Posts Tagged ‘Warner Archive’
Ratboy (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 MorePanic Button (1964) DVD Review: When Mannix Met Mansfield
The Warner Archive Collection releases the rarely-seen comedy that may have inspired a famous Mel Brooks movie.
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 MoreA Newly Widened Screen: Two Steve Martins and a Black Scorpion
The Warner Archive Collection re-releases several classic favorites in 16×9 widescreen.
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 MoreDean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 & 2 DVDs Review: What, No Sammy Petrillo?
The Warner Archive Collection re-releases the long out of print Paramount sets featuring 13 of the duo’s best-known works.
Read MoreDr. Gillespie Film Collection DVD Review: Van Johnson and Keye Luke Join the Fun
The last six films of the original Dr. Kildare series eerily foreshadows one of contemporary television’s most popular medical dramas.
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 MoreThe Day They Robbed the Bank of England DVD Review: Introducing Peter O’Toole
A taut, well-crafted Victorian Era heist thriller that forged the way for many crime dramas to come.
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 MoreBoy Meets Girl (1938) DVD Review: Recommended Neglected Screwball Comedy Antics
James Cagney and Pat O’Brien pull no punches in this biting satire of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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 MoreOh, Sailor Behave DVD Review: Olsen and Johnson Liven a Dud to Death
They don’t make ’em like this anymore. And an entire nation – if not universe – can sleep soundly with that assurance.
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 MoreYoung Justice Blu-ray Review: A Super(hero) Show from Warner Archive
While using teenage main characters could have led to a series best suited for children, the realistic characters and smartly plotted stories make it accessible for all.
Read MoreClassic Shorts from the Dream Factory, Volume 3 DVD Review: The Lost Stooges
The Warner Archive brings us six rare pre-Code shorts featuring The Three Stooges, including a previously thought-to-be-lost short rediscovered in 2013.
Read MoreThe Adventures of Marco Polo DVD Review: “The Princess Bride” of Its Day?
The Warner Archive re-releases a highly enjoyable epic of a box office bomb from 1938.
Read MoreSpenser: For Hire: The Complete First Season (1985-86) DVD Review: Great ’80s Neo-Noir
The criminally neglected cult ABC TV series starring the late great Robert Urich returns courtesy of the Warner Archive.
Read MoreThe Great Race (1965) Blu-ray Review: Blake Edwards, How Great Thou Art
A failure upon its release, this epic adventure makes a beautiful HD comeback via the Warner Archive Collection.
Read MoreThe Desert Song (’43 and ’53 Versions) DVDs Review: Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things
The Warner Archive presents two tales where the heat is hot and the ground is dry, but the air is full of sound.
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 Bowery Boys: Volume Four (1946-1958) DVD Review: My Life Is Finally Complete
The Warner Archive unleashes the last 12 outings of what was arguably the greatest, longest-running comedy series ever made.
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 MoreNasty Habits (1977) DVD Review: Nunsploitation of a Different Denomination
Watergate set in a convent. Seriously.
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 MoreRaffles (1930) / Raffles (1939) DVD Review: Because Cricket Doesn’t Pay
Two rare versions of the same story about an even rarer combination of English gentleman, jewel thief, and cricketer.
Read MoreA Very Honorable Guy (1934) DVD Review: A Lighter Look at Dark Humor
Few men will lay their life on the line, but Joe E. Brown is one of ’em in this Vitaphone rarity.
Read MoreYou Said a Mouthful (1932) DVD Review: Pre-Code and Pre-Politically Correct
A tale of “sink or swim” with Joe E. Brown and a barely-recognizable Ginger Rogers.
Read MoreWizards and Warriors: The Complete Series (1983) DVD Review: Long Overdue
The cult, short-lived, tongue-in-cheek 80s adventure/comedy finally hits home video.
Read MoreBeyond Westworld: The Complete Series DVD Review: …Where Everything Went Wrong!
So it’s a television spin-off set between the original film and its sequel, but which wholly ignores them and is set in a weird unannounced alternate reality. Got it.
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 MoreChildrens Hospital: The Complete Fifth Season (2013) DVD Review: So Darwin Was Right, Apparently
A natural selection of comedic evolution if I ever did see one.
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 MoreA Threesome with Errol Flynn (Because Who Wouldn’t Want to?)
The Warner Archive presents three rarities starring cinema’s great swashbuckling heartbreaker.
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 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.
Read MoreBret Maverick: The Complete Series (1981-1982) DVD Review: James Garner’s Final Round
The Warner Archive brings us the last series starring one of the industry’s finest.
Read MoreThe Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) DVD Review: Well, Not Really, No
Raquel Welch’s fripples and Edward G. Robinson’s dancing highlight a rather lackluster comical caper.
Read MoreThe Sunshine Boys (1975) DVD Review: Walter Matthau and George Burns Are Forever Young
One of those rare Neil Simon dramedies that still makes you laugh in all the right places for all the right reasons.
Read MoreMusical Oddities from the Warner Archive
Two forgotten musicals, a neglected homage, and The Cars, too.
Read MoreWildcat Bus (1940) DVD Review: As Outdated as Public Transportation Itself
Fay Wray highlights this slow-moving ride that’s too proud to ask for direction.
Read MoreA Slight Case of Larceny (1953) DVD Review: Bottom of the Barrel Comedy
The beginning of the end for Mickey Rooney and Eddie Bracken.
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