[amazon_link asins=’B072MPK8K6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d9298960-76dc-11e7-85f6-2787d53fbef7′]Based on Dave Eggers’ novel of the same name, The Circle raises some interesting questions about the expanding role technology plays in our everyday lives, but lacks the necessary depth to explore the them. Eggers…
[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…