Michael Curtiz
Captains of the Clouds (1942) [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
Captains of the Clouds is a pretty standard war drama about older Canadian pilots responding to the start of World War II. When the bush pilots try to become part of the Royal Canadian Air Force, they...
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
Angels with Dirty Faces is peak James Cagney acting. But, it’s also an insanely confusing movie. By that, I’m not referring to looking back on 1938 through 2021 lenses. Basically, Pat O...
Santa Fe Trail (1940) [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 film about how abolitionist supreme John Brown was a terrorist that deserved to die. Raymond Massey plays him way more sympathetically than you’d expect for the time. Bu...
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a vintage Michael Curtiz movie. It’s also a 1930s romantic comedy about the Spanish vs. English naval wars. When the Irish get rowdy, Elizabeth has to...
Doctor X (1932) [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
Doctor X was the precursor to the earlier reviewed Mystery of the Wax Museum. Both were among the last to be shot in the two strip technicolor. If you’re a younger film fan, you’ll remembe...
My Dream is Yours (1949)[Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
My Dream is Yours first came on my radar because of Bugs Bunny. Well that and a Martin Scorsese documentary that arrived in the 1990s. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies i...
Young Man with a Horn (1950) [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
Young Man with a Horn is a stellar way to end 2020 from the folks @WarnerArchive. Check out some Kirk Douglas goodness today in the AndersonVision review.
Romance on the High Seas
Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
The Mystery of the Wax Museum [Warner Archive Blu-ray review]
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.