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Matt Hough Wuthering Heights (1970) Blu-ray Review Emily Bronte’s Gothic romance returns to the screen in Robert Fuest’s 1970 version of Wuthering Heights, an expensive color production that sadly lacks the atmosphere and intimately chilling, dysfunctional interpersonal relationships that...

Otto Preminger's 1947 Technicolor opus, Forever Amber, which was subjected to censorship cuts and then three decades later, destruction of the Fox Technicolor library, arrives via Twilight Time, and gives us an inkling -- and not much more -- of the original beauty of the production. One can...

The L-Shaped Room, directed by Bryan Forbes, is quintessential English "kitchen sink" cinema, which existed in the early 1960s. Shot gorgeously in black & white by the great Douglas Slocombe, who we lost last year, at the age of 103. If you've seen The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White...

Matt Hough Forever Amber Blu-ray Review Otto Preminger’s Forever Amber offers us the mostly sanitized highlights from Kathleen Winsor's overheated novel with the title character making some mighty societal leaps so that she’s eventually a fit consort for the King of England. [review]

Matt Hough The Hospital Blu-ray Review A chaotic comedy of errors courtesy of the satirical pen of playwright Paddy Chayefsky, Arthur Hiller’s The Hospital is part personal drama and part lunatic comedy with a dash of murder mystery tossed in for good measure. [review]

Matt Hough Alice (1990) Blu-ray Review Woody Allen takes another stab at surreal character exploration with Alice, a sort of kissing cousin to the magical events that unfold in his masterpiece The Purple Rose of Cairo. [review]

Richard Gallagher The Pirates of Blood River Blu-ray Review The Pirates of Blood River is a somewhat curious entry from Hammer Films which stars the inimitable Christopher Lee as an eyepatch-wearing cutthroat. It has arrived on Blu-ray with a typically excellent high-definition transfer...

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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...

Robert Harris A few words about...™ Dr. Dolittle -- in Blu-ray While Hugh Lofting's wonderful Dr. Dolittle books go back to the 1920s (with additional tomes in 1933 and 1948) and took place during the early Victorian era in Britain -- actually Puddleby-on-the- Marsh, in the West Country --...

Twilight Time has given us an exclusive early look at these February Announcements. Enjoy! If you see these titles posted elsewhere within 8 HOURS without credit being given to HTF, rest assured it came from us first! Note: Moving forward we are going to announce our schedule ONE month at a...

Twilight Time Movies has put just about everything on sale through the end of the month. Titles starting as low as $9.95 $9.95 Sale Titles CARLA’S SONG MISSISSIPPI MERMAID A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY PLACES IN THE HEART THE LITTLE HOUSE GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER ANGEL FATHERLAND SCORPIO KINGS...

Matt Hough Captain from Castile Blu-ray Review Historical fiction on an epic scale, Henry King’s Captain from Castile offers a lush production and a host of stars enacting the personal story of a fugitive from the 16th century Spanish Inquisition told against the backdrop of Hernando...

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]

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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...

The first thing I noticed before even opening the packaging for Twilight Time's new Blu-ray release of Henry King's Captain from Castile, was the gorgeous, classic cover art, appropriate to the film. Those familiar with Fox productions of the 1930s, '40s, and into the early '50s, will be aware...

Twilight Time has given us an exclusive early look at these January Announcements. Enjoy! If you see these titles posted elsewhere within 8 HOURS without credit being given to HTF, rest assured it came from us first! Note: Moving forward we are going to announce our schedule ONE month at a...

Any time I picture a Greek sponge-diver, I naturally always think of Robert Wagner, but with curly hair. Back in 1953, a member of the Fox stock company, Mr. Wagner was given the roles that Fox permitted, and this was one of them. While nicely shot in the Florida keys, and making interesting...

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...

Had the opportunity to check out the new transfer of Doctor Dolittle, coming in November from Twilight Time. I know the film has a devoted following, usually people who saw it at a tender age. I attended the premiere at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood, and I have never seen so many people...

Matt Hough Beneath the 12-Mile Reef Blu-ray Review 20th Century Fox’s third Cinemascope release after the tremendous successes of The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire was Robert D. Webb’s Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, a mediocre adventure tale that makes the most of its beautiful and...

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 Gun Fury 3D Blu-ray Review Raoul Walsh’s Gun Fury is a fairly standard western in most respects with its good guys versus bad guys and filled with all of the tropes of the genre. [review]

Twilight Time has given us an exclusive early look at these December Announcements. Enjoy! If you see these titles posted elsewhere within 8 HOURS without credit being given to HTF, rest assured it came from us first! Note: Moving forward we are going to announce our schedule ONE month at a...