GREAT OLD MOVIES

KING KONG (1933) on Blu-Ray . Released September 28th, 2010. This is a newly remastered print of the wonderful original King Kong with lo...

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (2008). Directors: Ron Clements; John Musker. Disney Studios. Tiana, a black waitress in New Orleans who is hopin...

ZOTZ (1962). Producer/director: William Castle.  A college professor, Jonathan Jones (Tom Poston), discovers that an ancient coin gives hi...

PARTY ANIMALS: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll starring the fabulous Allan Carr . Robert Hofler. Da Capo Press;...

MOUSEHUNT (1997). Director: Gore Verbinski. Two brothers (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, both of whom are excellent) inherit a ramshackle mansi...

THE WOLFMAN (2010). Director: Joe Johnston. Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), an acclaimed stage actor, comes back to his ancestral home ...

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948). Director: Anatole Litvak.  " Henry! There's someone at the top of the stairs !"  Barbara Stanwyc...

X-MEN (2000). Director: Bryan Singer. This is an excellent filmic realization of the long-running Marvel Comics series that first began publ...

JAMES MASON: ODD MAN OUT . Sheridan Morley. Harper & Row; 1989. A biography of the enigmatic actor James Mason written by the son of ...

THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR Season 2. 1963.  Although Hitchcock continued to give his usual droll introductions, the opening of the series w...

SUPERMAN VS. HOLLYWOOD: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon . Jake Rossen. Chicago Revi...

THE WOMEN (2008). Director/writer [from play by Clare Boothe Luce]: Diane English. " You want to see a bad face lift? -- she looks lik...

FAMILY PLOT (1976). Director: Alfred Hitchcock.  Hitchcock's final film out of fifty-four may not be a masterpiece, but it is a very e...

ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS [aka 101 Dalmatians /1961. Directors: Several. Walt Disney Studios. This wonderful Walt Disney animated movie...

KING KONG: THE HISTORY OF A MOVIE ICON FROM FAY WRAY TO PETER JACKSON . Ray Morton. Applause Books; 2005. Even though this is a trade paperb...

SHUTTER ISLAND (2010). Director: Martin Scorsese. Widower Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his associate Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) tra...

STAR TREK MEMORIES . William Shatner with Chris Kreski. HarperCollins; 1993. William Shatner looks back at his days making the original Star...

SURROGATES (2009). Director: Jonathan Mostow. Fascinating science fiction film, based on a graphic novel, deals with a future world in whic...

THRILLER Season 2. 1961.  Boris Karloff was back as the dignified but figuratively winking host of the hour-long Thriller during its seco...

FOLLOW THE BOYS (1944). Director/co-writer: A. Edward Sutherland. " Little things that one man may not even notice can be irresistib...

HOLLYWOODLAND (2006). Director: Allen Coulter. When actor George Reeves (Ben Affleck), who played Superman on a TV series, is found dead of...

THE COMIC BOOK MAKERS . Joe Simon with Jim Simon. Crestwood; 1990. NOTE: Due to the link between cinema and comics -- not to mention all th...

THE FOURTH KIND (2009). Director: Olatunde Osunsamni. Supposedly inspired by true events, this deals with weird disappearances and happenin...

SON OF KONG (1933). Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack.  " Next time leave the big monkey alone !" -- Charlie the cook  Carl Denham ...

THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR [1962 - 1965]. First season.  The half hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents expanded into an hour with a name change ...

KING KONG (1933) . Directed by Cooper and Schoedsack.  Nearly 90 years after its initial release, King Kong remains an outstanding film an...

ANNIE (1982). Director: John Huston. In 1932 Manhattan, a little orphan named Annie (Aileen Quinn) who lives in a home run by the nasty Mis...

SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933). Director: Lowell Sherman. " When women go wrong, men go right after them !" In New York's Bowery d...