The 1970 film “The Only Way” directed by Bent Christensen, is a powerful and poignant masterpiece that has been largely forgotten by modern audiences. Recently, VCI released the film on Bl...
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is a 2019 movie finally getting a proper home video release in the United States. For those overseas, you got Peter Rabbit 2 and the Shaun the Sheep sequel before ...
Mark of the Vampire represents an early effort to expand vampires past Dracula (1931). What is Mark of the Vampire? Mark of the Vampire was the first bigger talkie film to treat vampires as something ...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 is so odd. But, Jekyll and Hyde always had some weird film adaptations. The way MGM approached the material in 1931 and again in 1941 was to make the lead into a good guy....
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a high concept movie that doesn’t work as cinematic entertainment. Does that make it a bad movie? Not really. What it does is create an extended feature length m...
National Velvet is one of the cheerier spots in World War II cinema history. But, what does that mean for a 2021 audience? As the War raged on, English speaking audiences in the West were demanding fr...
Guns for San Sebastian is the Spaghetti Western that was actually shot in Mexico. Taking place in the 1740s, it’s another Western that seemingly bucks most trends. Mainly because the film is equ...
The Yearling is a great movie about how your parents hate your pets. So much of kid literature from the first half of the 20th Century was about how having a pet in modern suburbia was a privilege. Th...
My Fair Lady is a musical that manages to mix British class warfare in with a love of flowers. I’m always suspicious of the people that claim to love the film, as it’s never the ones I sus...
The Ten Commandments is one of the classic American movies that I make plans to watch every Easter weekend. While I feel we’re talking about it every year at AndersonVision, this time is differe...