[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…
[amazon_link asins=’B074R56JR6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d95f1c6b-4bdb-11e8-8fc7-f1ed17ed0822′]Based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry, adapted for the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, The Philadelphia Story is a high point for three Hollywood legends–Cary Grant (Operation Petticoat),…
[amazon_link asins=’B077R32LVQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b13e1eb-4b26-11e8-afb0-85b8af461d7a’]Kicking off with a with a musical number that quickly draws you into a world of larger than life escapism, The Greatest Showman mimics the kind of over-the-top production numbers that help make La La…
[amazon_link asins=’B077Z82BGJ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’2e6a4d0b-40ca-11e8-9b3f-fd24a7f4cb3b’]Filmed in 2015 and not released in the United States until December 22, 2017 (the same day as Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Father Figures tells the story of two fraternal twin brothers, Peter (Ed…
[amazon_link asins=’B076F3Y3H3′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’99e02af7-40c5-11e8-91a2-87b25fc2bdea’]In an era when sex and booze fueled antics were the focus of most films aimed at teens, Hughes was responsible for the of Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller’s…
[amazon_link asins=’B077HKKCPL’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b0eaace1-38f6-11e8-9745-9b49d2918b38′]Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones occupies an awkward space in cinema. Often sighted as being both influential and overpraised, its status as a classic, debatable. Released in 1963, did Tom Jones serve to reinvigorate British cinema…