Blu-ray Review: Ishtar (Director’s Cut)
A notorious box office bomb, Ishtar became the butt of countless jokes centered on Hollywood excess and failure. Made for $55 million (around $110 million today) Ishtar took in only $14.3 million in North American box office receipts. Despite three positive previews, negative buzz about the film and it’s seemingly astronomically budget had been in […]
Blu-ray Review: Scrooged
The youngest network president in television history, IBC’s Francis “Frank” Xavier Cross (Bill Murray) will stop at nothing to “own” Christmas in the Nielsen ratings. His holiday lineup features shows like “The Night the Reindeer Died” (in which a far-from-defenseless Santa and his elves are attacked by terrorists) and “Bob Goulet’s Cajun Christmas.” In his […]
DVD Review: Taxi – The Final Season
Paramount | 1982-83 | 571 mins. | Not Rated Created by James L. Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Stan Daniels (Phyllis), David Davis, and Ed. Weinberger (Amen), Taxi focuses on the everyday lives of group of New York City taxi drivers at the Sunshine Cab Company, and their abusive dispatcher. The main characters are […]