Blu-ray Review: Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken (Collector’s Edition)
DreamWorks Animation’s latest offering Ruby Gilman, Teenage Kraken seemed prime for success, given its prime June release date and legions of kids at home for summer break. Surprisingly, the film flamed out, earning $43 million worldwide, barely half of its $70 million budget. Now available on digital, Blu-ray and DVD, it’s likely the movie about […]
Blu-ray Review: Book Club – The Next Chapter (Collector’s Edition)
Released in 2018, Book Club centers on four female friends who find their lives turned upside down while their book club reads the infamous “50 Shades of Grey.” Featuring an all-star cast, including Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, the four women are bound by a fifty-year friendship as they go through […]
Blu-ray Review: Moving On
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin established their onscreen chemistry with 1980’s 9 to 5. Since then, they appeared together on the critically acclaimed Netflix series Grace and Frankie. This year has seen them reunite for two films, 80 for Brady and Moving On. While 80 for Brady is harmless fluff, Moving On gives both women […]
Blu-ray Review: Sunday in New York
Released in 1963, Sunday in New York is the kind of lukewarm sex comedy–pre-sexual revolution–only that era could produce. Eileen, played by a young Jane Fonda, is a virgin from Albany annoyed by the fact that all her suitors end up trying to take her to bed. Afraid that her relationship with a handsome heir […]
Blu-ray Review: Klute (Criterion Collection)
“It’s easy to manipulate men,” Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda, On Golden Pond) tells her psychiatrist. A high class call girl and an aspiring actress, she feels a sense of pride in satisfying a client–whether it’s a man in the city on business, or a widowed garment industry executive who just wants her to act out […]
DVD Review: Grace and Frankie – Season Two
I’ve been a fan of both Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin for as long as I can remember. 9 to 5, the 1980 film they co-starred in, alongside Dolly Parton, remains a personal favorite. So naturally, I had high hopes when Netflix announced that Jane and Lily had agreed to star in a new series […]
Cat Ballou (Blu-ray)
A satirical treatment of the western drama, Cat Ballou was a hit with critics and moviegoers alike, upon its release in 1965. Lee Marvin won a Best Actor Oscar for his dual role as gunfighter Tim Strawn and the boozing Kid Shelleen. Based on a novel by Roy Chanslor, The Ballad of Cat Ballou, Chanslor’s […]
On Golden Pond (Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray)
An unconventional Hollywood blockbuster, On Golden Pond is a character driven drama that explores aging, mortality, and reconciliation. Based on the play by Ernest Thompson, On Golden Pond finally earned legendary actor Henry Fonda a Best Actor Academy Award in what turned out to be his final film performance. Co-star Katharine Hepburn picked up her […]
On Golden Pond: Collector’s Edition Coming to Blu-ray
Shout Factory has announced plans to release On Golden Pond: Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray. Directed by Mark Rydell The Rose) and based on a popular play by celebrated writer Ernest Thompson, critically acclaimed motion picture is a classic tale of family told with heart and warmth, as well as a timeless treasure that represents the […]
Blu-ray Review: The Otto Preminger Collection (Hurry Sundown/Skidoo/Such Good Friends)
Otto Preminger directed over 35 films in a film career that spanned more than five decades. Throughout his career, Preminger wasn’t afraid to attract controversy dealing with taboo topics of the era such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962). […]