Movies
Vitaphone Varieties Part II
This is the second part of a review of Warner Archive’s three “Vitaphone Varieties” DVD sets and all the shorts reviewed here can be found in the second and third volume of the “Varieties,” totaling […]
Month: July 2018
Movies
HOUR OF THE GUN Files the Legend, Prints the Fact
In most movies about the infamous 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, the titular shootout serves as the climax—Roger Ebert once famously wrote that in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946), perhaps […]
Movies
Crimes & Amusement: MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY
For one to have the sort of staggering, decades-spanning productivity enjoyed by Woody Allen, one also has to accept a corresponding range in quality. And to be sure, Allen has had his fair share of […]