Blu-ray Review: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
In 1964, with the success of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? the Grand Dame Guignol genre began. Director Robert Aldrich (Twilight’s Last Gleaming) had cast aging stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in leads, created a hit, and in the process resurrected their flagging careers. The 1964 follow-up Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte starring Davis and […]
Blu-ray Review: Return of the Magnificent Seven
A cowboy retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven ushered in more realistic depictions of life in the American west. The film was exciting, had plenty of action and enough movie stars to live up to its moniker of ‘magnificent.’ The sequel, Return of the Magnificent Seven is somewhat mis-titled, as Yul Brynner […]