Originally published by Sierra Club Books in 1983, The River Why by David James Duncan is a thoughtful convergence of fishing, nature, and philosophy. As successful as the novel was, bringing it to the big screen proved difficult. The film…
The origin of the 1964 film My Fair Lady goes back to George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), which was subsequently adapted into a Broadway musical by the successful team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe (Gigi, Camelot). The play…
Warner Bros. recently released two Peanuts specials for the first time on DVD. Happiness Is… Peanuts: Snow Days doesn’t represent the best of the Peanuts catalog, but any fan of Charlie Brown and the gang should consider adding this to…
Conceived by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents as a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story made its Broadway debut on September 26, 1957. Presenting the story as a contemporary musical resulted in an intriguing…
Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1940, Tom & Jerry centers on the never ending rivalry between a domestic cat named Tom, and a little brown mouse named Jerry. The original series won the Academy Award…
One of the finest miniseries ever produced, Brideshead Revisited celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with a three disc Blu-ray set from Acorn Media. Based on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh, the eleven part mini-series won several awards and is considered…
In my tween years, 1981’s The Cannonball Run was on HBO so much, you’d have thought Burt Reynolds and his buddy Dom DeLuise were running the company. For me, Burt and Dom could do no wrong, the movie was hilarious….
Three years after the major disappointment that was Dune, David Lynch came back better than ever with Blue Velvet. The film begins, appropriately enough, with the opening credits superimposed over a beautiful piece of blue velvet swaying in the breeze….
It’s the Christmas season again, and Warner Brothers has brought yet another yuletide classic to Blu-ray. Rankin-Bass gained their reputation largely on a series of holiday specials produced for television during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Their use of stop-motion animation…
The most openly erotic of Michelangelo Antonioni’s films, Identification of a Woman stars Tomas Milian as Niccolò, a film director who is at the end of his rope both personally and professionally. Dabbling with the idea of making a film…