4K UHD Review: Terms of Endearment (Paramount Presents)
In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, writer/director James L. Brooks has had success in both television and film. Having created Room 222 in 1969, Brooks teamed up with Allan Burns to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Lou Grant. In 1978, Brooks was a co-creator of the sitcom Taxi. […]
Terms of Endearment (Blu-ray)
In a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, writer/director James L. Brooks has had success in both television and film. Having created Room 222 in 1969, Brooks teamed up with Allan Burns to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Lou Grant. In 1978, Brooks was a co-creator of the sitcom Taxi. In […]
Matilda (Blu-ray)
Released in theaters during the summer of 1996, Matilda was aimed squarely at the 8 to12 crowd. However, since it was based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name, it comes as no surprise that the film is filled with elements designed to appeal to adults. One of the best Roald Dahl screen […]
Blu-ray Review: Hoffa (Fox Filmmaker Signature Series)
Nearly forty years later, the disappearance Jimmy Hoffa still fascinates. Just as this edition of Hoffa was hitting stores, the mystery of what happened to the vanished former Teamster boss was in the news again. In suburban Detroit, the FBI had taken soil samples in a backyard where Hoffa may have been buried. Regrettably, the […]
Blu-ray Review: Be Cool
F. Gary Gray’s follow up to Barry Sonnenfeld’s Get Shorty, Be Cool is an adaptation of yet another Elmore Leonard novel. Continuing the story of Chili Palmer, Gray’s film lacks much of the black humor and slick charm of the first film but still manages a few laughs. Picking up just after where Get Shorty […]
Blu-ray Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Collector’s Edition)
Warner Bros. | 1975 | 133 mins. | R One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest first hit blu-ray two years ago, but Warner’s has released the film in a new collector’s edition packed with an impressive set of special features that make a double-dip a real consideration for fans of the film. Included is a […]
Blu-ray Review: Mars Attacks!
Warner Bros. | 1996 | 116 mins. | PG-13 I’ve been intrigued by everything Tim Burton has done throughout his career and enjoyed most of his films. Needless to say, I was very curious when I heard Burton had agreed to direct Mars Attacks!, a film based on that subversive set of trading cards. I […]
Blu-ray Review: When in Rome
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 91 mins. | Rated PG-13 When in Rome is a paint-by-the-numbers romantic comedy that desperately wants to be something more. It tries for moments of significance, moments of introspection, moments obviously meant to speak to women about romance. However, those rarely work, and in their wake we are left with […]
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 […]
Blu-ray Review: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – A Very Sunny Christmas
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 43 mins. | Not rated For the uninitiated, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia follows The Gang, a group of five alcoholic, unethical underachievers who run Paddy’s Pub, a rundown bar in the city of Brotherly Love. Mac (Rob McElhenney), is a co-owner of Paddy’s, and would be considered the […]