DVD Review: Car 54, Where Are You? – The Complete Second Season
Even though it’s listed in the copy on the back of this four-disc DVD set, it takes a minute, much longer than recognizing Al “Grandpa Munster” Lewis, who I’m sure could have easily been picked out amidst a Grandpa Munster lookalike contest. He was always that distinctive, with his slightly pinched rubber face, good for […]
DVD Review: Jerry Lewis As The Jazz Singer (1959)
Emmy Award-winning television director Ralph Nelson draws a dynamic and powerful performance out of the infamous Jerry Lewis in this remake of Alan Jolson’s 1927 The Jazz Singer. Originally broadcast in 1959, this re-release of the made-for-TV rendition of the classic Jewish coming of age tale boasts beautiful digital remastering and sound restoration. Lewis plays […]
DVD Review: Car 54, Where Are You? – The Complete First Season
Shanachie Entertainment | 1961 | 780 mins. | NR The follow-up to creator Nat Hiken’s phenomenally successful The Phil Silvers Show/Sgt. Bilko (1955-59), Car 54 (1961-63), achieved respectable ratings in its first season, but plummeted in the second. However, nearly fifty years later, the series about the misadventures of two oddball police officers working in […]
Blu-ray Review: Fiddler on the Roof
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1971 | 181 mins. | G Opening in September of 1964, the Harold Prince production of Fiddler on the Roof was inarguably one of the most beloved stage musicals of the second half of the 20th century. Based on a series of short stories by Ukranian writer Sholom Aleichem (the “Jewish Mark Twain”), […]