4K UHD Review: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint Eastwood’s fifth film as a director, The Outlaw Josey Wales, derived from the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, is one of Eastwood’s best early westerns. Armed with a screenplay by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman, with music by Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch, The Enforcer, Semi-Tough), the film possesses the characteristics that […]
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 […]
A Special Day (Criterion) (Blu-ray)
Despite the celebratory mood that surrounds Rome, beautiful housewife Antoinetta (Sophia Loren) feels just as lonely as ever. She has a husband and six children, but feels emotionally spent: husband Emanuele (John Vernon) is overbearing and disrespectful; while her children are rude and don’t really appreciate everything she does for them. Today, Emanuele has taken […]
Airplane II: The Sequel (Blu-ray)
Often considered one of the top ten comedies of all time, the original Airplane! is a perfect spoof of the popular disaster films of the 1970’s. Highly quotable, some of its most famous lines are still repeated today, more than thirty years after the film’s release. Given the box office success of Airplane!, it’s no […]
Blu-ray Review: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint Eastwood’s fifth film as a director, The Outlaw Josey Wales derived from the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, is one of Eastwood’s best early westerns. Armed with a screenplay by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman, and music by Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch, The Enforcer, Semi-Tough), the film possesses the characteristics that […]