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: Portrait in Black
By the late 1950’s, Lana Turner was experiencing a career resurgence. Kicked off by her Oscar nomination for her role in Peyton Place, followed by the media frenzy surrounding her involvement in the 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder, and the 1959 release of Imitation of Life, produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk, which […]