The truly prolific Fran Drescher, known for her seminal performances in The Nanny (1993) and This is Spinal Tap (1984), has often been accused of being an acquired taste. With an unmistakable Queens accent and that raspy, exasperated voice, Drescher…
Emmy Award-winning television director Ralph Nelson draws a dynamic and powerful performance out of the infamous Jerry Lewis in this remake of Alan Jolson’s 1927 The Jazz Singer. Originally broadcast in 1959, this re-release of the made-for-TV rendition of the…
I will say one thing for the classmates who teased me all through elementary school: At least they were interesting. Malicious, yes. Cold-hearted, yes. But there was Michael Hernandez, who evoked a slick vibe about him that was actually impressive…
I, Claudius is a masterpiece for all time, a vast work of art that renders names like Claudius, Marcellus, Octavia, Tiberius, Augustus, Caligula, Nero, and others vividly, making them utterly human, maybe uncomfortably so. Some of us are that perverted,…
Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. Rewind. Play. I’ve done that with Ratatouille on DVD. My sister has done that with Ratatouille on DVD. In this household, that’s all I know of Patton Oswalt, that he was the voice of Remy in…
Honestly, when I first heard Warner Archive was releasing Shazzan: The Complete Series, I initially had it confused with Shazam! a 1970’s live action series based on the DC Comics’ superhero Captain Marvel. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Created…
In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there is only the end result, the creations made real. Never did we see Willy Wonka toiling over ideas, figuring out what would work, what textures were…
Before I was born, further back than directly before, I think, I remember being in a line of people. There was dim lighting, and the counter in front of the line looked like one that belonged to an airline at…
The sole problem with DVD reviewing is that sometimes we can’t write the review we wish to write. It’s not a matter of editorial oversight, but of time. We have to watch either the feature film or documentary and any…
Despite my bafflement on a retail level toward the Fan Favorites: Best of Frasier DVD in my previous Dark Shadows review, I see its value in libraries, much like these Dark Shadows compilations. They are useful tour guides into unfamiliar…