Marvel | 2010 | 137 mins. | TV-Y7 The second volume of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes hit stores the same day as the first. Volume 1 gave us the backstories of the key players, and culminated with the two-part…
Marvel | 2010 | 161 mins. | TV-Y7 In recent years, films based on comic books have proven to be a financial boon to the worldwide box office. Perhaps even better, with the increasing demand for home entertainment media, television…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1967 | 111 mins. | NR John Lennon’s only non-Beatles dramatic performance, How I Won the War will likely be of interest to only his most ardent fans. Directed by Richard Lester, who guided The Fab Four through…
Shanachie Entertainment | 1961 | 780 mins. | NR The follow-up to creator Nat Hiken’s phenomenally successful The Phil Silvers Show/Sgt. Bilko (1955-59), Car 54 (1961-63), achieved respectable ratings in its first season, but plummeted in the second. However, nearly…
Criterion | 1986 | 113 min | Rated R 1986’s Something Wild is a quirky movie that is often lost in the shuffle of director Jonathan Demme’s filmography. It was his first dramatic film following Swing Shift two years earlier,…
BBC/Warner | 2010 | 180 mins. | NR BBC Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video have released the recent remake of the classic serial Upstairs Downstairs. The three-hour miniseries comes packaged as a two-disc set. Things start fresh, at 165…
First Run Features | 2010 | 98 mins. | NR With roots in 19th Century vaudeville and minstrel shows, burlesque became a popular form of entertainment in the 1930’s. At a time when America was mired in a deep economic…
Criterion | 1981 | 108 mins. | R Brian De Palma is a directorial enigma. In America, many consider him nothing more than a talented rip-off artist who takes from the greats—Michael Powell, Michelangelo Antonioni, Hitchcock, and Kubrick. One of…
Warner Bros. | 1986 | 523 mins. | NR After a five year layoff, the second season of Growing Pains finally arrives on DVD courtesy of Warner Home Video on April 26, 2011. One of the more popular sitcoms of…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1974 | 99 mins. | PG Courtesy of MGM’s “manufacturing on demand” program (“MOD”), 1974’s Billy Two Hats has made its way to DVD. The first American Western to be filmed in Israel, director Ted Kotcheff (Life at…