Rowan Atkinson returns as the beloved, bumbling, accidental secret agent in Johnny English Strikes Again. The third installment in the franchise, and the first since 2011’s Johnny English Strikes Back, our titular hero remains silly as ever, but this time …
Blu-ray Review: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
In 1964, with the success of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? the Grand Dame Guignol genre began. Director Robert Aldrich (Twilight’s Last Gleaming) had cast aging stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in leads, created a hit, and in the …
Blu-ray Review: Notorious (Criterion Collection)
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 …
Blu-ray Review: Studio 54 – The Documentary
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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 …