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 …
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 …