Classic Cinema Archives - Page 4 of 22

Blu-Ray Review: In Cold Blood

Today, true crime is big business. Newsagents’ shelves are full of magazines, bookstores stuffed to the seams with bestsellers and streaming services providing a platform, and funding, for countless popular…

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A widow seeking revenge and a soldier longing for home

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Blu-Ray Review: Coach to Vienna

Wars are not merely a simple case of good versus evil. While leaders like Hitler and Stalin might have been rotten to the core, soldiers are often there against their…

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Blu-ray Review: Modern Times

While he had stiff competition from Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, there’s no doubt that Charlie Chaplin was the king of American silent cinema. While they were all brilliant physical…

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Blu-Ray Review: Pale Flower

They say that if you go looking for love you’ll never find it but it will often find you in the most unlikely places. Opposites attract or birds of a…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Devil’s Trap

It seems a bizarre thing to say in the third decade of the twenty-first century, but the debate between evolution and creationism still seems to tax feeble minds. The friction…

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Blu-Ray Review: Love Affair

Leo McCarey is one of those filmmakers whose name has almost been forgotten by time, even though some of his work has not. Although he only made twenty-five feature films…

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Blu-Ray Review: Written on the Wind

They certainly don’t make them like Rock Hudson anymore. He was amongst the biggest heartthrobs of the Golden Age of Hollywood and became one of the most iconic stars of…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Indian Tomb

We live in a world which is now almost devoid of mystery, and it’s not a better place for it. Gone are the days when people who were fascinated by…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Party and The Guests

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword and It’s true that, in the long run, it’s better to win hearts and minds than use intimidation, violence and…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Sun Shines Bright

John Ford was undoubtedly on of the greatest American directors of his generation. Over the course of six decades, he made well over one hundred films. Starting his career in…

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