For the release week of August 17th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: The Fortune Cookie [Blu-ray / Kino Lorber]: This 1966 Billy Wilder comedy was the
Tag: Bottom Shelf
The boutique video label ClassicFlix has undertaken an ambitious multi-volume project to scan and restore all of the sound-era Our Gang comedies produced at Hal
For the release week of August 10th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: Edward Everett Horton: 8 Silent Comedies [DVD / Undercrank Productions]: Classic film lovers
For the release week of August 3rd: Garv’s Pick of the Week: The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2 [Blu-ray / ClassicFlix]: ClassicFlix has undertaken
For the release week of July 27th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: Vengeance Trails: Four Classic Westerns [Blu-ray/ Arrow Video]: Arrow Video, “the Criterion of Cult”
For the release week of July 20th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: Pal Joey [Blu-ray/ Sony]: I can’t think of another film role that fit
Few movie comedians have had as consistent a run of quality comedies as Bob Hope. After finding his “wisecracking brave coward” character in his breakout
For the release week of July 13th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: Alias Nick Beal [Blu-ray/ Kino Lorber]: The Faust legend gets a noir makeover in
For the release week of July 6th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: Bringing Up Baby [Blu-ray/ Criterion]: There is a difference between a romantic comedy and
For the release week of June 29th: Garv’s Pick of the Week: My Little Chickadee [Blu-ray/ Kino Lorber]: This year, June 29th is Mae West
Garv’s Pick of the Week: Years of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers 1973-1977 (Arrow Video)
For the release week of June 22nd: Garv’s Pick of the Week: Years of Lead: Five Classic Italian Crime Thrillers 1973-1977 [Blu-ray/ Arrow Video]: Italian genre
Both W.C. Fields and Mae West are more or less unknown to younger audiences. From the 1980s onward, their films did not get much broadcast
