Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

CATCHING UP WITH BLU-RAYS

Leonard Maltin March 23, 2026

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As I said in my recent post, I’ve been laggard in keeping up to date on this website. The following Blu-ray releases are no longer fresh, but they warrant your attention nonetheless. If you want to know why Louise Brooks has such a fervent following, make it a point to see G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. Focus on Louise Brooks from Flicker Alley is aimed at the diehards who want to see every frame of footage in which she appeared, including the first silent films she made under contract to Paramount. She already had “the look” that still enchants us, but the small and/or supporting roles she landed are inconsequential at best. The San Francisco Film Preserve has combed…

WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN MARCH

Blu-Ray/DVD March 23, 2026

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THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN MARCH: KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, OFFICE KILLER, THE BIG COMBO, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Killers of the Flower Moon (The Criterion Collection): Given how long it took Apple TV to put Best Picture winner CODA on physical media, we should be grateful for the relative speed with which we’re getting a 4K release of Martin Scorsese’s masterful tale of crimes committed against this nation’s indigenous peoples. It’s a sweeping epic of American barbarism, with greedy interests out to slaughter the population that dares stand between a corporation and its oil, told with brutal efficiency and heartbreaking disappointment in human nature.…

A NEW BOOK FROM MALTIN AND MALTIN

Exclusive March 14, 2026

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The past few months have been hectic for my family and me and as a result, I haven’t had the wherewithal to keep up with this blog, as much as I have wanted to. My daughter and collaborator Jessie is a hands-on, full-time Mom to our four-year-old granddaughter Daisy, which means it’s hard to find any so-called spare time. We have managed to log on almost every Sunday afternoon for our weekly livestream, Maltin on Movies, which is also the name of our podcast, which posts on Fridays. We’ve missed a couple of weeks here and there, but we have two first-rate interviews coming up in the weeks ahead, with actors Caroline Goodall and Lou Taylor Pucci. What’s more, we have joined forces to produce…

STOLEN FACES

A Bit Of Crumpet February 26, 2026

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Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Beauty is only skin deep, as the saying goes. And as one of the characters in Stolen Face says. This 1951 Hammer Films movie has a lot to say about looks and how many would go to great lengths to change how they look, and some do. Especially here as faces are changed, for better and worse. British plastic surgeon Philip Ritter is jilted by a concert pianist after a whirlwind romance. Still clinging to her memory, he remakes disfigured criminal Lily in Alice’s image. But Ritter soon discovers that what’s underneath did not change for the better. If this film had…

A BIT OF CRUMPET

A Bit Of Crumpet February 26, 2026

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Leonard here. The following column is written by my colleague Mark Searby highlighting British cinema past and present. Please enjoy A Bit of Crumpet. Daniel Farson isn’t a name familiar to many. Even I wasn’t aware of him. Granted he was before my time. However, his work has rippled through the lifestyle documentary maker world for decades. Seen as a precursor to the likes of Louis Theroux (who in turn had worked with Michael Moore early on in their respective careers), Nick Broomfield and Jon Ronson. A young, modern-day equivalent to Frason is probably Andrew Callaghan. But Farson was operating in the 1950s. When Britain had a stiff upper lip and didn’t talk about anything remotely personal like sex, drugs or… alien invasions. Farson did…

WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN FEBRUARY

Exclusive February 26, 2026

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THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN FEBRUARY: NOW YOU SEE ME 3, SCARLET WARNING 666, NETWORK, AND MORE! NEW RELEASE WALL Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (Lionsgate): A movie about magicians seems like an anomaly in this era of digital effects, where anything is possible on the screen. (I’m reminded of the character in Radio Dayswho gets annoyed with his wife’s love of Charlie McCarthy: “He’s a ventriloquist on the radio! How do ya know he isn’t moving his lips?”) Still, the legerdemain capers of the Now You See Me crew have captivated audiences enough to get to a third entry, and this time, the Horsemen…

ADAM SANDLER AND ME

Exclusive February 12, 2026

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Two thousand fans packed the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara last week to see Adam Sandler in person. After forty years of comedy records, TV appearances and movies he’s still on top of his game. It was my happy assignment to interview him on stage for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. We hit it off right away and he gave thoughtful answers to my questions, punctuated with comic asides that met with roars of approval. . He was a teenager when he started performing in comedy clubs, and 22 when he hit the big time on Saturday Night Live. That’s when I first became aware of hm, because my young daughter showed me his performance of “The Chanukah Song,” which meant so much to…