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…
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…
Cars 2 is far more entertaining than the 2006 original, and it’s a good thing, because it’s also the weakest film in the Pixar cannon. As one would expect, the film looks fabulous, and has some nifty action sequences, but…
The youngest network president in television history, IBC’s Francis “Frank” Xavier Cross (Bill Murray) will stop at nothing to “own” Christmas in the Nielsen ratings. His holiday lineup features shows like “The Night the Reindeer Died” (in which a far-from-defenseless…
Let’s face it; most romantic comedies are pure fluff. So, when a love story with substance emerges, it’s quite notable. Crazy, Stupid, Love. is one of those rare romantic comedies that could appeal to both men and women and presents…
Every year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, three movies will show up somewhere, sometime on television: A Christmas Carol (of which there are several good versions), A Christmas Story and It’s A Wonderful Life. After its copyright was inexplicably not renewed…