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Matt Hough Tomorrow Is Forever Blu-ray Review A pre-World War II domestic melodrama with fathers and sons and a mother caught in the middle of their views toward the upcoming war, Irving Pichel’s Tomorrow Is Forever offers appealing leading performances and views of a couple of future stars...

Legend of the Lost is an odd one. Directed by legendary Henry Hathaway, it's a rather bland adventure film, starring John Wayne, and strangely, featuring Sophia Loren and Rossano Brazzi. Much of it was gorgeously shot on location, in Libya, and that along with its cinematographer and process...

Matt Hough Bananas Blu-ray Review It may be haphazard and fundamentally absurd, but Woody Allen’s Bananas still packs a massive comedy punch. [review]

Matt Hough Sayonara Blu-ray Review A measuredly-paced look at interracial romantic entanglements amid the bigotry of the post-World War II era in Japan, Joshua Logan’s Sayonara captures both the comic and tragic sides of the story spread among six or seven major characters in a beautifully...

Matt Hough He Walked by Night: Special Edition Blu-ray Review He Walked by Night brings a slightly modified true crime story to the screen with a mesmerizing lead performance and action so fascinatingly taut and realistically mounted that it’s impossible not to get caught up in the action...

Matt Hough Wild Bill Blu-ray Review As with so many legendary personalities from the Old West, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction when trying to tell their singular stories, and that’s certainly the case with Walter Hill’s boisterous and somewhat unfocused Wild Bill. [review]

Arthur Penn's 1962 The Miracle Worker, the tale of the young Helen Keller, was an extraordinary achievement upon release, and has lost none of its power in the intervening decades. The film was based upon the drama by William Gibson, which first appeared in 1957 as a live episode of Playhouse...

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When I initially received Wild Bill, a new Twilight Times release on Blu-ray, I though it might be a new documentary on William Wellman. Turned out to be the 1995 Walter Hill film, which I would presume is based more upon legend and new storytelling than reality. Regardless, it's a typical...

Title: Bond 25 (2019) Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure Cast: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Rami Malek, Dali Benssalah, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch Release: 2019-10-25

Last time it was reported, apparently Apple and Amazon joined the Bond 25 bidding war to fight for the rights to the James Bond franchise, and it was last month. Not to mention, Warner Bros. is currently the most aggressive studio to secure the co-financing and distribution rights to the new...

Twilight Time's new Blu-ray of Woody Allen's September, is derived from a quality transfer. A superb cast, and an interesting take on love, the film fits neatly between Radio Days and Another Woman in the Allen pantheon. All's well here, for Allen collectors, of which, I am one. Image - 5...

Hour of the Gun, produced in 1967, and directed by John Sturges, is an interesting film. It's a sequel to another film directed by Mr. Sturges, a decade earlier, with a different take on casting. Wyatt Earp - Burt Lancaster / James Garner Doc Holliday - Kirk Douglas / Jason Robards Ike...

Like most Arrow releases, A Fish Called Wanda, is a quality affair. Director Charles Crichton, worked, early in his career, as an editor, out of London Films, and made the move to directing in the mid-'40s. I've always felt that his best work, was for Ealing in the late 1940s into the early...

Matt Hough Hour of the Gun Blu-ray Review A meat-and-potatoes western dealing with the extended aftermath of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, John Sturges’ Hour of the Gun is a gritty, fairly humorless western, much more interested in presenting the reality of the Old West rather than a...

Matt Hough September Blu-ray Review Filmed and almost completed and then scrapped, partially rewritten, and recast in three major roles, September still didn’t please its writer-director Woody Allen, and it’s easy to see why. [review]

Matt Hough Crime of Passion (1957) Blu-ray Review One of the undisputed queens of film noir Barbara Stanwyck once again takes matters into her own hands as a woman willing to do anything to get what she wants in Gerd Oswald’s Crime of Passion, an unprepossessing film noir with a first-rate...

Year of the Comet concerns the antics surrounding the discovery of a huge bottle of wine, apparently from Napoleon's cellar, and a multitude of secondary plots that surround it. By the numbers, alone, and by that I mean looking at the credits, this should be an extraordinary film. Directed by...

Matt Hough 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag Blu-ray Review The blackly comic idea at the heart of Tom Schulman’s 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag gets only a moderate execution (no pun intended) in this out-of-control farce that is equal parts funny and tedious. [review]

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I've always been a huge fan of John Frankenheimer's work, and to me, Ronin is his last real quality effort. It's an interesting cat and mouse affair, with the bad guys chasing out out-manuerving the other bad guys. But then, there may be three sets of bad guys. Very good performances, and...

Alan Rudolph, the director of The Moderns, came through the ranks, learning much from Robert Altman. The works of both, very much represent the best side of independent cinema. And The Moderns is very independent. Produced on a relatively low budget, with Montreal standing in for Paris c...

Matt Hough The Noose Hangs High Blu-ray Review Though its title suggests possibly a western motif, Charles Barton’s The Noose Hangs High is instead another Abbott and Costello comedy lark this time set in the world of gamblers and bookies. [review]

Matt Hough Frankie and Johnny (1966) Blu-ray Review Frederick de Cordova's Frankie and Johnny, a musical suggested by the old blues chestnut, is basically a film empty of fresh ideas and is decidedly an unimaginative entertainment. [review]

Matt Hough Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn Blu-ray Review The Reader’s Digest adaptations of two Mark Twain classics – Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – may not match one another in quality, but both offer tuneful versions of the familiar stories that fans of the songwriters or the original...

The Devil's Brigade, not to be confused with The Devil's Rejects, was directed by Andrew McLaglen. It's one of those films about the need for a crack fighting team, and someone has an idea to use prisoners. Of course, the team turns out to be the best, most perfect, and deadliest team ever...

I'd never seen these two APJAC productions. Arthur P. Jacobs was best known for a little series entitled Planet of the Apes, which arrived in 1968. Tom Sawyer was released in 1973, and Huck Finn a year later. Produced in concert with Reader's Digest, and with quality casts and crew, they're...

Matt Hough Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* Blu-ray Review Woody Allen's sketch comedy offshoot from the best-selling David Reuben's sexual query digest Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask not only proved to be as popular as the book that...

Everyone knows that Woody Allen's Eyawtkas* was based upon a humorous self-help book by Dr. David Reuben, which topped the best-seller lists back in 1969. Peopled with some of the tops names in the acting profession, Mr. Allen's take on the book, which is more a series of vignettes than a...