The production year was 1940. The movie was released in 1941. The efficiency and artistic quality of the Hollywood RKO studio machine was...

The 2021 Oscars ratings were down a staggering 58% from the previous low of the previous year (2020) which was a similar percentage drop...

SIX MONTHS AGO everyone was saying that the movie theaters were a thing of the past. The global pandemic of Covid 19 had supposedly...

CUT-TO-THE-CHASE: RECOMMENDED Wings of the Hawk is a genuinely action-packed and enjoyable (and surprisingly fast-moving) 1953 color...

His father, Lon Chaney Sr., was the Silent Screen's biggest star attraction at the time of Chaney Senior's death from throat cancer in...

Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy and their ilk from a day long gone by, but with an imagination and style that appears will...

Our Editor-In-Chief, Roy Frumkes, would like this, by me, your Managing Editor, to be put on FIR. Since our undaunted fearless leader is...

Kino Lorber rescues yet another historically significant motion picture from oblivion with the salvation of this 1960 high-seas adventure...

Kino Lorber restoration 3D Color, 1953 Starring Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Francis L. Sullivan Kino Lorber continues its positively...

This day, 60 years ago, October 2, 1959 saw the debut of a television show so brilliant in its writing, direction and acting that the...

CUTTING TO THE CHASE, MANY OF THOSE "STUPID OLD JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES" ARE NOT SO STUPID AFTER ALL. By way of initial example,...

*All Little Orphant Annie restoration images are original to FIR* Directed by Colin Campbell Written by James Whitcomb Riley, Gilson...

WB Archive Collection. 1959. 80 mins. B&W. AR: 1.85:1 Commentary by Special Effects experts Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett. ...

FIR's archives go back officially one hundred years, to 1919, before the name change to Films In Review. FIR will start re-publishing...

FIR's own Glenn Andreiev asked me what lost movies or near-lost need to be recovered and found specifically from a special effects point...

Let's clear the air. Near-lost treasure-rescuer company Kino Lorber, of which this producer/director/reviewer is an unabashed...

Stan (Stanley Martin Lieber) Lee, to-date by far the most successful artist of any sort fo bridge to chasm between comic books and motion...

To readers of Films In Review, the name of the late Ray Harryhausen is likely at best to conjure images of stop motion fantasy creatures...

Not to be confused with the color and essentially dreadful remake from the 1990's, the original black-and-white Village Of The Damned,...

Unlike the corny, hyperventilating Jim Carrey comedy of the same name, which appears to be a pretty terrible ripoff of this film, the...

80 mins. In 3D and 2D. B&W. Commentaries by Tom Weaver, Bob Furmanek, Dr. Robert J. Kiss and David Schecter. Filmed interview with female...

We all know the now-endless conventional wisdom mantra; “3D is a fad. Sophisticated people don't want it. It's a gimmick and not worthy...

3D review by David Rosler Like most, this movie from the 1950's has substantial PROS and CONS, but before starting out, I want to say to...