Blu-ray Review: Fatal Attraction (Paramount Presents Edition)
[Editor’s Note: Elements of this piece appeared in a review for an earlier release of this film–RW] Few directors have made a commercially successful career out of the erotic thriller. Fewer still have got critical raves for their work along the way. English director/screenwriter/producer Adrian Lyne is widely known and respected for films that deal […]
DVD Review: The Kominsky Method -The Complete First Season
Chuck Lorre, the man behind such hit sitcoms as The Big Bang Theory, Mom, and Two and a Half Men takes on aging in his latest sitcom, The Kominsky Method. “We are passengers on boats slowly sinking,” Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas, Wall Street) says. A legendary acting coach in Hollywood, he was once a successful […]
Ant Man (Digital HD)
I have to start off by saying I’ll always wonder what Ant-Man would have been if Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) had stayed in the director’s chair. He was attached to the project for several years, but departed over creative differences with Marvel. Much of the time a departure like that spells […]
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (Blu-ray)
Though it’s likely that few people in Middle America recognize the name Shep Gordon, in Hollywood, few people have more friends than him. A longtime talent manager, he has handled some of the biggest names in show business, everyone from Alice Cooper to Teddy Pendergrass, produced such films as Choose Me and The Whales of […]
A Chorus Line (Blu-ray)
Released in 1985, A Chorus Line, based on the 1975 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical by James Kirkwood, Jr., Nicholas Dante, Edward Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch, examines a single, intense Broadway audition for a chorus line of dancers. It’s a cattle call; a bunch of hopefuls, needing that one job that will make them a […]
Blu-ray Review: Fatal Attraction
Paramount Pictures | 1987 | 119 mins | Rated R Few directors have made a commercially successful career out of the erotic thriller. Fewer still have got critical raves for their work along the way. English director/screenwriter/producer Adrian Lyne is widely known and respected for films that deal with sexually charged characters and themes. His […]