4K UHD Review: Airport ‘77
The third installment in the Airport series, Airport 77 may be most ridiculous of the films but manages to be surprisingly appealing. Buoyed by a wild story and an all-star cast including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland and George Kennedy, returning as Joe Patroni, things are never dull. Lemmon plays Captain […]
4K UHD Review: In the Heat of the Night (Criterion Collection)
Directed by Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, The Hurricane), In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars in 1967: Best Picture, Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Best Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant), Best Editing (Hal Ashby), and Best Sound. Nearly sixty years later, the film is still a powerful moral drama and fascinating character study. The story begins when […]
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (Blu-ray)
Carla (Gina Lollobrigida) has been living in the hillside town of San Forino, Italy for more than twenty years. The town is preparing to hold a reunion for the Air Force members stationed there during World War II. Her daughter “Gia,” (Janet Margolin) also in town, is excited at the prospect of meeting anyone who […]
In the Heat of the Night (Blu-ray)
Directed by Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, The Hurricane), In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars in 1967: Best Picture, Best Actor (Rod Steiger), Best Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant), Best Editing (Hal Ashby), and Best Sound. Nearly fifty years later, the film is still a powerful moral drama and a fascinating character study. The story begins […]
Blu-ray Review: Voyage of the Damned
At first glance, 1976’s Voyage of the Damned must have struck perspective audiences as yet another disaster flick with an all star cast; the kind Irwin Allen, producer of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) had made so popular at the time. While several of the posters used to advertise the film […]