4K UHD Review: Flashdance (40th Anniversary Edition)
Flashdance arrived in U.S theaters on April 15, 1983. Critics hated the film, but the public loved it. Just ten-years old at the time, I remember how torn sweatshirts and leg warmers became must-haves. Because the movie was rated R, I didn’t get to see it in theaters, but rented it a couple of years […]
Blu-ray Review: Flashdance (Paramount Presents Edition)
Flashdance arrived in U.S theaters on April 15, 1983. Critics hated the film, but the public loved it. Just ten-years old at the time, I remember how torn sweatshirts and leg warmers became must-haves. Because the movie was rated R, I didn’t get to see it in theaters, but rented it a couple of years […]
Blu-ray Review: The Last Days of Disco (Criterion Collection)
Released in 1998, The Last Days of Disco was the last film in writer/director Wilt Stillman’s trilogy of occasionally dark social comedies about the so-called “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” (UHB), a group of white, young, East coast, Ivy-league league elites. Set in the early 1980’s, the movie follows a rag-tag group of people all caught up […]