Posts Tagged ‘drama’
‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time
From Streisand to Stone, controversies to conniving, this sextet offers it all.
Read MoreHoliday in Spain Blu-ray Review: Scent of a Mystery Woman
With so much work invested into a weird little gimmick flick starring Denholm Elliott and Peter Lorre, what’s there not to love?
Read MoreForbidden Hollywood, Volume 8 DVD Review: Four Films That Broke the Code
The Warner Archive Collection presents a quartet of Pre-Code classics that delve into vice with very little virtue.
Read MoreStonehearst Asylum Blu-ray Review: Might Make Poe Proud
It’s pretty good right up until it tries too hard.
Read MoreThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Blu-ray Review: Shades of Gray
The Warner Archive Collection breathes new life into the innovative classic.
Read MoreWhen the Wind Blows (1986) Blu-ray Review: Wild Is the Wind
So, anyone for a nuclear holocaust, then?
Read MoreThe Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) Blu-ray Review: Ex-Swordsman Blues
Wait, THIS lost to “The Barbarian Invasions”? THIS?!
Read MoreFlaming Star Blu-ray Review: Hunka Hunka Burning Death
Elvis Presley’s best performance? Well, if such a thing was ever possible, this is most assuredly it.
Read MoreJudgment at Nuremberg Blu-ray Review: Picking Up the Pieces
Stanley Kramer’s powerhouse post-World War II courtroom drama gets another chance to shock and delight via Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Skeleton Twins Movie Review: A Twisted Tale of Those Bound by Blood
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig turn dysfunction into emotional drama in The Skeleton Twins.
Read MoreBunny Lake Is Missing Blu-ray Review: Required Viewing Is Found
The only film to ever have employed a couple of Zombies as a Greek chorus hits High-Def courtesy Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Hook (1963) DVD Review: “Kid, Any Day a War Ends is a Nice Day.”
Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams, and Robert Walker, Jr. star in a well-made Korean War drama from George Seaton.
Read MoreBirdman of Alcatraz Blu-ray Review: The Cinematic System’s Sympathetic Psychopath
Twilight Time brings us a much-needed High-Def release of the Burt Lancaster/John Frankenheimer classic.
Read MoreMokey / Revolt in the Big House DVD Reviews: A Young Robert Blake Two-fer
The controversial actor goes from motherless juvenile delinquent to prison revolutionary in these two New-to-DVD rarities from the Warner Archive.
Read MorePossessed (1947) Blu-ray Review: At Last, Gender Equality in Film Noir!
Joan Crawford takes the wheel in a classic thriller that has received a startling new HD release from the Warner Archive.
Read MorePete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Blu-ray Review: Uneven Musical Gangster Noir (in Color)
The Warner Archive presents the second of three strikes for Jack Webb’s failed franchise.
Read MoreThe St. Louis Kid DVD Review: Another James Cagney Rarity Makes Its Debut
A cocky, real jerk of a truck driver learns the hard way about the evils of milk in this weird, uneven 1934 feature.
Read MoreYankee Doodle Dandy Blu-ray Review: You’re a Grand Old Film
James Cagney gets born on the fourth of July for the Warner Archive’s dynamic HD release of the already exceptional George M. Cohan biopic.
Read MoreA Handful of de Havilland: Three Obscure Olivias from the Warner Archive
Olivia de Havilland encounters the plights and perils of a gold rush, a wartime rush, and rushed productions in a trio of forgotten films.
Read MoreOne Night at Susie’s DVD Review: Makes a Hardened Man Humble
The Warner Archive presents vintage film enthusiasts with one of the few surviving films of actress Billie Dove.
Read MoreThe Lusty Men DVD Review: An RKO Rodeo Picture
Robert Mitchum and Arthur Kennedy are two wild studs that only Susan Hayward can handle.
Read MoreShoot-Out at Medicine Bend DVD Review: The Feel-Good Flick of ’57
OK, so Randolph Scott, Bret Maverick, and the Green Hornet walk into a bar dressed as Quakers…
Read MoreSon of a Gunfighter DVD Review: Sundown of the American Gundown
The Warner Archive brings us the home video debut of an odd, early Euro western prototype.
Read MoreAudrey Rose Blu-ray Review: An ‘Exorcist’ for the Neil Simon Crowd
Twilight Time brings vintage horror movie lovers a misaligned tale of reincarnation and possession.
Read MoreIn the Flesh: The Complete Season Two DVD Review: The Undead Return. Again.
Because who doesn’t long for a BBC drama that includes gay zombie love?
Read MoreLa Bamba (1987) Blu-ray Review: Lou Diamond Phillips Debuts as Ritchie Valens
The film that made you rue the day Los Lobos first started saturating radio airplay returns in High-Definition.
Read MoreThe Killer Elite (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Wrath of Caan
Sam Peckinpah sets his bloody sights on a tale of covert government agents and stealthy ninja assassins. What’s not to love there?
Read MoreSalvador (1986) Blu-ray Review: Oliver Stone Finds His Calling
Twilight Time revives the controversial director’s first (notable) film back for another haunting round.
Read MoreLolly-Madonna XXX (1973) DVD Review: More Than a Name on a Postcard
A rare type of film that precariously teeters between sleazy exploitative trash and fine underrated art.
Read MoreThe Musketeers (2014) Blu-ray Review: Finally, A Reimagining Worth Viewing
Sporting great battles, amazing costumes, and a fresh take, this incarnation of the Alexandre Dumas tale has a lot of potential.
Read MoreThe Dogs of War (1980) Blu-ray Review: These Boots Are Made for Walken
Recommended. Even if we don’t get to hear Christopher Walken recite Shakespeare.
Read MoreThe Moonshine War (1970) DVD Review: Early Hicksploitation with an Unlikely Cast
Alan Alda and Patrick McGoohan portray Southerners in this tale from the disgraced director of the television remake of Catch-22.
Read MoreChe! (1969) Blu-ray Review: A Prime Example of ‘What Were They Thinking?’
Omar Sharif as Che Guevara. Jack Palance as Fidel Castro. A match made in bad movie heaven.
Read MoreEnchantment (1948) DVD Review: Everlasting Loves, Friends, and Lovers Divine
David Niven and Teresa Wright headline a WWII romantic drama about lost love.
Read More2 by Ken Loach: Riff-Raff (1991) / Raining Stones (1993) Blu-ray Review: Depressingly Fascinating
Two low-key, very sincere movies about everyday, average people get a Hi-Def release from Twilight Time.
Read MoreThe Buddy Holly Story (1978) Blu-ray Review: And I Suppose You’re Mary Tyler Moore?
Even when cast as a legendary rock and roll icon, Gary Busey still looks friggin’ nuts.
Read MoreThe Secret of Santa Vittoria Blu-ray Review: Because Nothing Brings a Town Together Like Booze
Stanley Kramer’s wonderful World War II comedy/drama is an absolute must-see.
Read MoreMan Hunt (1941) Blu-ray Review: Ein Film von Fritz Lang? Oh Heck, Ja!
America’s late wake-up call to World War II receives a lovely upgrade from Twilight Time.
Read MoreRansom! (1956) DVD Review: “And Introducing Leslie Nielsen”
Glenn Ford sets the stage for Mel Gibson’s 1996 remake (and shows that young buck how to do it in the process).
Read MoreRadio Days (1987) Blu-ray Review: Twilight Time Strikes Gold(en Age of Radio)
Woody Allen bridges a couple of generational gaps with a heartfelt look at growing up.
Read More1948 Film Noir in Review: Three Thrillers from Poverty Row’s Monogram Picture
The Warner Archive Collection unleashes a handful of B film noir tales.
Read MoreThe Warner Archive Presents Alan Ladd, Cinema’s Very Own Napoleon
From way out west to war in the east, a little Ladd goes a long way.
Read MoreBorn Yesterday (1950) Blu-ray Review: A Memorable Holliday in DC
Twilight Time presents us with a classic comedy from Columbia Pictures that’s just as big of a laugh as its own studio head.
Read MoreViolent Saturday (1955) Blu-ray Review: The Day Before Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Twilight Time gives us a much-appreciated upgrade to its previous DVD.
Read MoreA Threesome with Errol Flynn (Because Who Wouldn’t Want to?)
The Warner Archive presents three rarities starring cinema’s great swashbuckling heartbreaker.
Read MoreNeed for Speed (2014) Blu-ray Review: Bad, Bad, Bad (But with Some Great Car Stunts!)
Finally, a movie for addle-brained adolescents by addle-brained adolescents.
Read MoreSave Your Legs! (2012) Blu-ray Review: Wait, Australia Has Sports?
A coming-of-age-a-bit-late-in-life tale, served with a generous serving of Curry sauce.
Read MoreOur Family Honor (1985) DVD Review: The Beginning of a Short-Lived Series
The Warner Archive brings us a sample of forgotten ’80s TV crimetime drama.
Read MoreBrannigan Blu-ray Review: Dirty Duke (Done Dirt Cheap?)
For those of you who have ever wondered what would have happened had John Wayne played Harry Callahan.
Read MoreHigh Barbaree (1947) DVD Review: Van Johnson and June Allyson Drop a Bomb
Recoil in horror as a tale with too many flashbacks literally bores its own co-star to death.
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