Another sleepy Saturday night ... Savant has a key classic film noir, one with Bogie himself, no less, and a latter-day conspiracy flick with a confusing storyline.

Anchor Bay's Winter Kills not only gives us a great transfer of a hard-to-see film, it tells the backstory of this mob-financed, twice stalled jinx of a picture. Jeff Bridges heads a passel of top stars who believed in the picture, until the Union thugs showed up to shut it down ...

Columbia's noir classic In a Lonely Place is a soulful romantic wail in the night. Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame are perfectly matched, but suspicion in a crime eats away at their love and trust. One of the better movies about Hollywood, even if just on the edge of the genre, this great picture has the bleakest, but most romantic, ending ever.

Not much to say tonight ... editing and writing 15 hours a day is a good way to avoid the insanity on CNN ... and good discs like those above at least provide a diversion. Take care, Glenn Erickson