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• Blu News – A Man Alone

  

  A most welcome piece of news from Kino is their announcement of a forthcoming release on Blu-ray and DVD of Ray Milland's wonderful yet underrated A Man Alone... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Run of the Arrow

  

  Whatever the causes of conflict might be, the aftermath, particularly for those on the side of the vanquished, tends to follow predictable pattern and is... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Decade, and Counting…

  

  It was exactly ten years ago today that I published my first post, although the domain was a different one back then. While I haven't been active here for a... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – 4 Noir Classics

  

  November, when we feel the nights drawing in with a vengeance - an ideal time to take in some dark cinema. Arrow Academy are putting out a very... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – Jake Wade

  

  Just spotted this announcement for a most welcome upcoming release on Blu-ray from Warner Archives. The Law and Jake Wade is a superb western - featuring Richar... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Republic Studios – A Private Tour

  

  One of my followers, Terry, just sent me details of the following event. It's not something I'll be able to take part in personally but it sounds very tempting... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Five Card Stud

  

  On a number of occasions this blog has cast a critical eye over that curious phenomenon that is the 60s western, and how it behaved as the decade wore on.... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Copper Canyon

  

  Do the stars of a movie need to be what we think of as genre regulars for it to a success? Back in its heyday the western attracted just about every leading... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• TRIAL AND ERROR (1937) by Anthony Berkeley

  

  Tipping My Fedora It's time for a guest post from my blogging buddy Livius, who writes about movies at his marvellous blog, Riding the High Country. And now it'... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Wild One

  

  Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?Whadda you got? James Dean was not the first American teenager nor was he the first screen rebel, with or without a... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Earth Dies Screaming

  

  Continuing with the theme of lower budget British movies that I've been exploring of late, let's move away from the crime and noir genres featured so far and... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – 2 for July

  

  It's just come to my attention that July will see the release of a couple of new western titles on Blu-ray in Germany. Koch Media will be putting out Cattle... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Shakedown

  

  One criticism sometimes leveled at British crime or noir films is that they were too genteel, seemed too preoccupied with the concerns of middle class... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Flying Scot

  

  We hear a lot about budgets when filmmaking is discussed, and you end up with the feeling nowadays that movies are barely considered to be worth watching if... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Money, Women and Guns

  

  What's in a title? Sometimes a lot and other times very little. On the most fundamental level, it's one of the most prominent hooks upon which to hang a movie,... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Lady from Shanghai

  

  Once, off the hump of Brazil I saw the ocean so darkened with blood it was black and the sun fainting away over the lip of the sky. We'd put in at Fortaleza, an... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Springfield Rifle

  

  Having looked at a hybrid movie last time out (a western/swashbuckler mash-up), I thought I'd continue in a similar vein and feature another western which has... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Gambler from Natchez

  

  I remember when I was first toying with the idea of starting up a blog on movies, almost ten years ago now, and wondering about whether or not I wanted to... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blu News – Another for April

  

  Just time to fit in another announcement for next month. Eureka! in the UK have a dual format (DVD+Blu-ray) of Walter Hill's classy fight drama Hard Times comin... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bullet for a Badman

  

  Predictability tends to be the scourge of good storytelling. You know the feeling, when you can tell right from the beginning exactly where a writer is... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES