Liz & Dick is a hot mess of a little TV-movie. In the opening seconds, a “based on a true story” message flashes across the screen. However, the story told here—the tumultuous relationship of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; largely…
Released in advance of the highly promoted HBO mini-series “Behind the Candelabra” starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant piano-playing superstar Liberace, and Matt Damon as his much younger lover Scott Thorson, Timeless Media’s double-DVD set, Liberace: The Ultimate Entertainer gives…
Nominated for Best Picture in 1960, Sons and Lovers is an adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel. Directed by famed cinematographer Jack Cardiff—he won an Oscar for his work on Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus—at a time when the Motion…
Based on the stage play A Roomful of Roses by Edith Sommer, 1956’s Teenage Rebel is harshly titled for a film that is essentially about a very lonely girl. Generally, when we think of a rebel in movies, images of…
I can’t remember the precise moment I became a Mel Brooks fan, but I believe I was around ten when I first heard the comedy album 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, thanks to my local library. I…
By its second season in 1958 Maverick was a bonafide hit, reaching number six in the Nielsen ratings, and as well as winning an Emmy award for Best Western Series in 1959. Westerns were a popular staple of the television…
Less than six months after the release of Season Two, Warner Archive has released the third season of Alice. By the time the 1977-78 season began, the adventures of Alice (Linda Lavin), Flo (Polly Holliday), Vera (Beth Howland), Mel, (Vic…
♫♪…Just to have a laugh, or sing a song. Seems we just get started and before you know it Comes the time we have to say, “So long”. ♪♫ During its eleven year run from 1967-78 on CBS, The Carol…
Every foreign film is fodder for my favorite game, “Who Does He/She Look Like?” It’s very American, I know, and it doesn’t work for every movie, such as The Intouchables and Run Lola Run, but it’s great shorthand for conveying…
“He wanted to die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.” Narrated from the point of view of fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) Terrence Malick’s Badlands can be seen as a kind of modern day…