Day: June 25, 2019

Swing Time (1936)

Blu-ray Review: Swing Time (Criterion Collection)

June 25, 2019

Over a span of sixteen years–1933 to 1949–Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made sixteen films together. Released in 1936, Swing Time their sixth pairing, is considered by many to be their best. The wait to see them dance is a special kind of torture, but

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Fatso (1980)

Blu-ray Review: Fatso

June 25, 2019

When their beloved, yet morbidly obese, cousin Sal drops dead at 39, Antoinette (Anne Bancroft, The Prisoner of Second Avenue) insists her brother Dominick (Dom DeLuise, The Cannonball Run) to lose some weight. After breaking down at the funeral, Antoinette tells Dom she has made

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