1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl…
The final collaboration between director John Ford and star John Wayne, 1963’s Donovan’s Reef is a family comedy set in set in a fictional place called Haleakaloa where they once fought the Japanese. Not known for his comedic skills, Wayne…
One of the first submarine movies, 1958’s Run Silent, Run Deep still shines more than sixty years after its release. Burt Lancaster stars as Lt. Bledsoe, a man ready to take command of his own sub. At the last minute,…
The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff’s (Life at the Top, Fun With Dick and Jane, North Dallas Forty) Billy Two Hats has made its way to Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Released…
On the face of it, a movie which takes place almost entirely in one room, consists of 12 men who do nothing but talk—and don’t even have names—should be anything but a searing experience. 1957’s 12 Angry Men an undisputed…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1974 | 99 mins. | PG Courtesy of MGM’s “manufacturing on demand” program (“MOD”), 1974’s Billy Two Hats has made its way to DVD. The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff (Life at…
Sony Pictures | 1985 | 315 mins. | NR Adapted from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s biography of the same name, the 1985 mini-series, Robert Kennedy and His Times is one of many tele-films made about the Kennedy’s or a specific…