4K UHD Review Airplane II – The Sequel
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 forty years after the film’s release. Given the box office success of Airplane!, it’s no […]
Blu-ray Review: Airplane! (Paramount Presents Edition)
A frenzied parody of the underrated Airport series (which, incidentally, had already parodied itself by 1980 with the atrocious Concorde: Airport ‘79), many of the gags used in Airplane! have been copied and reworked countless times over the past forty years, resulting in a kind of staleness when seen in their original context. Added to […]
Blu-ray Review: Marriage Story (Criterion Collection)
Writer/director Noah Baumbach explored divorce from the perspective of a 16-year-old boy in 2005’s The Squid and The Whale. Marriage Story finds him exploring the deep emotions of a marriage ending from an adult perspective. When the movie begins, Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) and Charlie (Adam Driver) are in the process of splitting up. Living in […]
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: Airplane!
Growing up, I considered Airplane! One of the funniest movies I’d ever seen. However, a little more than thirty years after its initial release, I’m said to say, Airplane! hasn’t aged well. Though it still retains the capacity to elicit a few chuckles, modern audiences may be left wondering how critics in 1980 could have […]