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), […]
The Facts of Life: The Complete Series Coming to DVD in January 2015
“You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have The Facts of Life…” The Facts of Life: The Complete Series arrives on January 13th, 2015, courtesy of Shout Factory. The Facts of Life: The Complete Series contains all 201 episodes of this quintessential 80s show as originally aired, […]
DVD Review: Car 54, Where Are You? – The Complete Second Season
Even though it’s listed in the copy on the back of this four-disc DVD set, it takes a minute, much longer than recognizing Al “Grandpa Munster” Lewis, who I’m sure could have easily been picked out amidst a Grandpa Munster lookalike contest. He was always that distinctive, with his slightly pinched rubber face, good for […]
Blu-ray Review: Hair
Based on the ground-breaking 1968 Broadway musical of the same name, Hair was long considered unfilmable. Under the guidance of noted director Milos Foreman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) Hair made it to the big screen in 1979. An attempt to recapture the flower children, anti- peace movements, and rebellious youth of the […]
DVD Review: Car 54, Where Are You? – The Complete First Season
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 fifty years later, the series about the misadventures of two oddball police officers working in […]
DVD Review: The Facts of Life – The Complete Fourth Season
Shout Factory | 1983 | 690 mins. | Not Rated A spinoff of the popular sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life was centered on the goings on at Eastland, a private school for girls in Peekskill, New York. Mrs. Garrett (Charlotte Rae), Left her jobas the Drummond’s Housekeeper to become a dorm housemother, and […]
DVD Review: The Facts of Life – The Complete First and Second Seasons
Going to school in the 1980s, one of my favorite television shows was The Facts of Life. I wanted to be a student at the Eastland School for Girls and I imagined that I would be great friends with Blair, Natalie, Tootie and Jo and that Mrs. Garrett would be the ultimate den mother. So […]