-ray release.
Read MoreA Newly Widened Screen, Part II: Alibis and Those Who Sympathize
The Warner Archive Collection brings us two more titles from the early days of DVD in widescreen for the first time.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents: Rebellion! Turmoil! Endless Talking!
From the hormonally-charged historical wrongdoings of King Henry VIII to David Mamet’s acclaimed verbal diarrhea, this batch of flicks has all bases covered.
Read MoreSmokey and the Hotwire Gang DVD Review: Anthony Cardoza Strikes Again!
Witness an unforgettably forgettable failure from one of low budget cinema’s most notable underachievers.
Read MoreArrow in the Dust DVD Review: This is More Like Dust in the Wind
The Warner Archive does its best to preserve a flick where Sterling Hayden punches Lee Van Cleef, and l’il wooden Indian figures are set aflame and thrown off a ledge. And that’s about it.
Read MoreKid Glove Killer DVD Review: Van Heflin Shines in Unsuccessful Film Pilot
Is it a film noir? A political corruption yarn? A forensics investigatory piece? A rom-com? It’s all these things, and more!
Read MoreThe Scorpio Letters DVD Review: Amusing Z-Grade Eurospy Fodder
The only thing poisonous about these letters was found in the Nielsen ratings.
Read MoreBlack Patch (1957) DVD Review: A Genuinely Magnificent, Forgotten B Western
Imagine if David Lynch traveled back in time to the ’50s, made a TV show, then re-edited it into a feature film to create the Spaghetti Western movement.
Read MoreTwilight Time Presents European Dramas, American Musicals, and Zardoz
Caution: Musicals, intense British drama, and ’70s cinematic hallucinogens lie ahead.
Read MoreEscape from East Berlin DVD Review: Don Murray Flees Communist Oppression!
The Warner Archive Collection digs up the fictionalized account of a famous digging out co-starring Colonel Klink himself.
Read MoreThe Velvet Touch (1948) DVD Review: Shades of Colombo in the Shadow of Birdman
The Warner Archive Collection dusts off the charming, well-made film noir howcatchem starring Rosalind Russell and Sydney Greenstreet.
Read MoreBad Men of Tombstone DVD Review: The First of the Last of the Badmen
Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford team up for a fabulous, forgotten B western of high grade ore.
Read MoreFace of Fire (1959) DVD Review: Slow but Poignant Human Horror
Filmmaker Albert Band manages to pave the way for every other sci-fi and horror series ever with one simple drama now available (at last) from the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreOur Mother’s House DVD Review: The Illegitimate Dawn of an Unofficial New Wave
Seven kids raised on religion, a dead mother, and a deadbeat dad. You do the math.
Read MoreThe Bounty (1984) / U Turn (1997) Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes South
The two best bad trips you can possibly book this season.
Read MoreOne Foot in Heaven DVD Review: Ass-Kickers, Shit-Kickers, and Methodists
Fredric March stars as Minister William Spence in this forgotten (but enjoyable) biopic.
Read MoreSolomon and Sheba (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Show with Everything (Including Yul Brynner)
A tale as old as recorded time. The script isn’t that fresh, either.
Read MoreLenny (1974) Blu-ray Review: They Call Dustin Hoffman Bruce?
Yep, it’s a happy kind of picture, kids. But at least you’ll be able to see sultry Valerie Perrine in the buff!
Read MoreFar from the Madding Crowd (1967) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Festering!
If you avoid certain NFL-oriented video games, does that mean you’re Far from the Madden Crowd?
Read MoreThe Breakfast Club: 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Kids Can Be So Cool
Universal re-releases John Hughes’ quintessential teen dramedy just in time for a two-night theatrical re-offering.
Read MoreMark of the Devil Blu-ray Review: Say Hello to Arrow Video USA, Kids!
The movie that left its mark on the annals of exploitation advertising history inaugurates Arrow Video’s new North American label.
Read MoreCHiPs: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: Lay Down the Roller Boogie
Finally, the classic cop show we all love to love for all the wrong reasons returns.
Read MoreSpeed (1936) DVD Review: James Stewart Returns to Reclaim His Title
The Warner Archive Collection unburies the famous late actor’s first starring role, wherein he is paired with Ted Healy as a sidekick!
Read MoreThe Murder Man (1935) DVD Review: When Spencer Met Stewart
Spencer Tracy’s first starring role for MGM is supported by the feature film debut by James Stewart in this unconventional murder mystery.
Read MoreBorn Reckless (1958) DVD Review: My Long Hard Ride with Mamie Van Doren
A delightfully dumb ditty that is bursting with equestrian euphemisms and great B-grade bombshells.
Read MoreBandit Queen Blu-ray Review: A Brutal, Boring, Bolly-less Biopic
Twilight Time gives the controversial Phoolan Devi biography an upgrade. But is that really a good thing?
Read MoreAdventure in Baltimore DVD Review: Pastor Robert Young Hasn’t Got a Prayer
Unhappy honeymooners Shirley Temple and John Agar appear on-screen together for the second and final time in this odd 1949 dud.
Read MoreRatboy (1986) DVD Review: Locke and Load
And to think all it took for us to get rid of Sondra Locke was to let her direct!
Read MoreA Kiss Before Dying (1956) DVD Review: Just Skip the Kiss and Kill Me Already
A tepid, presumably rushed adaptation of the Ira Levin novel that is mostly notable for being a great gathering of future B movie and television actors.
Read MoreMy Old Lady Blu-ray Review: or, Secrets & Lies: The Previous Generations
Aging author/playwright Israel Horovitz finally makes his feature film directorial debut. But is he too late in doing so?
Read MoreBreaking Away (1979) Blu-ray Review: How Kids Grew Up Before the Internet
Quite possibly the only movie in history to partly focus on cycling and not suck in the process.
Read MoreThe Serpent’s Egg DVD Review: The Non-Bergman Bergman Film
David Carradine sleepwalks through Ingmar Bergman’s one and only (and kind of weird) Hollywood production.
Read MoreThe Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide
Twilight Time continues its legacy of giving a damn about Woody Allen’s classic, truly good movies.
Read MoreLeft Behind (2014) Blu-ray Review: Ungodly in Every Sense of the Word
A movie about people who are lost made by people who couldn’t find their asses with both hands and flashlights.
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