Tag: robertwise

French filmmaker Jacques Tourneur is, certainly, an important part of the history of horror cinema, because he was one of the directors in Val Lewton’s low-budget horror unit at RKO Pictures. In the forties, Tourneur directed the Lewton-produced classics Cat...

In December 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a major letdown. Earlier in the decade, a handful of my school friends banded together to form the Science Fiction Club. Initially, we discussed Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Ray Bradbury's stories,...

[Update 12/17/2012: the contest winners have been notified and their discs are on the way. Thanks so much, everyone for entering!]Surely, there's someone on your Christmas list who'll want one of these? We've got five copies of the recent 50th...

I have to confess to watching West Side Story almost as a challenge to myself when it hit Blu-ray simply because the first time I attempted to watch it--sometime around the release of the 2003 set--I had to throw in...