Ida Lupino – Stream On Demand

‘The Twilight Zone’ – enter another dimension on Paramount+ and Amazon Freevee

!Featured, Amazon Freevee, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Cult TV, DVD, Emmy Award, Free, Halloween, horror, Paramount+, socially aware cinema, Streaming TV, supernatural, SVOD 04/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Submitted for your approval: Rod Serling, a writer whose mix of science fiction, fantasy, and social commentary results in the most celebrated and respected anthology series of all time.

Edward G. Robinson is ‘The Sea Wolf’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, film noir, literary adaptation, Max, SVOD, thriller 08/20/2022 Sean Axmaker

Michael Curtiz turns Jack London’s novel into a nautical noir thriller in this 1941 classic, costarring Ida Lupino, John Garfield, and Alexander Knox.

Last chance: Ida Lupino is her own woman in ‘The Man I Love’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, film noir, Have You Seen...? 07/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Raoul Walsh directs this refreshingly mature drama of an independent woman in the post-war Los Angeles culture of swanky nightclubs and dive bars and the seedy, scheming characters who frequent them.

Last chance: Humphrey Bogart hits the ‘High Sierra’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 07/23/2022 Sean Axmaker

Raoul Walsh helped the veteran Warner Bros. actor become a leading man in this tough. smart crime drama, costarring Ida Lupino as a hardened survivor who falls for the veteran crook.

Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino star in the film noir by Nicholas Ray

Robert Ryan is ‘On Dangerous Ground’

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, film noir, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 06/07/2021 Sean Axmaker

Ida Lupino costars in this unusual film noir about an angry urban cop tracking a killer in snowy mountain country and confronting his own righteous rage along the journey.

Blu-ray: ‘On Dangerous Ground’ on Warner Archive

Blu-ray, Blu-ray review, film noir, Warner Archive 01/06/2017 Sean Axmaker

On Dangerous Ground (Warner Archive, Blu-ray) (1952), directed by Nicholas Ray from a script he developed with A.I. Bezzerides and producer John Houseman, opens on the urgent yet fractured dramatic score by Bernard Herrmann, a theme that rushes forward anxiously, pauses with quieter instruments, then jumps again as we watch the nocturnal city streets in […]