Digital Review: The Best You Can
For the first time in twenty years, married couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have reunited on screen for the character driven dramedy The Best You Can. Directed by Michael J. Weithorn (best known as co-creator of televisions King of Queens), Sedgwick plays Cynthia Rand a fifty-something urologist who must take care of her eighty-something […]
Blu-ray Review: The Big Sick (2017)
[amazon_link asins=’B07472V1B9′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’1482056c-ade9-11e7-a542-9b67dc47c1f4′]Funny, touching, and intuitive, The Big Sick is the kind of romantic comedy many of us can relate to–one that gets interrupted by real life. An Uber driver by day, and aspiring stand-up comedian by night, Kumail (Kumail Nanjiani) a Pakistani American in Chicago, meets Emily Gardner (Zoe Kazan), one […]
DVD Review: 95 Miles to Go
On a Friday in February 2005, with my parents at a taping of the fourth-to-last episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, I saw Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, and Monica Horan at work, but I was more interested in watching director Gary Halvorson at the quad split, a monitor on a […]
Blu-ray Review: Ice Age – A Mammoth Christmas Special
Here’s the deal with this one: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special runs only twenty-five minutes (twenty-two if you don’t count the credits). It was created as a TV special (it first aired less than a week before this disc hit shelves), hence both the running time and its decidedly trivial nature. However, with the […]
Blu-ray Review: Ice Age – Dawn of the Dinosaurs
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 94 mins. | Rated PG Given the success of the first two films (released during the spring of 2002 and 2006), there’s little doubt that third installment of the Ice Age series will appeal to the families looking for some innocuous fun, the whole clan can enjoy. Honestly, the […]