[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=’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=’B01MZIQ2WO’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’f0f5d76c-4bb0-11e7-88ba-8939d05e0da4′] Based on Disney’s 1991 animated classic, the live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast tells the story with most of the familiar arcs and refrains, characters, and songs, while mixing in some new…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XS5Q5CZ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’f23c7e92-4a1c-11e7-b78a-13b6ec0ab1d7′] Five years after The Sheik made him an international star, Rudolph Valentino found himself at a crossroad. In 1923, he married designer Natacha Rambova. Though they would divorce just two years later in 1925,…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XS1K39D’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a8c524ac-4882-11e7-887e-01357f0df5cc’] Fabulously handsome, super-smooth, and perhaps a bit dangerous, Rudolph Valentino was everything the public wanted in its male movie stars of the 1920’s. At a time when silents were the only game in town,…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XS99HCG’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’fbd938b5-471d-11e7-a296-19f3eb2bdd52′] First released on Blu-ray in 2011, Bambi, the Disney animated classic returns to the format as part of the Signature Collection Series. Filled with both classic and new extras, the Bambi Signature Collection Edition…
[amazon_link asins=’B06Y2GTFQG’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’45014afc-458c-11e7-b384-b30196598293′] A quasi re-imagining of the 1987 high school film Three 0’Clock High, Fist Fight has the unenviable distinction of being worse than the film that inspired it. More tedious than funny, and full of…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XRYNF47′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e90f14a1-43c4-11e7-ad89-2fd59f5687e0′] Over their long and illustrious careers, Burt Lancaster and Kurt Douglas made seven films together. The final pairing, Tough Guys, isn’t their best, but it’s a fitting swan song, offering humor, and a little…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XQK4733′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’6fe7933c-3d8d-11e7-b6c2-4df865688a1b’] Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is barely out of high school, but dreaming of becoming an actress. Her loving, but rather conservative parents (Everett Sloan and Claire Trevor) just want her to go to college,…
[amazon_link asins=’B06XNS686F’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazetteo-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’676d7908-3a7d-11e7-b890-0f0b8ae6332e’] One of the few sequels in film history to be regarded by many as better than the first, The Godfather: Part ll was recently reissued on Blu-ray by Paramount with the same transfer, audio,…