If so inclined, take a gander at the new and improved website from UK DVD label Exposure Cinema. Not only does it look spiffy but scroll down a little and yours truly is featured there in the form of my reviews for the editions of While the City Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Pretty [...]

Exposure Cinema in the UK released Fritz Lang’s While the City Sleeps on DVD about three weeks ago. I finally had the chance to get my hands on a copy the other day and turned in a review of the disc for The Digital Fix. In short, it’s an easy choice between paying something like [...]

(This is also at the DVD Times site. Same content both places. I just wanted to have it here too.)
When Warner Home Video opted last year to drastically change its business model in terms of classic film releases in R1, the impact was most felt by those who had loyally been purchasing the studio’s box [...]

I’ve just finished and uploaded a review of the Masters of Cinema Series Complete Fritz Lang Dr. Mabuse box at DVD Times and boy are my fingers tired.

Everyone knows that the end of the calendar year has become a time to blink and reflect at the past twelve months, tidily summed up in list format despite the undeniably ridiculous and simplistic process of choosing an arbitrary number of “important” candidates. I’m not complaining though. I actually like these little exercises, whether it’s [...]

Of all the director-actor-actress triumvirates that made at least two non-sequel pictures together, my personal favorite might be Fritz Lang’s two films with Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame - The Big Heat and Human Desire, released in 1953 and 1954, respectively. Lang had pulled a similar trick before, teaming Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett [...]

Scarlet Street, like other movie titles derived from names of roads both fictional and real, such as Sunset Blvd. and Mulholland Dr., is not the type of area most people would want to call home. In Fritz Lang’s film, sympathy and goodness are lurking elsewhere, leaving us instead with characters like Edward G. Robinson’s [...]