1959 – Page 2 – Stream On Demand

‘Araya’ – a landmark of poetic nonfiction on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Cannes winner, Criterion Channel, Documentary, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Classics, socially aware cinema 04/26/2021 Sean Axmaker

This 1959 portrait of an ancient existence in the modern world is a beautiful tone poem with narration to match.

Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in the 1959 Hammer horror classic directed by Terence Fisher

Christopher Lee is ‘The Mummy’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, remake, SVOD 10/30/2018 Sean Axmaker

Hammer Films’ greatest nemeses, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, once again square off in The Mummy (1959), the studio’s reworking of Universal’s The Mummy (with elements of The Mummy’s Tomb and The Mummy’s Ghost thrown in for good measure). Cushing stars as archaeologist John Banning, whose dig for a lost tomb results in untold treasures […]

Peter Cushing is Sherlock Holmes in the Hammer version of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic

Blu-ray: Hammer’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ on Twilight Time

Blu-ray, Mystery, Twilight Time 03/28/2017 Sean Axmaker

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – Hammer Films had just launched their full color revivals of the classic movie monsters when they tackled Sherlock Holmes, giving him the Gothic treatment in a mix mystery and supernatural horror. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment of science […]