I went to another library book sale to pick out some cheap DVDs, including The Black Camel (1931), a Warner Oland Charlie Chan movie.The movie is set in Honolulu, and at least partly filmed there. Movie star Dorothy Revier is making a movie…
Did you know that Luc Besson made a Dracula (2025) movie last year? Us neither. But I was willing to give it a shot. based on that alone.Dracula is played by Caleb Landry Jones. The movie starts with Jones going to war against the Ottomans,…
I've known about Scott Joplin as a brilliant composer of ragtine since at least The Sting. I may even have known that he composed an opera in 1910. But I just found out that Treemonisha (1982) was staged and recorded, and is available on Ar…
I have never watched a He-Man or She-Ra cartoon, nor have I seen the Dolph Lundgren movie, But I do like big dumb action movies, so I figured I'd give Masters of the Universe (2026) a shot. It starts on the planet Eternia, a perfect land of…
11 Rebels (2024) is an interesting new addition to the samurai genre. Condemned criminals must hold a fort in exchange for pardons, in a Japanese civil war.It starts with peasant Takayuki Yamada running home to find that his sister has been…
King of Jazz (1930) is about Paul Whiteman, a man about as white as you can get. His music is also pretty white. It's not what we would call jazz - unless we are Guy Lombardo. But it was extremely popular, maybe number one in the US until B…
I picked up Casanova (2005) at a library DVD sale. How bad could Heath Ledger as Casanova be? Not bad at all.It starts with Casanova as a little boy. His mother leaves him with his grandmother, and promises to come back. In the next scene,
Well, they finally figured out how to title a sequel: Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025). Except this coming after Now You See Me 2 kind of spoils the effect. This one starts with an underground Four Horsemen magic show in a warehouse. Th…
Just a quick note on Dragon Fist (1979), a Jackie Chan movie that Amazon Prime suggested the we "finish watching" = we auto-started this and you didn't watch it - why?Anyway, Jackie is a student at a good martial arts studio, but another te…
I'm a sucker for a Three Musketeers movie, so I was pretty psyched for the recent French version: The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan (2023).I should give a quick plot synopsis, but it's pretty much the story that you know. I also won't be lis…
This was a random pick Ghost Killer (2024) - Japanese action with a comedy twist.It starts with a fight in an alley - four against one, Masanori Mimoto, in fast, almost silent hand to hand combat. Mimoto has defeated the four when he is sho…
After watching Spinal Tap II, we had an urge to watch A Mighty Wind (2003). We mainly wanted to refresh our memory and then watch the commentary track.This is a Christopher Guest mockumentaty, much in the style of Spinal Tap. A great manage…