Blu-ray Review: Scarlet Street
Though he began directing films in Germany in 1919, Fritz Lang didn’t arrive in America until 1934. Over the next quarter century he made many well-regarded pictures and, apparently, made a number of enemies amongst actors and studio execs due to his arrogance and dictatorial style of filmmaking. Scarlet Street was made in 1945, in […]
Blu-ray Review: The Magnificent Seven
A cowboy retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven marked the transition from the old style John Ford/John Wayne films to the spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood that would change the genre forever. Released in 1960, The Magnificent Seven contains elements that audiences at the time were used to—gunfights, and bandits—however, unlike previous […]