DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
DVD Video Review: After a long wait, Sony finally releases some film noir, including a trio of prime titles never before on DVD - The Sniper, Murder by Contract and The Lineup - in a new set, reviewed here by clydefro.
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I saw quite a bit this week, but some of it I have already detailed such as my reviews for Trucker and Tormented. I also watched the Blu-ray for Love, Actually (a personal favorite and a review is forth-coming) as well as the following three films. The second two (The Sniper and 5 Against the House) [...]
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Lt. Commander Ken White (William Holden) spends the post-WWII years toiling in a dull desk job, increasingly haunted by an incident that happened on the Tiger Shark, a submarine under his command, on the last day of the war. As the Korean War begins to heat up, Ken finds himself once again commanding the Tiger Shark. Can Ken finally put his bad memories to rest? Nancy Olson plays Holden's beautiful...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Go away. Why do you still stand there? Did you not understand the simple, two-word request I made? Your vocabulary is that limited? Go. That means do not stay. Away. Someplace not here. Simple enough? You want something before you leave. And what would that be? A reading. If I give you one, will you be happy and shuffle off to Lackawanna, or wherever? Hot diggety! Here you are: Ignorance is bliss --...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 01/26/2009
Invaders From Mars11:35pm Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009 Repeat G Little David MacLean has a problem - all the adults in town begin acting strangely shortly after he sees strange lights settling behind a hill near his home. CAST: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz DIR: William Cameron Menzies (1953)
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Alfred Hitchcock was a voracious filmgoer, and like many great artists, a bit of a magpie. Consciously or unconsciously, he would file away shots and sequences that impressed him, and years later some of them would re-emerge, reshaped by Hitchcock’s genius and fully integrated into his personal universe. As “Vertigo” turns 50 this weekend, I’m [...]
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Your birthday today: You are gentle and sympathetic and considerate of others ; easily influenced, and like a change of environment. Yourlove of literature colors your conversation so that you are in great social demand. You can readily adapt yourself to circumstances. You like attention, and your love is true. There is no name written into the book, so you are alone in celebrating your birthday --...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Karen Sharpe made her movie debut, at the age of 18, in "The Sniper," one of the resourceful, low-budget features produced by Stanley Kramer in the years following World War II. She didnt meet him...
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