Given Disney’s major success on Broadway with such properties as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, it comes as no surprise that Dreamworks Animation wanted to take a shot at stab at this potential goldmine with one of…
Many Three Stooges fans will welcome this five-disc (four DVDs and one CD) deluxe set, new from Image Madacy Entertainment, The New Three Stooges Complete Cartoon Collection. This marks the first home video release of all 156 animated shorts produced…
Classified as a romantic comedy, Dan Mazer’s I Give It a Year offers plenty of laughs if not much romance. By design, the relationship at the center of things isn’t easy to root for, and the film’s love quadrilateral doesn’t…
Often considered one of the top ten comedies of all time, the original Airplane! is a perfect spoof of the popular disaster films of the 1970’s. Highly quotable, some of its most famous lines are still repeated today, more than…
Surprisingly dark and depressing, to call The Hangover Part III a comedy seems disingenuous. After the lively debauchery that made up the bulk of the first two films, it seems director Todd Phillips attempted to do something different with the…
Clint Eastwood’s second film as a director—and his first western, High Plains Drifter takes us back to his days making spaghetti westerns in Italy with Sergio Leone. His character, a gunslinger known simply as “The Stranger” passes an unmarked grave…
A spin-off from a recurring series of comedy sketches on The Carol Burnett Show called The Family, which ran from 1974 to 1978; Mama’s Family was finally launched after the success of the 1982 made-for-TV movie, named after Mama’s daughter…
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War….
Credited with revitalizing Disney’s animation unit, when it was released in 1989 The Little Mermaid garnered largely positive reviews, earning $84 million at the box office during its initial release and $211 million in total lifetime gross. Based on the…
I have no issue with the current explosion in 3D films, some of them are really good, some not so much, but I appreciate the ability to see several titles in either 3D or 2D. However, I have reservations about…