Blu-ray Review: Trading Places (Paramount Presents)
Released in 1983, Trading Places has the feel of a 1930’s screwball comedy. Set in Philadelphia during the holidays, this modern reworking of Mark Twain’s Prince and the Pauper concerns two men of vastly different backgrounds who switch places. Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd, Driving Miss Daisy) a successful commodities broker at the firm of […]
Blu-ray Review: Trading Places (35th Anniversary Edition)
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Blu-ray Review: Dreamgirls (Director’s Extended Edition) (2006)
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Blu-ray Review: Beverly Hills Cop
Paramount Pictures | 1984 | 105 mins. | R Beverly Hills Cop owes its success to star Eddie Murphy. Murphy’s one-of-a kind, fast-talking personality turned a rather routine, shallow cop comedy into something special. Murphy’s presence is the primary reason for the movies sustained popularity. As many fans already know, the filmmakers originally signed Mickey […]