Blu-ray Review: Grand Hotel
The Best Picture Oscar Winner of 1932, Grand Hotel was directed by Edmund Goulding (Dark Victory, The Razor’s Edge) and is based on the novel and play by Vicki Baum and the American stage version by William A. Drake. A soap opera of sorts, Grand Hotel interconnects a series of stories into a singular plot […]
DVD Review: Red Dust (1932)
It’s little wonder that Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made six films together in a span of just six years. Gable’s man’s man’s persona and her bawdy personality made for great chemistry. In Red Dust, their scenes have a palpable romantic tension, making an already good film even better. Gable plays Dennis Carson, a Rubber […]
DVD Review: The Devil’s Needle and Other Tales of Vice and Redemption
Amidst the debate about the quality of movies today, there’s the loud, wailing lament that because of frenetic action epics (not epics in the traditional sense, but sometimes as big as them) like Battleship and the Transformers franchise, we might as well give up on movies because they’re not going to be the way they […]