Blu-ray Review: Midnight Lace
Doris Day became one of Hollywood’s biggest film stars of the early 1960’s due to the success of several lighthearted comedies, including three co-starring Rock Hudson–Pillow Talk in 1959, for which she received the only Best Actress Academy Award nomination of her career, Lover Come Back (1961) and Send Me No Flowers (1964)–However, in 1960, […]
Night Train To Munich (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
Produced two years earlier, it’s impossible not to think of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes while watching Carol Reed’s Night Train to Munich. This doesn’t come as a surprise when you consider that both films were adapted from novels by the screenwriting team of Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. Both are set during wartime and […]
My Fair Lady (50th Anniversary Edition – Remastered) (Blu-ray)
First released on Blu-ray in 2011, most agreed that My Fair Lady neither looked nor sounded as good as it could have. Many (including myself), hoped that a remaster would come out in celebration of the films 50th anniversary. It may be slightly late, but we got our wish! CBS/Paramount has re-released My Fair Lady […]
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Blu-ray)
Largely considered to be one of the best films to come out of Hollywood in the 1940’s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir still manages to be a deeply affecting love story more than sixty years after its initial theatrical release. The script based on a book by R.A. Dick (a pseudonym for […]
Blu-ray Review: Cleopatra (1963)
For many moviegoers, Cleopatra (1963) has long been lauded for its undeniable kitsch value. It’s the most epic of Hollywood epics, got co-stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton entangled in one of the most talked about love affairs of the 20th century, and nearly bankrupt 20th Century Fox. Oddly enough, once you get past all […]
Blu-ray Review: Ashanti (1979)
Michael Caine has often claimed that 1979’s Ashanti was was “the only film (he) did purely for the money” as well as “the worst film he ever starred in.” The last point could certainly be debated, but there’s no denying it’s not one of the highlights of his illustrious career. Released in 1979, Ashanti arrived […]
Blu-ray Review: My Fair Lady
The origin of the 1964 film My Fair Lady goes back to George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912), which was subsequently adapted into a Broadway musical by the successful team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe (Gigi, Camelot). The play debuted in 1956. It wasn’t until seven years later that the movie, produced by Jack […]
My Fair Lady Coming to Blu-ray November 15
Paramount Pictures has revealed that it will release on Blu-ray George Cukor’s My Fair Lady (1964), starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, and Stanley Holloway on November 15, 2011. In this beloved adaptation of the Broadway stage hit, Audrey Hepburn plays a sassy, working class London street vendor, who an arrogant professor (Rex Harrison) attempts to […]