Blu-ray Review: Female on the Beach
Aging, but holding on to the glamour girl image that had made her a star in the 1920’s, the mid-fifties were an odd time for Joan Crawford (Strait-Jacket) Not quite ready for William Castle, she starred in Female on the Beach, in which she suffers the slings and arrows of emotional devastation, in luxurious surroundings. […]
Blu-ray Review: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (50th Anniversary Edition)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is fifty years old this year. No stranger to controversial topics, in 1967 director/producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) offered his thoughts on race relations and interracial marriage (something that had been illegal in 17 states, until June 12, 1967, just six months before the film was […]
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Blu-ray)
With the surprise box office success of 1962’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, director Robert Aldrich was hoping lightning would strike twice when he reunited the two stars for Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte in 1964. However, things didn’t quite go as planned, after Crawford bowed out after just […]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Blu-ray)
No stranger to controversial topics, in 1967 director/producer Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind, Judgement at Nuremberg) offered his thoughts on race relations and interracial marriage with Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. He cast long-time friends Spencer Tracy (who’d worked with Kramer on three other films), Katharine Hepburn, and Sidney Poitier, who’d received acclaim and an […]