Femme fatales
Cinematic sirens’ cunning charm Yeah, it’s a little bit sexist, but don’t let that stop you from immersing [...]
Classic Films
‘Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection’
Getting into Wontner ‘The Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection’ The Film Detective $59.95 (Blu-ray), $49.95 (DVD) [...]
‘The Amazing Mr. X’ (1948)
Turhan Bey’s tour de force ‘The Amazing Mr. X: Special Edition’ The Film Detective $24.95 (Blu-ray), [...]
‘A Life at Stake’ (1955)
New twists on noir tropes ‘A Life at Stake’ (1955) The Film Detective $24.95 (Blu-ray), $19.95 (DVD) 78 minutes [...]
‘New York Ninja’ trailer
You’ve seen it before — not! Dude, I didn’t dig direct-to-video ’80s flicks back when it was the ’80s. I [...]
Sam Sherman remembers
Memoir of a movie maker — and movie lover ‘When Dracula Met Frankenstein’ by Sam Sherman Edited by Tim Ferrante [...]
‘Flight to Mars’ (1951)
High heels and microskirts ‘Flight to Mars’ (1951) The Film Detective $24.95 (Blu-ray), $19.95 (DVD) 72 minutes plus [...]
‘Blow-Up’ (1966)
Antonioni: Stranger in a strange land By Mark Voger, author “Groovy: When Flower Power Bloomed in Pop Culture” [...]
Beach movies
Catch a cinematic wave 2020 was The Summer That Wasn’t. 2021 is shaping up differently. I’m cautiously [...]
‘Gidget’ (1959)
Beach-movie genre’s big bang What was the first “beach party” movie? The answer depends on semantics. Are you [...]
Foodie movies
A delectable selection of films I can’t speak for you, but a lot of times, watching movies or TV shows about food [...]
‘Hercules and the Captive Women’
Nice knockers (on the hero) ‘Hercules and the Captive Women’ (1963) The Film Detective $24.95 (Blu-ray), $19.95 (DVD) 95 [...]
‘The Burglar’ (1957)
The movie that made me love Dan Duryea The independently produced noir masterpiece “The Burglar” could not have been [...]
Women’s History Month
Based on a true story Movies based on the lives of real people aren’t documentaries, but they can get the conversation [...]
‘The Crimson Ghost’ (1946)
Coolest. Villain. Ever. Fans of the Misfits will take one look at “The Crimson Ghost” serial and say, [...]
‘M’ (1931)
Paranoia in pre-WWII Berlin The director of 1931’s “M,” Fritz Lang, and the film’s star, Peter [...]
‘Vampyr’ (1932)
Dreyer’s shadowy world Yes, Carl Theodor Dreyer‘s “Vampyr” deserves respect as a pioneer in the vampire [...]
Home for the holidays, not
What? Another shelter-in-place holiday? Talk about “just like the ones I didn’t used to know.” So the [...]
‘The Man Who Laughs’ (1928)
Move over, Quasimodo Though Universal’s “Phantom of the Opera” (1925) and “Dracula” (1931) are separated by a [...]
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