Blu-ray Review: Charley Varrick
Based on the novel The Looters, by John Reese, Charley Varrick was directed by Don Siegel from a script by Howard Rodman. Walter Matthau stars in the title role; a former trick pilot and crop duster, Charley is reduced to robbing banks with his wife Nadine (Jacqueline Scott), and his young, hot-headed partner, Harman Sullivan […]
DVD Review: The Walking Tall Trilogy
The late Buford Pusser, a onetime professional wrestler and former Sherriff of McNairy County in Tennessee, gained some national headlines in the mid-sixties when he launched a one man war on the local moonshine rackets, with the help of a large hickory stick. His story inspired three films (the first of which was a bonafide […]
DVD Review: Edge of Darkness – The Complete Series
BBC | 1985 | 314 mins. | Not Rated As the Mel Gibson film Edge of Darkness hits the big screen, it seems like an appropriate time to take a look at the BBC mini-series that inspired it. It was the mid-eighties—Edge of Darkness aired on the BBC as a six episode series in 1985—writer […]
Blu-ray Review: Strange Wilderness
I feel kind of bad as I type this review, because it was less than a week ago I was fairly negative about Adam Sandler’s latest film, Bedtime Stories. Now, I have even worse things to say about a movie put out by his production company, Happy Madison Productions. This won’t come as a surprise […]
DVD Review: George Wallace – Two Disc Special Edition
For many, the name George Wallace evokes memories of his famous declaration, “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” I doubt it’s a coincidence that Warner Brothers chose to release a two-disc “special edition” of George Wallace, the 1997 TNT “docudrama” starring Gary Sinise and Angelina Jolie, and directed by John Frankenheimer on the […]