Blu-ray Review: The Major and the Minor
After releasing The Apartment in 2018, Arrow Academy has dug even deeper into director Billy Wilder’s filmography for The Major and The Minor. Released in 1942, this was Wilder’s first Hollywood film as a director. While it certainly can’t be considered among her s best, The Major and The Minor does show flashes of the […]
Blu-ray Review: Swing Time (Criterion Collection)
Over a span of sixteen years–1933 to 1949–Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made sixteen films together. Released in 1936, Swing Time their sixth pairing, is considered by many to be their best. The wait to see them dance is a special kind of torture, but as director George Stevens (Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank) […]
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1965) (50th Anniversary Edition) (DVD)
Led by an all star cast, Lesley Ann Warren is delightful as the title character and shares a nice chemistry with the Prince, Stuart Damon.
DVD Review: Teenage Rebel (1956) (Fox Cinema Archives)
Based on the stage play A Roomful of Roses by Edith Sommer, 1956’s Teenage Rebel is harshly titled for a film that is essentially about a very lonely girl. Generally, when we think of a rebel in movies, images of drinking, smoking, sex, and violence come up. None of that is present here. Directed by […]