As I’ve stated previously on this site, Bob Hope was one of the most reliable funny-men to ever grace the silver screen. After his breakout
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In recent years, Second Run, a British boutique video label dedicated to art films and classics, has become my “go to” place for weirdo Czechoslovakian
The Marx Brothers changed my life. Sometime around the age of five or six, my father set me down in front of the old black
Cicily: Don’t big empty houses scare you? Wally: Not me. I used to be in vaudeville. — Nydia Westman and Bob Hope in The Cat
In the same way that Dr. Frankenstein reanimated human tissue to bring the dead back to life, 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein resurrected the dead
Back in February, the Warner Archive Collection provided a gift to animation lovers with the Blu-ray release of Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 and
Boutique video label Blue Underground recently produced a new restoration of the 1971 cult Euro-horror Daughters of Darkness (a.k.a Les lèvres rouges, 1971) from a
“But, darling boy, they aren’t going to start killing people for writing bad notices. Are they?” — Meredith Merridew (Robert Morley) in Theatre of Blood
One thing I never expected to see was a Wheeler & Woolsey film on Blu-ray. That’s not to say that I think that the 1930s
If modern audiences are familiar at all with Reginald Denny, it is due to his late career work as a character actor playing bemusedly oblivious
Young audiences may be surprised to learn that before Bob Hope trashed his legacy with execrable TV specials in the 1970s and beyond, he was
Few movies are more beloved than the shorts and features starring the classic comedy team of Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. Unfortunately, due to the
