The feature directorial debut of comedienne/actress Judy Greer, A Happening of Monumental Proportions follows several distinct storylines that don’t really come together in the end. What starts out as an average day for widowed accountant Daniel Crawford (Common), quickly gets …
Blu-ray Review: Bad Ronald Warner Archive Collection / Warner Bros. / 1974 / 74 min / Not rated / Oct 09, 2018
A 1974 made-for-television movie directed by Buzz Kulik, Bad Ronald is based on a book by the same name by Jack Vance. Ronald Wilby (Scott Jacoby, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane) is a socially inept, awkward high …
Blu-ray Review: Whitney Lionsgate Films / 2018 / 120 min / Rated R / Oct 16, 2018
Six years after her death, Oscar winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Marley) explores the life of Whitney Houston in Whitney. Given access to family, friends, and those who knew Whitney best, he uncovers some troubling revelations and provides some possible answers …
Blu-ray Review: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Signature Edition / Olive Films / 1956 / 81 min / Not rated / Oct 16, 2018
Based on Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers and directed by future Clint Eastwood favorite Don Siegel (Riot in Cell Block 11), Invasion of the Body Snatchers unfolds in a normal, average American small town. Yes, Santa Mira is a …
Blu-ray Review: Designing Woman Warner Archive Collection / Warner Bros. / 1957 / 118 min / Not rated / Jun 12, 2018
Released in 1957, Vicente Minnelli’s screwball comedy Designing Woman earned writer George Wells an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The concept for the story came from famed, two-time Oscar winning costume designer Helen Rose, who fashioned a romance, equal parts …
Blu-ray Review: Bat 21 Bat*21 / Kino Lorber / 1988 / 105 min / Rated R / Sep 18, 2018
Released in 1988, Bat 21 (stylized as “Bat*21”) is based on the true story of Lt. Col. Iceal “Ham” Hambleton, a weapons countermeasure expert shot down in the jungles of Vietnam while taking part in a recon mission. Just when …
4K UHD Review: Skyscraper Universal Studios / 2018 / 102 min / Rated PG-13 / Oct 09, 2018
A wanna be Die Hard mixed with elements of The Towering Inferno, Skyscraper seeks to promote Dwayne Johnson as Hollywood’s biggest action star. Unfortunately, while their are brief moments of excitement, Johnson’s charm and charism gets lost in an endless …
Blu-ray Review: Three Identical Strangers Universal Studios / 2018 / 96 min / Rated PG-13 / Oct 02, 2018
Unbelievable if it weren’t true, the documentary Three Identical Strangers tells the story of triplets separated at birth and reunited by happenstance at nineteen. None of the young men–or their families–knew about the other, which lead to a lot of …