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 […]
4K UHD Review: High Noon
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by many film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars of all time. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As fellow film legend Clint Eastwood said of Cooper in the 1991 documentary, […]
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 […]
Home of the Brave (1949) (Blu-ray)
Independently produced by Stanley Kramer (High Noon, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), Home of the Brave was based on the successful Broadway play by Arthur Laurents. Kramer, famous for making “message” movies throughout his career, made one significant change. In the play, the hero was a young Jewish soldier, the victim of anti-Semitism within the […]
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 […]