Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2025

JACK THE RIPPER (1959) -- Blu-ray Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 4/25/22   I saw JACK THE RIPPER (Severin Films, 1959) on TV as a kid in the 60s, and the thing I remember most i...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

THE BEATLES: MADE ON MERSEYSIDE -- DVD Review by Porfle

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Originally posted on 8/12/19   Writer-director Alan Byron (BILLY FURY: THE SOUND OF FURY, PUNK '76) opens his 2018 documentary THE B...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

SEAL TEAM SIX: THE RAID ON OSAMA BIN LADEN -- Blu-Ray Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 12/31/12   A fairly interesting and involving fact-based war flick that first aired on the National Geographic Chann...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES -- Blu-ray Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 10/28/13   Like so many soldiers throughout the ages, returning World War II veterans were faced with a special dile...
Friday, November 22, 2024

LORNA DOONE -- DVD Review by Porfle

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(Originally posted on 4/21/11   LARRY: "And what might your name be, lass?" LORNA: "Perhaps you've heard it, 'tis Lo...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

ZULU DAWN -- Blu-Ray/DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 3/12/13   The Battle of Isandlwana is known as history's worst defeat of a "modern" army by native for...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

The Pillory Scene From "Hunchback Of Notre Dame" (Lon Chaney, 1923) (video)

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Quasimodo (Lon Chaney), the deaf bell-ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris... ...has been convicted of a crime for which he is innoc...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

COMBAT! FAN FAVORITES 50TH ANNIVERSARY -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 9/30/12   During the initial TV run of the World War II drama series "Combat!" (1962-67) I couldn't ge...
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Thursday, September 19, 2024

BATTLE FOR INCHEON: OPERATION CHROMITE -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 1/5/17   It has one of those annoying double titles separated by a colon, as though they couldn't make up thei...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

THE WOMAN KNIGHT OF MIRROR LAKE -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 5/9/12   What I first thought was going to be a dry-as-dust biopic quickly turns into a superb action-drama that giv...
Monday, September 2, 2024

CLASH OF EMPIRES -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 8/17/11   Malaysian historical legend gets a retelling in the small-scale epic CLASH OF EMPIRES (2011), aka "Th...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO -- Movie Review by Porfle

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 (This review originally appeared online at Bumscorner.com in 2006.) The prolonged imprisonment without trial of suspected Islamic ter...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

CONFUCIUS -- DVD Review by Porfle

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If, like me, your only knowledge of Confucius is when people say "Confucius say..." and then reel off some pithy remark, direct...
Monday, July 29, 2024

LION OF THE DESERT -- Blu-ray Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 11/9/13   For many of us, the name "Moustapha Akkad" is a long-familiar one--it's the first name you ...
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Presenting -- The JOHN WAYNE/ "GREEN BERETS" Lunchbox!

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Okay, this isn't a real lunchbox--we were just having a bit of fun with one of the goofier characters from John Wayne's controve...
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