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Safe At Home Blu-Ray Round-Up
With the world turned topsy-turvy over COVID-19, now might be the best time to catch up with some of the latest Blu-ray releases of classic and foreign films. Here are ten capsule reviews of new […]
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Place Your Bets on KID GALAHAD (1962)
No one can fight like him. No one can dance like him. And no one has ever been able to sing like him. We’re talking about THE “KING OF ROCK & ROLL,” Elvis Presley, of […]
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HUSH…HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE Is Your Baby Jane Fix
Andy Ross believes Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte may not have the campy thrills of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? but it’s still one hell of a ride! Viewers watching CBS on the night of December 16, 1962 were in for a […]
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Dame in the Game: Queen Bette
Film historian Maureen Lee Lenker is back at the Retro Set with a brand-new edition of her column, Dame in the Game: a much-needed, in-depth look at groundbreaking women in film. “I don’t want people to like me. Nothing […]
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Satan Met a Lady (And She Had Bette Davis Eyes)
by Cassie Brown If you go searching for Ted Shane, you should look where there’s the most trouble. The detective, and lady’s man, is on to his next case in 1936’s Satan Met a Lady, directed […]
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Blu-ray Review: THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS from Warner Archive
The most tiresome parts of old school Hollywood musicals were always the threadbare narratives strung between the song-and-dance sequences. No matter how light and fluffy the shenanigans between Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, no matter […]