Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Wake Wood (2011) Well now that the new Hammer’s latest opus The Quiet Ones is in the theaters and is not as good as its predecessors (see…
DVD Picks for April 2014
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Sunrise (1927) Is Sunrise the greatest silent movie ever made? Who can say? What is without question is that Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (to give…
DVD Picks for March 2014
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Chato’s Land (1972) The recent death of Ralph Waite brought back memories of The Waltons but his long stint on that show has obscured his versatility as…
DVD Picks for February 2014
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Cavalcade (1933) Noel Coward’s Cavalcade was a huge success in its day. It can easily be seen as the precursor to Upstairs, Downstairs and other iconic BBC…
DVD Picks for January 2014
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The Ruling Class (1972) The recent death of Peter O’Toole presents an interesting problem. Which of his eight Oscar nominations or several other fine performances that weren’t…
DVD Picks for December 2013
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Cash On Demand (1961) Having done a feature article on British actor Peter Cushing for this issue, it seems only fitting to select one of his many…
DVD Picks for November 2013
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: The Red Pony (1949) For years The Red Pony has only been available in washed out, substandard prints first on VHS and then later on budget line…
DVD Picks for October 2013
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Twins of Evil (1971) Now that the three missing Hammer Films titles from the early 1970s have finally arrived on Blu-Ray/DVD (see related article in this issue),…
DVD Picks for September 2013
Chip Kaufmann’s Pick: Charley Varrick (1973) Since I have referenced director Don Siegel in two of my reviews this month (2 Guns, Paranoia), it seems only fitting that my DVD…