Blu-ray Review: Gidget Film Collection
Chiefly responsible for “launching surfing into mainstream America,” 1959’s Gidget also help jumpstart American International Pictures’ (AIP’s) Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Never considered high art, the three Gidget theatrical films and the subsequent TV movie have been brought together in the Gidget Film Collection courtesy of ViaVision. Gidget (1958) Based […]
Blu-ray Review: The Guns of Navarone
The 1960’s was the decade of the epic (Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Escape, Doctor Zhivago). While David Lean was gaining acclaim and winning awards for his big movies, fellow Briton J. Lee Thompson was having a quieter, though no less impressive rise in his career fortunes. Throughout the late 1950’s, Thompson directed a number […]