"Kim uncovered what he was up to, and now she's missing." Gravitas has revealed an official trailer for an indie thriller called Charlie Tango, a Canadian film about an air traffic controller who gets caught up in a bigger conspiracy. It opens first in Canadian cinemas later this month, before arriving on VOD in the US in September to watch. Kim, an air traffic controller under investigation after a tragic plane crash, is recruited by Charlie, her lover who specializes in lucrative real estate investments. Her police officer husband, Jeff, soon begins to suspect that Charlie is at the head of a major embezzlement scheme. She soon finds herself sucked into a world of financial fraud and manipulation. How will they get out? The movie stars popular Canadian actors David La Haye, Bruce Disnmore, and Stacie Mistysyn, plus Diana Lewis. With an original score by Oliver Palotai, keyboardist for the band Kamelot.
- 8/14/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s the granddaddy of British cop dramas of the modern era. The most popular English picture of 1950 introduced PC George Dixon, a warm-hearted constable who would become a staple on BBC TV for 21 years. T.E.B. Clarke’s screenplay of a murder manhunt is stocked with actors American fans know well — Dirk Bogarde, Bernard Lee — and some we should know better — Jack Warner, Robert Flemyng, Dora Bryan. The show was made by the top craftsmen of Ealing Studios, and its fast pace and Brit sensibility will definitely impress. And remember — the Bobbies on the beat don’t even carry guns.
The Blue Lamp
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1950 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 85 min. / Street Date June 1, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Peggy Evans, Patric Doonan, Bruce Seton, Meredith Edwards, Dora Bryan, Gladys Henson, Tessie O’Shea, Betty Ann Davies, Jennifer Jayne, Sam Kydd,...
The Blue Lamp
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1950 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 85 min. / Street Date June 1, 2021 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Peggy Evans, Patric Doonan, Bruce Seton, Meredith Edwards, Dora Bryan, Gladys Henson, Tessie O’Shea, Betty Ann Davies, Jennifer Jayne, Sam Kydd,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Chicago – We like to think that creative progress has led to a more open-minded era of today than decades ago but the fact is that I really don’t think a major studio with major actors would make a film today that felt as honestly dangerous as Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or Not To Be” did when it was released. A dangerous Jack Benny comedy? You bet.
Making a comedy that mocked not just Adolf Hitler himself but the wartime tragedies that were happening throughout Europe in 1942 took such amazing courage that this comedy, now considered a classic, was divisive when it was released. Benny’s own father reportedly walked out of his first viewing, uncomfortable seeing his son in a Nazi uniform. This was daring material and what’s so remarkable about watching it now is that the high-wire tonal tightrope that Lubitsch walks in the film can still be appreciated.
Making a comedy that mocked not just Adolf Hitler himself but the wartime tragedies that were happening throughout Europe in 1942 took such amazing courage that this comedy, now considered a classic, was divisive when it was released. Benny’s own father reportedly walked out of his first viewing, uncomfortable seeing his son in a Nazi uniform. This was daring material and what’s so remarkable about watching it now is that the high-wire tonal tightrope that Lubitsch walks in the film can still be appreciated.
- 8/27/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 27, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Carole Lombard and Jack Benny make a joke out of the Nazis in To Be or Not to Be.
Jack Benny (The Jack Benny Program) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey) star in To Be or Not to Be, a 1942 screwball comedy masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise).
As nervy as it is hilarious, the classic film features Benny and Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous plot wherein a Polish soldier is trying to track down a German spy.
To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the undeniably bold black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Carole Lombard and Jack Benny make a joke out of the Nazis in To Be or Not to Be.
Jack Benny (The Jack Benny Program) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey) star in To Be or Not to Be, a 1942 screwball comedy masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise).
As nervy as it is hilarious, the classic film features Benny and Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous plot wherein a Polish soldier is trying to track down a German spy.
To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the undeniably bold black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
- 6/6/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
It’s become a cliché to say that they 'don’t make ‘em like they used to,' and I doubt that very many people have actually taken the time to check the veracity of that claim. When things like that are said, however, it’s usually in reference to comedians like Red Skelton. A physical comedian of the radio era, Skelton specialized in witty asides and weird sounds in the way that, well, most film comedians did at the time and still mostly do today. Taken together, it’s hard not to see why the Whistling films collected here (Whistling in the Dark, Whistling in Dixie, and Whistling in Brooklyn) didn’t become classics, but more interesting yet is the collective revelation that, despite the great gulf in time, things are continuing just the way that they have been for some time.
Whistling in the Dark introduces Wally Benton...
Whistling in the Dark introduces Wally Benton...
- 6/28/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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