Blu-ray Review: Remembering Gene Wilder
In a career spanning nearly five decades, Gene Wilder helped redefine comedy. During the late 1960s and ’70s, he had a string of notable films, be it the title role in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, his partnership with Mel Brooks in The Producers and Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein or his unlikely collaborations […]
Blu-ray Review: The Seduction of Joe Tynan
A flawed drama, the actors performances (including an early appearance by Meryl Streep), makes “The Seduction of Joe Tynan” worth watching.
Blu-ray Review: The Four Seasons
Written and directed by Alan Alda, this 1981 dramedy explores the evolving nature of friendship and marriage.
Blu-ray Review: Jenny
Released in early 1970, TV icons Marlo Thomas (That Girl) and Alan Alda (M*A*S*H) star in Jenny, very much a film of its time. Thomas is Jenny, a shy, movie loving, small-town girl who moves to the city after she becomes pregnant following a one-night stand. Walking in Central Park, she meets filmmaker Delano (Alda), […]
Bridge of Spies (Blu-ray)
In 1957, Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested in New York. Though the trial itself is for little more than show, the government wants it known that he was granted a fair legal defense. To that end, Former criminal lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor James Donovan (Tom Hanks), now working insurance law, is approached […]
The Carol Burnett Show: Christmas with Carol (DVD)
In eleven years, and 278 episodes, The Carol Burnett Show never did a standalone Christmas special. In hindsight, that seems pretty amazing, given that the 1970’s was the era of annual yuletide greetings from the likes of Bob Hope, Perry Como, Andy Williams, and more. However, following in the spirit of the season, Carol and […]
DVD Review: Behind the Burly Q – The Story of Burlesque in America
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 depression, people could pop into these shows and have a laugh. Filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis (wife […]