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: Savannah Smiles
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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: Stalag 17
Never one to shy away from controversy, director Billy Wilder took on Stalag 17; a comedy tinged war film less than a decade after the end of World War II and with the United States mired in the Korean War. Reworked by Wilder and Edwin Blum from a play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, […]
DVD Review: Steve Martin – The Television Stuff
For anyone who only knows Steve Martin from movies like Cheaper by the Dozen, Pink Panther 2 and Bringing Down the House, it’s probably hard to believe that he once ruled the world of standup comedy. By the late 1970’s his standup act was so popular, that he was playing large, sold out arenas usually […]
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 […]