Force 10 from Navarone is a sequel, largely in name only, to The Guns of Navarone. Given that seventeen years had passed between films, Guy Hamilton in the director’s chair instead of J. Lee Thompson. Before the credits, the final…
Written by future director Joel Schumacher from a story by Howard Rosenman, and inspired by the history of The Supremes, Sparkle was a box office disappointment when it was released in 1976, but has since become a cult classic particularly…
Accompanied by special ‘for adults only’ notices when it opened in 1962, Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth had been cleaned up considerably for the big screen. Though much of the ugliness of the stage version has been excised by…
The Super Bowl in New Orleans is just a few days away. As the Superdome is readied for the big game, the film spends time with various characters. Mike Shelley (David Janssen) is the longtime general manager of the Cougars,…
Released by Warner Archive, the third volume of Popeye the Sailor: The 1940’s contains seventeen shorts from 1948-49. Produced by Famous Studios and originally disturbed by Paramount Pictures, by now Popeye had become respectable — less politically incorrect, though there…
Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort Richard Jewell is based on the true story of a man who was hailed a hero, only to become suspected of a crime nearly overnight. Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair story by Marie Brenner,…
Released by Warner Archive just months after the first volume, Popeye the Sailor: The 1940’s, Volume 2 contains fifteen cartoons, released after World War II in 1946-47. Many of the cartoons reflect the post-War euphoria and prosperity and euphoria being…
What begins as a routine tour for a visiting Congressman of Strategic Air Commands headquarters in Omaha, turns into the ultimate nightmare. An unidentified aircraft is spotted on a course toward Detroit. Airborne bombers are scrambled to fixed points around…
Not available for years, Popeye the Sailor: The 1940’s, Volume 1 collects the spinach-eating, pipe chomping sailor’s first fourteen Technicolor animated shorts, making them available for the first time ever on home video; complete not always politically correct, and full…
Done in conjunction with the National Film Registry and Something Weird Video, the first entry in Kino Lorber’s Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age Of The Exploitation Picture, Mom and Dad has the distinction of becoming one of the highest grossing…