Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious is not only one of the most stylish films ever made but is one of the greatest suspense yarns ever committed to celluloid. Buoyed by a great cast, and a well-rounded script by …
DVD Review: Love, Gilda Magnolia Pictures / 2018 / Not rated / Jan 01, 2019
Saturday Night Live has been on the air for more than forty years now, but few television historians will disagree that the series’ first five seasons–from 1975 to 1980–were it’s best. The first of the “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players” …
Blu-ray Review: Studio 54 – The Documentary Zeitgeist Films / 2018 / 98 min / Not rated / Jan 29, 2019
Opening on April 26, 1977 Studio 54 became an immediate sensation. Driven by the youthful exuberance of co-owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the Manhattan nightclub quickly became the place to be. Once home to the CBS studios for game …
Blu-ray Review: The Jerk 40th Anniversary Edition / Shout Factory / 1979 / 94 min / Rated R / Dec 18, 2018
Steve Martin (Steve Martin: The Television Stuff) made his major feature film debut in The Jerk as Navin R. Johnson, a role he was born to play. A co-writer of the screenplay with Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias, the idea …
Blu-ray Review: The Nun Warner Bros. / 2018 / 97 min / Rated R / Dec 04, 2018
A prequel to The Conjuring films, The Nun ends right before The Conjuring begins, making it also work as a stand-alone film. Set in 1952 in a small Romanian town, a delivery man finds a nun hanging from a noose …
Blu-ray Review: Brewster McCloud Warner Archive Collection / Warner Bros. / 1970 / 105 min / Rated R / Nov 27, 2018
Fresh off the success M*A*S*H, Hollywood gave Robert Altman the freedom to pursue virtually any project he wanted. Never known for his traditional storytelling methods, Brewster McCloud was his strangest yet. A combination of comic frenzy and gross out humor, …
Blu-ray Review: Some Like It Hot (Criterion Collection) Criterion / Spine #950 / 1959 / 121 min / Not rated / Nov 20, 2018
Marilyn Monroe (Bus Stop) had a keen understanding of how to use her face, body and voice to make her sex appeal permeate through the screen. In Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, Monroe was at the height …
Blu-ray Review: Community – The Complete Series Mill Creek Entertainment / 2009-2015 / 6 Seasons / 2423 min / Oct 23, 2018
I loved Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live and I regularly watched Joel McHale on The Soup. It’s a bit odd then, that I only saw a few episodes of Community when it originally aired. Given the chance to rectify …
Blu-ray Review: The Swarm Warner Archive Collection / Warner Bros. / 1978 / 155 min / Rated PG / Sep 25, 2018
Producer/director Irwin Allen struck box office gold with a string of star-studded disaster films including The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Based on a novel by Arthur Herzog, The Swarm, seemed liked a surefire hit given Allen’s …
DVD Review: A Happening of Monumental Proportions Lionsgate Films / 2017 / 82 min / Rated R / Oct 23, 2018
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 …