Blu-ray Review: The Outlaw
[amazon_link asins=’B077Y6RBZP’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b71f3743-1bef-11e8-a8a1-078e5a668a21′]Billionaire Howard Hughes wanted to make a new kind of Western–one that was sexy and did away with all the old genre clichés. Taking the directorial reigns himself (with some uncredited help from Howard Hawks), the result was The Outlaw, remembered more as a triumph of marketing, than a great […]
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Blu-ray)
Born on July 3rd 1878 (not 4th, as he and the movie claim) into a family of traveling entertainers, actor, producer, and songwriter, George M. Cohan was a showman to the core. Known in the decade before World War I as “the man who owned Broadway”, he is considered the father of American musical comedy. […]
The Best of Bogart Collection (Blu-ray)
Nearly sixty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains an international icon. Tough, cool, and sophisticated, many regard him as the epitome of class. In a career that spanned nearly three decades, Bogart appeared in seventy five feature films, many of which are undisputed classics. Understanding Bogart’s iconic status, Warner Brothers has released The Best […]
Blu-ray Review: Abraham Lincoln (Special Edition)
Perhaps stung by the charges of racism that surrounded the release of The Birth of a Nation in 1916, when D.W. Griffith set out to make his first talkie he hoped to adapt Stephen Vincent Benet’s Civil War inspired prose poem John Brown’s Body. When United Artists balked at the idea, Griffith settled on making […]
Blu-ray Review: The Maltese Falcon
Warner Bros | 1941 | 101 mins. | NR Though Humphrey Bogart died more than fifty years ago, he remains one of Hollywood’s most enduring movie stars. Widely regarded as a cultural icon, The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema. While some may mention a […]
DVD Review: Studio One Anthology
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been writing about a lot of different boxed sets that might be the perfect gift for someone on your list this holiday season. Over the past three weeks, I have been completely engrossed in the six DVD, approximately 982 minute, Studio One Anthology put out by Koch Vision […]