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In this issue: Alice Diop in conversation with Claire Denis, Cate Blanchett and Todd Field on Tár and Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Plus: the Best Films of 2022, our annual In Memoriam feature, Paul Mescal and Charlotte Wells on Aftersun, and much more…

Paramount added a late “old dark house” mystery comedy to Hollywood’s annus mirabilis of 1939 by teaming Bob Hope with Paulette Goddard in The Cat and the Canary, skilfully directed by Elliott Nugent. The death-trap mansion in the Louisiana bayous where family members gather to hear the reading of the deceased owner’s will – his niece Goddard inherits it – proved the perfect venue for Hope’s hilariously pusillanimous shtick.

53. Kiss of the Vampire (NEW) It's Hammer. That means it is gorgeously shot, however, while there is usually a deliberate pacing to their films, this turns...

80 years ago in 1941 a twin-engine Heinkel came in along Loch Ness at mid-day, flying so low that the German airmen were clearly seen.

Drama Paramount followed up its successful Bob Hope/Paulette Goddard co-starrer The Cat and the Canary (1939) by warming up another venerable old dark house stage play, Paul Dickey and Charles Goddards The Ghost Breaker, pluralizing the title to accommodate both stars. This time Hope plays radio personality Lawrence L. Lawrence (the middle initial stands for Lawrence: My folks had no imagination) who has to flee New York to avoid being mistakenly arrested for murder. He and his manservant A...

My Favorite Blonde (Blu-ray Review) Format: Blu-ray Disc Studio(s)Paramount Pictures (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: C+ The Ghost Breakers and the Hope-Crosby Road to Singapore, Hope was on a roll. He was already a star of radio, and the decade offered audiences more than twenty opportunities to see Hope’s antics and laugh at his quips and wisecracks. One of his most popular films of that period is My Favorite Blonde, a spy drama/comedy that begins with a murder aboard a ...