During the height of the James Bond phenomenon in the mid-1960s, a host of knockoff fictional spies sprung up throughout popular culture, hoping to capitalize to any small degree off even the fringes of Bond-mania. From Matt Helm and Derek Flint on the big screen, to the agents of the Impossible Missions Force and U.N.C.L.E.… Read More My Goodness, This Is Strong Shampoo | Casino Royale (1967) Blu-ray
Movies are an inherently sensationalized medium, and haunted house movies in particular often rely heavily upon cheap scare tactics to startle viewers into spilling their popcorn and clutching the hand of the date they brought to the theater. Subtlety is not generally a defining trait of the genre. Produced in 1961, director Jack Clayton’s The… Read More A Haunted Mansion and a Turned Screw | The Innocents (1961) Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Author H. Rider Haggard’s 1885 adventure novel King Solomon’s Mines has been popular fodder for movie and TV adaptations over the years, most of them sadly not very good. Of the various attempts to bring it to screen, the most successful and arguably best was the 1950 version starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr, which… Read More A Woman on Safari? No Thank You! | King Solomon’s Mines (1950) Warner Archive Blu-ray
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