[amazon_link asins=’B071S6ZX49′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’cb30c0aa-7094-11e7-a377-45a549190a78′]With the promise of non-stop action, and a cool 1970’s vibe, the trailer for Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire promises great things. Trouble is, the best parts of the film are encapsulated in that two-and-a-half-minutes. Despite…
Created by Ed Friendly (Little House on the Prairie), and George Schlatter, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In premiered as a one-shot NBC special on September 9th, 1967. Viewers had rarely seen the kind of rapid-fire, free-form series of politically, and sexually…
Available now, alongside Shout Factory’s Pink Panther Collection are the Blu-ray debuts of the “Seller-less” entries into the Pink Panther series: 1968’s Inspector Clouseau, as well as Blake Edwards’ own Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) and Son of the…
[amazon_link asins=’B01MZ6Y8XS’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’62bd0d39-6311-11e7-8cab-bd320e4458e6′] After years of speculation and rumor, Shout Factory has finally released The Pink Panther Collection. A box set that brings together all six of the seminal Pink Panther films that starred the legendary Peter…
[amazon_link asins=’B06VT2SQJW’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’cc93042f-5e79-11e7-ad5d-b96aa39d611d’] “This is my boss, Jonathan Hart – a self-made millionaire. He’s quite a guy. This is Mrs. H. She’s gorgeous. She’s one lady who knows how to take care of herself. By the way,…
[amazon_link asins=’B06W2GJF77′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’df590fb9-5a87-11e7-9e65-45d252c7a54e’] Based on Stephen Gilbert’s novel Ratman’s Notebooks, and directed by Daniel Mann, Willard could be easily dismissed as a horror movie about a creepy guy who loves rats. While that’s true, to leave it…
[amazon_link asins=’B071DX64LP’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a6781a49-5792-11e7-94fe-097c2ce80c4b’] Dull, rude, and insulting, CHiPs is bro cinema at its worst, the movie equivalent of two teenage boys having a contest to see who can come up with the most swear words in two…
[amazon_link asins=’B06W9GB1R6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’f498e10f-560e-11e7-a66b-57904545dccf’] A spinoff of The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie gives the Caped Crusader an opportunity to loosen up a bit. The movie brings back Will Arnett as the gravelly voiced superhero and surrounds…
[amazon_link asins=’B0722874M3′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’95d0b72b-5397-11e7-a4bc-65164ac08035′] In my continuing quest to expand my limited knowledge of silent films, I watched Kino Lorber’s recent Blu-ray release of Zaza. Originally a hit Broadway play in 1899, Zaza, starring Gloria Swanson, concerns the…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XXCZLRD’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6dd9157c-52b9-11e7-aca6-c5967a2e69f0′] An accomplished screenwriter with credits like 28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a science fiction film that imagines a rather scary future…