Do you ever get the itch to revisit the summer camp you attended when you were a kid?  If so, this movie is for you.  Mike Binder’s nostalgic comedy Indian Summer  (1993) is largely autobiographical, filmed on location at Canada’s […]

In the last issue I discussed the films of Alfred Hitchcock in some detail, and mentioned remakes of his classic films.  One aspect which I did not touch upon concerns those films which serve as homages to Hitchcock’s legacy. Director Brian […]

Frank’s second choice is a 1953 musical.  “Call Me Madam was buried in the vaults for years by the Irving Berlin estate and this is a great, underappreciated musical.  While it is now dated with references to Harry S. Truman’s […]

For this issue, subscriber Frank Gutierrez has suggested two movies worth rediscovering, and I concur with his judgment.  I’ll let him describe them, beginning with a 1937 drama. “They Won’t Forget is noteworthy because it was Lana Turner’s first film. […]

If ever there was an underrated murder mystery / suspense thriller, this is it.  Based on the bestselling novel by Martin Cruz Smith, this 1983 adaptation opened to mixed reviews and mediocre business.  That’s quite unfortunate, because it is a […]

The Dirty Dozen was such a popular movie for MGM that it decided to repeat the formula in another World War II action feature titled The Devil’s Brigade the following year (1968).  And while The Devil’s Brigade is not quite the classic […]

One of the coolest of the 1950s sci-fi movies that I love so much is The Monolith Monsters, released in 1957.  Anyone who has ever grown crystals as a science project will appreciate the small alien rocks which land on […]

Never having been satisfied with the column title “Overlooked (or Obscure) Goodies,” which appeared in the final two issues of volume 3, I am now quite happy to alter it to the more prosaic but heartfelt “Movies Worth Rediscovering.”  Each […]