[amazon_link asins=’B073XYGB8T’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e718ad93-7716-11e8-8c3d-95487761a9e3′]Long an admirer of Stanley Kubrick, I count 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb among my favorite films of all time. However, Barry…
[amazon_link asins=’B07D4BZG9J’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’8af349a5-7250-11e8-b754-cb1512768506′]Vincente Minnelli—one-time husband of Judy Garland and father of Liza—became famous largely as a result of the lavish musicals he directed during his time at MGM. Some of his best-known films include Meet Me in…
[amazon_link asins=’B07BF3T9D7′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’858c6585-6d97-11e8-9356-15465a932bbc’]In 1970, it was hard to imagine that a comedy with a cast that included Jackie Gleason (Skidoo), Maureen O’Hara (McLintock!) , Shelley Winters (Harper) and Rosemary Forsyth would be a complete box office bomb,…
[amazon_link asins=’B079PGX6LT’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’301c3715-6cf6-11e8-a279-11fe5b1aad2d’]Had Ruby Gentry been released just a few years later, it might have been mistaken for a Tennessee Williams adaptation. Instead, it was written directly for the screen by Silva Richards, who provided Joan Crawford…
[amazon_link asins=’B07BR9FHHN’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c94f6534-6cee-11e8-a6c0-4354cdabc897′]Released in 1983, Trading Places has the feel of a 1930’s screwball comedy. Set in Philadelphia during the holidays, this modern reworking of Mark Twain’s Prince and the Pauper concerns two men of vastly different…
[amazon_link asins=’B07C5H8D7N’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’01fa0891-638a-11e8-a4dc-637d90e1a294′]Before he changed the face of television with All in the Family and its spin-offs, Norman Lear co-wrote and directed Cold Turkey, a cynical, occasionally blistering anti-smoking comedy that to date, is his only credit…
[amazon_link asins=’B074R58HZ1′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’02e8107d-634b-11e8-82fb-75ec7e1fabab’]Desert Hearts, based loosely on Jane Rule’s 1964 novel Desert of the Heart, was a groundbreaking film of the time, this was the first lesbian movie that didn’t end in pain, or with one of…
[amazon_link asins=’B078952J6W’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’8d1587e3-59f8-11e8-9a19-27dd2edeceae’]Savannah Smiles, an independently produced family film, had the misfortune of hitting theaters in December 1982, just months after E.T. became a box office juggernaut and this little film likely got lost in the shuffle. …
[amazon_link asins=’B07BF25TB9′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5d75409a-52df-11e8-9fa3-1107005750ce’]In 1959, the great state of Louisiana found itself knee deep in scandal when Governor Earl K. Long (Paul Newman, Harper) Huey’s shrewd little brother began a relationship with a stripper named Blaze Starr (Lolita…
[amazon_link asins=’B079ZT1XRQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b3915cad-4fd0-11e8-9c13-01c4313ae3af’]Released straight to disc and digital, Backstabbing for Beginners sounds like the title of an episode of How to Get Away with Murder than the serious political thriller it promises to be. Not surprisingly, it…