I was watching Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) on DVD the other night, and thought this bit with Dr. Watson enjoying the American fu...

On October 14th, Scorpion Releasing presents the 1963 film, The Girl Hunters , starring author Mickey Spillane as his own hardboiled P.I...

It's been about three years since the last DVD release , but four more late-period Charlie Chan mysteries from Monogram Studios are co...

Ray Harryhausen , the undisputed master of stop-motion animation, has passed away at age 92. As others have noted, he didn't create t...

I received the new Bomba The Jungle Boy manufactured-on-demand DVD collection from Warner Archives yesterday. I've watched the first...

This week, Warner Archive released the first volume of Bomba, The Jungle Boy films on DVD. The films, based on a children's book ser...

One of my favorite monster movies is Eugène Lourié's , Gorgo . The third of Lourié's triptych of giant monster flicks (following T...

A couple of nights ago, I picked up the original King Kong on Blu-ray. Warners did an astounding job on the transfer, which appears to be d...

Today I received the Falcon Mystery Movie Collection, Vol. 1 , from Warner Archives, containing the first seven films in RKO's "Fal...

It's interesting that so many people - including myself, on occasion, complain so much about Hollywood's seeming obsession with sequ...

Happy birthday to the true gentleman of horror, Boris Karloff , born this day in 1887 as William Henry Pratt in London, England. Not every m...

The immortal Bela Lugosi would have been 127 years old today. Born October 20, 1882, as Béla Blasko in Lugoj, Romania, the handsome actor g...

In the comments to the Tarzan comic book cover I posted yesterday, several people expressed little familiarity with the many Tarzan films m...

Written & Performed by Robert Mitchum.

I'm still sick, which means I've been spending my few waking hours wrapped in a blanket in my recliner, alternately sipping Theraflu...

Old series mystery films – particularly those of the "B" variety – are fun for me on many levels. For one thing, I like mysteries ...

I'm a big fan of the old Universal Monster movies of the 30's and 40's (end even the 50's; i.e. The Creature From The Black ...

My wonderful wife has informed me that, having become tired of my incessant whining, she has ordered Fox's Charlie Chan Volume 4 box se...

This past weekend marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of silver scream legend Bela Lugosi . Born October 20, 1882, as Béla Blasko in...

For the second year in a row, Universal Home Video has released a set of vintage science fiction thrillers in a DVD set that can only be pur...