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 Another Krimi?? Yes, this is the final film of a series of features supposedly based on the works of Louis Weinert-Wilton, the others being THE CARPET OF HORROR, THE WHITE SPIDER, and THE SECRET OF THE BLACK WIDOW. Released in 1964, THE SECRET OF THE CHINESE CARNATION (original title DAS read more

 This is another German Krimi feature, one of the dozens made in the early 1960s. It's part of a series of films supposedly based on the works of mystery writer Louis Weinert-Wilton, following up THE CARPET OF HORROR and THE WHITE SPIDER. THE SECRET OF THE BLACK WIDOW (original title DAS G read more

 The end of another year, and I still don't have a region free player, or a 4K player for that matter. I guess you people need to step your game up and send me one, right??Even with just a no-frills Blu-ray machine, I still managed to spend far too much valuable cash on physical media (as I alw read more

 THE WHITE SPIDER (original title DIE WEISSE SPINNE) is a 1963 German Krimi that appears to be part of the Edgar Wallace series of crime thriller adaptations. It stars Joachim Fuchsberger and Karin Dor, the First Couple of Krimi, and it was directed by Harald Reinl, an Edgar Wallace veteran. It read more

 For the third year in a row, Flicker Alley has released a magnificent set of rare and restored material featuring the legendary comedy team of Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy. LAUREL & HARDY: YEAR THREE covers the duo's short films made for the Hal Roach Studios in 1929. By 1929, the r read more

 Film Masters saves another classic film from public domain purgatory with their Blu-ray release of 1943's LADY OF BURLESQUE, a musical-mystery comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck, with direction by William Wellman. LADY OF BURLESQUE was based on a novel written by stage star Gypsy Rose Lee e read more

 It's hard to fathom that Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL Volumes One and Two were originally released over twenty years ago. Since then there's been all sorts of rumors about sequels, prequels, and unused footage. Now we get KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR, a special theatrical combined versi read more

 The most famous version of BEAU GESTE is the 1939 film starring Gary Cooper and directed by William Wellman. What most people don't know is that movie is a very close remake of a 1926 silent feature. I didn't really know anything about the original BEAU GESTE until I purchased this Blu-ray fro read more

 MURDER IN THE BLUE ROOM (1944) is a remake of Universal's THE SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM, which was actually a remake of a German film. Universal had already remade SECRET as THE MISSING GUEST in 1938. Confused? The real confusion is why such a standard mystery tale got reused so many times.  read more

 Produced and directed by low-budget exploitation maven Albert Zugsmith, this 1961 potboiler contains one of Vincent Price's most unusual roles (and that's saying a lot). Set in late 19th Century San Francisco, CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER has Price as Gilbert de Quincey, a soldier of fortune read more

 The fact that we are now a quarter way through the 21st Century already is rather disconcerting, but it gives me an excuse to make up another list. These are my favorite films from 2001 to the present. I base my choices on my own personal preferences--they have nothing to do with populari read more

 The 1930 WWI aviation spectacular HELL'S ANGELS, produced and directed by the legendary Howard Hughes, gets the special-edition Criterion treatment. Most people today know about HELL'S ANGELS from watching Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic THE AVIATOR. But Scorsese's film only scratc read more

 The main reason I watched this very strange and silly Pre-Code comedy is that Thelma Todd appears in it. Unfortunately Todd doesn't get much to do, as she plays the best friend of the leading lady. THE HOT HEIRESS refers to Juliette (Ona Munson), a young socialite who enjoys sleeping duri read more

 The 1928 German silent ALRAUNE is the beneficiary of a fine restoration and a proper Region A Blu-ray release due to the folks at Deaf Crocodile, as part of their Henrik Galeen set. Henrik Galeen was a writer, director, and actor during the Golden Age of German Expressionist cinema in the read more

 A company known as Deaf Crocodile has released a two-disc Blu-ray set containing a pair of rare (and restored) cult German silent films directed by Henrik Galeen, the man who wrote the script for the original NOSFERATU. The two films are THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE (1926) and ALRAUNE (1928). Bo read more

 A few years ago I wrote a glowing review of a book titled WATERLOO--MAKING AN EPIC, a massive tome that dealt with the production of WATERLOO, a large-scale historical epic film released in 1970. The author, Simon Lewis, has now written another "making of" volume dealing with another big-budge read more

 THE BLACK WATCH (1929) is director John Ford's first sound feature. I was enticed to seek it out after reading about it in the book JOHN FORD AT WORK, which I wrote a blog post on a week ago. THE BLACK WATCH is an Imperial Britain adventure story, taking place in 1914. The Great War has j read more

 I was seriously considering titling this post "What would you pay to see Hazel Court naked??", but I thought that would be in bad taste. It does have to be stated, however, that the main selling point of this new 4K/Blu-ray release of a Hammer movie that already has been the subject of multipl read more

 It was five years ago that the Warner Archive released a restored version of THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN on Blu-ray, with a number of new extras. I wrote a blog post on it and at the time I thought it was the best-looking version of the film I had ever seen. Now, there's been another major read more

 A few months ago Kino released on Blu-ray THE VENGEANCE OF DR. MABUSE, an early Seventies picture directed by Jess Franco that was the last gasp of German producer Artur Brauner's Dr. Mabuse film series. Now Kino has gifted us with DEATH PACKS A SUITCASE, a 1971 movie that is also directed by read more